2445: Checkbox - Revision history

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FaviFake at 15:38, 11 May 2025

2025-05-11T15:38:33Z

FaviFake: /* Q codes and radio shorthand */

2025-05-11T15:32:24Z

‎Q codes and radio shorthand

FaviFake: Not part of the explanation. It’s the same in evey other epril fools comic

2025-05-11T15:23:31Z

Not part of the explanation. It’s the same in evey other epril fools comic

Bb777 at 15:13, 11 May 2025

2025-05-11T15:13:05Z

FaviFake at 17:32, 9 May 2025

2025-05-09T17:32:33Z

Jacky720: /* Explanation */ fix section link

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‎Explanation: fix section link

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 {{series
 | series        = April
-| number        = 12
+| number        = 13
 | date          = April 1, 2021
 | days_late     =

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 {{comic discussion}}
 [[Category:Interactive comics]]
 [[Category:Comics with animation]]
 [[Category:Dynamic comics]]
 [[Category:Comics with audio]]

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 | prev_title    = 2288: Collector's Edition
 | prev_date     = April 3, 2020
-| next_title    = 2445: Checkbox
+| next_title    = 2601: Instructions
 | next_date     = April 1, 2022
 | extra_text    =

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 | image     = 2445.png
 | titletext = Check check check ... chhecck chhecck chhecck ... check check check
 }}
 {{TOC}}To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|2445|original comic}}.
 ==Explanation==
-The comic looks similar to a loading screen. The actual comic (this "loading screen") consists of an animated gif of a {{w|checkbox}}, hence the name. The frame is replaced with an interactive panel. In the center is a check box, which clears itself immediately when checked. In the bottom right is a mute button, which begins muted. By unmuting, and changing it to a loudspeaker, sounds are played when the check box is checked. This was the second [[:Category:Comics with audio|comic with audio]] on xkcd. The very similar April Fool's comic from the next year, [[2601: Instructions]], used audio, too. It also had only one element in the center, but not a check box, but a {{w|radio button}}.
+The comic looks similar to a loading screen. The actual comic (this "loading screen") consists of an animated gif of a {{w|checkbox}}, hence the name. The frame is replaced with an interactive panel. In the center is a check box, which clears itself immediately when checked. In the bottom right is a mute button, which begins muted. By unmuting, and changing it to a loudspeaker, sounds are played when the check box is checked. This was the second [[:Category:Comics with audio|comic with audio]] on xkcd. The very similar April Fool's Day comic from the following year, [[2601: Instructions]], would also use audio and a radio button instead of a checkbox.
 Under the checkbox is a scrolling visual representation of the timing and duration of clicks in the check box, which also produce matching beeping sounds when unmuted. The representation consists of a dot for a short press, or a bar for a longer press. All long presses are represented by a bar of a pre-determined length; in other words, a longer press does not result in a longer bar.

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 * TRY THAT AGAIN
 * WHAT
 ==Special Responses==
-Sojourner is a Mars rover which has been referenced by Randall in the past and is the entity operating the morse code device.
+Some keywords have special responses. Sojourner is a Mars rover which has been referenced by Randall in the past and is the entity operating the morse code device.
 *<code>'''.'''</code> represents a short signal
 *<code>'''-'''</code> represents a long signal
 *<code>'''/'''</code> represents pauses between words.
-{| class="wikitable"
+{| class="wikitable sortable"
 ! Message → response
 ! Morse code
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 ===Controls===
-{| class="wikitable"
+{| class="wikitable sortable"
 ! Message → response
 ! Morse code
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 {{w|Q code}}s are three-letter codes that each start with the letter "Q". They were initially developed for commercial [[radiotelegraphy|radiotelegraph]] communication and later adopted by other radio services, especially amateur radio. They were created when radio used Morse code exclusively, but they continued to be used for a few more years.
-{| class="wikitable"
+{| class="wikitable sortable"
 ! Message → response
 ! Morse code
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 ===FORTUNE===
-{| class="wikitable"
+{| class="wikitable sortable"
 ! Message → response
 ! Morse code
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 ===ENCABULATOR===
-{| class="wikitable"
+{| class="wikitable sortable"
 ! Message → response
 ! Morse code
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 ===MAZE===
-{| class="wikitable"
+{| class="wikitable sortable"
 ! Message → response
 ! Morse code
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 |RETURN → DID YOU MEAN ENTER
 |<code>'''.-. . - ..- .-. -.'''</code>
-|Return and enter are usually different names for the line-break key on a keyboard. "Carriage Return" is a holdover from mechanical typewriters (returning the carriage, and therefore the printing area, to its start-of-row position), in both mechanical and electronic outputs often implicitly (or explicitly) combined with Line Feed (moving the printing zone one effective line further down, or shifting the medium a similar degree up).
+|Return and enter are usually different names for the line-break key on a keyboard. "Carriage Return" is a holdover from mechanical typewriters, returning the carriage, and therefore the printing area, to its start-of-row position. In mechanical and electronic outputs, it is often combined with Line Feed (moving the printing zone one effective line further ddown orshifting the medium a similar degree up).
-"Enter" references the wish to submit some input (e.g. the contents of the database or form field(s) just edited, or ), and is essentially synonymous with forcing the move of a cursor to a new line. Often keyboards do not even have keycap text to indicate the key called "Return", "Enter" or any other name, instead using the prominent glyph '''&crarr;'''.
+"Enter" references the wish to submit some input (e.g. the contents of the database or form field(s) just edited), and is essentially synonymous with forcing the move of a cursor to a new line. Often keyboards do not even have keycap text to indicate the key called "Return", "Enter" or any other name, instead using the prominent glyph '''&crarr;'''.
 In the case of describing travel (for example, at the entrance to a maze), the words ''could'' instead be described as antonyms. One can ''enter'' the maze, or ''return'' to a prior location (leaving the vicinity of the maze – if not the maze itself, if you had already entered). This may or may not be an additional intended joke, as in dialogues that ask obscure and ambiguously phrased choices such as "Do you want to end this task? [Quit]/[Cancel]”.
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 |}
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   |+ Maze
   |-
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 ===CROSSWORD===
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+{| class="wikitable sortable"
 ! Message → response
 ! Morse code
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 |}
-{| class="wikitable"
+{| class="wikitable sortable"
 |+Solved Crossword
 |-
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 ==Transcript==
 :[A small box is in the middle of a large white frame. The box can have a check-mark, but it is alternating between being checked or unchecked. At the bottom right there is a muted speaker (which can be unmuted). If the user press the checkbox gray dots or lines will appear below depending on the length of the press. These will move from right to left and then disappear.]
 {{comic discussion}}

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 ===Q codes and radio shorthand===
-An explanation of Q codes can be found {{w|Q code|here}}.
+{{w|Q code}}s are three-letter codes that each start with the letter "Q". They were initially developed for commercial [[radiotelegraphy|radiotelegraph]] communication and later adopted by other radio services, especially amateur radio. They were created when radio used Morse code exclusively, but they continued to be used for a few more years.
 {| class="wikitable"

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 * WHAT
-Some keywords, however, have [[#Special Responses´|special responses]].
+Some keywords, however, have [[#Special Responses|special responses]].
 ===Unique header text===