As we've said before, office technology like the typewriter and fax machine have always ended up be used (or is that abused) for purposes far beyond those originally intended, such as making art and the production and dissemination of jokes. Naturally the humble photocopier can also be included in this, especially as it could mass produce the "offending" items.
Photocopiers were used to circulate jokes and bogus communications in the same manner as fax machines, this being sometimes called xeroxlore or photocopylore if you wish to avoid a lawsuit. Copies would often be mild acts of subversion against the organisation and how it operated. Others might just poke fun at the futility of the average office job or even life itself!
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| Fuji-Xerox Copier, photo from Wiki Commons & Flickr by leighklotz |
