Nowadays, when you hear someone talk about faxing, there's a decent chance it's the punchline to a groan-inducing dad joke. (Not that I would ever be guilty of such silliness, of course. I stick strictly to the fax.)

And yet, here in the futuristic-feeling time of 2025, we all find ourselves facing the very occasional and impossibly baffling need to send something somewhere specifically by fax. Try as you might, sometimes, you just can't avoid it. (One might even say those are just the fax of life!)

Faxing is antiquated technology through and through, but for whatever reason, we as a society don't quite seem ready to shed it entirely -- despite the fact that we've got approximately 4.3 gablillion better ways to transmit documents, be it via messaging, email, or secure cloud sharing. Heck, you could even ask Gemini or ChatGPT to summon a virtual carrier pigeon and see what sort of nonsense they cough up in response.

When the specific request for a fax slaps you back to reality, though, you've got no choice but to figure out some way to make it happen. You certainly won't find any easy options within the apps Google gives you as part of its Workspace productivity suite.