there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
they never had widespread non-internet-based telephony
there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
telephones in the pokémon world are an extension of the LAN/WAN/Internet systems that they developed for pokémon transfers and PC access there was no predecessor system afaict
they just sent Mail by carrier pidgey
there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
@Lady this seems implausible
re: there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
@Satsuma why do you say so
re: there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
@Satsuma are you incapable of imagining a modernity without telephones
re: there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
@Lady telegraph actually
re: there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
@Satsuma why
re: there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
@Lady sending a live thing digitally is insanely complex and it seems unlikely that, even if it was ones top cultural priority, it would get invented before the ability to send any data even if the latter was not particularly widely implemented
re: there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
@Satsuma i'm not saying pokémon teleportation precedes email but i don't think email necessitates telegraph
re: there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
@Satsuma (i do think they did not have Internet until after pokémon teleportation though, although this might just be a coincidence due to pokémon teleportation being invented early enough that there weren't many other good usecases for the internet yet)
(like if your friend lives in a different region you can just write a letter and accept it might be a little while before you hear back, but there is no way to send them a pokémon except with a global internet connection or something like it, short of paying someone to literally bring them the pokémon)
re: there are a lot of differences between the pokémon world and the real world but i think one of the funniest is that
@Satsuma (so what you had initially canonically were these transfer labs or global communication centers which had a trans-regional link and then the problem was cutting out the middleman, which took them a while as they didn't have a pre·existing international telephony system to crib off of)
