TIL faxing was invented before the telephone
TIL faxing was invented before the telephone
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Obligatory “There was a period of time where Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a Samurai” joke.
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That sounds wrong, but I don't know enough about samurai's fax technology to dispute it.
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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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This should be a TIL post in of itself haha
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This is your chance to make one. After all, today you learned that.
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Is it even a joke if it's true?
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Things can be both, such as with my life
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This is what the internet calls jokes now haha I don't like it either.
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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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