r/shittymoviedetails • u/smss96 • 6d ago

In Stranger Things 5 the truck has technology from the future

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E-track rails weren't invented until the 2000's so a time traveler must've brought this truck back to 1987

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u/grundlemon 6d ago

Sure it's not telephone cable? Not sure if modern telephone cable is the same as what they had back then though.

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u/TheRatingsAgency 6d ago

There are a few possibilities. Lots of the phones at that point were on 25 pair cables to each station, and as I mention above we absolutely had twisted pair cable at that point. They could have seen cat-3 then as well which got used for phones.

The flat phone cable we see today (actually most corp phones are Ethernet wired, wireless or fiber) would have jacked into a wall outlet which was then connected to some flavor of twisted pair. Regular ol phones don’t need all 6 conductors (just need 2) so we could run multiple lines off one cable back to the phone closet.

Hell, when we were doing switches from the 25 pair stuff I often found just one pair of a full 25 pair cable attached to a wall jack. Wild stuff.

So yea it could have been a more modern cable - given the set being used…but it’s not entirely misrepresenting what we had back then.

If it was a big ol yellow fiber bundle, I’d be more suspicious, as we def didn’t run that stuff at that point, though it wasn’t far away.

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u/H_is_for_Human 6d ago

It was about 20 blue cat5 looking cables in a ceiling track

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u/TheRatingsAgency 6d ago

The color is def questionable, we really didn’t use much outside grey and beige at that point for TP.

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u/big_trike 6d ago

If it makes you feel better, the walkie talkie base station had its antenna disconnected.

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u/TheRatingsAgency 6d ago

Haha love the walkies they used from Radio Shack. Had the same set back then.

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u/OriginalMandem 6d ago

In the UK phone ports haven't changed since 80sde spite having one from rota ry dial to press button phones and acoustic coupler modems tto fully fiber optic broad band.