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Long ago, before the internet was even really invented, or at least before it was available to people without bottle end glasses, there was no such thing as email. If people wanted to deliver a message on the spot, however, they did have an option. They could send a fax. To do this, you needed a fax machine.

Fax machines took long rolls of very specific paper, and you could even get spammed on them before the word spam was turned into a word which meant unsolicited marketing. Back then, we just called them “Junk Mail” or “Junk Faxes”.

But, despite these issues, fax machines were a thing of glory and wonder in the 1980s, along with giant, briefcase filling mobile phones and car phones, they were the communication device of the upper crust.

I remember distinctly that faxing people was, at one time, such a privilege that ordinary Joe’s like you or me would have to go to a Print Shop with a fax machine to send a fax, until they briefly came into the home as part of “All-in-one” printers that we were all up-sold in the computer shop in 1996/1997.

The fax is effectively dead now in all but Solicitors offices, as email is the speedy delivery method of the 21st century, but now, at least, we have this historilogical reference point for the humble fax machine. World, be thankful.