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Sylvian
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« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2022 @39.11 » |
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I like payphone aesthetics, I have an idea to install a self designed VOIP payphone outside of my house or business. However, there are a few problems with this idea. Firstly, it probably violates various zoning laws or permit things. Secondly, in the case of a residential area, it gives a pretext for strange / unknown people from the street to approach my house on a regular basis. Probably for a commercial space it makes more sense, since it could be used to invite people to the place of business. Physical analog phone-lines (rather than digitized VOIP lines) sadly are no longer in place in many places. I'm curious if we could have an alternative form of internet using analog lines again (a stronger version of dialup) I really want to try to beef up my phone space, but it's difficult to do this without increasing the risk of toll fraud and other problems. Still, it's worth doing (interactive IVR for my site, a payphone IVR when I eventually get a space where it is safe and acceptable for me to install an art payphone, basically IVR used for artistic ideas either in a physical or virtual space (e.g., choose your own adventure game that is only accessible from that phonebooth, perhaps as part of an ARG)) An interesting story about a person who maintained a phone booth on his property that a lost child used to phone home. https://news.yahoo.com/lost-child-uses-local-minnesota-174654952.html
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« Reply #7 on: April 30, 2023 @483.43 » |
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« Reply #9 on: May 11, 2023 @910.24 » |
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This one still works!
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« Reply #11 on: September 17, 2023 @701.24 » |
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I have quite literally been thinking about this thread for months. Tipping back and forth. should i post? should i not post? Quite the question. The reason why I'm hesitant is because payphones aren't dead in my country. Here's an article by Telstra as to why they're still around. But when I lived in another country, I realised how precious these little phones are! And how they sadly are not maintained. Anyways, here's the payphone down the street from me. :)
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