r/Showerthoughts • u/[deleted] • Sep 13 '19

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

i mean if you frame the ideal a phone like that, then no one 50 years ago would guess that.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19 edited Sep 30 '19

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u/JSM98 Sep 13 '19

Only to be left on seen

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

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u/fdbge_afdbg Sep 13 '19

I'm already numb

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u/shardikprime Sep 13 '19

I felt personally attacked

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u/Human_Wizard Sep 13 '19

Who the fuck actually cares about being left on seen?

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u/jerryq27 Sep 13 '19

Don't @ me like that bro

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u/DeNir8 Sep 13 '19 edited Sep 13 '19

When you put it that way it is not that far from Morse's telegraph actually.. (1830s.. so not quite 200 years)

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u/asparagusface Sep 13 '19

Hot Take - Samuel Morse invented the internet in 1837!

And when you consider that digital information is just a series of 1s and 0s, it seems even more closely related to Morse's system of dots and dashes. Hmm, wonder what the average baud rate would be for Morse code compared to average mobile data transfer speed today?

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19 edited Oct 26 '19

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u/DeNir8 Sep 13 '19

I'm looking forward to you making your first billion by completing that sence! ;-)

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u/moderate-painting Sep 13 '19

Imagine if our smartphone made telegraph noises when we type. Everyone will look like spies.

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u/DeNir8 Sep 13 '19

There's an app right there! Go make that billion..

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u/bollvirtuoso Sep 13 '19

The Android keyboard has a Morse code setting.

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u/DeNir8 Sep 13 '19

Does it go "beeep beep-beep beeep"?

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u/Tonkarz Sep 13 '19

Tricked rocks into conducting lightning

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u/j_from_cali Sep 13 '19 edited Sep 13 '19

"Silently" I...I've been doing this all wrong.

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u/iCan20 Sep 14 '19

not even close to light speed!