I bought myself a surplus pay phone to make sure I could always exit the Matrix. They aren't that expensive these days! Buy they are a bit of a PITA to get working.
I owned a computer store for a few years... I'd also owned several vending machines for several years before that including one that I operated in the aforementioned computer store.
It seemed like a great idea to me that I should buy a payphone and hook it up in or just outside of the computer store .. I never actually did it though ..
It was also a terrible fucking idea... I really thought it could work though.
The Matrix was designed around a specific period of time. I imagine the machines just deleted most references to new technology being invented and kept it at turn of the millennium.
"Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization."
"Suffering and misery? So why not design it around the 2010-2020s?"
"That was also tried, but was similarly rejected for having too much suffering and misery. Nobody believed it was real."
26 Comments
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 2y
I bought myself a surplus pay phone to make sure I could always exit the Matrix. They aren't that expensive these days! Buy they are a bit of a PITA to get working.
nezbyte@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2y
I’ve thought about installing one as well after reading this: https://bert.org/2022/06/02/payphone/
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website · 6 pts · 2y
Do you have it hooked up at home?
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
Affirmative
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com · 2 pts · 2y
Alternative.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 2y
Doesn't have to be a pay phone. It just has to be corded
superduperenigma@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
What if I plug a charger into my phone? Or does it need to be connected to a RJ11 phone line?
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 2y
I'm pretty sure it has to be a corded landline by canon
jaybone@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I thought they just made printers.
mkwt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
This is especially bad because there are now many countries that ended up never really building out a POTS landline network.
At some point the United States is going to decide to just stop maintaining theirs.
MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 2y
Cinema peaked in 1999
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website · 13 pts · 2y
Civilization peaked in 1999
SchizoDenji@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
US Pop culture peaked in 1999-2001. Peak box office attendance and peak TV viewership occurred around that time.
TheBat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Cort@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Meesa disagree with yousaah
scottywh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Jar Jar deserved better 😁
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 2y
One guy one jar jar?
joolez@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 2y
Yup, clearly made before Resurrections.
DarkenLM@kbin.social · 5 pts · 2y
There was never a fourth Matrix movie.
Mudkipology@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
What color pill do I take to forget that movie exists?
jaybone@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
The bleach colored one.
Okalaydokalay@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 2y
GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
My smartphone is a pay phone because I pay to use it ☺️
jelloeater85@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
This is wonderful on so many levels...
scottywh@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
I owned a computer store for a few years... I'd also owned several vending machines for several years before that including one that I operated in the aforementioned computer store.
It seemed like a great idea to me that I should buy a payphone and hook it up in or just outside of the computer store .. I never actually did it though ..
It was also a terrible fucking idea... I really thought it could work though.
Neato@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y
The Matrix was designed around a specific period of time. I imagine the machines just deleted most references to new technology being invented and kept it at turn of the millennium.
samus12345@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
"Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization."
"Suffering and misery? So why not design it around the 2010-2020s?"
"That was also tried, but was similarly rejected for having too much suffering and misery. Nobody believed it was real."
Anticorp@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
I certainly don't believe it.