I’m not sure where it came from but I saw it on IRC, around the same time ICQ, msn, and aim were in their heyday.
And that makes sense, I’ve never used a teletype system and guess that especially the old ones might have had difficulty generating the correct rise in tone to signal a question, especially if it does text to voice on the fly while things are being typed and might already be saying the word that needs to be said differently to imply a question.
Oh right, those worked by calling up someone who also had a teletyper who would then handle the speech part of whatever call they were making. I forgot it was a human doing the “translate from typed to spoken and back” and assumed there was a text-to-speech and voice-to-text in the loop.
I’m not sure where it came from but I saw it on IRC, around the same time ICQ, msn, and aim were in their heyday.
And that makes sense, I’ve never used a teletype system and guess that especially the old ones might have had difficulty generating the correct rise in tone to signal a question, especially if it does text to voice on the fly while things are being typed and might already be saying the word that needs to be said differently to imply a question.
Teletype, not text-to-speech.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_(disambiguation)
Oh right, those worked by calling up someone who also had a teletyper who would then handle the speech part of whatever call they were making. I forgot it was a human doing the “translate from typed to spoken and back” and assumed there was a text-to-speech and voice-to-text in the loop.
Right right, that was one use of teletype.