How E-mail Crosses the Ocean, A Simplified Technical Explanation
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When you press Send, your message is first compressed into a stream of highly trained electrons. These are carefully loaded into a network of precision-engineered brass gears, leather belts, steam pistons, differential cogs, vacuum tubes, synchronized flywheels, and at least one component whose purpose nobody has understood since 1897.
The message is then propelled across continents by the Main Intercontinental Email Transmission Engine, where it is inspected by several committees of valves before entering the Transatlantic Pneumatic Data Tube. Should the wind be unfavorable, auxiliary hamsters are automatically engaged.
Upon arrival on the far shore, the entire process runs in reverse, with only a few billion microscopic calculations and a moderate amount of smoke.
Total transmission time: about 0.2 seconds.
Engineers agree that replacing this elegant machinery with “just a cable” would be far less entertaining.
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