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I'm waiting for faxing to come back like cassettes: Artists draw pictures and robodial a secret fan list (through a POTS modem and some 90s software) of fax ma
by kristopolous 7y ago
I'm waiting for faxing to come back like cassettes:
Artists draw pictures and robodial a secret fan list (through a POTS modem and some 90s software) of fax machines where insiders can get exclusive limited physical copies of the art and the copies with the earliest timestamps become the most valued.
People will just be sitting around their house and they hear the fax machine starting to unexpectedly print something on a Saturday afternoon. Then, like some tactile version of a phone alert, they slowly watch the paper slide out of the machine with the latest artwork.
The lost joy of anticipation in the 30 or so seconds of waiting as you see the thing slowly form in front of you, recaptured once again.
Alternatively they hear from their friend that a new artwork is out and they anticipate going home and checking the tray of their fax machine to see their own copy.
This should be a thing, it sounds fun
- battery_cowboy 7y agoYou do it and I'll be the first subscriber, as long as i can afford it :)
- kristopolous 7y agoI'm not really an artist but ok sure. I can certainly fax some doodles. I'll think about how to pitch and present it. I'll register artsyfax.com this week and throw something together. I even have a pnp modem and a pots line. There's probably Linux fax software nobody has used in 15 years that can import vcards and be scripted with lua or something.
- kristopolous 7y agodo you have a way of receiving a fax? I don't have a way of testing this thing.