Found a working pay phone in Kanazawa, Japan
Found a working pay phone in Kanazawa, Japan
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These are relatively easy to find in Japan
Couldn't tell you why but they are
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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being a futuristic nation that produces the technology of tomorrow, a lot of it's institutions are still using very outdated technology.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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Fax is still used in government and healthcare in the United States.
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I couldn’t believe how many cash only places there were!
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Floppy disks, too.
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so there are easy exits when people need to get out of the matrix
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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.
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Open it.
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What game is that?
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Google says ghost wire tokyo
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Those green guys were everywhere when I've been, they look so satisfying
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What do you love about Kanazawa? Should I visit there?
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