“Matti Makkonen is a software engineer who passed away a couple of months ago. My guess is that you didn’t hear of his death, and you most likely don’t know who he was. However, Makkonen is probably one of the most important individuals in the domain of communications. And by that I mean on-the-level-of-Alexander-Bell- important: He invented SMS.”
It’s hard to say SMS was fundamental invention. Rather, the long distance transmission of textual information has a significant history, beginning before Morse' telegraph.
“Telegraphy (from Greek: τῆλε têle, "at a distance” and γράφειν gráphein, “to write”) is the long-distance transmission of textual or symbolic (as opposed to verbal or audio) messages without the physical exchange of an object bearing the message" SMS is thus an instance of telegraphy included in cellular phones.
Yeah. Normally “oh but this actually existed before” kind of misses the point, but I’d say it’s accurate. We went from text over wires to voice over wires to voice over radio. Is adding text back really a leap?
Only tangentally related, but this talk of no ui makes me wish for a personal assistant that would be merged into the terminal, so it could be more useful than the everyday siri
It’s hard to say SMS was fundamental invention. Rather, the long distance transmission of textual information has a significant history, beginning before Morse' telegraph.
“Telegraphy (from Greek: τῆλε têle, "at a distance” and γράφειν gráphein, “to write”) is the long-distance transmission of textual or symbolic (as opposed to verbal or audio) messages without the physical exchange of an object bearing the message" SMS is thus an instance of telegraphy included in cellular phones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy
Yeah. Normally “oh but this actually existed before” kind of misses the point, but I’d say it’s accurate. We went from text over wires to voice over wires to voice over radio. Is adding text back really a leap?
Only tangentally related, but this talk of no ui makes me wish for a personal assistant that would be merged into the terminal, so it could be more useful than the everyday siri
There was a post on Medium several months ago with this idea in mind, but Apple has clearly not taken steps to take advantage of this market.