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Modern Marvels
1993
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Modern Marvels
Codes. 8 Season 16 Episode
44 min
1993
8.7
Whenever a culture reaches a level of sophistication in literacy, science, and language, codes spring up spontaneously. As the social life of a community increases in complexity, the demands for private communication between two or more people inevitably lead to cryptologyโa system of secret symbolic messages. We explore the rich history of communicating with secret symbolsโfrom Egyptian hieroglyphics to Caesar's encrypted directives, from WWI and WWII codebreakers to cyberspace.
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