Show HN: I Built a Telegraph Simulator
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Show HN: I Built a Telegraph Simulator
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#2I was reading "The Victorian Internet" by Tom Standage and decide to build a proof of concept of an online telegraph.
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#4I was rather hoping that a "Telegraph Simulator" simulated the electric and magnetic fields along a telegraph line. This is more of a Morse Code toy.
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#5I was reading "The Victorian Internet" by Tom Standage and decide to build a proof of concept of an online telegraph.
This is so cool. Knowing nothing about Telegraph standards are there no explicit signals for symbols or spaces?
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#6I was rather hoping that a "Telegraph Simulator" simulated the electric and magnetic fields along a telegraph line. This is more of a Morse Code toy.
Still very cool.
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#8I was reading "The Victorian Internet" by Tom Standage and decide to build a proof of concept of an online telegraph.
This is so cool. Knowing nothing about Telegraph standards are there no explicit signals for symbols or spaces?
ITU Morse does specify punctuation marks and a few symbols, but they're rarely used in practice.
A space is denoted by a gap equal to seven dots.
https://www.itu.int/dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/m/R-REC-M.1677-1-20...
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#9How are you doing the timing for space? It feels off when I'm sending quickly, but also I never use a straight key, so my sending is probably terrible :)
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#10It is remarkable to see how shitposting is not a recent invention but seems to have been around in the Victorian age if the transmit logs on this thing are anything to go by.