When old people tell you about "the good old days" and how great things used to be

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “This is a collect call from ‘mompracticeisoverpickmeup’ do you accept the charges?”

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    pre-phone era texting

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• irish_link@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Check in every few hours. Call collect with quick allgoodgoingtoJoes. Then parents decline the collect call.

  Reminds me of the commercial, “bobhadababyitsaboy”

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• NerfHerder@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  When I was a kid, this was my time machine, Dude.

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• Lemmist@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  When I was a kid we didn’t need nor wanted “mobile phones”. What for? For parents always be able to shout “Go home!”?

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• dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  good luck playing Minecraft on that

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• Jerb322@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Beepers were all the rage when I was in high school. Beeper goes off, look at the number and decide if you want to call it back. Different codes for different friends. Then scramble to find a payphone if you wanted to call someone back.

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• Little8Lost@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  in my early childhood phones (not smart) where so common that i could ask strangers in the train: can i please call my mom?
  And they gave it to me because i was a child

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Your foster parents are dead.”

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• 4oreman@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  and time machine

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• jimmux@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Around here we still have them, and they provide free wifi. My home is almost close enough to pick up the signal from one in the main street.

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• cogman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Truly some excellent adventures were had in those boxes.

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• BlueLineBae@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Just dial down the middle! C-A-L-L-A-T-T

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• Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They made excellent toilets.

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• shortrounddev@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Straight up though the world peaked in the 2007-2010 in terms of culture. Everything has just gotten significantly worse since then and I feel bad for the zoomers and gen alpha who have to grow up in the 2020s

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• Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Those were the days

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• ColdWater@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Actually It’s a phone but not mobile 🤓

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