if you can remember life before cell phones & the internet....
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The generations after won't have cell phones and internet. They will be living that Mad Max fury Road life after the climate collapses.imagine when we’re old & the rest of the population can’t
imagine after we’re gone
the generations after that will be living in a real life matrix. disgusting to think what the planet will be like by then.
Dwayne_Taylor
Superstar
So now boomer means people in their 40s..?
I hate the internet.
I hate the internet.
Gunz&Butta
All Star
So early millennials?
This is why we say that people born in the 80s got the best of both worlds. We can remember a time with no real technology and we are young enough to have come of age when it took off. We were in school when pagers were a thing and we were still in school when the iPhone dropped. We remember grabbing AOL CDs at the counter in Blockbuster and dialup but we also grew up with high-speed internet. We were old enough to appreciate the web in it's early stages of fukkery and freedom in 99-00s and what it's become now with monetization and restrictions of everything. We experienced everything from ground zero.
i feel ya. GOAT generation, from bumping DMX cassettes in the whip to bumping your playlist via bluetooth.
Yeah because my parents werent big tech heads when i was growing up. They are old school. My mom had a phone book with folks names and addresses. No internet. It was the newspaper, the radio and the 5, 10, 11 o clock news that we found out about what was going on. The older my bro and me got the more we got tech like gameboy, game gear, genesis, cable and etc. My mom had cassettes and tape recorders. She would dub music from the radio. She would flip it to the underground carribean station that played dance hall, ska, reggae and etc. It was dope. She wasnt up on CDs until the later half of the 90s. They pretty much were forced to get the new tech. My father resisted and doesn't even have a cell or a smart phone to this day. Never seen him on the computer or use the internet either. My mom is the exact opposite and whatever tech she is unsure of. My bro or me show her how to use it. My bro is more up on the latest gadgets while I'm behind on what's out there. I dont rush to get into whatever tech trends either. I was still using my flipphone with 1g web. It wasnt until the mid2010s that I got my first smart phone when my flipphone was literally about to fall apart. Had it from 2009 I believe.
My mom was also in college at the time so she had to type up papers. She had a typewriter. Think she still has it somewhere. She was a typist back in the days like the late 60s or early 70s. She taught us how to use it, how to change the ribbon, how to use whiteout on whatever mistakes and to type over it so it looked smooth since the erase feature wasn't all that. Eventually the k to 8 catholic school that I went to despite it being cheap as fukk, my 5th grade teacher was bougie as fukk. She would give kids lower grades or c's and d's if they didnt have their papers computerized.
this is back in 96, 97. My mom was mad as fukk about that. It didn't help that the public school system was very shytty and unsafe around my way so we didn't have much of an option unfortunately of where to go so we ended up staying there. Basically that school was on some bullshyt. So eventually my mom asked my aunt if I could use her computer and i came over on a Sunday to type my 1 page essay up. 
I know back at the community college that my mom went to and would send us for day camp in the summer of 96, they tried to show us the internet but it took so long for us to log in to their system that we never got a chance to use it at all. I eventually got my first taste of the web in 2000 through kmarts bluelight internet. My brother got to see it before me at his first high school on his laptop that he got from them and he was looking at wrestling, video games, the dreamcast, at the time I think no mercy was coming out for the n64 and smackdown was coming out for the first playstation. So I would look at his laptop and see the internet explorer offline. I would see what he saw at school. Dope.
Even the library. My mom used to go there to study. We learned to use the paper catalog. Write whatever down to where the books were located and search for those joints on the shelf. Those were the days. Easier times, fun times and etc.
