Oh yes. It seemed like science fiction at the time, and when my office upgraded to a fax machine which printed on plain paper rather than the heat-sensitive stuff on a roll, that was actually pretty exciting. We still had Telex at the time, and it was only a few years since the inland telegram service had ended (you could still send them internationally).
I only really worked in an office for a very short period of time that had fax machines but I remember the big problem with them was that you knew you had received something but no one could find the piece of paper. Or the reverse, you’d sent someone something and now you couldn’t find the document you sent, so then they had to send you the scan that you sent them. Which meant you had to phone them to get them to do it.
As boring as email is, if something has been sent or received you can always just pull it up again.
I’m pretty sure at one point we even printed out emails so the admin person, who was old and refused to adapt, could keep using the old filing system.
I don’t get people defending fax machines for the input method.
All of that can still be built with modern technology. There is something like “Fax-to-email”, I’m sure the other way around is possible as well. Put PGP and TLS on there and boom! almost modern. No Dialup or Analog-almost-digital datastream required.
The input method can still be the same. Have a device that simply scans a page, no compression, and then sends it away. It doesn’t have to be sound modulated over a wire. It can be an email or messenger. You can even make an identification per phone number.
Emails better though because with a fax machine you can only address it to the phone number, which is usually one number for the entire organization or for the entire department if it was a big company.
With email you can individually address it to the actual intended recipient.
Okay, fair, but that too can be setup with my idea. Just use “fax to email” functionality.
What I was trying to say is that when people are saying “I miss fax” they don’t necessarily mean the protocol (except people missing the audio modulated exchanges, which can be simulated, or otherwise adapted), they mean the steps they themselves had to do (maybe also the feedback from the machine). Maybe the certainty that the sent stuff will be seen by the first person walking by is something they want. As long as there is a choice I don’t see why that should not be possible.
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This is why I sit memorized while my 3D printer does its work
It can print… But UP!
“memorized”? That’s not a word, did you mean “mesmerized”?
Memorised is a word. I assume Americans spell it with a z, which would mean memorized is a word.
It doesn’t work in this context, but it is a word.
Yes. I blame autocorrupt
*autocarrot
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/de/worterbuch/englisch/memorized
He meant memeorized.
He meant memoised.
You seem to have dropped an “s”
Oh yes. It seemed like science fiction at the time, and when my office upgraded to a fax machine which printed on plain paper rather than the heat-sensitive stuff on a roll, that was actually pretty exciting. We still had Telex at the time, and it was only a few years since the inland telegram service had ended (you could still send them internationally).
I only really worked in an office for a very short period of time that had fax machines but I remember the big problem with them was that you knew you had received something but no one could find the piece of paper. Or the reverse, you’d sent someone something and now you couldn’t find the document you sent, so then they had to send you the scan that you sent them. Which meant you had to phone them to get them to do it.
As boring as email is, if something has been sent or received you can always just pull it up again.
I’m pretty sure at one point we even printed out emails so the admin person, who was old and refused to adapt, could keep using the old filing system.
Yeah, until you need to send a 200 page fax
I don’t get people defending fax machines for the input method.
All of that can still be built with modern technology. There is something like “Fax-to-email”, I’m sure the other way around is possible as well. Put PGP and TLS on there and boom! almost modern. No Dialup or Analog-almost-digital datastream required.
The input method can still be the same. Have a device that simply scans a page, no compression, and then sends it away. It doesn’t have to be sound modulated over a wire. It can be an email or messenger. You can even make an identification per phone number.
Emails better though because with a fax machine you can only address it to the phone number, which is usually one number for the entire organization or for the entire department if it was a big company.
With email you can individually address it to the actual intended recipient.
Okay, fair, but that too can be setup with my idea. Just use “fax to email” functionality.
What I was trying to say is that when people are saying “I miss fax” they don’t necessarily mean the protocol (except people missing the audio modulated exchanges, which can be simulated, or otherwise adapted), they mean the steps they themselves had to do (maybe also the feedback from the machine). Maybe the certainty that the sent stuff will be seen by the first person walking by is something they want. As long as there is a choice I don’t see why that should not be possible.
In my younger days, I may, or may not, have sent sketches of massive, throbbing, cum-dripping dongs to multiple work locations.
That does sound like a lot of fun.
And then the lung cancer and disgusting smell. Maybe skip on the drugs while working