teletype
Distant typing machine
A teletype is an electromechanical device that sends and receives typed messages over telegraph or telephone lines—essentially a typewriter connected to a communication network.
Teletypes dominated business and news communication through much of the 20th century before computers replaced them.
The word persists in computing: a TTY terminal emulates the teletype interface, and teletype-style output means text appearing character by character.
Array of input keys
- printerMachine producing paper copies
- platenPrinting press surface
- carriageWheeled passenger vehicle
- paper rollPaper wound on tube
ribbon · keys · clacking · bell · TTY · print head · electromagnetic · mechanical
Organization distributing news widely
- news wireReal-time journalism distribution
- bulletinBrief public announcement
- dispatchSend with speed
- breaking newsNewly unfolding events reported
correspondent · dateline · Reuters · Associated Press · UPI · ticker · newsflash · urgent
Sending of information
- signalMessage-conveying cue
- morse codeDot-dash alphabet system
- relayStage-by-stage transmission
- circuitClosed electrical pathway
modem · encoder · decoder · switchboard · bandwidth · carrier · multiplexing · waveform
Old valued collectible
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- retroEvoking recent past
- classicOf lasting excellence
- collectibleObject worth amassing
obsolete · historic · relic · bygone · museum piece · World War II · Cold War · analog
keyboard
Array of input keys
paper roll · ribbon · keys · clacking · bell · TTY · print head · electromagnetic · mechanical
wire service
Organization distributing news widely
breaking news · correspondent · dateline · Reuters · Associated Press · UPI · ticker · newsflash · urgent · copy
transmission
Sending of information
- signalMessage-conveying cue
- morse codeDot-dash alphabet system
- relayStage-by-stage transmission
circuit · modem · encoder · decoder · switchboard · bandwidth · carrier · multiplexing · waveform · duplex
antique
Old valued collectible
collectible · obsolete · historic · relic · bygone · museum piece · World War II · Cold War · analog · preserved
- communication methodsphone line, radio, text, postal system, morse code
- tele- wordsTV, telecom, teleport, telecommunications, teleconference
- Analog Erarotary phone, record player, phonograph, turntable, vinyl record
- midcentury technologytransistor radio, color TV, rotary phone, tape recorder, record player
- obsolete technologyVHS, 8-tracks, VHS tapes, cassette tape, cassette tapes
- old machinessteam engine, printing press, sewing machine, phonograph, gramophone
teletypetelephone
Voice communication device
voice call · speech · video call · radio broadcast · radio
teletypeemail
Digital written communication
instant messaging · smartphone · internet · text message · SMS