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Kelli217 t1_j15prym wrote

Reply to comment by AutoModerator in [WP] The world ended 20 years ago, you haven't found a living soul since then. Through some ingenuity, you call voicemails for the last 20 years to keep you company. "Hi, this is Cindy..." "Hi you reached Bob" "You know what to do at the beep" until one day "Hello...hello? Oh my God hello!" by killznhealz

Somebody has a really high opinion of how well the telephone infrastructure will hold up in the apocalypse.

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Jamaican_Dynamite t1_j15rhvr wrote

I been in places where you can't carry a call room to room. And that's during the pre apocalypse era.

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SuperFLEB t1_j17fjgd wrote

Okay, so we set it on an outpost on some other planet or something where environmental requirements and limited needs make resilient analog POTS lines the best option.

Or in 1975, I suppose (that's pre-computerized-switching, right?). That'd work too.

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