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Grew up in the 80s to the lovely 🤪 sound of my dad morse-coding & chatting over ham radio to people round the world-introduced him to bitchat today-he’s 89 & grew up in rural Ireland. As a kid his job was to go into town on his bike to get a load of batteries charged so that everyone could listen to the all-Ireland final on the one radio a neighbour had; eventually when they got electricity he didn’t have to use oil lamps anymore; when he saw a TV for the first time he thought the people from the radio were in the TV; cars started to arrive but his dad didn’t trust them (unaffordable too) so they kept the donkey & cart. Coal to central heating, the landline, the computer, the internet, the mobile phone & bitcoin (least resistance in the family to it due this history of tech + not being able to get over being taxed so much on his pension 🙄😂. And he’s got a bitcoin miner that helps keep his feet warm 🦶💪🏻🧡 @jack #bitchat #bitcoin #HamRadio #hams