George Mannes is a reporter at TheStreet.com, an on-line financial-news publication. Articles by this Contributor Spring 1999 Delivering The Fax Fifty years ago newspapers thought they had found a new method for competing with radio—via fax Read >> Fall 1996 The Birth Of Cable Tv HALF A CENTURY ago a few small-town tinkerers bought some simple equipment and accidentally founded a multibillion-dollar industry Read >>