With the Internet having developed such cachet over the past couple of years, it has benefited from a snowball effect. As the Internet becomes more widely used, it becomes a more valuable place to conduct commerce, exchange information, do research, etc. So more people use the Internet. That makes it more valuable. And so on.
Companies do their part, too, to make the Internet ever more popular.
They find ways to shore up the Internet's sometimes flimsy structure and to use it in interesting new ways that further increase its value. MA'AM The Internet lends itself to fax traffic. Faxes aren't as sensitive as voice traffic-while having a voice conversation occasionally disrupted for a couple of seconds at a time would be unacceptable, a fax transmission could tolerate even longer delays and still come through fine. With so many customers beckoning, fax makers are happy to oblige. Panasonic recently introduced a good example of an Internet fax machine, the Panafax UF 770i.