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Relevance and Obsolescence The Fax machine or facsimile machine was invented by the Xerox company in 1964. The original technology that inspired the creation of the modern version of the fax machine that we know nowadays is to be created to a great man far back in History, much further back than you would ever expect my dear reader! The credit is largely pointed towards a man who was born and raised in Scotland to create a technology called the ‘electric printing telegraph’ which was furthermore based off of another technology known as the printing telegraph. This goes to show that the fax machine has a deep and rich history that spans back 2 millennia ago. The simple premise behind the fax machine or the telegraph was that the fax machine would be capable of copying files and information at one location and reproducing it to another location this happened with a scanner reading line after line and reproducing the same result on the other end. For it’s time it was an incredibly efficie...

Historic Moments In IT History In 1971, Ray Tomlinson who was an engineer at MIT was able to send a message from one computer to another. His system got adopted by ARPANET. His discovery is now known as email or rather SMTP which stands for “Simple Mail Transfer Protocol” . SMTP is part of the application layer of the OSI model. Email has revolutionised how people communicate with each other. It simultaneously reduced the amount of paper wasted on actual letters that people used to send each other. People could now ‘paperlessly’ communicate with each other. Email completely revolutionised the workplace because it was an amazing way for colleagues to communicate amongst themselves. It also meant that there was a proof of the conversational exchange. The email used to be only ASCII based in it’s origin but has rapidly evolved throughout the years to include memes, gifs, files, pictures and even software that checks your spelling errors for you, a far way from it’s humble beginnings in 1...