[ih] Historical Tracing from Concept to Reality over 5 decades?

[the keyboard of geoff goodfellow]

in 1996 yours truly helped German musician Jaye Muller and Jack Rieley (who
was a producer and had managed the Beach Boys) launch JFax... it took in
your faxes on a dedicated phone number and sent them along to you from
their servers as an email attachment, viz.:


*Expanding the Boundaries of E-Mail*By Sreenath Sreenivasan
Sept. 23, 1996
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/23/business/expanding-the-boundaries-of-e-mail.html



On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 10:46 AM Dave Crocker <dhc at dcrocker.net> wrote:

> On 7/14/2020 1:37 PM, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via
> Internet-history wrote:
> > *BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY; E-mail Is Becoming A Cheap-Fax Network*
> > By John Markoff
> > July 21, 1993
> >
> https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/21/business/business-technology-e-mail-is-becoming-a-cheap-fax-network.html
> >
> > The dividing line between paper facsimile documents and electronic mail
> is
> > vanishing.
> >
> > Thanks to the volunteer efforts of a group of computer network designers,
> > the network of networks known as Internet now permits users to send an
> > e-mail message to be printed out on fax machines at a growing number of
> > sites around the world.
>
>
> Indeed, the interested produced a commercial standards effort, with
> joint work done in the IETF and ITU, for fax over email, and the ITU for
> fax over SIP.
>
> The first output from the IETF work was:
>
> RFC 2305 - A Simple Mode of Facsimile Using Internet Mail; K. Toyoda, H.
> Ohno, J. Murai, D. Wing; March 1998
>
> d/
>
> --
> Dave Crocker
> Brandenburg InternetWorking
> bbiw.net
>
>

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