Re: But is UseNet "Social Media"??

On 2026-02-02 22:57, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Feb 2026 08:54:22 -0500, Paul wrote:
> 
>> I don't recollect anyone lamenting that their modem was in the junk
>> room now :-)
> 
> Faxing via modem was fun. This was because standalone fax machines had
> bloody awful scanners that pushed the contrast to maximum on
> everything which, while fine for regular text, turned photographic
> imagery into a murky, blobby mess.
> 
> Whereas if the fax data was generated on a computer, you had access to
> nice dithering algorithms that did a creditable job of reproducing
> gradations of tone (at least in greyscale). And this still looked
> pretty good on the receiving fax machine.
> 
> I loved the oohs and ahs and “How did you do that?” responses. ;)

Indeed. It was my job at some time to write reports and fax them. I used 
the computer fax card, on an ISDN lines, instead of the fax machine, and 
I got those oohs and ahs.

Oh, and in Linux there was hylafax, a server that could centralize all 
faxes for a company. Wonderful software. Free and gratis.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;