Welcome Aboard!

From Jacqueline:

Welcome Aboard!

Join me as we set sail on the high seas of adventure!

Laying the transatlantic cable from Ireland to Newfoundland was truly how the World Wide Web started.  Before the cable, letters had to be written, sent across the ocean via a sailing ship, delivered to the right party, then a reply written, this letter was sent back across the ocean just so you could ask someone where they left the keys to the castle!  It could take months.

With the advent of the cable, electronic communication happened at the speed of light. 
Instant messaging - old school. 
These messages were not visual, or even voice, they were done using Morse Code, an amazing alphabet made up of dots and dashes in specific sequence to represent a letter.

The telegraph operator would listen to the dots and dashes,  ... --- ... , and decode it to the letters represented, in this case: S O S, the universal distress signal.

The transatlantic cable would join the two halves of the world allowing commerce, information and news to be transmitted in the blink of an eye.  And the world would never be the same again.

Stay tuned for an insider's view of Chapter 1, Mystery Man
Ailish, a thirteen-year-old Irish fortune teller, meets her nemesis.