[LINK] @ Issue: Long Code for a Small Symbol

[Eric Scheid]

did some one say morse code is no more in aus?

> The French say petit escargot; the Dutch call it a monkey's tail. On a qwerty
> keyboard, it's Shift-2. And next month, amateur radio enthusiasts will call it
> dit-dah-dah-dit-dah-dit.
> 
> That is when the symbol @ officially becomes the newest character in the Morse
> code.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/15/technology/circuits/15comm.html