Why Japan's internet is weirdly designed

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• leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Same reason fax is still a thing you need if you want to do anything official or business related, why PC-98 was a thing, why their smartphones are weird, why they invented the term Galapagos syndrome, or why they use laptops that still have compact disk drives and look like this:

  No, really, this is a 2025 model.

  Japan innovates early. They innovate fast. And then they sort of… stop.

  Technology in Japan looks futuristic for a while, then the rest of the world catches up, but, since Japan has already been there for a decade and made different decisions their technology looks… odd, and then the world carries on, while Japan seems stuck in some kind of retrofuturistic limbo.

  Of course this is happening with different innovations at different times and paces, so from an outside perspective Japan is always a weird combination of futuristic, weird old alternate future, and just plain weird.

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  • favoredponcho@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yea, visiting Japan does feel like they are stuck in a retro vision of the future where everything by was going to be driven by buttons. There are buttons everywhere, including at your table in a restaurant and on every toilet too. The toilets even have heated seats, bidets, and play music, all driven by buttons. They also have vending machines everywhere, which are covered in buttons. Ordering ramen at a restaurant? Make sure you tap all the buttons at the machine in the front to make your order.

    They still haven’t quite adopted the touch screen fully.

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    • Sidhean@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Absolutely based. Fuck touchscreens; bring back physical controls.

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    • RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Good. Touch screens are evil.

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    • Oberyn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The toilets even have heated seats, bidets, and play music

      Man, I wish my toilet would play the loudest harsh noise music possible so don’t hafta hear my self taking a shit

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    • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because touch screens aren’t always ideal. Japan is just one generation ahead again

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  • rafoix@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    they’re stuck in their version of the Geocities / dot-com boom era

    That’s before everything became total shit.

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• Dionysus@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not weird, information dense.

  To think the average American who can barely explain the politics they support without having the talking points repeated to them night after night could pay attention to something that makes them think is a bold take.

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  • dil@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    japan dickriding is weird, they are plenty behind in their own ways, xenophobic af, idc if it’s drawn there is no need for all the pedo content/merch they produce, mfs got pantie vending machines, they aren’t advanced intellectuals by default

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• harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Livin’ in the 2000s since the 1980s, baby!

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