Do you remember the fax? .. A poll shows the results "incredible"

It was introduced in the late 19th century

Although fax has become a symbol of old technology long after replacing computer networks, a recent survey revealed some surprising results.

The fax machine is still popular in many large corporations and in some government and economic sectors, including the US, Japan, and Germany, according to Sky News.

200 large companies

A global survey conducted in 2017 found that 200 large companies (over 500 employees) use 82% of their employees, matching faxes.

In March 2017, another survey was conducted among more than 1,500 forum members, 89% of whom still use fax.

In key sectors of the US economy, such as health care and financial services, faxing is still widespread: millions of messages are sent and received across the country.

It turns out that in many cases, faxing is safer, easier to use, and more convenient for current work habits than computer messages, such as e-mail.

Technical developments

However, fax roles and tools have adapted to technological advances. Many of them have opted for computer services, such as fax servers, that allow users to send and receive messages in electronic form.

Fax facsimile services are becoming more popular and treat faxes as images or PDFs attached to email messages.

It goes back to the end of the 19th century

It should be noted that the beginnings of fax work date back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. News agencies began using it to broadcast images in the 1930s.

The fax was supported on radio waves rather than on telephone lines, until it developed in the 1980s, after the invention of smaller, cheaper fax machines and more. faster.