Could you handle it if we all decided to go back to landlines with no caller ID?
i don't pick up anyway. i'd get a pager. page me and i'll call you. maybe.
>>108876915When I had a landline I was getting hammered with jeets calling at 5pm
>>108876915Landlines could be cool as fuck with some tech upgrades.We could bundle a fiber line with the regular phone line and have the best of both world.
>>108877072it's called VoIP
how do you watch porn in that thing?
>>108877326In the boomer days you would call up a phone whore who'd talk dirty while you stroked your penis
>>108877471>It's Me Again MargretIt was a different timehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wb2nZR6qbE
>>108876915I always screened calls with the answering machine anyway.
>>108876915I rarely ever answer teh fone, but when I do, because I don't save contacts, I usually don't know who's calling. Might be mummy, or it may be Rahesh. I always answer with a firm "nigger".>>108877326You don't watch, you partake in it; the good ol' fashion way.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PXcyrt_nwA
>>108877056i still use voip and no one unsolicited calls me. i wonder if my phone provider is blocking them
Yes? My last 3 jobs had that.
>>108876915i used to have a disconnect landline but my father made me throw it out
>>108876915hell yeah, I could handle a lot of tech from the past coming back cuise of it was better than today's, I also wish we had traditional analog tv and analog sattellite tv
>>108878036>analog and satellite tvNothing like getting extra channels for 3 hours once a year because the weather is just right...zoomers will never never understand
>>108876915>unplugsI'd be in heaven
>>108876915That would be a massive improvement
>>108876915>no delay, uninterrupted, dedicated communication of course
>>108878072it's better than paying every month for something people used to get for free and both were much more functional that, in fact analog sattellite tv worked much better than today's sattellite tv, you could literally have your dish indoors and it could still work
https://youtu.be/lecWE3aIkDM?t=89
>>108878494thouse were the good old days, before we handed our computers and communications over to the internet, now soon we'll be paying every month just so our computers will work at all, in addition to buying the computer
>>108878604>12 foot dish in your living roomanalog tv broadcast worked well from indoor antennas, but the big dishes had to go in the yard.
>>108878505>password in plaintextMuh hollywood hackerino
>>108878639you didn't always need a big dish, I saw someone do it with a small dish in their livingroom, analog sattellite tv was the best, it's only competitor was fta and that's debatable becuse very few devices could receive fta sattellite tv well
>>108876915yesi hardly even use my phone
>>108877326You'd buy a subscription to Sports Illustrated. They'd mail you a football shaped phone and once a year they'd send you their "Swimsuit Issue", which is what GenXers beat off too if they didn't want to go trudging out into the woods to look at forest porn.
>>108878656In 1983, most people had never touched a computer, much less used one to connect to a remote machine. If it didn't echo back the letters, viewers would have been confused why it was showing ****** or no text at all.
Only if electronic faxes returned
