(All references have been included as links within the text.) When one mentions fax machines, it is natural to think of those 1980s and 90s machines we all proudly owned to send illegible hand scrawled messages to the distant family or boss. However few people realise that the first attempts at the fax machine really...Read More

This piece is the culmination of many hours of research so far. Feel free to share but please be kind and attribute HistoricTech.com In 1949 a 24-year-old Welsh computer scientist named Donald Watts Davies created an electro-mechanical version of the classic game of Noughts and Crosses (Tic-Tac-Toe). A colleague of Alan Turing, Davies’ simple intention...Read More