Darvond: The question of
why, remains.
SirPrimalform: If the adoption rate was higher in the heyday of the fax machine, then it'll take longer to go away.
In corporate offices they were popular, but I don't think I knew anybody who owned a fax machine. And that includes my dad's friend who had a net connection since betore the world wide web.
Obviously, most of us wound up with a fax modem eventually, but I don't recall any of my friends using it to fax anything.
These days, I think they've fallen out of fashion rather quickly just because once you send a fax, they're a PITA to work with. You can read them, but back up is a pain and you have to spend money filing and storing them.