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WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.worldM to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Found a working pay phone in Kanazawa, Japan

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Found a working pay phone in Kanazawa, Japan

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    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being a futuristic nation that produces the technology of tomorrow, a lot of it’s institutions are still using very outdated technology.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

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

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

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      Floppy disks, too.

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        11 months ago

        thats sick

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