• @[email protected]
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    2111 months ago

    Hello? Oh good, good, how are you? Yeah I’m just talking to you FROM MY CAR! Yeah I’m just on the side of the road right now on my car phone that’s connected to my car. Sorry, you can probably hear the traffic because I’m literally just standing on the sidewalk right now talking to you on the phone in my car. Oh goodness yes, a small fortune! But it’s worth it for all the business I do.

    • PugJesusM
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      611 months ago

      “What’s your business, Bob?”

      “Car phone salesman.”

    • @[email protected]
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      311 months ago

      Reminds me of when I sold all those magazine subscriptions so I could win an IR messaging device, enabling me to send short text messages to other people with the same device from all the way across the room. What a revolution.

  • The Barto
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    11 months ago

    Man: Ok, so, there’s absolutely no room for my suitcases in this car, the trunk has just enough room for a small woman’s purse, there’s no back seats and the engine takes up half the length of the car… oh and the phone only works when I’m standing outside the car.

    • @MajorHavoc
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      411 months ago

      Man continues: “So if you could send a taxi to pick me up, that would be terrific. No, I guess I didn’t need to tell you all of that, but this car phone is pretty neat, don’t you think? Yes. I’ll be waiting at the curb, I’m standing there now!”

  • athos77
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    11 months ago

    There’s some interesting information on early radiophones here.

    • @nucleative
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      11 months ago

      Looks like it’s meant to carry goods or debris or trash or something. They are very common still in many parts of the world.

  • @Hikermick
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    211 months ago

    Luxuries become necessities