Comment on It still blows my mind how ubiquitous communication is now. I just had someone message me instantly from a ship in the Mediterranean, while I'm on a flight in the US.

ThunderQueen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• northernlights@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Seriously I was astonished hearing our teenagers complaining the plane wifi “sucks” because they had bad ping at fortnite. Like seriously think about it 1 second ungrateful brats.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Didn’t have internet when I was in Guangzhou all the way until my family left China 2010

    I still don’t know if it was even a thing in my area or if it was just because of money issues.

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    • northernlights@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      my ex-in laws in Jiangxi got it around the same time too

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The idea of an airplane would he quite a stretch in 1876 considering the Wright brothers made their famous flight in 1903.

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  • ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    My point was more about instantaneous communication for civilians between a ship in the middle of the sea and an airplane half a world away.

    Even if the plane existed you’re not gonna be running a telegraph cable to that or the ship. Even if you focused on radio, a general passenger wouldn’t be able to use it on a whim.

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    • elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      focused on radio

      And there, you’d be looking at 1901 for the first trans-Atlantic signal.

      But then again, a general passenger couldn’t use the plane’s radio on a whim back in – oh, 2003 (first airplane wifi came about in 2004 apparently). There are some layers to this thought.

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  • ThunderQueen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Wasnt that pm still limited by wire? So not even on a boat

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