Handy History
An alphabet made up of dots and dashes.
What is Morse Code?
You put your letters inside of this.
What is an envelope?
Everybody has one of their own. It uses the @ symbol.
What is an email address?
You hear this sound when somebody calls you.
A made-up language you use for sharing secrets.
What is a code?
What is a payphone?
Your name at the bottom of a letter.
What is cursive?
A few words to say what the email is about.
What is a subject?
A short message you type to your friend instead of speaking.
What is a text?
People would listen to this before TV existed (and they still use it today).
What is radio?
Ancient people would "beat" this musical instrument to talk to other villages.
What is a drum?
This style of writing connects each letter to the other letters.
You can "throw your emails away" in this folder.
What is trash?
A type of picture that goes next to the letters of a text.
A company for talking over video that became popular during the coronavirus.
What is Zoom?
A type of message sent over telegraph wires.
What is a telegram?
A type of sticker you put on an envelope.
What is a stamp?
This folder has all the emails you probably don't want.
What is spam?
A message you leave after the "beep."
What is a voicemail?
This is a language deaf people use with their hands.
What is sign language?
An old circle made of wax that people used to put on envelopes and scrolls.
What is a seal?
This type of knife opens an envelope.
What is a letter opener?
What is "reply"?
Word for a phone, before cell phones, that one had to plug in.
What is a landline?
A type of "radio" people use to talk to each other, that they keep on their belts.