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TrueStoryBob ,

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 ,

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.

Octopus1348 ,
@Octopus1348@lemy.lol avatar

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.

Plopp ,

What’s a phone number?

Thteven ,
@Thteven@lemmy.world avatar

All I get is ads and scam calls, might as well disable the phone app at this point.

v81 ,

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.

cleek ,

And the name of the kid: Albert Einstein

neonred ,

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

768 ,

www.youtube.com/watch?v=usWfJ0EJLB0&t=949

It’s a personal portable transportable cellular telephone.

Anarki_ ,

Yeess, Kung Fury!

c10l ,

Careful you might get hacked

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3yUSRom2CM

AnonWyo ,

Would you like to play a game?

selokichtli ,

Haha, this should have worked ten years ago.

AgentGrimstone ,

Which one tho? AOL or Hotmail?

Kalkaline ,
@Kalkaline@leminal.space avatar

Prodigy.

frunch ,

Still remember my login id! Lol

Mr_Dr_Oink ,

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.

yamanii ,
@yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

Still use hotmail to this day, mainly to register in games and such, gmail for more important stuff and proton for banks.

rosymind ,

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 ,

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.

People I know who still use Hotmail get an insane amount of phishing emails. It’s actually scary. Gmail does its job.

Chakravanti ,

Tuta

user1234 ,

Can I get your ICQ number?

MacNCheezus ,
@MacNCheezus@lemmy.today avatar

Lemme hit you on that pager

felixwhynot ,
@felixwhynot@lemmy.world avatar

Hit me on my beepah

AtariDump ,

Still remember mine but no way to get back in.

Although I guess it does t matter at all anymore.

lugal ,

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

fury ,

How many digits?

lugal ,

9, you?

fury ,

I had an 8 digit, lost the password, had to sign up again and got a 9 digit number that time. Felt weird.

user1234 ,

I had two, both 8 digits. Still remember them both. Seems like I was able to sign on with them until a few months ago, but it may have been a few years ago.

user1234 ,

Was actually able to log in with one of my old accounts today. Found an app called Mandarin IM on F-Droid that worked with it.

grendel ,
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    user1234 ,

    Yep, Mandarin. Has a little orange slice as its icon.

    grendel ,
    @grendel@lemmy.world avatar

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    user1234 ,

    Quite possible. Doesn’t appear to be of Mandarin Chinese origin, which is often why apps use it in the name.

    AtariDump ,

    7 digits

    preppietechie ,
    @preppietechie@midwest.social avatar

    7 digits represent.

    Threeme2189 ,

    177454023

    I can’t log in though…

    Steak ,

    Lol

    JoMiran ,
    @JoMiran@lemmy.ml avatar

    OK, but did they smash though?

    variants ,

    That subscribe button probably

    MxM111 ,

    Do young people not using phone numbers for this today??? Those pre-date e-mails for many, many years…

    KISSmyOS ,

    No they use Instagram.

    SpaceNoodle ,

    Gross

    BeMoreCareful ,

    Or Snapchat, or some other young people thing

    SeekPie ,

    MySpace?

    Slovene ,

    Geocities?

    WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

    IRC

    Stimulant7261 ,

    NNTP

    rambling_lunatic ,

    talk(1)

    Stimulant7261 ,

    RTTY; baby, what frequency can I find you on?

    KISSmyOS ,

    Usenet

    CluelessDude ,

    Hi5

    GuyDudeman ,
    @GuyDudeman@lemmy.world avatar

    But Instagram is so much less efficient than just texting.

    KISSmyOS ,

    Is it? It allows both to check out each other out a bit before committing to a date.

    GuyDudeman ,
    @GuyDudeman@lemmy.world avatar

    ??? Who said anything about dating?

    jubilationtcornpone ,

    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 ,

    Communication has become reactive instead of proactive.

    jubilationtcornpone ,

    I’ve never heard it put that way before but I think you might be on to something.

    CoolBeance ,
    @CoolBeance@lemmy.world avatar

    Holy shit you’re right. I feel like I just grew a brain cell

    DagonPie ,
    @DagonPie@lemmy.world avatar

    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.

    LemmyKnowsBest ,

    It’s just funny because people who prefer to communicate through email seem more geriatric than people who prefer to communicate by phone

    rambaroo ,

    For real this just makes the 23 year old seem inept. I don’t get this meme

    herrherrmann ,

    “Why don’t you send it over on a dinosaur?”

    WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

    GrammatonCleric ,
    @GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world avatar

    How old is this tweet though

    AlexWIWA ,

    At least three years. I saw it during the covid quarantine

    idegenszavak ,

    No, it’s from 2022 april: twitter.com/Ciara_BK/status/1515504916600606720

    But some places still had quarantine at that time.

    AlexWIWA ,

    Sorry, you’re right. 2020 did a number on my perception of time. God damn

    sawdustprophet ,
    @sawdustprophet@midwest.social avatar

    How old is this tweet though

    The account has this tweet pinned, posted April 2022.

    twitter.com/Ciara_BK/status/1515504916600606720?t…

    snowfalldreamland ,

    The tweet in the picture is from April 17 2022. so as of today it is. 1 year 8 months 5 days old.

    twitter.com/Ciara_BK/status/1515504916600606720

    Of course i cannot say whether this is thefirst time this joke was made.

    Slovene ,

    Or, for Americans: 8 months 5 days 1 year old.

    TotallynotJessica ,
    @TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world avatar

    I don’t think it’s just Americans that put the year at the end.

    Slovene ,

    Woosh?

    driving_crooner ,
    @driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br avatar

    What about ISO-8601?

    idegenszavak ,

    Less than 2 years old, 2022 april, here is the OG tweet: twitter.com/Ciara_BK/status/1515504916600606720

    simin ,

    dont let this forum become repost

    unreachable ,
    @unreachable@lemmy.world avatar

    myspacefriendster want you back online

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