Facsimile

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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[1] who can remember having to use them and what they were for, and those who can’t[2].

A fax that ran out of paper was an important McGuffin in the denouement of John Grisham's espievie thriller, The Firm.

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  1. Experience and wisdom.
  2. Youth and beauty.