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Silverchase@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

TIL faxing was invented before the telephone

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TIL faxing was invented before the telephone

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Silverchase@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    Obligatory “There was a period of time where Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a Samurai” joke.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      That sounds wrong, but I don’t know enough about samurai’s fax technology to dispute it.

      • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de
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        It’s mostly a “well, technically” kind of thing. First prototypes were around since the 1840s but the first commercial telefax service was introduced in February 1865, a little under two months before Lincoln was killed. Samurai were around until the late 1860s or early 1870s. I can’t quite find when the first telefax machine was operated in Japan but 1928 shows up on some lists.

        So yeah, Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai if they both had traveled to France just a few weeks before Lincoln’s death.

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          And there’s no record that they did. Talk about missing a great opportunity

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            deleted by creator

        • confuser@lemmy.zip
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          This should be a TIL post in of itself haha

          • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de
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            This is your chance to make one. After all, today you learned that.

    • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com
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      Is it even a joke if it’s true?

      • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.world
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        Things can be both, such as with my life

      • confuser@lemmy.zip
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        This is what the internet calls jokes now haha I don’t like it either.

        • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com
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          I’m all for language evolving but I feel like people are reaching into a bucket of words without looking and just chucking them at a sentence before vomiting it out.

          Vibe English, like Vibe Coding.

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    Kind of makes sense, since it was just an extension of the existing telegraph technology.

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    Most people don’t believe me when I say the Fax machine was invented in 1843… And no that’s not a typo

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      Well yeah, that’s true, but also, have to bear in mind it wasn’t exactly the same.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_telegraph

      Lead me to read more about it. Some people used to read the news from the radio, lol.

      Children read a wirelessly transmitted newspaper in 1938.

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    Perhaps today you’ll also learn about Hellschreiber. Old tech is really clever!

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    This makes me feel old

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    Yes.

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