Open post Life's details 🔎 @Remke@mstdn.social · 3mo ago Replying to @stux@mstdn.social So in 1867 the Samurai caste stood at the threshold of extinction leading to the abolition of the samurai class following the Meiji Restoration. The first fax machine was patented by Scottish inventor Alexander Bain on May 27, 1843. He called it the "Electric Printing Telegraph". And President Abraham Lincoln died at 7:22 a.m. on April 15, 1865. So there was a 22 year window where a Samurai could send a fax to Abraham Lincoln! @stux@mstdn.social But to use the fax, in those days, one had to #ThinkOutOfTheBox. That is: the box the fax came in.
