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Optional@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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Optional@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    There is no equivalent, because it’s not new, and even if it was, it’s monetized and manipulative. The internet back then was wide open, free as fuck, and completely new!

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      I was specifically referring to the ability to communicate in writing at that speed. I guess the telegraph technically existed as well, but it was expensive and awkward.

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        And couldn’t reach across oceans, required special training, and only accommodated short messages because of the tedious nature of signaling.

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          You could definitely send telegraphs overseas, and sending or receiving them required no training.

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            and sending or receiving them required no training.

            If you mean paying someone to send them, then sure. But it required learning Morse code, and learning to use a keyer.

            You couldn’t send them overseas until after the invention of radio. Before that the signal traveled along a wire they laid the transatlantic cable.

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              The first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid down in 1854 and radio waves weren’t even theorized until 1873… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio#History

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                I had no idea radio was such a recent discovery.

              • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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                Whoops!

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                  No worries, we can’t all know everything all the time.

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                    I kinda suspected I might be wrong about that as I was typing it, and then I was like “Nah! That’s just silly. Of course they didn’t run a cable across the entire Atlantic Ocean in the 1800’s!”. But I was wrong. That’s actually really impressive.

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              The only way you were keying in a telegram yourself is if you worked for them.

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        What’s writing? Is that a new feature on TikTok?

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