alt Hacker NewsI never practiced Morse code, but I read enough about it to quickly realize that the nice sound a friend's cool new Nokia phone made on incoming SMS messages is actually ... -- ..., literally "SMS". The year was 2002 or so. I'm still amazed that someone in Nokia really thought about it back then.
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There was also another SMS sound option on Nokia phones that literally spelled "CONNECTING PEOPLE" in Morse.
Cool! I also remember from decades ago a friend in high school taught me "SOS" and still stuck with me: 3 short, 3 long 3 short, i suppose ... - - - ...
I had a Nokia phone around that time
How quickly those disappeared, the mobile phone was replaced by the "smartphone" and we entered into an abyss of data collection, surveillance and targeted advertising
In retrospect the era of the Nokia 3310 seems like such a brief period of time
"Today we are reinventng the phone" - Steve Jobs
Thanks but no thanks
I wanted a mobile (cellular) phone and a pocket computer as separate devices
Silicon Valley ruined this
Just before arduino became a thing I had an idea to create a device that could read your your text messages by tapping out morse code on your skin somewhere, like your hip or arm.
It would never be able to keep up with modern levels of connectivity, but at the time I thought the bit rate might be high enough to be interesting.
But by the time arduino landed I was more interested in visual information radiators. I soured on the whole idea when I discovered that flow control hardware wasn't on any of these boards. Made it feel very much like sticks and rocks.