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Sure—It's simple. When you stick your bit of paper in, a miniature orchestra reads the paper as a musical score, calls up the other fax machine, and plays it for them. If you've ever got a call from a fax machine, you've heard them warming up.
Inside the receiving machine, there are hundreds of gogo dancers wearing one absorbent slipper and standing on an ink pad. When they hear the music, they begin to dance while running down the moving paper, and their dance is choreographed (the original choreographer was a Dr. Huffman, but his dance was modified by the engineers to account for tiny feet) such that the absorbent slipper leaves the dark spots and the other foot leaves no mark, or just the smudgy marks you sometimes see.
It's not the best technology, which is why faxes are sometimes hard to read, but it was the best they could come up with—it's called run-line encoding, for obvious reasons.
Mr. Newberry, what would I do without you in my life? You've just rocked my whole world.
You've also rocked mine. I now I understand how faxing works...
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