Hm, just a moment, I’ll put my telephone handset into the acoustic coupler real quick so I can post my contact on the bbs
Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.
Submitted 1 year ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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neonred@lemmy.world 1 year ago
c10l@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Careful you might get hacked
AnonWyo@startrek.website 1 year ago
Would you like to play a game?
768@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=usWfJ0EJLB0&t=949
It’s a personal portable transportable cellular telephone.
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Yeess, Kung Fury!
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My Nephew: “What’s a fax machine?”
Me: “A landline network of low quality printers people used to use to do invoices and file for divorce.”
My Nephew: “Landline?”
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
So my oldest kid was grounded from her iPhone one time. Feeling generous one evening, I told her she could use the desk phone in my office to call friends on. It’s an old school red landline with no frills. Just buttons to dial the number and an actual bell that rings. The kind that’s only an upgrade from a rotary disl. It’s mostly for emergencies and never gets used.
Anyway, she sits down at the desk, stares at the phone, and is like, “Ok. What do I do?” It took me a second to realize she was asking how to make a phone call. I told her to pick up the handset and dial the phone number. The whole time she’s just shooting me looks like she doesn’t believe this is actually going to work.
v81@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sounds like she’s rarely out never noticed you use it either… Which makes it interesting both because of the uncommon UI and workflow, and she has not had regular observations to learn from.
For those of us that have operated both it’s a non issue.
But think of how you’d go about it with zero knowledge. I bet most would try dialling the number without lifting the receiver.
Octopus1348@lemy.lol 1 year ago
Is she used to contacts and doesn’t know how to dial a phone number even on a smartphone? Or just unsure because it works a little different.
cleek@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And the name of the kid: Albert Einstein
MxM111@kbin.social 1 year ago
Do young people not using phone numbers for this today??? Those pre-date e-mails for many, many years…
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
The communication dynamics of kids are weird. Weirder than I remember anyway. My teenager knows other kids who literally will not talk to you if you’re not on Snapchat or Instagram. For whatever reason they simply refuse to text.
My kid spends an absurd amount of time taking pictures of half her face to send snaps with.
I think if you don’t want to text or call me, then you don’t want to talk to me that bad.
LemmysMum@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Communication has become reactive instead of proactive.
DagonPie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ive chatted with people before who exclusively talked on snapchat even after getting their number. Its strange to me. Ive since deleted snapchat and have texted a couple of these people with no response. Im getting too old.
KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No they use Instagram.
GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But Instagram is so much less efficient than just texting.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s just funny because people who prefer to communicate through email seem more geriatric than people who prefer to communicate by phone
rambaroo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For real this just makes the 23 year old seem inept. I don’t get this meme
user1234@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Can I get your ICQ number?
AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Still remember mine but no way to get back in.
Although I guess it does t matter at all anymore.
lugal@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s down and there is/was a new ICQ that works with your phone number. Your ICQ number is worthless and, yes, I too remember mine
Threeme2189@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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I can’t log in though…
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Which one tho? AOL or Hotmail?
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I still have an aol and hotmail address. I use them for trash website and services that i dont want to give my main email address to. I wouldnt dare open my aol inbox. I might get covid or something.
Kalkaline@leminal.space 1 year ago
Prodigy.
frunch@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Still remember my login id! Lol
yamanii@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Still use hotmail to this day, mainly to register in games and such, gmail for more important stuff and proton for banks.
rosymind@leminal.space 1 year ago
Yeah, my hotmail account is my junk mail collector. Whenever something requires an email addy, that’s what I write down.
Wild world that we live in. I have a junk phone number, too
Poiar@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I have two Gmail accounts. One for important stuff, that should send me notifications,and one for all the other things - though I do unsubscribe from junk most times.
People I know who still use Hotmail get an insane amount of phishing emails. It’s actually scary. Gmail does its job.
Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Tuta
unreachable@lemmy.world 1 year ago
myspacefriendster want you back onlineSteak@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Lol
GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How old is this tweet though
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Less than 2 years old, 2022 april, here is the OG tweet: twitter.com/Ciara_BK/status/1515504916600606720
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
so ancient, then
sawdustprophet@midwest.social 1 year ago
The account has this tweet pinned, posted April 2022.
twitter.com/Ciara_BK/status/1515504916600606720?t…
simin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
dont let this forum become repost
wren@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
April of 2022