Oh yes. It seemed like science fiction at the time, and when my office upgraded to a fax machine which printed on plain paper rather than the heat-sensitive stuff on a roll, that was actually pretty exciting. We still had Telex at the time, and it was only a few years since the inland telegram service had ended (you could still send them internationally).
I don’t get people defending fax machines for the input method.
All of that can still be built with modern technology. There is something like “Fax-to-email”, I’m sure the other way around is possible as well. Put PGP and TLS on there and boom! almost modern. No Dialup or Analog-almost-digital datastream required.
The input method can still be the same. Have a device that simply scans a page, no compression, and then sends it away. It doesn’t have to be sound modulated over a wire. It can be an email or messenger. You can even make an identification per phone number.
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This is why I sit memorized while my 3D printer does its work
It can print… But UP!
“memorized”? That’s not a word, did you mean “mesmerized”?
Memorised is a word. I assume Americans spell it with a z, which would mean memorized is a word.
It doesn’t work in this context, but it is a word.
Yes. I blame autocorrupt
*autocarrot
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/de/worterbuch/englisch/memorized
He meant memeorized.
He meant memoised.
Yeah, until you need to send a 200 page fax
In my younger days, I may, or may not, have sent sketches of massive, throbbing, cum-dripping dongs to multiple work locations.
That does sound like a lot of fun.
Oh yes. It seemed like science fiction at the time, and when my office upgraded to a fax machine which printed on plain paper rather than the heat-sensitive stuff on a roll, that was actually pretty exciting. We still had Telex at the time, and it was only a few years since the inland telegram service had ended (you could still send them internationally).
I don’t get people defending fax machines for the input method.
All of that can still be built with modern technology. There is something like “Fax-to-email”, I’m sure the other way around is possible as well. Put PGP and TLS on there and boom! almost modern. No Dialup or Analog-almost-digital datastream required.
The input method can still be the same. Have a device that simply scans a page, no compression, and then sends it away. It doesn’t have to be sound modulated over a wire. It can be an email or messenger. You can even make an identification per phone number.