With the advent of mobile phones, public payphones have fallen by the wayside. We take a look back at how they have evolved with us through the years.1878 Thomas Doolittle reportedly created what could be considered the first payphone by placing a telephone in Bridgeport and another in BlackRock, Connecticut in wooden booths and connecting...

By Rachel Kwek. Take a trip down memory lane as we recall these communication must-haves of yesteryear The Pager: These personal radio devices allow users to receive messages broadcast on a specific telephone number and frequency over a special network of radio base stations. Every pager is assigned a specific phone number and...

Philippines Text and Photos Steve De Neef Inside a small family hut, everyone is chatting about the latest community gossip as their hands intuitively work away. Seaweed is being cut off a line by an elderly lady, and then tossed to her granddaughter, the younger girl re-cutting it to palm-size pieces and handing it to...

By Steve McCurry/Magnum Photos For the rest of this article (Asian Geographic No.122 Issue 6 /2016 ) and other stories, check out our past issues here or download a digital copy here

Photos Jürgen Freund, with Stella Chiu-Freund A world of fascination. From Borneo to the Solomon Islands, Indonesia to the Philippines and Australia, we enter a magic world, where the sounds of the forests come to life in charming fashion, displaying an array of colours and a diversity of behaviours that have been an inspiration to authors,...