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by INTPenis 1302 days ago
Norway also shut down their old radio network. Which was sad to me as a history nerd because I remember reading about the heroic people who smuggled radios in briefcases and in attics just to bring news to people during german occupation.
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My great grandfather had a radio hidden under a pile of wood.

One time a bored German soldier threw pieces of wood at the wall and almost got to the radio. My great grandfather told him he had to stop because there was a sick old lady in the house and he did.

My grandmother was just a kid and used to be really scared that the Germans would find the radio and send her parents away to a concentration camp. I guess this is the reason all the tracking and surveillance on the internet was quite scary to her and made her rather wary of using it.

Also 3G is no longer in Norway for some time.