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Dad, how does a telephone work? (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You've played with tin cans that had a wire stretched between them, right? A phone is just like that except the wire is longer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"So how come we can call more than one person from the same telephone, Dad?"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Knots, carefully tied.