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[-] theatomictruth@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days 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@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

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

[-] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days 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

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