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📡 The Day the World Got Smaller
On this day in history, December 12, 1901, Marconi stood on Signal Hill in Newfoundland and received a faint "S" (three dots) in Morse code sent from Cornwall, England.
That signal had traveled over 2,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean from Cornwall, England, defying the curvature of the Earth.
This proved that radio waves could follow the curvature of the Earth (defying the physics understanding of the time). It was the birth of global real-time communication. Without this moment, we likely wouldn't have the modern internet, mobile phones, or satellite communications. It effectively shrank the world.
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