You could almost say that it's such an obvious invention that the first person who had access to an internally programmable digital computer came up with it. S

You could almost say that it's such an obvious invention that the first person who had access to an internally programmable digital computer came up with it. Scanning and printing over a wire were implemented in the late 19th century[1], so the only thing left was to be able to store the signal and replay it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirephoto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirephoto