Did you know that the first commercially successful fax machine made
its appearance (thereby causing the appearance elsewhere of the facsimile
images it generated) in... the 1860's? A fascinating examination (one that
gets the dates right) of the history of electronically generated media awaits,
courtesy of the esteemed and non-electronic Mark Schubin, on his site at
Schubin Blog: When Did We Come From? (http://schubincafe.com/blog/2010/12/when-did-we-come-from/)

Enjoy,