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What technologies were ubiquitous ten years ago and are much less common now?
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They weren't quite ubiquitous anymore, but looking for a payphone wasn't a sign of someone being a time traveler. The last one near me hung on until a couple years ago.
There's a payphone by one of the elementary schools here. I wonder if it's more likely that a kid without a cellphone is more likely to use it?
Here in Australia, they are all free now. I presume the phone company realised nobody was using them and preferred to keep them as free billboard spaces.
They tend to have free wifi too so are somewhat useful.
I think I tried that once and you needed to download a Telstra app or something so I noped out. Ive seen the signs though.
fun fact: they don't have private numbers anymore, so you can gather a bunch of random payphone's numbers for shenanigans.
Actual prepubescent children, in my experience, no longer recognise something without a touchscreen as a phone.