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5500 BCE
Prehistoric
Smoke signals,beacons,drums, and semaphore systems are used in most of the world to communicate over long distances. -
Claude Chappe
He was a French engineer who invented the first optical telegraph and it could produce over 8,000 phrases and words -
Samuel Thomas von Sommering
German inventor who created the electrochemical telegraph -
Shelford Bidwell
English physicist/inventor that invented the first fax machine with the ability to scan. -
Elisha Grey
He was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. In this year he invented the teleautograph that allowed for long distance signatures -
Precursor to the cloud
Mainframe computers are accessed remotely by corporations and academia -
Lockheed Martin
Lockheed develops the first digital fax machine. It was called "Dacom Rapidfax" which incorporated digital data compression technology developed by Lockheed for transmission of images from satellites -
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is an information system on the Internet that allows documents to be connected to other documents by links. In this year, the World Wide Web goes public. -
Online fax
Online faxing products first appear on the market that send and receives data -
Google Drive
Google Drive announces its partnering with Hello Fax. It is an online fax and document signing services. In the future, Google has the potential to deliver documents via the Internet
