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How did nobody ever tell me there was a long-distance text-based communication method temporally between the telegram and the fax machine?

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sigmaleph

did you know for a while france had their own... not technically speaking "separate internet", but something sort of like it? (minitel)

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thedarlingone

Oh yeah, teletype machines! If I'd known you'd be interested I would have told you! Reading as much midcentury teen lit as I did growing up, teletype was just sort of part of the scenery.

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