Fax machines are an antiquated technology that just won't die.

It appears that this one is still useful

It's a good thing my tabby isn't that sort of tabby, as I think the sworls would hypnotize me regularly. Soooo swiiiiirly!

They are necessary but I just don't get them to work every time.

And the web, suprisingly, hasn't made them redundant. FAX services on the web are shite. I use one and it's shite.

Well, you want to send someone a filled out form, but you have no scanner / computer / internet connection and the mail service is run by hooligans.

Atiquated is only relative to what YOU currently have.