I remember when my company got one of the first fax machines commercially available. Very few companies had them yet and we used it just to send reports to the company headquarters. This technology, for sure, was going to put FedEx out of business.
Then, as soon as other local companies started getting machines the junk faxes started. First it was joke lists. Then it was advertisements. Spam was invented.
Today, the humble fax machine is still in every office. Still providing something that personal computers can't yet do; getting signatures on paper.
However, with the advent of email fax services, web based e-mail faxes actually run through spam filters.
