[HN Gopher] The Rise and Fall of the Visual Telegraph (2017)
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       The Rise and Fall of the Visual Telegraph (2017)
        
       Author : geox
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2025-05-08 19:13 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | Rygian wrote:
       | For the discworld alternative, check the clacks [1].
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       | [1] https://wiki.lspace.org/Clacks
        
       | ttoinou wrote:
       | It's also fascinating this didn't existed 300 years sooner (with
       | more towers because of poorer telescopes). Communication of
       | information across a kingdom is so important
        
       | anthk wrote:
       | Ah, so that's the origin of semaforo in Spanish, which the
       | current meaning is "traffic light". And a semaphore on
       | programming, too.
        
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