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		qdot76367 on Sept 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ButtFish – Transmit Morse Code of chess moves to y... Possibly! For instance, when I built the twitterdildonics project back in 2007 (changed tweet character values to vibration speeds, using an extremely early precursor to buttplug.io), a lot of people were saying I should transmit using morse code, but instead I took UTF-8 and poorly translated it back to 0-255 range, which accidentally ended up with super interesting results: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuKP5viPYRM

eru on Sept 29, 2022 [–]

Twitter looked rather different back then. And they had to explain what is was.

qdot76367 on Sept 29, 2022 | [–]

This was at SXSW like 3 months after the public opening of the site? We were all still making the “haha I tweeted what I had from lunch” joke.

If only we had known.

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