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There’s a 30-year old dead Rabbit in Seven Sisters tube station
- akie 3y agoGreat story, and that's a killer logo!
- antupis 3y agoThe logo is very cool I hope someone borrows this.
- selfie 3y agoThere is almost a unicode for it: ʁ
- qingcharles 3y agoThat's funny. Playboy sometimes uses an inverted R like that in place of its masthead logo, although I can't find an example on the Web right now. You can see it in their Rabbitar logo: (although it is right-way up in this example) https://web.archive.org/web/20220422230205/https://www.playboy.com/read/letters-from-leveretia-008 https://web.archive.org/web/20220422230205/https://www.playb... edit: found one the other way up... https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/6aQAAOSwB3Ri~Cps/s-l1600.webp https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/6aQAAOSwB3Ri~Cps/s-l1600.webp
- karaterobot 3y agoSort of the nerdy brother of the Playboy logo. It's the one Playboy calls when it can't get the dang printer to work.
- qingcharles 3y agoHere's Playboy's version of it for their Rabbitar NFTs: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/6aQAAOSwB3Ri~Cps/s-l1600.webp https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/6aQAAOSwB3Ri~Cps/s-l1600.webp
- NeoTar 3y agoAt this point street furniture should achieve a level of protection as a reflection of our technological past.
- jl6 3y agoActual street furniture on a street should probably be put in a museum, as streets are absurdly cluttered with posts, lights, cables, signage and adverts, each of which is terribly important to someone, but which adds up to oppressive distraction.
- Aeolun 3y agoThe clutter has it’s own charm
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoNot to a cyclist
- dataengineer56 3y agoGood story but not a fan of the title. It should at least be "Rabbit" which would hint that it's not a literal rabbit.
- thanatos519 3y agoI wish this comment had revealed it was an early mobile phone antenna and not a Volkswagen Rabbit.
- TomK32 3y agoHaving read the article: Yes, against Hutchinson will, customers kept buying the Rabbit that was about to be killed...
- kwhitefoot 3y agoWouldn't be half as funny with a capital R.
- rplnt 3y agoThe title is thankfully not using the confusing (and frankly stupid) Title Case so it's obvious to the reader that it's not about a literal rabbit.
- dataengineer56 3y agoThe title has since been changed, it was lowercase now it's uppercase.
- tartrate 3y agoSigh, clickbait. No, not a real rabbit.
- jcul 3y agoI actually enjoyed the misdirection on this one. And I really enjoyed the post itself.
- plorntus 3y agoTo be fair it's only kinda clickbait on HN. On their actual site the thumbnail is very clearly not a real rabbit and is visible before you access the article.
- wkat4242 3y agoIt was more interesting and less gross than a real rabbit so I'm not disappointed.
- swarnie 3y agoI like to believe in a world where these guys recognised the alternative use for early mobile phone non-audible alerting and pivoted their business in a more Rampant direction, hence the dead store.
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- wkat4242 3y agoHah we had this too in Holland. Except it was called Kermit, the phone company actually paid millions for the Kermit the frog trademark. Eventually they renamed it to Greenpoint because the brand was so costly. It was only around a few years until it was made obsolete by mobile phones which became small enough to fit in a pocket too. But it looks like it lasted a lot longer than the UK variants of this system did. I think this is because the mobile networks were way too costly at first. Kermit was the poor man's mobile. The hardware was also different, Kermit used pretty thin flip phones that, like Rabbit, were also very popular as home phones.
- kwhitefoot 3y agoRibbit vs rabbit?
- adolph 3y agoMakes one miss gen-- Internet when things could be named Kermit, Archie and Veronica without involving the vertically integrated marketing apparatus. (I forgot about Jughead) "Kermit was named after Kermit the Frog from The Muppets, with permission from Henson Associates." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_(protocol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_(protocol) "The name derives from the word "archive" without the v. Emtage has said that contrary to popular belief, there was no association with the Archie Comics.[9] Despite this, other early Internet search technologies such as Jughead and Veronica were named after characters from the comics. Anarchie, one of the earliest graphical FTP clients was named for its ability to perform Archie searches." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_(search_engine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_(search_engine)
- wkat4242 3y agoYeah in this case the company (PTT) paid a TON of money to Henson, so much that they eventually had to re-brand to Greenpoint (which mustn't have been cheap). Their logo was all green. They were pretty bad at marketing in those days, they only got better in the 00's when they had moved from a state-owned telco to a private one. They had some hit adverts like one based on common spelling mistakes when texting on the old mobile phones in those days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuW6Q0NQmps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuW6Q0NQmps (If you don't speak Dutch you won't get it though)
- bbno4 3y agoamazing!!!
