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Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name] to technology@hexbear.netEnglish • 2 years ago

The "pre-internet" times

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The "pre-internet" times

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Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name] to technology@hexbear.netEnglish • 2 years ago
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https://www.axios.com/2024/01/05/pre-internet-pay-phones-digital-online-cellphones-vintage-nostalgia

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    51•2 years ago

    seriously, I would bring a book wherever I went. these people are intellectual voids

    • Wertheimer [any]
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      54•2 years ago

      Earlier in the Axios thing they talk about people watching Friends and Seinfeld to understand the before times. But they’re forgetting Elaine aghast at Puddy for not reading on a plane. “You’re just gonna sit there, staring at the back of the seat?” “Yeah.”

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        deleted by creator

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        24•2 years ago

        ronald

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        21•2 years ago

        Do you want something to read?

    • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      29•2 years ago

      You’d be surprised how little most people actually read books.

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        23•2 years ago

        I feel alone even in a crowded room

    • Southloop [he/him]
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      4•2 years ago

      Books, sketchpads, knitting or some other portable craft, table games like flick football and pocket chess, crystal radios. Plenty to do to pass time. There’s nothing on my phone that’s new.

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