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I never knew the origins of the TTY console on my machine. To hear it was an accessibility tool at first is really cool. It does make sense that if these were w
by gen3 6y ago
I never knew the origins of the TTY console on my machine. To hear it was an accessibility tool at first is really cool. It does make sense that if these were widely available, people would use them to dial into a computer!
I wonder what other interesting innovations I use that I don’t realize have such a deep history. Thanks for sharing the article.
- mechanicum 6y agoIt wasn’t an accessibility tool first. TTY dates from the mid-19th century. Paul Taylor’s innovations were to use the technology to provide telecommunications for the deaf, and then lobby for the creation of the operator relay system enabling TTY users to communicate with people who didn’t have a TTY. The machines already existed.
- jrimbault 6y agoBoth are TeleTYpewriters but they are not the same device.
- jeofken 6y agoIt is a different device than the TTY commonly emulated in your terminal window. Naming things is one of the two hard things in computer science, along with naming things and off by one errors.