Comment on Just found an interesting quote from buffy the vampire slayer for our technodystopia.
HubertManne@piefed.social 5 days agoThere is a noticable difference in electronic communication. Before the internet there were plenty of people that hated being on the phone instead of face to face. Something is lost with each loss of the physical experience. From in person to voice to text. Granted video calls actually are a bit of an improvment to a phone call as far as human connection goes.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 days ago
I’m sure people made the same arguments against writing letters and the telegraph.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Only 80 years ago, maths profs literally picketed calculators being allowed in schools. 🤓
HubertManne@piefed.social 5 days ago
true but I think they had a point then. especially given the limits of the telegraph. thats like email and the original text message in some ways.
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 5 days ago
What do you mean original text message?
Dasus@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Probably referring to SMS protocol, 160 7-bit characters.
In a few years the newer phones automatically started just telling you how many messages long your message was.
You’d end up shortening things sort of like a telegram.noSpacesSomeTimesToSaveChars etc. but it’s own style. txting it was called, because “txtMe” is a lot shorter than “text me back, please”.
And they weren’t free so you’d pay by the SMS.
And when you were txting your crush and heard the Nokia sms… and then another, you’d know there was a longer message. Or having a row with them, in which case it wasn’t necessarily a good thing.
And sometimes you’d run out of room on your phone (because the memory only supported like 48 messaged or smth), you’d get a message, start reading it, then it’d say “cont”, but your message memory full icon is flashing (same as got a message, but flashing instead of just the letter icon).
Idk what the argument is but that’s what “original text message” means to me.