Old tech beats new tech flat...
From the
MAKE: blog comes this story of two people sending SMS messages trying to beat out two old fogies sending Morse Code:
Video: Morse coders beating SMSers
Jay Leno did a text off between two text messengers and two Morse coders. Here's a video of it (WMV). The Morse coders handily beat the young whippersnappers with time to spare. Comments from the Morse code guys here. It might be a fun phone app to make a Morse code messenger, if you kept your headset in and had an external sender, could be interesting. Perhaps a Morse code Skype device...
The idea is fun -- the web site is being hit quite a bit so it is best to download it and view it rather than look at it as streaming.
The Morse people creamed the SMS people seriously. It was the backbone of the
Victorian Internet after all...
Posted by DaveH at May 25, 2005 9:28 PM