Before email and texting, there was teletype—Cargill's ahead-of-its-time wire system that sped up communication between offices and optimized business. In 1923, Cargill acquired Taylor & Bournique Co.

In lonely outposts at Effingham, Ill. and Sexton Summit, Ore., in the busy, bright-lighted teletype room at Newark Airport, in hundreds of other stations along the Civil Aeronautics Authority’s 30,000 ...

YouTuber Marc Verdiell, a.k.a. CuriousMarc, has turned a 1930s teletype machine into a Linux terminal. To do that, he had to make circuitry and programming that translates five-bit Baudot code into ...