No, I didn’t know that cuz don’t know anything about you. (Noticed a repost of yours on nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac's feed.)
I did look you up quick and am certain we definitely know mutual irl people since I have lived on the East Coast.
Yes, land phone lines started as a luxury for the rich initially in the 1800s, but it trickled down to regular people. The Telephone is considered a utility like electricity and heat. And they have programs for low income & poor for discounted access to it.
There are farmers in rural areas who can’t get high speed internet or where mobile phone lines have spotty/dead coverage, but they DO still have a reliable landline.
There are actually a lot of elderly people who don’t use the internet or/and find it difficult to use. And most of them find it very confusing to use. Same for smartphones.
Technology is NOT intuitive for them, like it is for a 10 yr old kid who can figure it out by playing with it.
Tech developers need to be building things that are much more simple and easy to grasp for ALL people if they want it to be used by everyone vs just the SV Tech types.
I’m not a computer geek nor coder, btw, but obvi more tech savvy than the average person.
I’m an artsy person.
