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Found a working pay phone in Kanazawa, Japan (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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[–] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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being a futuristic nation that produces the technology of tomorrow, a lot of it's institutions are still using very outdated technology.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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Even Conan gave up that bit after only a decade.

https://youtu.be/aScP6QB3Nx8

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] s_s@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Floppy disks, too.

[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

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