In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS

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• PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There are motherfuckers out there now with NO idea what it was like potentially having to talk with a girl’s parents first, any time you wanted to call her

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  • Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Me: “Hi, is Sarah there?” Her mum, voice away from the phone: “Oh, Sarah. Its a boy for you. Is this your new boyfriend?” Sarah in the back ground: “Mum, stop. I’ll take it up stairs.” Her dad: “Hello, who is this?” Me: "Eh, hello. This is Benny. Im phoning for Sarah. Her Dad: "What you phoning her for? Me: "Eh… Sarah in the nick of time: “DAD!!! HANG UP THE PHONE!!!”

    Or after going out for a few weeks/months

    Me: “Hi, Its Benny. Its Sarah there?” Her Dad: “Hold on.” Her Dad in the background with zero attempt to cover the mouth piece: “Sarah, that wee pricks on the phone for you again.” lol

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  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My voice was high pitched enough that I got confused for a girl on the phone a lot. It helped in that scenario lol.

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  • evening_push579@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I remember when I called my then girl friend back in the days and possibly had to talk to her mom, dad, older brother or younger sister first 😬

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    • PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Haha yep. The whole family was involved. I don’t even think it’s necessarily a bad thing, it’s definitely not comfortable but as long as you don’t have bad intent, it’s probably better that everyone has some kind of tabs on what’s going on, and you have to face up to justifying to them why and how you’re hanging out with their daughter.

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• LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s buffer for security codes.

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  • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s trying to remember which end number I’m up to for this password.

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    • smh@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The trick is to not use numbers. Use a tchotchke placed in a prominent place on your desk. My password changes frequently. The previous tchotchke was a goat pin, then a cactus figurine, then a binder clip. I just need to picture my desk and I know what the thing is.

      And my desk is so cluttered it’s not clear what the special object is. (You know what they say: cluttered desk, cluttered mind. Empty desk…)

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  • Funky_Beak@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I use mine for ip addresses

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  40% of the time this:

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  • siha@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    VLCkeleton

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  • otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    doot doot mr skeltal ☠️🎺

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• realitista@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It still has the ones I put in there 40 years ago.

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  • JaymesRS@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yep. Apparently I stuck those in some sort of super resilient long term storage.

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• shaggyb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For me it’s remembering those same phone numbers from 35 years ago.

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• shiroininja@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Depression

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• Wolf314159@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It used to remember passwords, it briefly got a gig memorizing drink orders, now it mostly focuses remembering project numbers and does a little 2FA code work on the side.

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• taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Probably passwords. Though the brain is what we call plastic, as in it can take any on lots of roles and those exact neurons could do any number of things… or, you know, nothing at all.

  Not too dissimilar from a file system that’s lost it’s index but probably still has some 1s and 0s, which is true of most of your lost memories, probably.

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• ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I still remember the phone numbers for my friend’s house from 1st - 5th grade and my ex from high school’s home and cell number.

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• MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Probably keeping track of people’s genders and preferred pronouns.

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• zxqwas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Remembering what password and username goes where.

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• Liome@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It still stores phone numbers… from 20 years ago.
  I still remember a phone number to my childhood friend I didn’t talk to for over a decade.

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• caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Depression is like a goldfish. It expands to fit the space it has.

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  • michaelalf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m going to quote this to my psychiatrist when he asks me how I’ve been.

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• Seaguy05@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pokemon cards, traffic hours, busy streets, school hours, garbage day.

  Then there’s; monthly rates for subscriptions, utility costs, insurance, and housing bill dates.

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• Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I‘m 31 years old. Never had to remember a single phone number besides my own.

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  • starchylemming@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    this is for the folks 32 and up. begone kiddo!

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    • Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Look at my knees and and my back and say that one more time, old-timer!

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  • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How did that work? Were you that one kid who had a mobile, did you have them written down on a piece of paper, did you not go out by yourself, or did it not occur to anyone that you might need to call home (or even emergency services) in an emergency? Sorry this sounds so rude, I don’t mean to be, I’m just having a hard time imagining this.

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    • Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Emergency services - yes, but those used to be 3 three digit numbers. 122 fire fighters because the 2s form a hose, 133 the police because the 3s look like handcuffs and 144 the ambulance because the 4s look like seats.

      Yes I did go out by myself but what was a reason to call my parents? Back then there were 8 houses, a soccer and asphalt field and some woods in my part of the village.

      By 10 when I got the biking license I got an old phone as a hand-me-down, but that was the case of pretty much everyone.

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• Sideshow_B00b@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Something absolutely useless like names of bands and songs from the 80’s and 90’s that i vehemently hated or names of obscure porn stars from 70’s to 90’s

  Poor brain, I’m so sorry for you. You deserved better.

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• CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Slowly being overwritten with memes and film quotes

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• TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Worry about the world

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s still storing my old landline home phone number.

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• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have a pretty long password for my harddrive.

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