Technically “SOS,” doesn’t officially stand for any of these phrases. It’s the international abbreviation for distress—not to be confused with an acronym (see acronym vs. abbreviation for the ...

Best known for its appearances in desert-island cartoons, maritime movies and earworms by ABBA and Rihanna, the word SOS has been used as a code for emergency distress signals since 1905. If you’re ...

The Morse code took communications to a new level more than 160 years ago. The telegraph was the equivalent of today's computer, and the Morse code was its language. In their day, telegraph dots and ...

It may be the ultimate SOS. Morse code is in distress. The language of dots and dashes has been the lingua franca of amateur radio, a vibrant community of technology buffs and hobbyists who have ...