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Telephone tower in Stockholm, Sweden, ~1890 (infosec.pub)
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[โ€“] Nougat@fedia.io 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Before fiber/digital (able to carry multiple call streams on the same physical conduit), when all phones were analog on copper, this is how all telephones were wired, just with smaller wires all bundled together, and often buried underground.

[โ€“] cr1cket@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 month ago

Uhm, no. Multiplexing also existed in pure analog times.