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In Australia we recently had a telecom outage with Optus; there were untold amount of damage - card payments at shops/cafes were out. - rural towns completely c
by devgonewild 3y ago
In Australia we recently had a telecom outage with Optus; there were untold amount of damage
- card payments at shops/cafes were out.
- rural towns completely cut off (a few in particular are only serviced by Optus)
- emergency services unavailable; for example a snake wrangler was unable to receive his call-outs
- hospitals infrastructure came to a halt
And I'm only going off of examples I have heard. These outages are very damaging.
- luxuryballs 3y agocashiers always look at me dumbstruck when I tell them about the mechanical offline credit card machines we had when I was a cashier back in 2004
- james-skemp 3y agoIf we're thinking of the same thing, I have fond memories of those at mall department stores in the 80s and 90s. I think Sears around '04-06 (?) was the last time I saw one of those used. I think I bought a dehumidifier or air purifier. When they started rolling out credit and debit cards without the raised numbers I thought fondly of those and how they were definitely done for now.
- luxuryballs 3y agoOh yeah I didn’t even think about the raised numbers thing! Cash is still king.