i just love it that they made like 20.000 of these and when one turned out to be correct it's just so correct it makes you resonate with a random dead guy from a hundred years ago
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I always love small misconceptions about technology that didn’t exist yet. In this case: no chance of silencing or turning off the device. Cracks me up!
No concept of voicemail.
If there were answering services, they were for rich people of just called secretaries.
I was honestly ready to whine about the timing and this not making sense.. but no, turns out my timeline, despite being based on books that were supposed to be well-researched, was way off. And indeed the first chatter about mobile phones was around 1908. Til.
Have some Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones
Reminder that Socrates was said to have hated books because they corrupted the youth, weakening students’ faculties by removing the need to memorise information.
Every single generation since records have existed thought the new tech was ruining us.
Now get off my fucking lawn.
Ah but new tech always has been ruining us
Those damn kids and their newfangled pointy rocks. Back in my day, if you needed your rock to do more damage, you just got a bigger one!
Wait did Socrates really say that?
God he'd absolutely hate me. I can't memorize anything, but I can seemingly learn everything
We also have a lot more knowledge than we used to. Socrates didn't have to remember about molecular metabolization pathways or the energy transition of a turbium atom, or what the arbitrary name has been given to a medium coffee at Starbucks.
Could socrates predict invention of encyclopedia?
Ancient philosphy vs some madlad going "Ah yes today I will write down EVERYTHING."
Except this is young fashionable people whinging about old people have the ringer setting on...
And that was young, fashionable people whinging about having to memorise things that weren’t written down.
While the concert and wedding are events where you should turn off your ringer, it's certainly true that phones can ring at inconvenient times. A big enough problem to outweigh the benefit of being able to check in, find people, call for help, etc. from nearly anywhere? Absolutely not, but it's still a pretty accurate prediction.
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Completely unrealistic, nobody will keep there ringer on
It's weird but at one point in the last 10 years, society just decided that everyone uses vibrate now.
Not boomers, they love the constant dings and obnoxious ringtones to be as loud as possible.
don't forget the type sounds
...and the call back ring tones. For about 5 years i hated calling one person in particular because id have to listen to Hey, Soul Sister every..fricken....time.
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Let’s be honest with this one. Most are probably just too lazy or inept feeling to figure out how to turn them off for themselves. The phone companies seem to have their software install with max volume and haptics turned on by default.
I'm not a boomer but do love when my wife calls and everyone gets to hear the ever-classic 'Helo Moto' ringtone.
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We decided that ringtone were bullshit exactly when we had the option to have any sound imaginable for free.
that works great if you keep your phone in your pocket. if you don't...
Women in my experience point blank refused to keep their phones in their pocket and instead put it in the purse along with everything else so whenever it rings (assuming they even hear it in there) it's always a mad dash to get it out before the person on the other end dies of old age.
I’ll apologize first: Sorry, kind internet stranger, you walked right in one of my pet peeves. (Now I feel morally justified in starting my rant with a level of emotional involvement that is totally and admittedly unjustified)
WOMEN’S POCKETS ARE A F****ING JOKE! Have you ever tried putting anything more that the glimmering sparkle of a summer night in a woman pants pocket? It either falls right off or tries to stab the kidney once the poor girl sits down. Usually both.
Because pants need to be stupidly skinny and form fitting, not made for comfort or for carrying anything!
My toddler’s pockets (2 years old) are bigger than mine!
/end rant, feel free to ring me up for extra rants on the subject
Yeah I was gonna say "what women have pockets"
I feel like i've become highly attuned to the sound of a phone and can hear it anywhere in a room. The disadvantage is of course a lingering stress whenever i get confused with a similar sound or someone elses phone
old.people... always old people. The same people that would fucking call someone. I'm 43 yo and I nor anyone I know call anyone of it's not an emergency
I'm also 43, and I and many of my friends call each other all the time
33 and I've started calling people. It's nice to just chat with friends and family
I'm 30, same. It's also much faster to arrange something.
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And if they do call and it's an emergency they'll leave a message anyway
They'll call twice.
Calling me twice in a row without good reason guarantees war, because I assume you're literally dying.
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There’s an Everett True energy about this
All that's missing is him just straight up punching the guy into next week.
I've never heard of that guy. Mind to enlighten me?
The star of some old comics, characterized by being a violent choleric who deals with annoying people. Check out !truecomics@midwest.social.
Thank you!
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This assumes you are popular enough to be bothered with
My (potential) marriage is safe!
No, wait...
Scammers have enteted the ~~chat~~ call log
Petition to bring back calling babies "mites"
I still call one of my kids my little "wiggle worm", from when she hadn't even crawled yet. I'd sing her this old-timey lullaby:
🎵 I am a world before I am a man
I was a creature before I could stand
I will remember before I forget
Before I forget that 🎵
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I haven't been able to find this again, but there's a short film that was made in England in 1946 that perfectly nailed how cell phones were going to work. There was even a man in a grocery store calling his wife at home to find out what ingredient he needed to pick up. The only difference was scale: the man was using a walkie-talkie, which despite the movie images of an officer using a device about 1'x4"x4", in fact also required a ginormous and heavy backpack thing lugged around by some misbegotten private.
BTW a fun fact: the word "ginormous" (a portmanteau word combining "gigantic" and "enormous") dates to WWII or earlier. I'd always assumed it was valley-girl speak until I encountered it in a Battle of Britain memoir written by a pilot who was killed in 1942.
The only difference was scale: the man was using a walkie-talkie,
Featuring the svelte and portable Motorolla cellular model from 1988:
Which is an improvement from this beast:
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