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The successor in “almost-immediately obsolete contraptions” to the [[telex]] machine, nowadays the [[facsimile]] machine is mostly useful for affording bragging rights, both for those<ref>Experience and wisdom.</ref> who can remember having to use them and what they were for, and those who can’t<ref>Youth and beauty.</ref>.  
The successor in “almost-immediately obsolete contraptions” to the [[telex]] machine, nowadays the [[facsimile]] machine is mostly useful for affording bragging rights, both for those who ''can'' remember having to use them and what they were for<ref>Experience and wisdom.</ref>, and those who can’t<ref>Youth and beauty.</ref>.  


The [[fax]] was desperate the last stand of the true analogue communication: a fax started out life as a piece of paper and ended up as one: a horrid, waxy, faded piece of parchment resemblent of the loo paper you used to get in nasty educational establishments.  
The [[fax]] was desperate the last stand of the true analogue communication: a fax started out life as a piece of paper and ended up as one: a horrid, waxy, faded piece of parchment resemblent of the loo paper you used to get in nasty educational establishments.