From: Just the Fax +61 2 2332 1757 P.001/003
To: YouFrom: Just the Fax

Re: Send your friends a fax.

It will not be a good one. That is the point.

A fax to MUM from NEIL, subject THE MOON, memo: Bit dusty. Back Thursday. Below the cover lines, a black-and-white dithered photograph of an astronaut standing on the Moon (Apollo 11, photograph by Neil Armstrong, NASA, public domain), with a streak down the page from a dirty roller and REPLY BY FAX printed along the bottom.
Specimen · Apollo 11, NASA · Condition: used
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From: Just the Fax +61 2 2332 1757 P.002/003

Re: What this machine does

  1. It ruins photos properly. Not a filter. A genuine 1-bit fax: every dot black or white, squashed to real fax proportions, a header line across the top and a streak down the page from a roller nobody has cleaned since 1987. Your friend's face has never looked worse.
  2. GIFs and video come out moving. Find a GIF, or pick five seconds of a video, and the whole page transmits as an animated fax.
  3. Nothing leaves your device. No account, no sign-in, no server, no tracking. The page is made on your phone and goes nowhere until you hand it over yourself.
  4. Nothing to install. It runs in the browser. Whoever you fax can reply from the link printed on the page.

How a reply works

Your fax arrives in the chat with a caption like this under it:

Incoming fax for BOYS. Reply with your own: justthefax.jeremymarks.com.au/f?re=JEZ

They tap the link. A cover sheet opens already addressed back to you. Sixty seconds later you have one in return, and it is worse.

From: Just the Fax +61 2 2332 1757 P.003/003

Re: Condition

Every machine has a CONDITION dial. MINT prints clean, for anyone who actually needs to read the page. USED is how it leaves the factory. HAUNTED is what thirty years in a hallway does to it.

The same Moon fax at CONDITION: HAUNTED — a heavier skew, dropped scanlines, white roller streaks down the page, crud along the edges and a curl at the bottom.
The same page · Condition: haunted · the one above is used
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