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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
Reading books from the era before cell phones were common, it's always fun to see plot points that would've been resolved far more easily had the characters been able to send a text message.
Course, you do see modern books try to write that away by going "oh no! the reception is bad!"
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Sometimes they bribed a small child to run to the PO and send a telegram (or earlier a telegraph message). Optical telegraphs existed in Europe at time of the Napoleonic war. People even did "man in the middle attack" "wire fraud".
Or in reverse, the storm last night brought the lines down (1851 to today) or today the battery is flat, though the pub MIGHT still have a payphone. There are some left.
Authors are gods. They can do whatever they like as long as they can get the reader to suspend disbelief. Some books are so much fun you enjoy them even though from a logical or practical point of view it's very silly!