Facsimiles

[gfish]

'Fax' is a cool word. Why did we waste it on such a stupid technology? I think it's very telling that faxes are the only form of long distance communication ever invented that never attracted a geekish/hacker following. There is nothing interesting or aesthetic about the technology. There is only suck.

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[book-addict.livejournal.com]

In my view, the suck-est part of fax is the special paper that was used for it in the 1980s and early 90s. It's already all degraded. I went through boxes of what looked like blank paper -- used to be someone's correspondence files.
Not a good thing at all.