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	Podcast:		Ridiculous History
	Episode:		How Farmers Built A Barbed Wire Phone Network
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		0
	Publish Date:		2018-02-20 19:05:23
	Description:		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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