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Re:‘Luddite’ Teens Don’t Want Your Likes by 082349872349872 on Thursday December 15, 2022 @04:07PM (#34005786)
Try flip an hour a day and work up. We used to only have landlines and phortress phones, and yet somehow still survived.

I always liked how 1984's Goldstein said that in principle Inner Party children did not automatically become Inner themselves.

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Re:‘Luddite’ Teens Don’t Want Your Likes by derwiki on Friday December 16, 2022 @02:08AM (#34011595)
What is a phortress phone?
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Re:‘Luddite’ Teens Don’t Want Your Likes by 082349872349872 on Friday December 16, 2022 @02:48AM (#34011935)
https://www.google.com/search?q=pay+phone+booth&tbm=isch

a pay phone (phortress, because it was safer to phreak from than a home phone)

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Re:‘Luddite’ Teens Don’t Want Your Likes by MonkeyClub on Friday December 16, 2022 @05:22AM (#34012878)
For the nostalgia of it: https://www.2600.com/payphones
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Re:‘Luddite’ Teens Don’t Want Your Likes by rootusrootus on Friday December 16, 2022 @02:32PM (#34019035)
> We used to only have landlines and phortress phones

A few weeks ago I was at our local train station and there was an honest-to-god payphone. Walked up to it, picked up the receiver, and got dial tone. I had figured they were all gone now but apparently not quite yet.

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