WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.worldM to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 3 days agoFound a working pay phone in Kanazawa, Japanlemmy.worldimagemessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1313arrow-down14
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minus-squareJackLSauce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up31·edit-23 days agoThese are relatively easy to find in Japan Couldn’t tell you why but they are
minus-squareEmoDuck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up29·3 days agoDespite 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being a futuristic nation that produces the technology of tomorrow, a lot of it’s institutions are still using very outdated technology.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
minus-squareSpikesOtherDog@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoFax is still used in government and healthcare in the United States.
minus-squaremommykink@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 days agoRead one time that “thirty years ago, Japan was ten years in the future. Today, Japan is twenty years in the past.”
minus-squareBezier@suppo.filinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 days agoThey’ve been living in the year 2000 for four decades.
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 days agoEven Conan gave up that bit after only a decade. https://youtu.be/aScP6QB3Nx8
minus-squareWhatsHerBucket@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoI couldn’t believe how many cash only places there were!
minus-squarekautau@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 days agoso there are easy exits when people need to get out of the matrix
These are relatively easy to find in Japan
Couldn’t tell you why but they are
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being a futuristic nation that produces the technology of tomorrow, a lot of it’s institutions are still using very outdated technology.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
Fax is still used in government and healthcare in the United States.
Read one time that “thirty years ago, Japan was ten years in the future. Today, Japan is twenty years in the past.”
They’ve been living in the year 2000 for four decades.
Even Conan gave up that bit after only a decade.
https://youtu.be/aScP6QB3Nx8
I couldn’t believe how many cash only places there were!
Floppy disks, too.
so there are easy exits when people need to get out of the matrix