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[–] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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 3 days 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being a futuristic nation that produces the technology of tomorrow, a lot of it's institutions are still using very outdated technology.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 3 days 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 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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

Even Conan gave up that bit after only a decade.

https://youtu.be/aScP6QB3Nx8

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

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

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

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

[–] s_s@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

Floppy disks, too.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

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

[–] LEONHART@slrpnk.net 22 points 3 days ago
[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 3 days 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 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Acters@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Google says ghost wire tokyo

[–] poo@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

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

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy 6 points 3 days 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.

[–] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

[–] Aesecakes@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days 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

[–] QuantumEyetanglement@lemdro.id 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Reminds me of Ghostwire: Tokyo 😂

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Underrated game.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why different emergency number for popo?

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 3 days 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.

[–] noname_yet2077@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago
[–] Balthazar@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Biskii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago