2026-09-03 20:14 UTC
Replies (8)
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@DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2026-09-03 20:45
A telegraph “operate”? Did you mean operator?
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@Davel23@fedia.io 2026-09-03 20:50
At some point in the '80s someone convinced me that "baud" was an acronym for "bits of actual, usable data" and I believed that for far too long.
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@Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 2026-09-03 22:38
used bits in place of dot and dashes So instead of a trinary system (dash, dot, pause) where the length of the signal indicated the type, it switched to a simple off/on with no need to delay on each bit? It’s surprising it took so long for someone to come up with that improvement, or was it mainly held up by needing someone to invent technology to automatically encode/decode the stream?
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@JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2026-09-03 23:54
He literally told him to touch grass. That’s great.
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@Ooops@feddit.org 2026-09-03 23:55
would be called the teletype machine Praise the TTY in all its forms…
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@WesternInfidels@feddit.online 2026-09-04 01:09
If we simplified “Baudot” to “baud” why the heck couldn’t we simplify “Fahrenheit?” Sheesh.
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@darklamer@feddit.org 2026-09-04 01:38
With Baudot code machines could be built that would automatically decode the signal and type it out as plain english. Bonus fact: Those machines could also be used to type out plain French.
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@dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-04 13:07
Linux TTYs stand for: teletype. This badass will live on in human history as long as linux does at least.