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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 🎵
Does she always hold her breath and listen?
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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I momentarily (mis)read the cartoon's title as something like "When we all have pocket teleporters" and thought the first frame was some kind of use case for a 19th/20th century sci-fi pocket teleporter, where said device was activated allowing the person to run faster while chasing the train.
My eyes followed to the second frame and only then I realized the cartoon was about pocket telephones, not pocket teleporters, beeping while being inside the pocket.
A beeping pocket teleporter would be equally annoying, though: "No, I'm not interested in a monthly subscription fee of 42 bars of gold for faster and farther teleporting needs, shut up with your ads, Thomas Edison's Magic Porter Apparatus"
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
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.
I don't think this is the point of the comic, but rather make some humorous speculation of a tech future.
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.
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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
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.
...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.
I would never call that person
I don't get that at all. I assume it's partly some ADHD or autism or what do i know. I had a girlfriend who would unbuckle her seatbelt 5min before we arrived and the car would just beep louder and louder and whatever. It drove me insane. I know it's just a minor thing, but i never understood how you couldn't be bothered with that. Especially because it's very easy to not do that. I never got used to it, when she did it when i was driving, i would just stop and wait until she buckled up again.
I'm not a boomer but do love when my wife calls and everyone gets to hear the ever-classic 'Helo Moto' ringtone.
When i was around 14, around the nokia 3210 times, we all made our own ringtones.we would download cheat sheets of music we liked and put it in and suddenly: friends theme song. One of my friend made a voice recording where he sang: "Telephone... Pick up. Telephone... Pick up". Even now this is the funniest ringtone i have ever heard, and i had it as my own ringtone until my phone died. Even now when i hear a phone i can only think: telephone.... Pick up!
My dad's ringtone is a motorcycle engine revving at max volume, and he never silences it. He also just lets it ring when he doesn't want to answer.
We decided that ringtone were bullshit exactly when we had the option to have any sound imaginable for free.
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