Comment on Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike

• cyrano@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ok mum I stopped torrenting. You can use the phone again.

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  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You tell we’re all old as fuck Millennials, because nobody else would make this joke. Lol.

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    • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I can’t even explain dial up modems to my son because I’d have to start by explaining what phone lines are.

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      • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I had a Gen Z person ask me how I got a “3D printer save button” when I had a floppy disk for some reason.

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      • ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Indeed.

        “…you must first invent the universe”.

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      • Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It wasn’t about the lines. It was always about the switches. And while they are no longer actual hardware, but rather software, those are still the what makes phones work.

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    • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I think that’s a big part of why I like lemmy.

      There are plenty of tech-savvy critical thinkers in the younger generations, but the naïveté, tech illiteracy, and lack of critical thinking ability of the average internet commenter / poster is appalling.

      I’ve seen it just get worse and worse.

      The internalized self censorship, the laissez faire attitude towards digital privacy, just pure fucking idiocy.

      Wake me up when September ends.

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      • PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Sorry friend, it is Eternal.

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    • kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I am 26 and this is my childhood too.

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  • curbstickle@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No longer relevant pro tip - an extra pair was typically left at the incoming service, which was used for testing. It worked as a second line and didn’t interupt the main pair, allowing for a functionally free second phone line (that didnt have incoming service).

    Perfect for modem use!

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• dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I had fully forgotten the phrase “you’ll tie up the phone line!” And I just had a nam style flashback of sneaking internet time during the day when my mom was at work, and praying that no one tried to call

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• ooterness@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got… an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially. They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Lies, the internet isn’t tubes, it’s a small box

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