Moments with my son

Hi,

Just in case 😀

Telegrams used a form of morse code until the internet arrived The internet was invented a long time ago,, but the more likely question is when was the great initial growth of it’s use in NZ – that was about 1996 Old fashioned computers is a big list. I used my first computer at university in 1971 and no it did not have a screen, it had cards you had to get punched to put in your commands and the only output was a printer. The first “Small” computer I used was in 1974 and it could mange 64 program steps – all input on a small calculator like keyboard and only a tape printer, when you turned the power off it forgot your program Rotary phones send pulses (big enough to provide a small big painful shock) to the exchange, each of which move a relay which steps a connector up or around 10 connectors – that was called a Step-by-step exchange

Hopefully that answers a lot of his questions LOL

John Truenet.nz

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The asking a million questions that I can’t possibly answer (and have no real interest in answering, sadly…) sounds like my youngest son! arghh…Thanks John for the above answers that I can refer to if he ever asks me those particular questions!!!