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These are relatively easy to find in Japan

Couldn’t tell you why but they are

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Despite the old stereotype of Japan being a futuristic nation that produces the technology of tomorrow, a lot of it’s institutions are still using very outdated technology.

Fax is still very actively used

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Read one time that “thirty years ago, Japan was ten years in the future. Today, Japan is twenty years in the past.”

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They’ve been living in the year 2000 for four decades.

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Fax is still used in government and healthcare in the United States.

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I couldn’t believe how many cash only places there were!

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Floppy disks, too.

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thats sick

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so there are easy exits when people need to get out of the matrix

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Pay phones are still common in many places around the world. An indicator may be those mapped on OSM: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=telephone#map

They are common in my country, but I hardly ever see anyone use them.

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Open it.

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What game is that?

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Google says ghost wire tokyo

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Those green guys were everywhere when I’ve been, they look so satisfying

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