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old-school wiring nightmares
- Subject: old-school wiring nightmares
- From: corbe at corbe.net (Daniel Corbe)
- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 14:29:38 -0400
- In-reply-to: <CAL9jLabPwpnQFvSecX=VLc6g2GsJ48ke9L1_ut-_SnZh7B3ZHw@mail.gmail.com> (Christopher Morrow's message of "Wed, 3 Sep 2014 13:41:34 -0400")
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Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists at gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 1:27 PM, John Kinsella <jlk at thrashyour.com> wrote:
>> Wiring closet rats nests have frequently been a fun topic, so with that in
>> mind, may I present telephone lines in Stockholm, circa late 1800s:
>> http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/09/telefontornet-stockholm/
>>
>> Have fun wire-tracing *that*
And things worked like that for decades.
>
> imagine the probably almost constant outages in the winter months due
> to ice buildup on the lines...
>
This still happens. Overhead fiber is a thing you know.
>> Click through to the flickr albums - the Tekniska Museet has put some great
>> stuff up!