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I vividly remember... I was in the office and one of my coworkers comes up to me with a shit eating grin on his face - like he had something he wanted to share...
He said, "Have you ever heard of Bitcoin?" I said, "No..." He explained (sort of) what he thought it was, but sounded more like an investment opportunity (blah blah blah) less than 10 cents per... I didn't bite.
Lets just say this didn't age well for me, lmao.
When I first read about Bitcoins, my takeaway was it was some kind of credits you could earn by using your unused use CPU cycles, but it wasn't a sure thing, it's a lottery, you have a chance to earn a credit (a "coin") every few minutes, as long as you keep donating your CPU cycles. (This was before gpu mining was a thing). I tried it, and after 3 days I had earned 3 coins, but then I looked into the value, and they were only worth about 10c each. That's less than the electricity it took to earn them. And you couldn't spend them anywhere, except that one pizza place, where it cost a few thousand coins for a pizza. There weren't even any exchanges to convert them to real currency if you wanted to.
I tried to find my coins years later, (when Bitcoins got to USD $2000 each), but I couldn't find the old hard drive the wallet was on.
Hey, I live down the steeet from the best remaining video rental store (Movie Madness in Portland, OR). Have run down to return videos pretty often this year!
"hit me on my two-way"
I borrow movies sometimes from the library, I've used that first one. (Sometimes you want a DVD of a kid's show instead of streaming it)
Also: looking for a phone, any phone in our house has happened.
βSorry, I got to return this videoβ
You say that, although it's pretty close to the recurring joke in American Psycho, so if you're lenient this kind of sentence was said in this comm only days ago. https://lemmy.ml/post/24140732/15784014
"Could you please not use the phone? Gotta dial up to connect to the BBS"
My wife and I had to struggle to remember the word "hook" in the context of "the phone is off the hook".
Wassuuuuuuuupppp!
If you need to get a hold of me, page me 911 first then your number
Ska is forever!
Blackberry and Nokia will always be around.
Hand me my Razor
People who want to shave still say this sometimes.
I'll be back in five moons, we're running out of mammoth meat (translation)
"Sorry. I have to return some video tapes" gets said constantly by American Psycho fans.
Damn, there's a paper jam in the fax machine again
Sadly, fax machines are very much still in use ....
Can you give me directions to your house?
"Disco will never die."
And it never did. *sips beer*
"Can I borrow that VHS?"
20 years ago it would have been DVDs. But even before that, we didn't call them "VHS"es. We called them tapes, or video tapes if we wanted to distinguish from audio tapes.
"Don't call my home phone, I'll be out seeing the new Matrix so you can just page me instead."
Did you see Mozart's new concerto?
Is that available for OS/2 Warp?
"I'll ask Jeeves."
"Phil Hartman guest stars in..."
"What format is that floppy?"
"I bought a Beanie Baby price book."