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Stephen wrote:
> I think that it was a bit earlier than that in the UK but we are much
> more closely packed.
I'm not sure of the history, but a lot of times, things will go a lot longer
where they were invented.
For example, in the USA, we had 96%+ landline penetration in residences in
1980 or so. South Korea had essentially none. Forward to 2005, and we have
like 20% of the population having cell phones and 80%+ of south koreans
having cell phones.
I.e., I wouldn't be surprised that by the time the UK had widespread
residential phone service, the technology was cheap enough that party lines
didn't really make sense.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
you literally shooting yourself in the foot.
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