Telefontornet just means “the telephone tower”, so your title reads –
the old the telephone tower telephone tower in Stockholm, Sweden.
mdyguy
Jesus, that’s a terrorist target if I’ve ever seen one.
NinjaLanternShark
The guys at /r/cableporn would have an aneurysm.
Heh. In fact it’s on their “don’t repost this again” list with the caption:
> The Stockholm Telephone cables.
> The next person who posts this…. God help you.
doughboyfreshcak
Future Network Engineer, the pictures they showed us of America before the institutions that exist today were created to solve this issue was absolutely maddening.
ur_mom_big_gay_poo
So this is what the aftermath of Spider-Man’s fights is
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loanfigger
Imagine one of the lines stopped working and you were the guy having to climb into that fog of wires to fix/remove it
KneeDeepInTheDead
this feels like me when im trying to code except not as organized
hawaiiangiggity
I’d have to think birds didn’t see this flying at night and we’re constantly running into it
jaykirsch
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Stockholm_telephone_tower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Stockholm_telephone_tower)
TheSchaftShiftNA
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Genuinely thought it was a spider infested bridge.
_No_Donkey_Brains_
Surely there was a better way?
SlipperyTed
what about birds and winds and things to pull the lines down
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Cable ties hadnt yet been invented?
liftport
Did multiplexing help solve this issue?
ShelSilverstain
Wasn’t there a movie made that took place in one of these towers?
jaykirsch
a couple pics found on Imgur: [https://imgur.com/a/1YBMp](https://imgur.com/a/1YBMp)
and some here https://twistedsifter.com/2014/08/stockholm-telephone-tower-connects-5000-lines/
StaySharpp
I read it as “teleport” tower the first time through. Telephone tower makes much more sense, abiet less cool 🙁
MrWoodfin
A link to a decent resolution image:
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tower-1.jpg
Absolutely_wat
Telefontornet just means “the telephone tower”, so your title reads –
the old the telephone tower telephone tower in Stockholm, Sweden.
mdyguy
Jesus, that’s a terrorist target if I’ve ever seen one.
NinjaLanternShark
The guys at /r/cableporn would have an aneurysm.
Heh. In fact it’s on their “don’t repost this again” list with the caption:
> The Stockholm Telephone cables.
> The next person who posts this…. God help you.
doughboyfreshcak
Future Network Engineer, the pictures they showed us of America before the institutions that exist today were created to solve this issue was absolutely maddening.
ur_mom_big_gay_poo
So this is what the aftermath of Spider-Man’s fights is
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loanfigger
Imagine one of the lines stopped working and you were the guy having to climb into that fog of wires to fix/remove it
KneeDeepInTheDead
this feels like me when im trying to code except not as organized
hawaiiangiggity
I’d have to think birds didn’t see this flying at night and we’re constantly running into it