• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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    15 hours ago

    They literally do not exist at all in many places. Why wouldnt you question their existence? Sure its easy to figure out whether they were real, but people on social media constantly ask questions without doing any research for themselves.

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        13 hours ago

        I have seen gramophones and telegraphs in museums, I wonder if one day I will live to see payphones in normal non specialty museums? Also right now we still have some payphones here, but what I haven’t seen in probably more than 20 years are payphone cards.

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          11 hours ago

          I’ve seen and heard a gramophone in person. I have owned a victrola. Never seen a telegraph in use, but I’ve talked to someone a long way off on a ham radio. I’ve owned typewriters. Payphones vanished pretty abruptly with the rise of cellular. Still incredibly smoothbrained to question their being real.