- kalleboo 3y agoThe Japanese equivalent, PHS, lasted 25 years from 1995 to 2020(!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Handy-phone_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Handy-phone_System
- lopis 3y ago> ... was a mobile network system operating in the 1880–1930 WHAT?? > ... MHz frequency band Oh. Ok, I jumped in my chair for a moment, but when my brain calmed down I realized network systems in the 19th century didn't really make sense.
- lb1lf 3y ago> but when my brain calmed down I realized network systems in the 19th century didn't really make sense. -Now, in the 18th century, on the other hand, the Chappe telegraph network was king. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappe_telegraph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappe_telegraph
- NeoTar 3y agoI was about to comment similarly that this is totally a wireless telegram system! For anyone who doesn't want to click the link, it's a visual telegram system similar to semaphore codes, or the 'clacks' in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.
- karambahh 3y agoAnd, as every communications systems, it was abused (as mentioned briefly in the WP page) by stock brockers between Paris and Bordeaux via a side channel attack. They used it to covertly transmit swing in trading prices between the Paris stock exchange and Bordeaux. If memory serves, they used unused symbols or abused error correction, I don't remember which, but from a technical standpoint it was pretty advanced and covert. I seem to remember they only got caught because somebody snitched them when they suddenly got veeeery good a predicting prices in Bordeaux, some 400km away from Paris. It appears transmission speed for a symbol was on the order of magnitude of 7 meters per second, and full messages travelled 400km in 9 minutes instead of 4 days by horse. So speed was a ginormous improvement despite low bandwidth and very high capex & opex and limited operating hours. It operated from 1793 to 1854 in continental France.
- petesergeant 3y agoReading this thinking "it's amazing that this outdated technology was so recent" and then realizing 1992 was more than 30 years ago :-/
- helsinkiandrew 3y ago> So, inside Seven Sisters tube station, there's still a Rabbit base station sitting on the wall, more than 30 years after it last broadcast a radio signal. I wonder what the chances are that it's still plugged in, waiting to receive connections from Rabbit phones that will never come.
- rob74 3y agoPretty high I would say, seeing that it apparently hasn't been touched since it was installed... although someone may have thought about flipping its circuit breaker to power it off (but not sure about that either).
- ornornor 3y agoYou never know… There was this tale of a neon sign that stayed plugged in inside a wall for something like 40 years and that was only discovered when they tore the place down.
- ToucanLoucan 3y agoYou got a link to that? I REALLY want to read about it!
- ornornor 3y agoThere: https://thefactsource.com/neon-light-hidden-behind-a-wall-was-left-on-for-77-years/ https://thefactsource.com/neon-light-hidden-behind-a-wall-wa...
- bombcar 3y agoYou could have an elaborate plot point for a tv show that would hinge around firing up the ancient rabbit battlestations for comms that wouldn’t be seen by the cell monitoring spooks.
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- psnehanshu 3y agoIt thought this was about a literal "dead rabbit".
- larodi 3y agoFascinating reminder from the future where streets be littered with tech junk from forgotten eras... Just take a look at wires in arbitrary mega-polic, fantastic. I'm in the process of collecting pictures of routers and other net equipment hanging in obnoxious manner in the most unexpected places. Some of it even powered.
- lostlogin 3y ago> Some of it even powered. Old redundant stuff powered on in network cupboards and server rooms must be a fairly common occurrence. Shared spaces are perfect for it.
- larodi 3y agoWell I’m really talking about boxes hanging like crazy on the outside of a buildings still having a green light on. I presume most of these have been patched directly into the electric net skipping all kinds of metered use. The amount of wires you can find in some cities in India is also mind blowing… not because they are there, but because we’ve only been like less than 50-70 years into wiring stuff.
- aembleton 3y agoI heard that when the cleared out the old BBC Television Centre there was masses of cabling that nobody had used for decades. As new tech arrived; new systems were put in place but the old cables remained. Probably a fair bit of copper in there.
