The telegraph, the telephone, and radio were the obvious predecessors of the Internet, iPods, and mobile phones.

电报、电话和无线电显然是互联网、iPods 和移动电话的前身。

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Threatening happens not only face to face but also through the Internet, social media and the telephone.

威胁不仅发生在面对面的时候，而且还会通过互联网、社交媒体和电话产生。

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For example, they watch programs on their own TVs in different rooms, they use the Internet, they talk with friends on the telephone, and they do other things by themselves.

例如，他们在不同的房间里看自己的电视节目，他们使用互联网，他们通过电话和朋友交谈，他们自己做其他的事情。

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But thanks to the fast adoption of instant messaging and Internet-based telephone systems, the days of cheap and easy video calling may finally be here -- they just don't run across phone lines.

FORBES: Video Calling Finally Rings True

Google has struck back with claims that BT has infringed a method to allow PCs to use an internet-based telephone system based on a patent originally filed by Fujitsu.

BBC: BT Tower

In some places, internet and mobile-telephone services have reportedly been cut off.

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