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Fax is still a thing. Not long ago did some work for a publisher, who take orders from their stockists via forms submitted either via ftp as EDIs, or fax as eit

Fax is still a thing. Not long ago did some work for a publisher, who take orders from their stockists via forms submitted either via ftp as EDIs, or fax as either EDI or a hand-filled form for transcription to EDI - the majority still fax in handwritten forms. I also had to send a fax of documentation to a government a few weeks ago - their rationale was that fax was secure, and email wasn’t - the irony of course being that I used some random web to fax service, which is likely much less secure than either email or fax!

flyinghamster 6y ago
Fax is absolutely still out there. Before he retired, someone I know who ran a machine shop got drawings by fax right up to the very end. Put your drawing in the fax machine, key in the number (or speed dial), hit Send. No mucking about with apps or websites. Of course, drawings are a rather special case, and it's not like we're using fax for general business communications now. Back when a few people still did, I actually put together a HylaFax setup that allowed the office to print directly to fax. I think it got used for non-testing purposes maybe twice.