- SoftTalker 3y agoCosts more labor to pull it out than you'd get for it as scrap. At least if you're using union-scale electricians as your labor. But maybe even at minimum wage.
- ddingus 3y agoOnce, when moving an office we were taking the network down and found this cable, lit on the switch, but all machines accounted for. Of course we followed it... and it led to an SGI personal Iris! It was hosting a small FTP drop used by a former employee and a few select customers who needed it for some reason. I don't know. Logged in using the 'lp' account, which was a standard IRIX security hole strangely tolerated by many due to it being a great way to get guest access to the machine to tinker around. In our case, we just wanted to run 'top', 'ps -something', and of course 'uptime', which was something north of 5 years, lol. Was in the very back of one of those hole in the wall network wiring points. It being dark and noisy was just perfect cover for a dirty machine and monitor, keyboard and mouse. The monitor was scary, but working. Keyboard and mouse mostly the same.
- ProxCoques 3y agoWould this have qualified for the Dead Media Project? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Media_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Media_Project
- b800h 3y agoI remember these antenna points being rather ubiquitous in London when I visited as a child.
- RecycledEle 3y agoWow. That tech should have worked.
- datascienced 3y agoIt did. It was OS/2 of mobile I guess!
- bombcar 3y agoIt’s weird to think that cell phones didn’t really become ubiquitous until after we started do everything with them but make and take calls.
- datascienced 3y agoIn the UK they were heavily used for voice and text and were almost ubiquitous circa 2002
- wkat4242 3y agoIn Holland and Ireland and Australia too. Way before they became 'smart'. In those days we didn't use them for everything, people still used landlines sometimes. But everyone had one.
- jamiek88 3y agoRight up until the iPhone the USA was miles behind Europe and Japan for cell phones, infra, cultural penetration etc. When I moved here in 2005 people didn’t even T9 text. At least they didn’t ubiquitously like they did in the UK where I moved from. It wasn’t even a massive thing with the young people which at 27 I think I still qualified!
- datascienced 3y agoRabbit was (is?) slang for talking. That maybe behind the name. Also love the storytelling and research here. And Rumbelows is another blast from the past. Is that still around?
- helsinkiandrew 3y agoRemember the name but not the store - according to Wiki they closed in 1995. I have to give them credit for making a valiant effort though: > Rumbelows had been losing £12 million yearly, and had never made a profit in its 24 years of existence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumbelows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumbelows
- dspillett 3y ago> losing £12 million yearly, and had never made a profit in its 24 years of existence Blazing the trail for modern internet companies! Once again young'n's think they invented everything, including such games of economic chicken, but we find nothing is really new.
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- PUSH_AX 3y agoRumbelows was bought by Radio Rentals, who then merged with Granada plc, who then merged with Carlton to become ITV.
- buggeryorkshire 3y agoI worked for a competitor to RR (Visionhire) when a teenager, BSkyB had started the first satellite TV series in the UK. Nobody wanted to buy it (why would I need more than 4 TV channels?) so they gave it free, including installation, for 6 months before charging money. Unfortunately so many people wanted to cancel after the 6 months there was a huge backlog waiting to get somebody to take the dish down. People were unbelievable angry, I worked in the callcentre and we'd have people turning up threatening to kill us, others sent us boxes full of literal shit. Not the greatest job ever.
- buggeryorkshire 3y agoIIRC, this was the first attempt by Hutchison Whampoa, a big Hong Kong company, to enter the UK. They gave up on this and eventually started Three, who are now one of the biggest mobile networks in the UK. I remember them trying to sell Rabbit when I was a kid, and even I was bemused. Why would I want to stand outside a hotspot in a shop when I could use a phone booth?
- mprev 3y agoIn between Rabbit and Three they launched Orange, too.
- dazc 3y agoIndeed, and one of the best advertising campaigns I can remember even though their claims of a wire-free future were somewhat optimistic.
- aembleton 3y agoI learnt from the article that they started Orange before Three. I always thought that was France Telecom but I guess they must have sold it to them.
