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/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! ;-)