there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
they never had widespread non-internet-based telephony
there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
telephones in the pokémon world are an extension of the LAN/WAN/Internet systems that they developed for pokémon transfers and PC access there was no predecessor system afaict
they just sent Mail by carrier pidgey
there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
@Lady this seems implausible
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@Satsuma why do you say so
re: there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
@Satsuma are you incapable of imagining a modernity without telephones
re: there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
@Lady telegraph actually
re: there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
@Satsuma why
re: there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
@Lady sending a live thing digitally is insanely complex and it seems unlikely that, even if it was ones top cultural priority, it would get invented before the ability to send any data even if the latter was not particularly widely implemented
re: there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
@Satsuma (so what you had initially canonically were these transfer labs or global communication centers which had a trans-regional link and then the problem was cutting out the middleman, which took them a while as they didn't have a pre·existing international telephony system to crib off of)
re: there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
@Lady email is another reasonable predecessor technology and i’d also believe that lack of interest meant there wasn’t widespread the infrastructural accommodation necessary for a full telephone/internet/wired data network prior to teleporting pokemons
re: there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
re: there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
re: there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
@gaditb @Satsuma so first they connect Sevii to Kanto, which is Silph-Silph, to see that it works (and avoid messy protocol specifications for conveying commands across systems) and then they connect Sevii to Hoenn, Silph-Devon, which requires protocol standardization for the whole transfer process on the host-router interface
re: there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
@Lady @Satsuma Calling it a router presumes their network has been built up from unicast connections, though. (And I agree with Satsuma -- we'd expect more simple forms of unicast technologies first.)
I still think my "broadcast as a basic unit" theory deserves at least some consideration. (We see radio/TV, positioning systems, ... I think we have evidence for it.)
In that frame, it's an amplifier/rebroadcaster -- possibly, reencoding as well.
re: there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
@gaditb @Satsuma the thing that makes me think it is somewhat real-world-like infrastructurally is the fact that you can also access your own PC from the pokémon center… and get personalized pokédex evaluations from professor oak’s… this to me suggests a wired connection built up from the timesharing/remote execution networks which were required for early computers to be practical anyway
so like what i'm imagining on the regional level is something like UUCP networks where pokémon centers serve as well-known nodes that trainers can register with (possibly by trainer ID?). but the problem then is that those are operating system-specific and don't have global addressing (although pokémon center–based networking is already close to DNS), which makes bridging regional networks hard
re: there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
@Satsuma (i do think they did not have Internet until after pokémon teleportation though, although this might just be a coincidence due to pokémon teleportation being invented early enough that there weren't many other good usecases for the internet yet)
(like if your friend lives in a different region you can just write a letter and accept it might be a little while before you hear back, but there is no way to send them a pokémon except with a global internet connection or something like it, short of paying someone to literally bring them the pokémon)