Those are low power phone lines. And by the look, amazingly well strung. God knows what the safety was on the power lines feeding the amps (or whatever) looked like.

I had always thought this was an existing tower repurposed for them new fangled phone lines. Neat!

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What sort of dl/up did this babies produce?

[–] Lawnman23@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Yes.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 17 points 3 months ago

Electric State-ass design

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So Steampunk. Or rather, Hoarpunk

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

LOL, good use of hoar.

Sweden: We got Heavy Metal, Black Metal, and now for 2025, FROST Metal!

[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

I bet the EMI from that abomination could warm up some soup for you, in the right spot ofc.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

I had never heard about this before, it's both cool and horrible at the same time!

[–] ashar@infosec.pub 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

0 Mbps, but voice over copper was quite good.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 points 3 months ago

Yes but microphone technology was awful

[–] computergeek125@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I suspect you may have meant to respond to the speed comment rather than root?

[–] ashar@infosec.pub 2 points 3 months ago

Yes, sorry

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

The lightning catchers... Embellish alright.

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

that is such a cool looking structure, I wish that more cities had the "wires strewn about" vibe.

[–] JoeDyrt@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago

Mumbai

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

something about stockholm syndrome and getting used to it?