Hm, just a moment, I’ll put my telephone handset into the acoustic coupler real quick so I can post my contact on the bbs
Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.
Submitted 10 months ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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neonred@lemmy.world 10 months ago
c10l@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Careful you might get hacked
AnonWyo@startrek.website 10 months ago
Would you like to play a game?
768@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=usWfJ0EJLB0&t=949
It’s a personal portable transportable cellular telephone.
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Yeess, Kung Fury!
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My Nephew: “What’s a fax machine?”
Me: “A landline network of low quality printers people used to use to do invoices and file for divorce.”
My Nephew: “Landline?”
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
So my oldest kid was grounded from her iPhone one time. Feeling generous one evening, I told her she could use the desk phone in my office to call friends on. It’s an old school red landline with no frills. Just buttons to dial the number and an actual bell that rings. The kind that’s only an upgrade from a rotary disl. It’s mostly for emergencies and never gets used.
Anyway, she sits down at the desk, stares at the phone, and is like, “Ok. What do I do?” It took me a second to realize she was asking how to make a phone call. I told her to pick up the handset and dial the phone number. The whole time she’s just shooting me looks like she doesn’t believe this is actually going to work.
v81@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sounds like she’s rarely out never noticed you use it either… Which makes it interesting both because of the uncommon UI and workflow, and she has not had regular observations to learn from.
For those of us that have operated both it’s a non issue.
But think of how you’d go about it with zero knowledge. I bet most would try dialling the number without lifting the receiver.
Octopus1348@lemy.lol 10 months ago
Is she used to contacts and doesn’t know how to dial a phone number even on a smartphone? Or just unsure because it works a little different.
cleek@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And the name of the kid: Albert Einstein
user1234@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Can I get your ICQ number?
AtariDump@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Still remember mine but no way to get back in.
Although I guess it does t matter at all anymore.
lugal@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s down and there is/was a new ICQ that works with your phone number. Your ICQ number is worthless and, yes, I too remember mine
Threeme2189@lemmy.world 10 months ago
177454023
I can’t log in though…
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Lemme hit you on that pager
felixwhynot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
MxM111@kbin.social 10 months ago
Do young people not using phone numbers for this today??? Those pre-date e-mails for many, many years…
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
The communication dynamics of kids are weird. Weirder than I remember anyway. My teenager knows other kids who literally will not talk to you if you’re not on Snapchat or Instagram. For whatever reason they simply refuse to text.
My kid spends an absurd amount of time taking pictures of half her face to send snaps with.
I think if you don’t want to text or call me, then you don’t want to talk to me that bad.
LemmysMum@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Communication has become reactive instead of proactive.
DagonPie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ive chatted with people before who exclusively talked on snapchat even after getting their number. Its strange to me. Ive since deleted snapchat and have texted a couple of these people with no response. Im getting too old.
KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No they use Instagram.
GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But Instagram is so much less efficient than just texting.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s just funny because people who prefer to communicate through email seem more geriatric than people who prefer to communicate by phone
rambaroo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
For real this just makes the 23 year old seem inept. I don’t get this meme
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Which one tho? AOL or Hotmail?
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I still have an aol and hotmail address. I use them for trash website and services that i dont want to give my main email address to. I wouldnt dare open my aol inbox. I might get covid or something.
Kalkaline@leminal.space 10 months ago
Prodigy.
frunch@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Still remember my login id! Lol
yamanii@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Still use hotmail to this day, mainly to register in games and such, gmail for more important stuff and proton for banks.
rosymind@leminal.space 10 months ago
Yeah, my hotmail account is my junk mail collector. Whenever something requires an email addy, that’s what I write down.
Wild world that we live in. I have a junk phone number, too
Poiar@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I have two Gmail accounts. One for important stuff, that should send me notifications,and one for all the other things - though I do unsubscribe from junk most times.
People I know who still use Hotmail get an insane amount of phishing emails. It’s actually scary. Gmail does its job.
Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Tuta
unreachable@lemmy.world 10 months ago
myspacefriendster want you back onlineSteak@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Lol
GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How old is this tweet though
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Less than 2 years old, 2022 april, here is the OG tweet: twitter.com/Ciara_BK/status/1515504916600606720
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
so ancient, then
sawdustprophet@midwest.social 10 months ago
The account has this tweet pinned, posted April 2022.
twitter.com/Ciara_BK/status/1515504916600606720?t…
simin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
dont let this forum become repost
wren@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
April of 2022