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Technology Challenge — Party like it’s 1981
Posted on 8/28/22 at 5:15 pm
Posted on 8/28/22 at 5:15 pm
In the 80s/90s technology thread, a bunch of people said they would miss none of today’s technology and would gladly go back to how it was.
How many will accept that challenge? No law says you have to use that technology today. Can you do it for ten days?
Turn off your cellphone. Close the laptop. No Netflix. Seeing a movie means going to a theater. Finding your way requires a paper map. Getting a printed copy of something means typing it with a typewriter and carbon paper. Definitely no wfh.
If ten of you do it for ten days, and then come post your experience here, I’ll self ban from the OT (not the Rant) for a month. Any takers?
How many will accept that challenge? No law says you have to use that technology today. Can you do it for ten days?
Turn off your cellphone. Close the laptop. No Netflix. Seeing a movie means going to a theater. Finding your way requires a paper map. Getting a printed copy of something means typing it with a typewriter and carbon paper. Definitely no wfh.
If ten of you do it for ten days, and then come post your experience here, I’ll self ban from the OT (not the Rant) for a month. Any takers?
20
Posted on 8/28/22 at 5:16 pm to JudgeHolden
OK, I'll redesign my life to suit some guy on a message board
Posted on 8/28/22 at 5:18 pm to Kafka
If it was so much better then, why not? Wouldn’t you be happier?
Posted on 8/28/22 at 5:19 pm to Kafka
quote:
to suit some guy on a message board
He’s just making a suggestion. I don’t get the snarky comment
Posted on 8/28/22 at 5:19 pm to JudgeHolden
quote:
If ten of you do it for ten days, and then come post your experience here, I’ll self ban from the OT (not the Rant) for a month.
Almost worth
Posted on 8/28/22 at 5:20 pm to Paul Allen
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He’s just making a suggestion. I don’t get the snarky comment
Me either.
Posted on 8/28/22 at 5:20 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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Mingo Was His NameO
Go for it baw. If you are the tenth one, I’ll make it two months.
Posted on 8/28/22 at 5:21 pm to JudgeHolden
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No law says you have to use that technology today.
More people need to understand this and stop just talking the talk.
Posted on 8/28/22 at 5:21 pm to JudgeHolden
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Getting a printed copy of something means typing it with a typewriter and carbon paper.
False. Word processors with electronic data storage and printers were widespread in the 1980’s and 1990’s.
Remember dot matrix.
Posted on 8/28/22 at 5:21 pm to JudgeHolden
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If ten of you do it for ten days, and then come post your experience here, I’ll self ban from the OT (not the Rant) for a month. Any takers?
Why don't you self ban just because, you narcissist? Do your own '80s challenge and leave everyone else out of it.
Posted on 8/28/22 at 5:24 pm to JudgeHolden
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Turn off your cellphone.
House lines, answering machines and pay phones were ubiquitous. It would not be equivalent to simply turn off your cell phone in today’s world.
Posted on 8/28/22 at 5:24 pm to JudgeHolden
Can't do it due to my job.
Pretty interesting info graphic I came across a year or so ago. Plug in your birth year and it tells you about the technology trends during your life. For example, when I was 15 0% of US households had internet. That had dropped to 75% with no internet by my freshman year of college etc
Wapo unfortunately
Pretty interesting info graphic I came across a year or so ago. Plug in your birth year and it tells you about the technology trends during your life. For example, when I was 15 0% of US households had internet. That had dropped to 75% with no internet by my freshman year of college etc
Wapo unfortunately
Posted on 8/28/22 at 5:26 pm to Jimbeaux
I find voice mail and answering machines the most annoying. It was easier when you had to call back again when you had a busy signal or no one answered.
Then again it sucked to drive to the airport to find out your flight was delayed or canceled.
Then again it sucked to drive to the airport to find out your flight was delayed or canceled.
Posted on 8/28/22 at 5:27 pm to Saint Alfonzo
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Why don't you self ban just because, you narcissist? Do your own '80s challenge and leave everyone else out of it.
I love technology, and I never said I would love to go back to 81.
I’m just saying if it was so great, live like you would have then.
Posted on 8/28/22 at 5:28 pm to JudgeHolden
If you use 1981 as a base year, life in 2001 was much more than different than like in 1961. If someone went from 1961 to 1981 there would be much less change than if someone went from 1981 to 2001.
Posted on 8/28/22 at 5:29 pm to JudgeHolden
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Turn off your cellphone. Close the laptop. No Netflix. Seeing a movie means going to a theater. Finding your way requires a paper map. Getting a printed copy of something means typing it with a typewriter and carbon paper. Definitely no wfh.
The only thing remotely difficult would be stopping internet usage and texting for quick communication.
Paper maps? Breeze.
No Netflix or streaming? Cake walk.
Posted on 8/28/22 at 5:30 pm to JudgeHolden
I think I will just go to my favorite tropical island for a week
Posted on 8/28/22 at 5:32 pm to JudgeHolden
Posted on 8/28/22 at 5:34 pm to Btrtigerfan
Posted on 8/28/22 at 5:34 pm to Dicky
quote:The problem isn't that I use the technology. The problem is that everyone else uses the technology.quote:More people need to understand this and stop just talking the talk.
No law says you have to use that technology today.
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