Telex network
Télex
- Date
- 1933 · confidence high
- Place
- Berlin, Germany
- Credited to
- German Reichspost (switched teleprinter network, 1933); AT&T TWX (1931)
- Field
- Communication
What it is
Public switched network of teleprinters with subscribers and their own numbering. It was business email for half a century.
What it led to
- Real-time international trade and banking
- Globalisation of news agencies
- Replacement by fax and email
Built on
- Teleprinter (teletype)1902–1910
- Automatic telephone exchange
Made possible
- Early fax (wirephoto)1902–1924
- Network email and the @ sign1971
- SWIFT banking network