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@gaditb (but yes you might say there were two separate telephony networks, neither of which are pre-computing or necessarily look much like ours, which converged sometime in the 2010s)

@gaditb in the early games yes but they weren't called phones

the first device called a phone is the Rotom Phone, and those games do have remote box access

i’m drawing significantly off of the anime here though, where the videotelephony systems used in pokémon centers are i think pretty clearly on the same network as the transfer system

@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)

@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)

@Satsuma i'm not saying pokémon teleportation precedes email but i don't think email necessitates telegraph

@Satsuma (and i'm not opposed to saying that the pokémon had telegraph; what they didn't have is giant telephone exchanges routing calls to individual households)

@Satsuma why

@Satsuma are you incapable of imagining a modernity without telephones

@Satsuma why do you say so

the rotom phone is an iteration on the smartphones in alola which is an iteration on the Xtranceiver which is an iteration on the pokégear which is an iteration on the pokénav which was a GPS device which also just happened to have communication capabilities

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

they never had widespread non-internet-based telephony

and there is SO MUCH fanfiction potential in like every episode

i think it takes them a season to really work out the formula but master journeys and ultimate journeys especially are just consistently good

is the series which pivoted me from “why does anybody write pokémon anime fanfiction” to “why isn’t everybody writing pokémon anime fanfiction”

@Satsuma i think most people who know me can probably guess the year; if you know when glitchsoc was founded it really only leaves one option

and for people who don't know me it's none of their business

@Satsuma it means i wasn't active on twitter for as long?

have i been active on it longer than any other social media? (i joined in november)