Comment on It still blows my mind how ubiquitous communication is now. I just had someone message me instantly from a ship in the Mediterranean, while I'm on a flight in the US.

• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It wouldn’t have been rare at all because it wasn’t rare.

    Yes, you wouldn’t be video chatting (and still shouldn’t be… it is a plane for crying out loud). But emails were 100% a thing and I had plenty of gchat conversations with colleagues that included the phrase “We are about to land, Ill get back to you when I am at my hotel”.

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    • borf@lemmynsfw.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah people are talking like 2016 was 2006.

      Like remember how much better Skype was in 2012 than any of the crap we have now?

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      • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Xfire’s corpse in the corner: …

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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Ventrilo was cool too

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