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First there were mechanical typewriters. Then came partially electrically driven typewriters. They hooked that up to a telephone line and presto, the telex came into existence. Basically what they do is; what you type on the keys on your typewriter gets sent across a communication line (phoneline for example) to another machine far away, which then types those things out.
Let's call it a very primitive form of instant messaging.
So then the telefacsimile came into existence and took over. For those that don't have a clue what a telefacsimile is - the word spells it out for you. A copy of an existing printed or written document (facsimile) is sent across a phoneline to another machine and then printed.
So um..yeah. Businesses that have offices faraway like newsagencies, import/export businesses and multinational corporations have had telex machines and now fax machines (telefacsimile). Most fax machines have now been replaced by e-mail, though. PDF scans sent by mail, that kind of stuff.
Interesting trivia-
The layout of the keyboard that we use on computers now is based on the layout used on telexmachines and typewriters. The funny thing here is, is that this layout is designed to be as slow, as inefficient, as the designer of the keyboard layout could think of. Why? Because the mechanical arms with the letters on it that stamp the letters onto the paper in old mechanical typewriters would jam if two or more keys were pressed too fast in succession. Interesting that we still use it, hm?
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