On: It's time to bring back the AIM away message

[criddell]

Jay Leno had a funny segment on the Late Show where he pitted the Guinness World Record holder for texting against a morse code operator to send a message. It's on YouTube. Morse code was faster:

https://www.rfcafe.com/miscellany/cool-videos/jay-leno-tonig...

[Akronymus → criddell]

That seems to be a T9 layout on the texting one.

Which seems like an unfair comparison to todays phone keyboards. Still, I HIGHLY doubt that even todays phone keyboards come close.

[criddell → Akronymus]

I kind of love the idea that T9, which was created to improve texting speed, is slower than Morse which was more than 150 years old at that time.

Makes me wonder if there's a Morse code key with a USB or lightning cable. How annoying would it be trying to work in a Starbucks and the guy the next table over is tapping out a message via Morse? :)

[aidenn0 → criddell]

Modern electric iambic keyers aren't that loud. You could probably also emulate with a touch screen.