I think it was just last week that I saw a headline here in Germany that after a ransomware attack on computers the only thing that still worked was fax [0]. As

I think it was just last week that I saw a headline here in Germany that after a ransomware attack on computers the only thing that still worked was fax [0]. As an administrator I would leave that old technology in place if it doesn't cost much, just in case, in addition to any of the other arguments about politics or issues around laws. Just as a backup if - or when - computers/Internet are down or unusable. Of course, this does not explain why it is being used regularly. From my subjective point of view, having worked in the IT industry and as freelancer in various big customer projects for two decades, IT solutions don't look nearly as great as they appear to be in theory. Riddled with bugs and often brittle, completely different interfaces depending on what software you use (much of it custom-made), bad interoperability, expensive, long-term questions about what will happen 10 years later (usually needs to be solved with even more money for new software and data migration and lots of new issues). I'm a lot more wary of shiny software solutions in practice, because I think the process of creating big and especially custom niche software for special use cases seems way too political to me now and not enough interested in actually finding a good technical solution. I laugh a lot less now about people and businesses using "ancient" tech like paper. [0] It might have been this court in Berlin: https://www.berlin.de/gerichte/kammergericht/kontakt/artikel.851552.php https://www.berlin.de/gerichte/kammergericht/kontakt/artikel... (TL;DR "we are offline, only phone and fax work") -- but it could also have been something else, that's not the only case when something like this happened.