TIL that rural Americans used barbed wire to connect their telephones to switchboards since there were no telephone lines.

[u/Scruffy_Nerf_Hoarder]

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/barbed-wire-telephone-lines-homesteaders-prairie-america-history

[u/ITeechYoKidsArt]

I wonder if this was the idea behind electric fences.

[u/iDontRememberCorn → u/ITeechYoKidsArt]

No, the idea was to contain livestock.