On: Quietnet: Chat client that works over near-ultraso...

[TheCraiggers]

I think tones in our hearing range would be a bad idea. From what I remember of my music theory class, our brains (through either nature or nurture) don't like discordant sounds like that for a long time. In fact, I believe it's been used as a torture device in the past, although I'm guessing it wasn't just a weird jumble of notes in that case.

I don't think I'd be very good at programming in any case.

[im3w1l → TheCraiggers]

Click noises have no real tone character so could probably work. My keyboard already makes those anyway.

[TheCraiggers → im3w1l]

True, but as you alluded to yourself, those aren't really 'tones'. The parent was talking about a keyboard that sounded like a piano.