The Teletypies were children’s education entertainment characters
back in the late 1800s. They were similar to the Teletubbies, but rather than
having television screens on their tummies, they had teletype messages
scrolling across their tummies. This was considered a miracle of modern
science, and it’s the real thing that got kids so obsessed with communications
devices, evolving into always being on the phone in the 1970s and ‘80s, always
being on the cell phone in the 1990s, always texting in the 2000s, and always
playing with their smartphones in the 2010s. (In fact, in the old days, thanks to the Teletypies, kids were always hogging their town teletype machine.) And it can all be traced back to
these fun, lovable communications-themed educational children’s entertainment
characters from the late 1800s.
