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Anon is a child prodigy (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think the closest thing back then was a fax, which could transmit monochromatic documents. Halftone (grayscale) fax was invented by Arthur Korn in 1902, enabling newspapers to send/receive photographs via telephone. That used mechanical parts, electronic ADCs were developed in the 1920s.

As for the newest word in the acronym: The word bit only appeared in 1946, the word bite (machine word) probably shortly after, spelled with a Y since 1956.