VirusMaster3073@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 days agoWhat old thing surprisingly still exists?message-squaremessage-square257linkfedilinkarrow-up1139arrow-down11
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minus-squareRhynoplaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 days agoDid you know that it would have been possible for Abraham Lincoln to send a fax to a samurai?
minus-squarejdr@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·3 days agoI think the reason I didn’t know it is because it isn’t true. Unless you’re a Lincoln truther who thinks he wasn’t killed in 1865 way before fax machines were available in the USA and Japan.
minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 days agothere was a period of around 12 years where it would have been possible, given that they had both been in scotland at the time. between 1853 and 1865 it would have to have been an ex-samurai.
minus-squarejdr@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoI see the potential for a historical fiction masterpiece here
minus-squareRhynoplaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoThe first fax machine was invented in 1843.
minus-squarejdr@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up15·3 days agoBut of course they had to wait for the second one to be invented…
Did you know that it would have been possible for Abraham Lincoln to send a fax to a samurai?
I think the reason I didn’t know it is because it isn’t true.
Unless you’re a Lincoln truther who thinks he wasn’t killed in 1865 way before fax machines were available in the USA and Japan.
there was a period of around 12 years where it would have been possible, given that they had both been in scotland at the time. between 1853 and 1865 it would have to have been an ex-samurai.
I see the potential for a historical fiction masterpiece here
Erotic Lincoln-Samurai Fax Fiction
The first fax machine was invented in 1843.
But of course they had to wait for the second one to be invented…