The Wonderful Fax Machine!

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Uploaded by on Mar 8, 2009

I found this clip on a video tape from 19 years ago. This was aired before most people had discovered email, the Internet, and the Web. Funny how marvelous fax machines sounded back then, and how they have been so eclipsed by all the Internet brought us since then. (Do YOU have a fax machine any more? I only have one because it serves as a photocopier too.)

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  • Hey, no question they're still useful! I just thought it almost as funny as your video of the Today Show crew trying to understand the Internet to see fax machines explained as a new thing to people a few years before that on the same show. (Of course, faxes had been around for a while already, but were starting to gain much more usage in all kinds of businesses -- and homes.)

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  • The American Fax Association!

  • Still lots of use in business contexts. The effort required to scan and e-mail original documents often doesn't pay off for one-shot situations, and security concerns (since so few people still can deal with encrypted email) is another aspect where a single fax machine in a controlled location may be considered more secure than use of unencrypted email.

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