When we kids there would always be someone who would rush home to look stuff up on the encyclopedia and get back with the results
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TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 7 months agoNot even 20 years ago smart phones and the internet weren’t ubiquitous. I’m only 35 but even I remember personal stories about bar disagreements where we just simply couldn’t use our phones to search the net. Because all they were capable of is dialing a number and Snake.
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 7 months ago
TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I’m around the same age and I’m pretty sure we had Google on our phones by the time we could drink. That was the in between time where they still had buttons, but they had browsers and colorful screens. First iPhone released in 07. We were pretty much the first ones to have ‘smartish’ phones, though, and some people definitely still had snake bricks.
tryptaminev@feddit.de 7 months ago
In many European countries the drinking age is 18 and in some the drinking age for beer and wine is 16. So we could be talking about as early as 2004.
froh42@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I was legally allowed to drink beer in 1986. I had my first mobile phone in 1997 or so.
Yeah, fuck, I’m old.
TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Exactly. Our legal drinking age is 18, but we were binge drinking every Friday from the age of 15. Not one bartender gives a shit here. At least back in the day. That’s 2003-2004.
Dutczar@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
I read that as “capable of dialing Snake”…
Snake? Snake! SNAAAAAKE! DO HUMMINGBIRDS HAVE FEET?
uid0gid0@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Way back in the 1950 some guy had the same observation you did. He came up with an idea for a book that would solve disputes over trivia by bar patrons. 70 years later the Guinness Book of World Records has over 22,000 entries in their database.
Arielcorn@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Wow. That guy sure was serious about bird trivia!