It is unthinkable now, but in the 1970s, there were still no fax machines. Of course, there were no mobile phones or email either. If someone who had gone abroad needed to contact Japan quickly, the ...

YouTuber Marc Verdiell, a.k.a. CuriousMarc, has turned a 1930s teletype machine into a Linux terminal. To do that, he had to make circuitry and programming that translates five-bit Baudot code into ...

I have personally experienced, both at work and in my private life, extraordinary advances in information and communication ...

Most modern offices in Kenya once bragged of having the telex machine. It was for sending and receiving text messages. The telex, in case you never experienced Nyayo milk, used radio or microwaves to ...

Readers with not too many years under their belts may recall a time when the classic background sound effect for radio and television news programs included a staccato mechanical beat, presumably made ...

Some brand names become the de facto name for the generic product. Xerox, for example. Or Velcro. Teletype was a trademark, but it has come to mean just about any teleprinter communicating with ...