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.

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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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