People still use fax machines? I wouldn’t even know where to look for a fax machine these days! Is Kinkos still a thing? I think that’s where I had to go the last time I faxed something 20 years ago lol
Old SMS had some pretty crappy character limits so they went with the option that didn’t is basically how I see it. Now, LINE is king. I’ve only used text with like two people ever in Japan.
Old SMS was free though, it used the spare bits in a regular phone call datastream. Meanwhile, the network provider charged you 10p a pop, and far more for any kind of data.
Most copiers can have a fax card added. And most businesses that need a fax machine don’t even do that. They have their VoIP phone service set up a virtual fax machine. If it even needs a physical part it’s probably a little black box in a network closet, but now most don’t even do that.
Real fun thing, did you know faxed advertisements were and are still a thing? At work we get like 3 random ads each day that come out of the machine.
People still use fax machines? I wouldn’t even know where to look for a fax machine these days! Is Kinkos still a thing? I think that’s where I had to go the last time I faxed something 20 years ago lol
Hello, fax machine? This is Germany!
Healthcare in the US still relies on a surprising amount of faxing.
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And yet they never picked up SMS messages, they just used email on their phones all the while.
Old SMS had some pretty crappy character limits so they went with the option that didn’t is basically how I see it. Now, LINE is king. I’ve only used text with like two people ever in Japan.
Old SMS was free though, it used the spare bits in a regular phone call datastream. Meanwhile, the network provider charged you 10p a pop, and far more for any kind of data.
I don’t know what the prices here in Japan were without looking it up. I’ll try to remember to ask my wife when she gets home.
Prescriptions need to be faxed where I’m from.
You can actual use the Internet to send a fax to a standard fax machine. There are websites for that.
Most copiers can have a fax card added. And most businesses that need a fax machine don’t even do that. They have their VoIP phone service set up a virtual fax machine. If it even needs a physical part it’s probably a little black box in a network closet, but now most don’t even do that.
Real fun thing, did you know faxed advertisements were and are still a thing? At work we get like 3 random ads each day that come out of the machine.
When I have to check the efax and see these, I almost always save the clipart for use in inter-office memes before deleting them.
I’m pretty sure that’s the most engagement these things have got in the past 20 years.
The Australian government used faxes well into the 2000s, I think the last three faxes I sent though were through my modem
The UK National Health Service (NHS) still loves fax machines. There was supposed to be a plan to phase them all out by 2020 but it never happened.
They are still somewhat common in some B2B sectors here too, although most businesses have migrated to e-fax systems now.