[usurper]

And in 1996, 20 years later, I find the term very curiously out of place.

I joined the fed-gov in 1985 and we still used teletypes for secure coms. I think we transitioned away from them around 1988 or 89 and went to secure fax machines.

[Gaffer]

In the late 80s and very early 90s I remember communicating with a sponsor (government) over the remnants of what was ARPANET. After that, electronic comms exploded and teletypes were relics (except for the State Department, I guess).

[Carriage Hill]

“teletypes”
That’s a word I haven’t heard for decades.