Show HN: I Built a Telegraph Simulator

  • I see this over and over: "I HAVE HIJACKED THE SERVERS WEBSOCKET TO SEND CUSTOM MESSAGES IF YOU WANT TO DO THE SAME SEE THE FOLLOWING LINK [...]"

  • Nice. If you want to learn Morse try https://morse-learn.acecentre.net/ (I must throw cursor at this to fix some issues like working nicely on mobile).

  • I was reading "The Victorian Internet" by Tom Standage and decide to build a proof of concept of an online telegraph.

  • Judging by the comments I've seen go by the on the ticker, this is less a telegraph simulation than an observational experiment in how terrible people can be. It's a real shame.

  • 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...)

  • 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.

  • That is wild, I recently updated my own Morse Code teaching tool to v2.0 yesterday, and it's somewhat similar in concept to this: https://popcar2.itch.io/morse-code-simulator

    Being able to transmit your signals to other people here is really cool. Makes it a lot more than just typing to yourself.

  • 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.

  • 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 :)

  • Neat, but not nearly responsive enough. When I was your age, we had to key at 5000 wpm or they wouldn't even let us look at a radio.

  • Yeah, what a fun way to spend some time :)

  • Just reading “seveneves” (newl stephensom) - so this comes in handy!

  • Some fool is spamming

  • SOS

    Save Our Socket

  • It's down! :(

  • So much fun.

  • This electricity nonsense is just a fad. The future will be powered by steam.

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