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This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
Yesterday and today I wound up learning about a few different interesting facets of early telecommunications history, Civil Rights #history, and more.
First: I came across telegraphy inventor Guglielmo Marconi's testimony to the US Senate in 1912 about telegraph equipment and procedures involved in the aftermath of the Titanic's sinking.
https://www.metafilter.com/209967/The-Titanic-was-equipped-by-my-company
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