The technology of sending and receiving written messages made a major advance just before Christmas in 1932 when the UK launched the Teleprinter Exchange.

When was the teletype used?

Teletypes in one form or another go back to about 1907. They were used originally as automatic Telegraph and Telegram machines. Teletypes reached their familiar mature form in the 1920s and the ASR33 was announced 1962.

Are Teleprinters still used?

Teleprinters are still widely used in the aviation industry (see AFTN and airline teletype system), and variations called Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf (TDDs) are used by the hearing impaired for typed communications over ordinary telephone lines.