Even less than a 150 years ago that would have been impossible. And prior to that communication among normal people could take months.
Even less than a 150 years ago that would have been impossible. And prior to that communication among normal people could take months.
Civilian Instant messaging from a ship in the Mediterranean to a Commercial plane over the US was impossible 10 years ago.
Unreliable certainly. For as long as there’s radio coverage there’s a way, but it used to be impractical to give passengers enough bandwidth. 20 years ago you’d have to ask the captain nicely to get a call routed (read: have an emergency)
If you allow civilian HAM radio, you go back a few more decades (not quite applicable to planes, but definitely applicable to boats). If you allow Morse code you go back yet a little further.
10 years ago was 2015. In-flight wifi was definitely already a thing. I just pulled this from an old email.
This is from Southwest Airlines from 2014.
Actually ten years ago was 2016 and public WiFi absolutely sucked ten years ago.
Look I said 10 years ago it would have been rare but you certainly don’t need to go back 150 years.
It wouldn’t have been rare at all because it wasn’t rare.
Yes, you wouldn’t be video chatting (and still shouldn’t be… it is a plane for crying out loud). But emails were 100% a thing and I had plenty of gchat conversations with colleagues that included the phrase “We are about to land, Ill get back to you when I am at my hotel”.
Yeah people are talking like 2016 was 2006.
Like remember how much better Skype was in 2012 than any of the crap we have now?
Xfire’s corpse in the corner: …
Holy shit, xfire… That’s a deep cut.
Ventrilo was cool too
VENT! Ha, I remember using that back in the Counterstrike days.
I’m supposed to say ‘fun times’, but I sucked at Counterstrike. Not actually that much fun for me.
Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA
I feel you man
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