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.

• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Xfire’s corpse in the corner: …

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      • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Holy shit, xfire… That’s a deep cut.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ventrilo was cool too

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      • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA

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