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[–] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

These are relatively easy to find in Japan

Couldn't tell you why but they are

[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Despite the old stereotype of Japan being a futuristic nation that produces the technology of tomorrow, a lot of it's institutions are still using very outdated technology.

Fax is still very actively used

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Read one time that "thirty years ago, Japan was ten years in the future. Today, Japan is twenty years in the past."

[–] Bezier@suppo.fi 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They've been living in the year 2000 for four decades.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Even Conan gave up that bit after only a decade.

https://youtu.be/aScP6QB3Nx8

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 2 points 1 month ago

Fax is still used in government and healthcare in the United States.

[–] s_s@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago
[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I couldn’t believe how many cash only places there were!

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

so there are easy exits when people need to get out of the matrix

[–] LEONHART@slrpnk.net 23 points 1 month ago
[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 month ago

Pay phones are still common in many places around the world. An indicator may be those mapped on OSM: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=telephone#map

They are common in my country, but I hardly ever see anyone use them.

[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Acters@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Google says ghost wire tokyo

[–] poo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Those green guys were everywhere when I've been, they look so satisfying

[–] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What do you love about Kanazawa? Should I visit there?

[–] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Kenroku-en Garden, The Contemporary museum, the way the trees are strung with twine during winter to prevent snow is very artful as well as the special coverings hand tied in the samurai area. The curries are very good there.

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago

i found a working red telephone box in stratford-upon-avon last week.

most of them have been turned into defibrilator access points, or mini libraries or ripped out entirely these days.

[–] noname_yet2077@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why different emergency number for popo?

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 month ago

Having only one emergency number isn't the standard everywhere in the world. In my childhood here in Austria I learned that the fire department is 122, the police is 133, ambulance is 144; these numbers still work AFAIK, but nowadays the government's recommendation is to dial 112 (the EU-wide emergency number) no matter what you need.

[–] QuantumEyetanglement@lemdro.id 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Reminds me of Ghostwire: Tokyo 😂

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Underrated game.

[–] Aesecakes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

15K Australian public phone booths are now Freephones and some are free wi-fi hotspots. I don’t think I’ve used one since the late 1990s, though.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-03/telstra-has-made-its-15000-payphones-free/100344664

[–] Balthazar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Biskii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago