There is one thing the article omits which is very important: the time frame. At first it looks like this is based on 2024 numbers alone but seeing 52 million for the USA (about 15% of total population) and 16 million for Germany (20%) made me check the linked source. The data was aggregated over the last 35 years.
It’s mostly a “well, technically” kind of thing. First prototypes were around since the 1840s but the first commercial telefax service was introduced in February 1865, a little under two months before Lincoln was killed. Samurai were around until the late 1860s or early 1870s. I can’t quite find when the first telefax machine was operated in Japan but 1928 shows up on some lists.
So yeah, Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai if they both had traveled to France just a few weeks before Lincoln’s death.
Don’t forget elementary school, first pet and favorite sports team.
Collections might have been inherited over generations. For some of them, the current owners may not have much interest in what they have and therefore not be aware of some rare copies.
In proper libraries, we probably have the author and title in a database somewhere but not the content. In private collections, all bets are off.
I would assume that almost any old library or private collection that includes old handwritten books has at least a couple of manuscripts that nobody has read in decades if not centuries.
Oh, thanks for the heads up, I didn’t notice.
After playing around for a bit, this really looks like the best option. I will wait until federation support gets added to the self-hosted version though.
Not sure about the best overall but one of my favorite karaoke memories is a metalhead friend of mine performing Weird Al - White & Nerdy.
Very interesting history and culture, plastered over with bland authoritarian turbo-capitalism that disguises itself as communism.
This is your chance to make one. After all, today you learned that.