- karambahh 3y agoFrance Telecom bought Orange (then a UK company) and decided several years laters to rebrand the french "Itineris" mobile brand "Orange" and progressively did the same across most of its business lines, both domestic and abroad. Everything from landlines to datacenters to service centers is operated under a unified brand, Orange, originally stemming from this UK mobile operator. (I think there's a few things here and there such as live tv broadcast that have not been rebranded but I'm not entirely which and why). The "France Telecom" brand has, I think, completely disappeared. Funnily enough, through hoops of corporate history and divestment, there are now completely separated business entities in completely different sectors than telcos that operate under the "Orange" brand, such as Orange Bank in several countries, mostly sub-saharan Africa, that do not have anything todo with Orange/France Telecom anymore.
- namanyayg 3y agoI can't stop marvelling at the Rabbit logo, and also the mysterious icons under the text "RUMBLELOWS" in the print ad. What do those beautiful icons mean??
- bombcar 3y agoLooks like a department store or big box store. I can read some of the fiery symbols - play, record, film, medicine, power, but then I get less certain. There may be a pause button. I wonder if it was made to be reminiscent of a tape deck.
- NamTaf 3y agoThey were a UK electronics retailer. There's a wiki article with some info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumbelows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumbelows Sadly, it doesn't touch on the symbols of the logo
- walthamstow 3y agoThe frost icon is likely freezers, and the spiral is laundry washing machines
- Digit-Al 3y agoRumbelows was a white goods store, so didn't sell medicines. I think some of the symbols may refer to duplicate items. I'll give you my guesses using the letter above to refer to the symbol. The R, U, and L symbols are all from a tape deck, and are play, stop, and pause respectively. The M is a roll of camera film. The B is a frost symbol, and most likely represents fridges / freezers. The E is an on/off symbol; it may just refer to generic electrical equipment, or could possibly represent cookers. I have no idea what the O and W are supposed to be, but if I had to make a stab in the dark I would say one may be microwave ovens and one may be radio or TV. The S is most likely washing machines, as someone else has mentioned.
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- oniony 3y agoThe article mentioned Mercury too. I distinctly remember working for a company that had Mercury telephones and their wall sockets were strange: they had this bare filament of wire that glowed blue. Was very alarming when you first saw it: something clearly electrical with a bare glowing wire.
- martijnvds 3y agoI wonder if any of the old Dutch CT2 system ("Greenpoint") is still around. They refurbished all the bus stops that still had stickers for it a few years ago.
- rasz 3y agoAmazing article on Hong Kong/Shenzhen CT2 system in Wired by NEAL STEPHENSON In the Kingdom of Mao Bell FEB 1, 1994 12:00 PM https://www.wired.com/1994/02/mao-bell/ https://www.wired.com/1994/02/mao-bell/
- dmurray 3y agoThe name "Rabbit" almost got genericized - I heard DECT phones being referred to as "rabbit phones" just this year. DECT in general (the successor to CT-2 which Rabbit used) is still going strong, though in some bubbles people are shocked to hear anyone uses anything other than a mobile phone.
- closewith 3y agoI think that's because rabbit was slang for antennae in general, due to rabbit-ears TV antennae.
- orangewindies 3y agoIsn't the term "rabbit ears" more of an American thing? Can't recall anyone using it in the UK.
- DonHopkins 3y agoIt was a missed branding opportunity to make the Rabbit mobile phone with a pair of rabbit ears antenna.
- closewith 3y agoNot sure about the UK, but was common in Ireland.
- fredoralive 3y agoI think the Rabbit name was chosen more because rabbit can be used as slang for talk and chatter, you might say some people were “rabitting away together” and so on if they were conversing at length[1]. In the UK most portable TVs used halo type antennas for reception AFAIk, this might be related to the UK only using UHF for 625 line colour TV (and digital)[2] whilst the US also uses VHF. The main living room TV was / is usually fed from a roof mounted yagi antenna though. [1] Just don’t use the phase “at it like rabbits” to mean conversations. Unless you mean Ugandan discussions… [2] VHF was used for the old 405 line system, which was turned off in the ‘80s.
- actionfromafar 3y agoA reminder that sometimes it's by chance more than anything what products get popular. This could have developed much further if the product were not cancelled. In a way it's closer to 5G in that it requires many many small cells to get coverage.
- d0gsg0w00f 3y agoExactly what I was thinking. I guess sometimes you have to prove something at wide range tower level before you ask to put blinky boxes in every ceiling throughout a whole country.
