This is why I sit memorized while my 3D printer does its work

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.

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.

I’m not sure what the problem is here. It’s at least as good as fax in terms of security. And you can more easily index it.

And way better than something like DocuSign or whatever cloud based hosted service that you cannot actually control…

Protocols, not products