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[–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm not sure where it came from but I saw it on IRC, around the same time ICQ, msn, and aim were in their heyday.

And that makes sense, I've never used a teletype system and guess that especially the old ones might have had difficulty generating the correct rise in tone to signal a question, especially if it does text to voice on the fly while things are being typed and might already be saying the word that needs to be said differently to imply a question.

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    Oh right, those worked by calling up someone who also had a teletyper who would then handle the speech part of whatever call they were making. I forgot it was a human doing the "translate from typed to spoken and back" and assumed there was a text-to-speech and voice-to-text in the loop.

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