WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.worldM to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 3 days agoFound a working pay phone in Kanazawa, Japanlemmy.worldimagemessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up148arrow-down11
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minus-squareEmoDuck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoDespite 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being a futuristic nation that produces the technology of tomorrow, a lot of it’s institutions are still using very outdated technology.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
minus-squareSpikesOtherDog@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoFax is still used in government and healthcare in the United States.
minus-squareWhatsHerBucket@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoI couldn’t believe how many cash only places there were!
minus-squaremommykink@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoRead one time that “thirty years ago, Japan was ten years in the future. Today, Japan is twenty years in the past.”
minus-squareBezier@suppo.filinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoThey’ve been living in the year 2000 for four decades.
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 days agoEven Conan gave up that bit after only a decade. https://youtu.be/aScP6QB3Nx8
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being a futuristic nation that produces the technology of tomorrow, a lot of it’s institutions are still using very outdated technology.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
Fax is still used in government and healthcare in the United States.
I couldn’t believe how many cash only places there were!
Read one time that “thirty years ago, Japan was ten years in the future. Today, Japan is twenty years in the past.”
They’ve been living in the year 2000 for four decades.
Even Conan gave up that bit after only a decade.
https://youtu.be/aScP6QB3Nx8