I work in a property management office. I’d say that 98% of the document requests from lawyers’ offices request they be faxed to them. So we have and regularly use a fax machine.
Can I ask why? I really can’t see any advantage that faxes have over email. Is it a legal thing? 
We do this quarterly at the airport in Jackson, Wyoming.
It has been a long time since I have seen a set of Encyclopedias in book form on a family bookshelf. I used to love reading them an the annual “yearbooks” with the stickers to put on for additions and updated entries.
We still do this in Michigan.
I can still hear my Dad’s voice as we pulled up at the gas station. “Fi-dollahs unleaded.”
If you want to talk about ethnically centric, where I went to HS, the administration was trying to crack down on people going around with cake cutters stuck in their 'fros. As a grooming tool, it also had potential in other areas, though I never witnessed any of that or even heard any first-hand accounts.
I worked in a service station in Oregon in the late '70s, where I had to pump the gas. I remember you had to be sure they said five dollars, because if they said gallons, it could cost you.
Pen and ink on mylar or velum. Those wonderful old drafting arms. Rapidograph drafting pens. And the hours that I spent cleaning those suckers out and trying to get the best ink. They where quite twitchy. Actually quite a bit worse then MS Word Or ESRI products. Though if I voted now, I’d go back to charcoal and birch bark (my site is down, cause I guess it’s a half moon)
Blue prints. Real ones and the ammonia.
I haven’t even played a CD in years. Back when I bought CDs, I’d rip them to my PC and upload them to my iPhone. Now I just download the music tracks directly. I bought a stereo for my car 5 years ago and have never used the CD player. It has an AUX jack that I plug my phone into.
Also, I haven’t used videocassettes in years. I use a DVR to record shows and movies, or I’ll watch a DVD.
How about, “Is the Pope Italian?” There hasn’t been an Italian Pope in almost 40 years.
Ever work with Ditto masters?
With regard to our real estate lawyer and/or mortgage broker, there were items that we’d have to scan then email (pay stubs and the like). Easier just to FAX it to them. Plus, it had the advantage that anyone working in the office could grab the fax rather than hoping the person you’re emailing it to was in and checking their email.
I work in financial services and we also send and receive faxes constantly. Email is still not considered secure nor, in most cases, are emailed signatures considered legal. Documents signed and sent by fax are considered to have a legally binding signature. We are just now beginning to add e-signature abilities to our customers on-line accounts for a few circumstances.
That must be a US thing, then. Here in the UK, there’s no real legal distinction (at least, that I’m aware of) between fax and email. I sign contracts at work all the time, most companies are happy to accept an emailed copy - sometimes followed up by a posted hard copy, sometimes not. Increasingly, electronic signatures are being used more and more, reducing the need to even scan stuff in.
IME, it’s getting exceedingly rare for faxes to be used in the UK; it’s been probably three or four years since I last sent one, and I’ve actually had our fax line disconnected at work as nobody ever used it.
That makes a sort of sense, I guess - although in our office, scan/email is just as easy as fax. It’s actually the same machine that does it (not that the fax part works now - see above!). Email has the advantage that if needed, I can prove that I sent a particular thing to a particular person.
As a child, one of my many chores was to wash the dishes.
I remember really disliking cleaning the big, stinky ashtrays.
Everybody’s house had at least a few, large ashtrays on end tables etc.
I have not seen an ashtray for years…
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I’m 38, and I don’t remember me or my parents ever doing this at the store. However, I discovered last year that they still do this in Panama (at least at the store I went to). I brought some sweet, delicious passion fruits to the cashier, and she had to run back to the produce section to get the necessary sticker with the bar code and price. When I went back a few days later for some more sweet, sweeeeet, delicious passion fruits, I was prepared.
I do that. I dropped my cable several years ago and went back to watching TV over the air. I have rabbit ears on top of my TV and have the dipoles pointed in a couple of different directions for best reception.
The produce has to be weighed in the produce department in lots of places in Europe. The store just down the road from me in Prague is like that.
The spinning newspaper in the movies announcing a headline.
When Superman didnt use foul language.
I took a Travelers check into ??Walmarts?? last July (2014). In theory, they accepted Travellsrs checks. The told me that they accepted travellers checks. After I’d made them out and signed them, the staff were completely unable to process the checks.
Blew $20. They helpfully told me that I could, using the reciepts I no longer had, take the check back and get it refunded. Right.
I’ve recently seen a bank of (well, two) working, well-maintained and used phone booths.
This is on Pelee Island, the southernmost inhabited land in Canada, out in the middle of Lake Erie. Parts of the northern end of the island get Canadian mobile phone service, the southern part gets US service, and the middle–where the ferry docks are and you often do need to call someone–gets nothing at all.
Traveler’s checks still exist, but it’s a hassle finding a bank branch that will sell them. At least, it is over here. Fewer branches will issue them now.