Technologies I thought my son would never use

Re:Technologies I thought my son would never use by philistine on Sunday April 11, 2021 @04:43PM (#26773234)

They were sending drawings through telegram lines for newspapers during the American Civil War. Thus, the fax is older than the phone. But in terms of general population use, of course most people encountered a phone before they encountered a fax.

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Re:Technologies I thought my son would never use by aksss on Sunday April 11, 2021 @11:24PM (#26775808)

Interestingly, you can still send a telegram.. https://www.itelegram.com/

I guess these guys took over all the telegram infrastructure of Western Union in 2006.

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Re:Technologies I thought my son would never use by kwhitefoot on Monday April 12, 2021 @09:45AM (#26779334)

Telegrams were always expensive but the price now is outrageous. I followed the link and chose Norway as the destination country and was told that it would cost GBP 22 + 67p/word! Even worse for Mexico: GBP53 + 67p/word.

It's cheaper to send flowers with a card!

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Re:Technologies I thought my son would never use by ant6n on Monday April 12, 2021 @03:59AM (#26776970)

That doesnt sound like fax. Or better, if you include this and fax together, you’d have to describe it as a generic technology that allows sending images remotely. Which may actually survive the telephone.

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Re:Technologies I thought my son would never use by r3trohack3r on Sunday April 11, 2021 @10:57PM (#26775698)

Source?

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Re:Technologies I thought my son would never use by theodric on Sunday April 11, 2021 @11:48PM (#26775910)

Google "fax machine history." This is incredibly trivial to verify.

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