Ahh, the ancient artifact to get off the Matrix.
The removal of these is a conspiracy by the machines to keep us in the Matrix.
So the machines have won?
If you watched the Matrix, you’d know the answer to that. The machines won a nearly infinite number of times.
Yeah those Bell phones (and some Telus ones in Western Canada) are still in many places surprisingly, but increasingly rare and I haven’t seen any one use one in Canada for years.
A couple non-Bell ones I know of in downtown Toronto still operate somehow.
Also it’s kind of neat to see places with payphones where you know they were used way more often before, like Portland [Oregon] Union Station. I could imagine people getting off a train forming lines to try to send word home they made it into town…
I don’t understand, where is the part of this device that forces ads on you?
You see you’d either have to remember every single number you ever needed OR you had to look the numbers up in a very thick book with very thin pages.
The pages that were ads were even coloured differently.
Idk, perhaps you’ve heard of “the yellow pages”?
Also, waiting music.
In the yellow pages book in the little cubby below
And it still says “Bell” on it, too.
There is one functioning pay phone that I know of and pass regularly on my rounds, which is outside of Lancaster in Georgetown, Pennsylvania right at the dog-leg on 896. There are like three locals reading this who are nodding right now.
See if you can spot it here:
You’ll also readily spot why it’s still there.
This looks like a Bell Canada phone which is still a company (unfortunately). You do still see these exact same phones around occasionally
And it still says “Bell” on it, too.
If you’re referring to pre-breakup American Bell, this one appears to be Bell Canada, which tragically still exists.
Is that for the Amish?
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I imagine it does see some use from them, yes.
Is that what you meant, though?
You really miss it when your trapped somewhere with no phone and has to beg to strangers for theirs.
honestly pay phones are something we should have never elliminated.
I agree
same
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