CLASSIC: How Farmers Built A Barbed Wire Phone Network
Ridiculous History
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4.3 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Nowadays smartphones are an ubiquitous part of many civilizations, but not so long ago telephones of any sort were a rare commodity -- and the infrastructure was enormously expensive. When telephones hit the mass market, companies focused on densely-populated urban areas, leaving rural communities with no hope of getting a phone line. Until, that is, a group of MacGyver-esque farmers figured out an ingenious way to connect not just themselves, but everyone in their town.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey man, have you ever looked at barbed wire and thought that could be a phone? |
| 0:07.0 | Oh boy, well no, it scares me barbed wire. |
| 0:11.0 | I find it to be oppressive and sharp and pointy and usually |
| 0:14.3 | rusty yeah really does no but back in the day some very industrious |
| 0:19.4 | farmers figured out how to do just that essentially Essentially turned the barbed wire fences that |
| 0:24.5 | comprise their farms into a way of communicating between farms. |
| 0:29.3 | It's essentially like a self-contained telephone network. Pretty stuff how did they do it well we'll find out in this |
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| 0:47.0 | Seriously though, it's so weird. |
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