The fax, with its 170 years of history, is a symbol of obsolete technology long superseded by computers. But it's far from dead.
As Japan developed the technology, Dr Coopersmith says, the creation of standards proved essential to the fax's increased use in the West.
"In 1980 the International Telecommunications Union passed a Japanese-based standard called G3 that made it possible for competing firms to standardise their communication protocols." "Faxing encouraged people to expect instant electronic communications and to be able to access and receive information electronically and easily," he says.
"And once you had easy to use emails or email systems it was easier to email than it was to fax. This was a gradual change starting in the early 1990s."worldwide survey in 2017
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