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1. Mike Stone :zorin: :manjaro: (mike@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 03-Feb-2022 23:05:23 UTC Mike Stone :zorin: :manjaro:

   My wife and I just had to explain to my teen how phones at one point needed to be plugged into a wall. Oh, and Netflix used to actually mail you a disc that you'd watch in a special player and then mail back.

   I feel SUPER old right now.

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   • Mike Stone :zorin: :manjaro: (mike@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 03-Feb-2022 23:05:45 UTC Mike Stone :zorin: :manjaro:

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     • Devin Prater

     @devinprater Heh, a DVD player IS a special player for today's teens. When he watches Netflix, he usually starts a movie on the bus ride home, and when he gets home he just hits stop, turns on the TV, opens the Netflix app, and starts the movie right where he left off. No players or discs or anything. The idea that Netflix used to send something physical to you that you needed to put into a player made him laugh out loud.

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   • Devin Prater (devinprater@devin.masto.host)'s status on Thursday, 03-Feb-2022 23:05:46 UTC Devin Prater

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     @mike They used to need special players? I just watched them on a regular DVD player.

   • Dam (damko@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 03-Feb-2022 23:06:13 UTC Dam

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     @mike tomorrow tell your teen what kind of stunts you had to do around the TV antenna to catch some more signal ...

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   • rudolf@fosstodon.org's status on Thursday, 03-Feb-2022 23:06:13 UTC rudolf

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     • Dam

     @damko @mike
     Lesson two:
     Rotary Dialer

     https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.demarco.rotaryphone

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   • MarkusL (markusl@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 03-Feb-2022 23:06:23 UTC MarkusL

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     @mike A disc? A DISC?

     When I was young, Netflix would send a horse and cart carrying three people and a script.

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   • Mike Stone :zorin: :manjaro: (mike@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 03-Feb-2022 23:06:40 UTC Mike Stone :zorin: :manjaro:

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     • Dam

     @damko Oh man, when I was a kid I used to live here:

     https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/5523951

     We had an antenna attached to the side of our house, and when we changed channels on the TV, we had to go outside and rotate the antenna to point in a different direction per channel. Talk about a nightmare during the winter. You'd just watch a show because hell no I'm not going out there.

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   • Tony :fedora: :raspberrypi: (s0lution@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 03-Feb-2022 23:39:15 UTC Tony :fedora: :raspberrypi:

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     @mike was watching Home Alone over the holidays and realized it was over 30 years old now...

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   • bbbhltz :debian: :thinkpad_tp: (bbbhltz@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 03-Feb-2022 23:39:20 UTC bbbhltz :debian: :thinkpad_tp:

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     @mike my students didn't believe me when I told them phones (landlines) used to work when the power was out

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   • Dan Jones (danjones000@fedi.absturztau.be)'s status on Saturday, 05-Feb-2022 04:18:12 UTC Dan Jones

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     • Devin Prater
     @mike
     
     Now tell him about Blockbuster.
     
     @devinprater
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   • William Swartzendruber (wswartzendruber@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 06-Feb-2022 05:21:20 UTC William Swartzendruber

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     @mike My sister-in-law had a rotary phone on the wall. I got so excited I picked it up and starting dialing my cell number. She told me it was decorative and wasn't connected. I was crushed.

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