the.com/teletype
a typewriter that gossips over wires, so two rooms can argue in real time.
means an electromechanical device that sends and receives typed text over telegraph or phone lines, letter by letter.
from from teletypewriter, commercialized by the teletype corporation in the 1920s; newsrooms and militaries used it to move text faster than any courier.
unix legacytty still names your terminal device today
speedabout 60 words per minute, blazing for 1930
news feedswire services literally meant teletype wires
ascii originthe character code was built for teletype hardware