fax machine

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The result is chaos, and a few too many jokes about young people not knowing how to work a fax machine or manage paper.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

Perhaps now it's time to recognise the power of text and just as we ditched the fax machine in the 1990s, we can leave the dreaded phone calls behind in 2024.

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2024

People would come in not only to buy milk and pick up the mail, Miller recalls, but to use the fax machine, find a plumber or just to swap gossip.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2024

And there were other things he could not recall — what a fax machine is called, the name of a former cabinet colleague, the agency that preserves official papers.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2024

Sharp introduced the first low- priced fax machine in 1984, and sold about 80,000 of those machines in the United States in that first year.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell