What would happen to the world if Morse code wasn't invented?

Answer 1

Who knows? Ships everywhere would be doomed! Morse Code required a human ear to interpret the received code since a lot of analysis was needed by he human brain in order to decipher the code.

Machines reading Morse code struggled until advanced electronics could cope with the varying length of each character. The telegraphic 5 unit Baudot code used in telegrams and telexes standardised the code so that every letter and number consisted of an equal length.This simplified the decoding to a point where relays and mechanisms could decode and print the received signal.

To answer your question ? They would have come up with something better. It triumphed because it was first on the scene.

Answer 2

Many possibilities come to mind. I know we wouldn't have been able to communicate during WWI and WWII without alerting the enemy with smoke signals and flares.