- actionfromafar 3y agoBut it was working already - the alternatives then were - landline - landline + cell coverage in certain locations For most people a "regular" cell phone was not an option at all. So this hybrid landline phone could have incrementally gained traction and out competed analog cell phones, but for a tiny watershed moment in history. Also, this digital handset was light. Pretty cool tech. I think dense places like Singapore and Hong Kong could have ran with this tech.
- thom 3y agoAfter the network didn't really work out, you could pick up the base stations and phones pretty cheaply so my family had these as our home phones for a while. They were very chunky and tough, with an aggressive beep when you pressed the buttons. I suppose that was due to lugging them round outside. Surprising in retrospect that smartphones look like they do instead of Panasonic Toughbooks.
- EvanAnderson 3y agoThis makes me wonder if there are any Metricom Ricochet[0] poletops still hanging on light poles in US cities. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricochet_(Internet_service) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricochet_(Internet_service)
- _joel 3y agoWorth mentioning for all those that wondered why this didn't take off like the mobile phone network, proper... You could only make calls, not receive them and coverage was limited. I grew up in Manchester and remember seeing the base stations about but hardly anyone used them (10,000 subs was the max accroding to Wikipedia)
- wkat4242 3y agoYes you could only use them at hotspots like train stations and shopping malls. Technically they could receive calls, but because that would only work in range of a hotspot, few operators offered this function. There was too limited radio spectrum to offer service across a wider area (reutilisation of cells not practical). In some cases the phones had a built-in pager to provide some form of reachability.
- eddieroger 3y agoI didn't live in the UK in the 90s, but if beepers/pagers were as prevalent there as they were in the States, that's not such a hinderance, and maybe still easier than finding a payphone to return a page?
- devilbunny 3y agoHow prevalent were pagers in your area? I was a college student with one in the late 90s. There was a Mountain Dew promotion that gave you a pager and a year's service for X number of proofs-of-purchase, which was easy to get if you just went to a gas station and asked if you could dig through the boxes, but I didn't know anyone else who had one. Crucial item for certain fields (first responders, healthcare, IT, drug dealers), but for an average person? I don't miss carrying a pager, but the alphanumeric ones we had when I was a resident physician were pretty cool. Need to send a one-way message? They had a web interface, so you could. One or two months of service on a single AA battery. Worked everywhere. Far more than I can say for smartphones.
- _joel 3y agoI recall having one in the late 90's, just before PAYG phones made their debut and SMS mopped up the market for them. Easy way for your Mum to tell you to get back for tea, or else! :)
- regularfry 3y agoInterestingly, the "you had to be within 100 yards of a base station" doesn't sound entirely dissimilar to 5G.
- WarOnPrivacy 3y agoI really like this observation. In case a non-freq-wonk comes by: This a callback to the mm wave part of 5G. It's signal covers an area so small, you can quickly exit it at a walk. Mobile PR says it's awesome while you're in it.
- wongarsu 3y agoIt's the exciting part of 5g everyone talks about despite its somewhat narrow application. I guess busy subway stations are a good fit as they have large numbers of people in a tiny area. And in larger stations you can deploy multiple cells with minimal overlap to split the load.
- dehrmann 3y agoMy hope is mm wave cells start springing up at music festivals. Those and sports venues are the main use cases.
- bm-rf 3y agoEven with regular 5G (sub 6 ghz) you'd take advantage of improvements over LTE like massive MIMO and more precise beamforming. All leading to more people using a network at the same time. Also anecdotally I've found that at music festivals, when cellular data doesn't work, texting or calling usually works fine (At least on AT&T)
- afavour 3y ago> Mobile PR says it's awesome while you're in it. It is! Even better, I live across the street from one. I get 5G home internet at 1GBps, faster than my cabled provider can achieve.
- dghughes 3y agoLove the logo!
- athenot 3y agoIn France it was branded Bi-Bop and ran from 1991 to 1997; many public places had the stickers to identify where service was available. Apple even had a Bi-Bop modem to go in the PowerBook laptops. Futuristic at the time but pricing pretty much kept it from getting much traction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CT2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CT2
- kotaKat 3y agoThere's a weird twist of fate lately -- I had a lead on a Rabbit base station and handset recently that I'm importing into the US, now this discovery? ;) I already collect weird "personal cellular" stuff in my house -- probably one of the only running PHS home phone base stations incl. data, a bunch of NTT Personal handsets, and now this Rabbit. It'll be very fun to make a call from a PHS handy to a Rabbit handset and vice-versa for probably the first time in the world very soon...
