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Spiderman Immobilizes a Rampaging Swedish Skyscraper (1890) (media.piefed.ca)

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Reality: A picture of the Swedish telephone exchange, with some 5,500 incoming lines.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-stockholm-telephone-tower-1890/

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[-] remotelove@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Even if there was primitive multiplexing on those cables, I am fairly sure a 100 Mbps link could handle all of them these days with bandwidth to spare.

Edit: Telephony multiplexing didn't show up till 1910 but telegraphy multiplexing was around since the 1870s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplexing

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