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A row of four Bell-branded phone booths mounted on a concrete wall, each containing a payphone with black handsets and coin slots. The two booths on the left have black metal cases hanging below them. The image features a slightly worn, urban aesthetic with visible scratches and marks on the booths and wall, emphasizing a sense of decay or obsolescence.They are called P A Y P H O N E S

Are you ... how shall we say? Of a certain age? For the over 50s, what used to be but is no more? People are sharing all the things in Ask Metafilter!

01/28/25
by taz

Last Person Standing

floppy disks for breakfastfloppy disks for breakfast by Blude (cc by)

Turns out the obsolete floppy is way more in demand than you’d think: great interview link from Etrigan.

09/14/22
by taz

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