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Good points! I know my smartphone works for two days on a small battery because smart engineers did smart efficient stuff to make it a reality. So I agree that
by rambambram 4y ago
Good points! I know my smartphone works for two days on a small battery because smart engineers did smart efficient stuff to make it a reality. So I agree that smartphones as we know them are not a good fit. Let's now try to imagine a pocket computer that can do the job!
- nine_k 4y agoAncient systems like FidoNet [1] used various tricks to sidestep similar limitations at the times of dialup-only connectivity. This included opportunistic store-and-forward schemes for sending messages, hand-crafted routing between personally acquainted peers, and coordinated connectivity windows known as "zone mail hours". FidoNet worked pretty well, as long as you did not mind your message to reach a destination within 3-4 hops by tomorrow. Maybe it's the right pace of communication in certain cases. Not tweet-style, but blog-style. Super-nodes with around-the-clock connectivity also existed, advertised themselves as such, and were a great help. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet