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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 8 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Before fiber/digital (able to carry multiple call streams on the same physical conduit), when all phones were analog on copper, this is how all telephones were wired, just with smaller wires all bundled together, and often buried underground.

[–] cr1cket@sopuli.xyz 13 points 4 weeks ago

Uhm, no. Multiplexing also existed in pure analog times.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 9 points 4 weeks ago

Not quite. They figured out how to get more signals on one cable full before the digital era