After a brief experiment on yesterday’s show, using the Fax machine to collect requests for SONiC’s Quick Fix at 6ix. The answer is yes, there are still two people using this obsolete technology.
For those under 30… a fax is basically just like email, only they charge you long distance. Well, that and it’s unreliable, it takes longer, and it prints every single message whether you like it or not. Image the trees you would kill, if you printed off every little spam and Farmville request you got.
I think most of the people still using fax machines are in industries where signatures are required – the medical industry for instance. To be honest, it makes me nervous that the people responsible for our health are still using such antiquated technology. They should have the latest, greatest, most space aged scanning equipment available with flashing lights and lots of beeping – so you know it’s working. Yet they’re using fax machines.
Who knows, they might still be using carrier pigeons but the orderlies got tired of mopping up the bird droppings off of the foreheads of their bed-ridden patients.