Someone in a yellow phone booth wearing sunglasses, with a slabtop-style early laptop on their lifted knee. The laptop is attached to an acoustic coupler modem on top of the payphone itself, with the phone handset slotted into it.

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nytpu (nytpu@tilde.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 04:47:31 JST nytpu

For no particular reason I'm reading up about modems, and I think the portable ones you could hook onto payphones are the most cyberpunk thing ever (even if at the time they were really only used by travelling businessmen). Much cooler to jack into the phone system than "oh yeah every place has their own public wifi”

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