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by post-it 1149 days ago
It's neat that both telegraph operators seemed to immediately know what was going on and why. Professionals with good debugging skills.
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It’s so professional it seems more like a dialog between operators in a Star Trek fleet.
I often stumble on mundane interactions or writing from the past (usually the 19th or the first half of the 20th century) and legitimately wonder if the "society is gradually crumbling, we're going backwards as a culture" people are actually onto something.