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#rebel #engineer has resurrected
#payphones from the dead to provide free calls! 📞 Because nothing screams "cutting-edge technology" like 1990s hardware in 2023! Who needs a smartphone when you have a shiny, old payphone in the rain? 🤣
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Engineer Fixes and Re-Installs Old Payphones, Provides Free Calls to the Public - Core77
Payphones "were the only things that were built to last for decades and be out in the elements," says electrical engineer Patrick Schlott. He should know; as a hobby, he buys secondhand payphones, rewires them, then asks local businesses in rural Vermont if they'd let him install them. His goal
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