What are fax phone numbers for?

Question

I cant find anything on the internet for the purpose of these phone numbers

In: Technology

Answer 1

It’s how you sent messages across geographical distances before email was a thing.
A lot of businesses now use virtual fax numbers, meaning that they do not have a physical fax machine sitting in the office, and the document that was sent to the fax number from a fax machine on the sender’s side is forwarded to the receiver’s email.

Ask me anything about it, I don’t know everything, but I’ve used fax for quite a while. Both physical and virtual fax machines