WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.worldM to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 13 days agoFound a working pay phone in Kanazawa, Japanlemmy.worldimagemessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1292arrow-down14
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minus-squareEmoDuck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up26·13 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being a futuristic nation that produces the technology of tomorrow, a lot of it’s institutions are still using very outdated technology.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-squaremommykink@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·12 days agoRead one time that “thirty years ago, Japan was ten years in the future. Today, Japan is twenty years in the past.”
minus-squareWhatsHerBucket@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·12 days 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being a futuristic nation that produces the technology of tomorrow, a lot of it’s institutions are still using very outdated technology.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.”
Floppy disks, too.
I couldn’t believe how many cash only places there were!