• @theatomictruth
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    154 months ago

    Used to work with a radio enthusiast on sailing ships, he’d make posts to social media and check his email literally 1000 miles out to sea via radio.

    • rezz
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      74 months ago

      Where do I start for this rabbit hole? That sounds mind blowingly cool.

      • @Cenzorrll
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        44 months ago

        I believe it would have been winlink or amprnet. I think winlink really only does low bandwidth things like email and weather bulletins. Not sure about amprnet