Reality: A picture of the Swedish telephone exchange, with some 5,500 incoming lines.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-stockholm-telephone-tower-1890/
Spiderman Immobilizes a Rampaging Swedish Skyscraper (1890)
Reality: A picture of the Swedish telephone exchange, with some 5,500 incoming lines.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-stockholm-telephone-tower-1890/
6 Comments
remotelove@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 357d
Even if there was primitive multiplexing on those cables, I am fairly sure a 100 Mbps link could handle all of them these days with bandwidth to spare.
Edit: Telephony multiplexing didn't show up till 1910 but telegraphy multiplexing was around since the 1870s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplexing
Dasus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 357d
Yeah but you wouldn't get that sweet analogue tone.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 9 pts · 357d
Can't imagine the weight of all those, never mind trying to find a particular one that was flaking out because some animal chewed through it or something.
hanke@feddit.nu · 7 pts · 357d
C'mon bro, just one more phone line. Just one more and it'll be enough. Come on just one more line.
spittingimage@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 357d
He's a menace, I tell ya!
sober_monk@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 357d
Respect the hyphen!