- relwin 3y agoI worked on PHS gear in the US for the Japanese market. We even had an experimental license to operate within our dev building. We tied into our office phone network so we could makes calls just like a desk phone. Nifty little handsets were tiny compared to early AMPS/CDMA chunkers....
- kotaKat 3y agoYep! The tiniest little thing I've got blows me away. And it can do 32kbps tethering! ... You wouldn't happen to have worked on the STAR WIT would you have? ;)
- silverkite 3y agoI have noticed something similar in stockholm sweden where I live, in a shadowy corner of metro station you can find the remains of a phonebooth with a logo of the then national telecom company
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- duxup 3y agoKinda a cool sign to keep around. Little piece of history. Did the US have an equivalent short range only / tied to a base station / could use at home setups? I don't remember any.
- Retric 3y agoFor a while iPod Touches were used as Wi-Fi only cellphones phones via VoIP apps to avoid high cellular fees. I’m sure there’s other devices used like that, but they’re what came to mind and like had more monthly users than Rabbit’s 10k or so.
- freedomben 3y agoIf you drive through a lot of small towns in the American west (east of California, such as Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Northern Arizona/New Mexico) you can often find some real fascinating relics of time like this. Depending on the area you get a little different era. In the southwest you can find a lot of cool stufef from the 50s, 60s, 70s, and early 80s. Up north is more 80s and 90s and early 00s. One I really enjoyed seeing is a little ghost "town" in Southern Idaho that I had a blast exploring a couple years ago. It was a gas station, a restaurant, and a couple of houses and a small warehouse off the interstate a bit. It went out of business decades ago and was abandoned. It's remote enough that vandalism has been minimal (though certainly existent), so some things look fairly "pristine" the way they were last left. Seeing the desk in the office, with filing cabinet and desktop corded phone was a real nostalgia kick. There was a box that had clearly been picked through that I'm sure would have contained a lot of treasures. I found a barely readable instruction manual for a dot-matrix printer that would have been neat to see. You do have to be very careful because there are lots of sharp object galore, especially broken glass. Local "wildlife" has also been in and out once the door stopped staying closed, but for the most part it is just scratch marks (that could have been done by dogs or cats). The bathroom is a toxic bio-hazard though, so don't go in there. People clearly kept using for many years, long after the water was shut off.... Overall was a really fun experience. If you decide to explore though, be aware of where you go because a lot of old-looking stuff that might seem abandoned, actually isn't (it just hasn't been maintained), and usually the owners aren't too welcoming of trespassers.
- holden_nelson 3y agoWhat town in Idaho? I live in southern Idaho. Feel free to DM if you don’t want to post it publicly. If you don’t mind :)
- cogman10 3y agoReally curious as well. I'm from Rockland myself (but now live in Boise) edit: Oh shoot, I'm guessing from your handle your a nelson from Holden :D. I'm sure your familiar with Rockland.
- cesarb 3y ago> So, inside Seven Sisters tube station, there’s still a Rabbit base station sitting on the wall, more than 30 years after it last broadcast a radio signal. Is that the base station itself, or is it just the antenna, with the real base station sitting in a closet somewhere? And if that's just an antenna, the base station might have already been removed, leaving just the antenna and its cabling (though it wouldn't surprise me if you open the right closet and find the original base station still plugged into that antenna).
- IIAOPSW 3y ago>Is that the base station itself, or is it just the antenna, You mean the rabbit ears?
- whyenot 3y agoIt's a really nice logo. I wish someone would clean away the dust and cobwebs.
- butler14 3y agoWe had one of these as a house phone at one point when I was a kid!
- WorldPeas 3y agosomeone should convert all these into meshtastic hubs, that'd be a cool second-lease on life
- xkcd1963 3y ago"Customers who owned a Rabbit phone were given a refund" wooow. Imagine something like that nowadays. Companies that actually have a backbone
- 1-6 3y agoCool logo
- fiforpg 3y agoAs can be easily verified by turning the sign upside down, it is not a Rabbit, but a Яabbit.
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- escape_goat 3y agoThere's an interesting story inside this interesting story. In the counterfactual, the company continues to manufacture and sell the product as a cordless telephone for a few years before the rest of the vendors catch up with it in terms of quality. That's not what happened. Why not?