[HN Gopher] Show HN: I Built a Telegraph Simulator
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       Show HN: I Built a Telegraph Simulator
        
       Author : leugim
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2025-03-04 22:00 UTC (3 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (telegraph.13ug1mb.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (telegraph.13ug1mb.com)
        
       | leugim wrote:
       | I was reading "The Victorian Internet" by Tom Standage and decide
       | to build a proof of concept of an online telegraph.
        
         | pj_mukh wrote:
         | This is so cool. Knowing nothing about Telegraph standards are
         | there no explicit signals for symbols or spaces?
        
           | jdietrich wrote:
           | 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.
           | ..
        
       | troymc wrote:
       | I 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.
        
         | Carrok wrote:
         | Still very cool.
        
       | cadr wrote:
       | How 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 :)
        
       | hagbard_c wrote:
       | It 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.
        
       | ale42 wrote:
       | Funny idea... but it's way too slow to react. (saying this as ham
       | radio operator doing CW, so pretty biased, but I guess actual
       | telegraph operators were much faster than I am...)
        
       | ge96 wrote:
       | SOS
       | 
       | Save Our Socket
        
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