VirusMaster3073@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 13 hours agoWhat old thing surprisingly still exists?message-squaremessage-square128linkfedilinkarrow-up171arrow-down10
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minus-squareRhynoplaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·10 hours agoDid you know that it would have been possible for Abraham Lincoln to send a fax to a samurai?
minus-squarejdr@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·3 hours 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-squareRhynoplaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·41 minutes agoThe first fax machine was invented in 1843.
minus-squarejdr@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·17 minutes agoBut of course they had to wait for the second one to be invented…
minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 hours 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-up1·14 minutes agoI see the potential for a historical fiction masterpiece here
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.
The first fax machine was invented in 1843.
But of course they had to wait for the second one to be invented…
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