We joke about the fax machine being ancient history—a relic of the late 20th century and the dark ages before email attachments and cloud-based storage—but it really is pretty old. The earliest ...

Replica of a pantelegraph with transmitter and receiver. Credit: Museo nazionale della scienza e della tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milano / Wikimedia Commons The internet and the digital revolution ...

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