• Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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    5 hours ago

    I love the end of the plug detail, easy to miss.

    Curious, though, that appears to be a 2 prong plug almost like a north American power outlet. Do/did some countries use that design for telephone cords? I’ve never actually considered that phone cords might be different in other countries, but it makes sense

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      2 hours ago

      There was actually a post on here the other day with an an old phone outlet from the dark ages. Link if you’re curious. Apparently we had them in the US too.

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      3 hours ago

      It’s called an F type plug, you know, since Hungary is in Europe…

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        3 hours ago

        Fascinating! I worked for a phone company for a while, and it honestly just never occured to me that there would be variation in phone jacks like there is in electrical plugs.

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        3 hours ago

        I found out about those as a kid when we moved into a house that had them still, and when I asked my mom she got a kick out of getting to teach me something. Haha. She’d had those as a kid. And then when I worked for the telephone company, I found out there are a surprising amount of older homes that never had them updated

        But it just never occured to me there would be regional variation in phone jacks like there is with electrical plugs.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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      4 hours ago

      I did some googling, but I didn’t find much info other than everyone seemed to have different standards back then (this would’ve been the 1960s/1970s).