{"id":1272,"date":"2019-12-03T15:20:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T15:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/efaxstg.wpengine.com\/uk\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2022-07-19T08:23:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T08:23:22","slug":"why-fax-isn-t-legacy-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.efax.com\/uk\/blog\/why-fax-isn-t-legacy-technology","title":{"rendered":"Not Just Acceptable in the 80s: Why Fax Isn\u2019t Legacy Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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When Calvin Harris recorded his classic electro-funk hit Acceptable in the 80s, he reminded us all that there were plenty of things acceptable during the decade of Madonna and Diana that you couldn\u2019t get away with now. From legal changes like smoking on aeroplanes and in restaurants to cultural fads including perms, shoulder pads and carrying around a boom box, the landscape of the modern era looks very different to the days that launched Nintendo\u2019s Gameboy.<\/p>

But not everything that was acceptable in the 80s is a modern-day taboo. Video games are bigger business than ever and we\u2019re all still mad for Gremlins. But this isn\u2019t always a good thing. There are some things that have survived from the 80s that perhaps shouldn’t. Transformers has been ruined for many by a disappointing movie franchise, and the less said about frustrating Rubix cubes, the better.<\/p>

And then we have fax.<\/p>

Some people would argue that fax is yet another generational survivor that should have been laid to rest long ago. Technology from a time long since passed, fax machines are still used the world over, while movements like \u201caxe the fax\u201d seek to put an end to their reign.<\/p>

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Fax in the 21st Century<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Fax usage is still utterly rampant across the globe.\u00a0Billions of fax transmissions<\/a>\u00a0are sent every single year, fired out from the\u00a040 million-plus<\/a>\u00a0units still in existence. This isn\u2019t just a byproduct of previous fax machine use either. These aren’t legacy devices bought decades ago that are still running. They are, actually, quite the opposite. Millions of new fax machines are sold to businesses annually, with no signs of things slowing down.<\/p>

The fax isn\u2019t just a survivor of the 80s; it is a technology that nothing has been able to completely supplant, despite being first introduced over 100 years ago.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Why the Fax Is Still Acceptable Technology\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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So fax was acceptable in the 80s, and is apparently still acceptable now, but why?<\/p>

To start with, there are certain benefits to fax that no other technology has yet been able to replace. The legality of fax is still very much considered superior to other types of documentation, and fax remains the quickest way to share visual data on a universal scale.<\/p>

It\u2019s also still a highly integrated part of business communication around the world. Major economies like the USA, Japan, Great Britain, Israel and Germany maintain high levels of fax output, which means without the ability to fax, many brands looking to perform on the international stage would struggle. Fax is so prevalent in some economies that usage within certain industries can reach as high as 50% of all communication transmissions sent and received.<\/p>

The fact of the matter is that fax is just too useful, and too widely recognised, for it to be simply palmed off as a product of the past that still exists today. It\u2019s not a thing of the 80s; it’s still current and valuable as a modern concept.<\/p>

However, while the fax is still acceptable, and actually vital for communications on both a national and international scale, there is one element of this platform that is very much no longer acceptable, and that is the fax machine itself.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Why the Fax Machine Isn\u2019t Acceptable<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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