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by cft
445 days ago
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"Initially messages were sent by an operator using Morse code. The reception was very bad on the 1858 cable, and it took two minutes to transmit just one character (a single letter or a single number), a rate of about 0.1 words per minute." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cabl... I guess your bandwidth in 1980 was a bit higher. |
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