How pictures and text were transmitted before the invention of e-mail, computers and the Internet

In the name of cordless telephones, telegraphs and holy faxes!

January 22, 1908, French scientist Edouard Belin

(Edouard Belin) first demonstrated the Belinograph, a device for sending images over telephone lines.Previously, humanity was content with an ordinary telegraph, which could only transmit text.