Now all this technology and even the elders losing themselves in it where they forgetting basic shyt. It's sad. I feel that back then that it was more of outside forces that pushed people where it controlled their lives and the smart folks figured out why, the what and figured it out instead of believing that shyt. Now its like people can easily be manipulated just from their phones and the web without going outside. Tech has made people lazy where they dont even want to live anymore. It's made humans value their lives less than before and think less where theres literally smart devices where they're basically telling us we are dumb. 2020s gonna be the decade where the human species fights to keep itself in existence since we are out of control
My mom was also in college at the time so she had to type up papers. She had a typewriter. Think she still has it somewhere. She was a typist back in the days like the late 60s or early 70s. She taught us how to use it, how to change the ribbon, how to use whiteout on whatever mistakes and to type over it so it looked smooth since the erase feature wasn't all that. Eventually the k to 8 catholic school that I went to despite it being cheap as fukk, my 5th grade teacher was bougie as fukk. She would give kids lower grades or c's and d's if they didnt have their papers computerized.
this is back in 96, 97. My mom was mad as fukk about that. It didn't help that the public school system was very shytty and unsafe around my way so we didn't have much of an option unfortunately of where to go so we ended up staying there. Basically that school was on some bullshyt. So eventually my mom asked my aunt if I could use her computer and i came over on a Sunday to type my 1 page essay up. I know back at the community college that my mom went to and would send us for day camp in the summer of 96, they tried to show us the internet but it took so long for us to log in to their system that we never got a chance to use it at all. I eventually got my first taste of the web in 2000 through kmarts bluelight internet. My brother got to see it before me at his first high school on his laptop that he got from them and he was looking at wrestling, video games, the dreamcast, at the time I think no mercy was coming out for the n64 and smackdown was coming out for the first playstation. So I would look at his laptop and see the internet explorer offline. I would see what he saw at school. Dope.
Even the library. My mom used to go there to study. We learned to use the paper catalog. Write whatever down to where the books were located and search for those joints on the shelf. Those were the days. Easier times, fun times and etc.
Now all this technology and even the elders losing themselves in it where they forgetting basic shyt. It's sad. I feel that back then that it was more of outside forces that pushed people where it controlled their lives and the smart folks figured out why, the what and figured it out instead of believing that shyt. Now its like people can easily be manipulated just from their phones and the web without going outside. Tech has made people lazy where they dont even want to live anymore. It's made humans value their lives less than before and think less where theres literally smart devices where they're basically telling us we are dumb. 2020s gonna be the decade where the human species fights to keep itself in existence since we are out of control
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$lim
All Star
or say whatever you have to say in those short seconds so it doesn’t charge you for a call
$lim
All Star
my brother used to get in trouble so much for people callin late night, that i had to start taking the phone off the hook and taking the spiral cord out of the phone so people can’t call in. leavin it like that all night.
we never had our own phone lines growing up. whoever did y’all was winnin.
we never had our own phone lines growing up. whoever did y’all was winnin.
Instead of tech making people smarter it's made people dumber. The young generation for the most part are nothing but self serving, entitled, impatient, a$$holes.
$lim
All Star
i made this thread because i was once told that smartphones are the mark of the beast.
maybe there will be a day when 98% of the planet has smartphones.
by that time they will be “too-smartphones.” and people either start rejecting them or just give in and accept having your life monitored forever.
your face & fingerprints and data and personal info all being in some world system.
it’s so demonic friends.
maybe there will be a day when 98% of the planet has smartphones.
by that time they will be “too-smartphones.” and people either start rejecting them or just give in and accept having your life monitored forever.
your face & fingerprints and data and personal info all being in some world system.
it’s so demonic friends.
MajesticLion
Veteran
The Columbia House come up. 12 CDs for a penny.
is that how people that lived before tv thoughtimagine when we’re old & the rest of the population can’t
imagine after we’re gone
the generations after that will be living in a real life matrix. disgusting to think what the planet will be like by then.
"tv will ruin society" "radio will ruin society" now it's the internet. it's not the device, it's the person utilizing the device.
the amount of real time information gain within seconds, even from your pocket, can never be met with what I was getting in the 90s in a library after a 2 mile walk
, and for that I am definitely looking forward to the future with other humans that use this, for not booty shots, but gaining vast amounts of information/research in short periods of time at the age of 4.
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$lim
All Star
is that how people that lived before tv thought
"tv will ruin society" "radio will ruin society" now it's the internet. it's not the device, it's the person utilizing the device.
the amount of real time information gain within seconds, even from your pocket, can never be met with what I was getting in the 90s in a library after a 2 mile walk
so you would be fine living in a world where 100% of people have cell phones & nobody remembers what life is like before that? and you’re fine with everybody on earths life being monitored?
something is just not right about that
the old way > that