Friday, May 18, 2007

Back to the Past

today i had to make a call to Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf on behalf of NCOD Library. i called through ip-relay but it was busy so i decide to use tty for first time in years.

it worked just fine. when i began to type, i type so fast that the person on end of line asked me to repeat. it was neat to use tty for once a while. in the end we talked all right and i got what i needed.

it made me realize that tty is an ancient device for the deaf people. we are more integrated with the society through mobile communicators like blackberry and sidekick. but we, as deaf people, can't forget how hard Robert Weitbricht forged to invent this machine that served deaf people for decades.

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