Or in the United States as well.. Nearly all offices in the US in the 1990s (and even into the 2000s) had a fax machine to send documents back and forth, especi

Or in the United States as well.. Nearly all offices in the US in the 1990s (and even into the 2000s) had a fax machine to send documents back and forth, especially ones that needed to be signed. Until fairly recently you could still run into people who didn't trust emails with scanned PDFs (or those newfangled "digital signatures" on PDFs) and would want faxes even after the time when fax machines became rare.