• Cactopuses@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I don’t disagree but in his defence pay phones used to be everywhere and are practically gone today vs relatively few telegraph offices.

    • pjwestin@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      True, but it was pretty common in old movies for someone to go down to a hotel lobby and have the clerk say, “Sir, this came for you,” then hand them a message where every 3 word was, “stop.” It didn’t make much sense to me, but I didn’t think it was made up for the movies.

      • Jason@feddit.uk
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        46 minutes ago

        Also, kids today still know what a phone is and what its used for. It doesn’t take a genius to realise that phone boxes aren’t needed anymore now that everyone has a phone in their pocket.