Lit Apropos of Nothing - ACKBAR IN CAPITALS - The Lit Forum Social Thread, v2.0.15

my God man, that relic has only one blade

 

But it can make calls all across the galaxy!

 

Steam is doing something interesting again.

 

What a brick!

 

Me too anakinfansince1983. My college roommate worked for Cellular One, and got me a deal on it.

 

My roommate had a much smaller model, but she had to have a signal booster installed under the car and one of those antennas on the roof. Now I'm really dating myself.

 

I, uh, remember dial up. That sure sucked didn't it?

 

I got my first cell phone this year. Ever.

I hate cell phones.

 

I used to be the same way.

Then I went off to university with one.

 

Nah, I love tech. Selectively. I hate people. (And that's not an old age consequence, as I've become less of a misanthrope with time)

What I do love are mp3 players, because that was something I would've never imagined in a million years when I was a kid - that I can have my entire music library in my hand to play in the car or walking around and still have room left over.

Also, apropos of nothing, I like Max Headroom. You kids should give it a whirl on your audiovisual telephonic interwebs gizmos or what-have-you.

Now get off my virtual lawn.

 

Technology is good and all but I feel that we are all screwed if something short circuits all technology.
Still young but I can't imagine writing on a typewriter. So thank heavens for Microsoft Word or whatever typing thing everyone uses. You can read it and you can jump to a new topic in a paper if the current paragraph is not going for you and come back to it later etc.

 

Typewriters weren't so bad, as long as you had a good idea of what you wanted to say before you started. I found them much easier to use than I'd expected: their setup was functionally quite similar to that of a keyboard.

 

Argh, typewriters blew. The fact that we have our awful keyboard layouts is because of them, but we're just too engrained with QWERTY to use anything else. Once word processing became a Real Thing, I never looked back. (Although I'm a fan of the old pen-and-paper as well).