fax machine

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Email’s invention led to the collapse of the interoffice memo and the fax machine, freeing workers from the need to communicate in real time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

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

When I began my career, at the Chicago Sun-Times, I often worked desk shifts, which meant editing typewritten pages of copy that were pulled off a fax machine.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024

It is almost 40 years old, designed with the Cold War in mind, "when the fax machine was the new thing", he said.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2024

Nineteen eighty-seven was the fax machine Tipping Point.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell