Q: Which came first; the telephone or the fax machine?

[Space Racer]

Read on for the answer:

Frederick Bakewell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Bakewell

[botshaz]

He introduced the first commercial telefax service between Paris and Lyon eleven years before the invention of workable telephones.

I don't know what's more amazing: this or the fact that people still use fax machines.

[Air Depot]

Call me old school, but we still use fax machines at our office

[mbhydro]

I don't know what's more amazing: this or the fact that people still use fax machines.

Talking to one a telco guy at one of or buildings apparently fax is "more secure" than email for some applications.

[pecmsg]

I don't know what's more amazing: this or the fact that people still use fax machines.

Electronic signatures are not always allowed.

[ga-hvac-tech]

Talking to one a telco guy at one of or buildings apparently fax is "more secure" than email for some applications.

Electronic signatures are not always allowed.

High tech is cool...

However what works is what works!

And given that internet security is becoming a more serious problem...
Something low tech that is very difficult to hack...
Is a good thing!

[pecmsg]

High tech is cool...

However what works is what works!

And given that internet security is becoming a more serious problem...
Something low tech that is very difficult to hack...
Is a good thing!

If it has a computer it can be hacked.
Last facility I was at fax machines were a separate phone line. Computers were all hard wired with no fax capabilities.

[ga-hvac-tech]

If it has a computer it can be hacked.
Last facility I was at fax machines were a separate phone line. Computers were all hard wired with no fax capabilities.

YUP...

Fax is hard to hack... it is NOT on the internet... rather on an old fashioned phone line.

Now one 'can' fax on the internet...
However old fashioned fax is a LOT more secure.

One more thing...
Most phone lines now-a-days...
Are VOIP (voice over internet protocol)... so you are back to sending data on the internet.
Need and OLD FASHIONED phone line!