WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.worldM to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 2 years agoFound a working pay phone in Kanazawa, Japanlemmy.worldimagemessage-square26linkfedilinkarrow-up1325arrow-down14
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minus-squareEmoDuck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up29·2 years 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being a futuristic nation that produces the technology of tomorrow, a lot of it’s institutions are still using very outdated technology.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-squareamniotic druid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 years 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-up13·2 years agoThey’ve been living in the year 2000 for four decades.
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 years agoEven Conan gave up that bit after only a decade. https://youtu.be/aScP6QB3Nx8
minus-squareSpikesOtherDog@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoFax is still used in government and healthcare in the United States.
minus-squareWhatsHerBucket@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoI couldn’t believe how many cash only places there were!
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being a futuristic nation that produces the technology of tomorrow, a lot of it’s institutions are still using very outdated technology.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
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
Fax is still used in government and healthcare in the United States.
I couldn’t believe how many cash only places there were!
Floppy disks, too.
thats sick