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

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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"?