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Interesting hypothesis. I found little reference to fax being used in China early, only this http://mentalfloss.com/article/33586/idea-fax-machine-has-been-arou
by silveira 11y ago
Interesting hypothesis.
I found little reference to fax being used in China early, only this http://mentalfloss.com/article/33586/idea-fax-machine-has-been-around-170-years http://mentalfloss.com/article/33586/idea-fax-machine-has-be....
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoYeah according to the Internet, Morse invented wired communications. Its hard to find any history that doesn't begin with him. Here's all I found today: http://www.recordnations.com/articles/pantelegraph/ http://www.recordnations.com/articles/pantelegraph/
- contingencies 11y agoI ran a hotel reservation network here in China about 7 years ago. We signed over 3000 contracts nearly exclusively by fax (I think one or two were email). All of our rates updates from partner hotels were faxed in. I built an Asterix/Hylafax based solution with a custom workqueue that worked brilliantly and XMPP IM'd employees to let them know how their fax send was progressing.