The Sydney Morning Herald reports on a challenge between 93 year old
> telegraph operator transmitting morse code to an 82 year old with a
> manual typewriter, and youngsters sending a text message. The text
> message was received 18 seconds after the message was already on > paper.
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Sure, but much of that 18 seconds was in network transmission time, but the telegraph has a (by comparison) severely limited "network"
Let's try another test; let's send the same message to each of five different recipients randomly selected out of a possible thousand recipients, then travel to a randomly selected location within two city blocks and send a new message to those five people again.
Anybody want to bet that by the time the telegraph > They've obviously not heard of T9 mode in text messaging. The biggest
issue I have with texting is that the keypad is too damned small.
How large a phone are you willing to carry?