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The first telephone pay station in Los Angeles, advertising 50c per minute in 1899.


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2017 Nov 6, 12:52pm   996 views  2 comments

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And people still tried to carry it around in their back pocket.



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1   Strategist   2017 Nov 6, 2:58pm  

50c was a fortune back then. It was a very rich man who could afford to make a call.
Look how far we have come. Isn't technology awesome?
2   NuttBoxer   2017 Nov 7, 9:32am  

Strategist says
Look how far we have come. Isn't technology awesome?

Yeah, now we don't speak to each other on the phone. We send faces and other hieroglyphs on a screen instead.

But just to be clear. I don't blame technology for the slow destruction of the English language, I blame stupidity.

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