What Is An eMail Fax?
Email fax or Internet fax is using your email system and the Internet to send and receive Paperless faxes anytime, anywhere.where you access your Email.EMail Fax is easy, quick, and accessible anywhere you travel. Plus - no start up fees, no extra phone line, no fax machine and no more paper jams.
Quick History of the Internet Fax
History of Fax It has been said that the means of sending messages from one location to another started with smoke and drum signals.
The father or inventor of the fax machine is a Scottish inventor named Alexander Bain. The concept or idea still forms the basis of our fax machines. He used electric clock pendulums to create a back-and-forth line scanning mechanism.
In 1861, Giovanni Caseli made the first fax machine called the Pantelegraph.
In 1924 (Richard H. Ranger) invented a wireless facsimile using radio. The first transoceanic radio fax was a picture of President Calvin Coolidge sent to London from New York on Nov.29th,1924.
In 1985, the first computer fax board was created by Dr. Hank Magnuski, it was called the GammaFax.
Email Fax:- On June 24, 1997 - PSINet, the first commercial ISP introduced InternetPaper(SM) a service that sent documents from your desktop PC to any fax machine on the planet through the Internet.
How Does An Internet Fax Work?
An Internet Fax works by using email. You send and receive faxes by using your email system and the Internet. You set up a local or toll-free number with the Internet Fax Service Providers and you receive and send faxes to your fax number using email. You can use a Web Interface (online site) or an email program.Some Internet Fax Providers also give you a free desktop application download that you can place on your desktop to receive and send faxes. Because it is email and the Internet - you can access your faxes wherever you have the Internet. This is ideal for mobile professionals, business travelers and for the ordinary person on vacation.
Future of Internet Fax
It is plain to see that Internet or email fax services will replace the old fax machine and the old fax system. It may take some time but the old fax machine is history.Internet fax services will only increase in popularity as ourworld becomes more and more depended on computers and the Internet. As we go totally wireless, email fax services will play an even greater role. We already see the application of email fax services to VoIP phones. In early 2006,
The future is everywhere.. with email to fax services.