Makes me wonder if Valve saw that and got some inspiration for Half Life…
I had the same thought! Immediately pictured the very beginning of HL:Alyx
That makes early fears of power and telephone cables eating the city and everyone in it more understandable.
Yeah, multiplexers made life better.
Ah the era before duplex/multiplexing (is that the right term?)
Hey Mr Technician, there’s a wire disconnected
Where? Which one?
I don’t know :(
Don’t cross the streams!
“A network cable is unplugged.”
In case anyone wants a brief intro to Multiplexing
Now I understand where Simon Stålenhag gets the inspiration.
Before fiber/digital (able to carry multiple call streams on the same physical conduit), when all phones were analog on copper, this is how all telephones were wired, just with smaller wires all bundled together, and often buried underground.
Not quite. They figured out how to get more signals on one cable full before the digital era
Genuine thanks OP, I had no idea it was ever like this
That thing is gorgeous I want to see something like that with my own eyes now
Can’t stop the signal, Mal.