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 (DIR) Post #2562259 by Dayglochainsaw@efdn.club
       2019-01-02T23:59:46Z
       
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       TODAY'S HISTORY LESSON: the oldest known instance of a groupchat dates back to the 1880s.In the 1880s, farmers discovered that they could connect their phones to their barbed wire fences, and create a rudimentary communications network. Up to 20 people could be connected at once, but due to the lack of any numbers, if you made a call, EVERYONE'S phone would ring. Many farmers found that this actually helped with the loneliness and depression associated with the isolation of farming.
       
 (DIR) Post #2562260 by sean@social.deadsuperhero.com
       2019-01-03T00:06:38.102861Z
       
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       @Dayglochainsaw Can't tell if this is a true fact, or an extremely elaborate shitpost. 🤔
       
 (DIR) Post #2562457 by _ampersand@guillotines.masto.host
       2019-01-03T00:14:17Z
       
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       @sean @Dayglochainsaw It's true, "party lines," mom had one growing up. What's really neat is that some areas would just run the phone connection over barbed wire.
       
 (DIR) Post #2565385 by debugninja@banana.dog
       2019-01-03T01:49:19Z
       
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       @Dayglochainsaw This reminds me that some people I went to highschool with still had party lines (like you would call a number and it would ring all the houses on the street).  A lot of rural areas were setup this way back in the day.
       
 (DIR) Post #2568047 by msh@coales.co
       2019-01-03T04:02:57Z
       
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       @sean @Dayglochainsaw It's true. I grew up in rural Canada and my parents first phones were over the fenced, and they were on a party line until the early 1980s. They shared a telephone line with three other homes so I grew up with "group chat". We each had our own phone number but all the numbers rang all our phones just with different ring tones.And if my oldest sister was on the phone any of the neighbours could pick up and listen in so she had to censor herself lol.
       
 (DIR) Post #2568525 by msh@coales.co
       2019-01-03T04:20:06Z
       
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       @sean @Dayglochainsaw by 1981 my sister was married and in a home of her own, and Alberta Government Telephones added lines to the CO, so our party line was split in two so we only had to share the line with an old bachelor who only used the phone on Sundays. Yay!We technically weren't supposed to do it but we got a 300 baud modem and started dialling into BBSes in the city, hoping the neighbour wouldn't pick up during a big 64k download and terminate the connection lol
       
 (DIR) Post #2605283 by rubah@mastodon.social
       2019-01-03T18:34:06Z
       
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       @msh @Dayglochainsaw is there an RFC for IPoBW ?