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Samurais could have theoretically sent faxes

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The first commercial facsimile system was fully established in the late nineteenth century. A feudal Japanese warrior could theoretically have transmitted a pixelated drawing across a wire before the samurai class was officially abolished.

Samurais could have theoretically sent faxes
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