Damn. I'm old.
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Never thought that would be the indicator eh Derek?
I guess not 𤣠I guess technically all phones have this to some extent today, but we can manually enter the name of we want.
I thought about using T9 typing as a password figuring the youth would never understand
This is actually an interesting idea.
My opsec for anyone watching me type is that I use a Dvorak key layout!
I wonder how many Nostriches even get this joke or have even seen one of these keyboards.
when i bought my split ergo keyboard i messed around with diff layouts.
is dvorak the coding focused one?
No, it makes it a little bit harder for typing some things on the command line and the Copy, Paste commands are wonky unless you remap them.
I use it because it made my hands less tired after typing a lot. I switched interchangeably between qwerty and Dvorak. My username, aoeu, comes from the first part of the home keys.
A few years back I had borrowed a laptop from someone and started typing. It was a similar kind of laptop to my own. He said, âoh wait, let me change the keyboard layout for you.â Turns out it was already in Dvorak and I didnât realize anything was different.
We were both surprised! First time in real life I had seen another person using it.
okay this man is a psycho
yeah but when you see "777 88 2222 44 888 66 3 222" i would think if you are aware of T9 youd instantly jump to that.
idk tho just a thought
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Do you remember when you could call a phone number and they would tell you what time it was so you could set your clocks?
YES! It wasn't 411 was it?
411 was information - like the directory if you didnât have a phone book. There was even a separate number that you dialed to get just the time and it would say âat the tone the time will beâŚâ and it started giving a weather forecast too at some point.
You're right. I remember using 411 to get phone numbers for businesses. Later Google released GOOG-411. I forget which product was born from all of that initial data harvesting đ¤Ł
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Imagine if you will, a world where thereâs only one phone line for the WHOLE HOUSE. Only one person can be on a call OR using the Internet, but never both.
Everyoneâs name, phone number and address is published FOR FREE and shipped in a book to everyoneâs door. Thereâs no term for âdoxxedâ because everyone is always doxxed all the time.
When you get a call, it could be from anyone and to anyone in the house. The only way to find out whoâs calling is to PICK UP THE PHONE AND TALK TO THEM.
CAN YOU IMAGINE, ANON? YOU HAVE TO TALK TO THE STRANGER TO FIND OUT IF YOU EVEN WANT TO TALK TO THEM.
Ahh yes the good ol days
This is the same far-flung world where, if you want something, you leave the house and have a choice of stores from which to buy it.
You cannot sit on the couch and move your fingers around to look at a picture of it on a screen, then pay for it with numbers and wait for it to show up at your door at some point, or not.
If you donât like the item you purchased, you simply go back to the store and return it. You donât call an 800 number and have a long conversation with a robot that tells you that you cannot mail it back.
No shit! Per Southern etiquette- as a young boy, I was taught to answer the phone, âhi, this is FirstName LastName, how can I help youâŚâ
Only risk was some other rando teen calling pranks⌠as far as we knew.
Or have your dad answer and then your friends have to talk to your dad while you run as fast as you can to the phone to end the agony? Just me?
You people are fkn weird. I'm quite young. I still do most of this. I rarely get spam calls, still regularly answer my phone when random numbers call. Often times it's really nice people with the wrong number. I have a desk phone using an ata to my VOIP system. I enjoy talking to people. Most of my time spend on my last job was spent on the phone with customers. I still have to dial my carrier to listen to my voicemails.
Some of you went too far and it shows.
I don't answer the phone for random numbers. They get the Google Assistant. 99.99% of the time it's spammers.
No body likes you when your 23
When you called a girl you liked you would have to talk to her dad, brother, sister, mom and her friend that was over in order to get to chat for a while. Had to have your game on point.
Yes!
Then you would follow up the next morning with a hand written note folded up in secret teenage oragami and delivered to her in a privacy preserving underground of trusted classmates who would return her response to you before lunch time in order to orchestrate a meet up.
I told an exs sister âi loved herâ cause i didnât ask for my girlfriend lol
âSwipingâ wasnât the ultimate turn-down back then. You had to be a nice person IRL because more people knew you.
Gradually, then Suddenly đ¤Ł