Simpler times

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23 Comments

Quokka@quokk.au · 50 pts · 29d (4 replies)

I’ll have you know I went in there all the time!

fraksken@infosec.pub · 9 pts · 29d (1 reply)

Me too, but you could quit any time you wanted!

StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 29d

I couldnt

SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 29d

The more time you spend in there, the more you become the computer

naeap@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 29d

I was actually sleeping there...sometimes on the keyboard, when compiling a kernel took to long for young me to stay awake

i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 29d (8 replies)

Same with phones.

PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 29d

They should be nailed to the wall, as is proper. I resent people being able to ring my mp3 player/satnav

Zorque@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 29d (5 replies)

What kind or rich person had an entire room dedicated to the phone?

lauha@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 29d (3 replies)

Our city used to have these small glass rooms with a single phone inside on street corners.

Saapas@piefed.zip · 18 pts · 29d (1 reply)

Oh you mean the see-through urinals?

lauha@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 29d

Yes

Zorque@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 28d

So you'd have to have an income to match an entire city's budget? Definitely for the rich!

lauha@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 29d

Our city used to have these small glass rooms with a single phone inside on street corners.

aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 29d

Remember having to walk to the kitchen to answer the phone?

RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 29d

But it does still live in its own room!

I'm just in there more often now.

Zorque@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 29d

Ignorance is bliss, as they say.

Cnote5@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 29d (2 replies)

I recall when computers occupied entire floors of buildings.

TheEEEdiot@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 29d (1 reply)

Intended with love and respect.

Cnote5@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 29d

Thanks, I needed a good laugh today.

BingBong@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 29d (1 reply)

To be fair, you don't have to buy a laptop or treat it as being mobile.

Zorque@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 29d

Or carry a mobile computer around with you in your pocket.

chtk@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 29d

But I like having my own bed room...

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 29d

No they weren’t.

They were bad in ways we could never remember and better in ways we could not fathom.