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Today a university kid lost his iphone and my mom found it. She's never used a smartphone at all, so I'm trying to talk her through how to reach his contacts list but I've never used an iphone. Anyway, while looking for instructions I noticed this iphone icon. Do kids today even know what that is a picture of? Have they even seen a handset that style IRL? I think it's been more than 20 years since I saw one that style in anyone's house. I guess the handsets on payphones still look like that, but I've barely seen any payphones in the last few years either. Will we still be using this as the symbol for phone in another 20 years? Or this:  Have y'all ever seen static outside a horror movie?
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Jun 7, 2016 07:29
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old movies exist, op. hope this helps also, balls, suck them etc etc
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Jun 7, 2016 07:31
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I think that fuzzy snow image gets simulated in some applications and other poo poo to convey no dignal.
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Jun 7, 2016 07:32
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I think it's interesting that the quote “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel” would probably read as "blue" to a modern audience.
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Jun 7, 2016 07:37
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Considering a poo poo load of millennials grew up with landline phones and rabbit ears on the TV? I remember what a phone and TV static are/look like, but it really wasn't that long ago.
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Jun 7, 2016 07:37
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H.H posted:old movies exist, op. Yeah, that's why I said IRL and outside a horror movie. This isn't something obscure like Lawn Darts that only a few kids ever had. Handsets like that used to be a constant part of everyday life, at least until the 80s when they were replaced with "sleeker" squarish versions. I don't even want to think of the hours I spent fiddling with the TV antenna trying to get the picture a little clearer through the static. And now those experiences are just gone.
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Jun 7, 2016 07:39
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I was fine with local access channels. Ahhh channel 35: xena warrior princess, Adventures of Hercules, and sewer sharks in the morning. Plus I could get WWF and those weird late night shows that have nudity displaying the private lives of strippers.
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Jun 7, 2016 07:43
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You telling me they used to beam tv through the air? Instead of the internet hose? what app do I get so I can receive these secret channels??
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Jun 7, 2016 07:49
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It looks like some kind of courgette or pastry.
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Jun 7, 2016 07:51
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I think it looks like some kind of double edged dildo. Did people used to talk into dildoes??
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Jun 7, 2016 07:58
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i still have a lovely old square TV from the 90s and it gets static if i change the channel on the TV itself so, yes
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Jun 7, 2016 08:01
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i think you're confusing millennials with whatever dip poo poo name is eventually coined to the generation after, op
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Jun 7, 2016 08:02
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Minions. They are the little yellow guys from that cartoon movie. They are supposed to cheer you up I think.
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Jun 7, 2016 08:03
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Oops, sorry. That's what I get for skipping the OP
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Jun 7, 2016 08:04
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kazr posted:i think you're confusing millennials with whatever dip poo poo name is eventually coined to the generation after, op
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Jun 7, 2016 08:04
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generation minion
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Jun 7, 2016 08:06
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I think this question only applies to people born after 2004, so ask symbolic.
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Jun 7, 2016 08:07
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Hating on millennials is played out. Much like millennials themselves.
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Jun 7, 2016 08:07
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There are even more obsolete tech formats that still get used as iconography. (Hint: no one's used one of these in 20 years, and its the save icon)
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Jun 7, 2016 08:07
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How does high school even work anymore? If I had a computer phone in high school I would have just been constantly beating off instead of paying attention.
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Jun 7, 2016 08:11
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Jukeboxblues posted:I think this question only applies to people born after 2004, so ask symbolic. it's a picture of my penis
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Jun 7, 2016 08:11
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millenals dont even know that when your tv breaks you get a picture of a cigar store indian jesus christ
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Jun 7, 2016 08:14
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Poltergeist taught me to be very afraid of the sign off music that plays before the signal cuts off at night.
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Jun 7, 2016 08:16
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I would imagine that pretty much any business they go into would have phone receivers, so those shouldn't be a mystery. Facebook Aunt posted:This isn't something obscure like Lawn Darts that only a few kids ever had. I don't think those are that obscure. Pretty much every kid I knew had a set of Jarts, they were a very popular toy. Maybe it was just a Midwest thing, I don't know. Even my grandma had a set, for when bocce seemed too formal.
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Jun 7, 2016 08:19
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dethkon posted:How does high school even work anymore? If I had a computer phone in high school I would have just been constantly beating off instead of paying attention. That's pretty much it.
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Jun 7, 2016 08:22
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symbolic posted:you can't see it, but i'm angrily snapchatting my response Hell yeah
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Jun 7, 2016 08:25
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Like if you knew a kid with polio. Share if you remember eating leaded paint chips at school. Comment if you were taught that duck and cover would save your rear end from a nuke.
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Jun 7, 2016 08:38
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the real question is whether kids today who havent been to a football game think that the line of scrimmage and first down lines are projected onto the field IRL
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Jun 7, 2016 08:44
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most researchers and commentators use birth years ranging from the early 1980s to around 2000 that's most of us here, so i dont get the hate?
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Jun 7, 2016 08:56
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Facebook Aunt posted:Or this: Snow Crash its a thing. and a kick rear end cyberpunk book
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Jun 7, 2016 09:02
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Facebook Aunt posted:Today a university kid lost his iphone and my mom found it. She's never used a smartphone at all, so I'm trying to talk her through how to reach his contacts list but I've never used an iphone. Anyway, while looking for instructions I noticed this iphone icon. drink bleach (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jun 7, 2016 09:04
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That's a record player. My grandpa told me about them. People used to use them before Spotify. This is a polaroid. My dad says they used to use them before cell phones to talk to people or something.
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Jun 7, 2016 09:10
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Sorry you're having a hard time adjusting, grandma
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Jun 7, 2016 09:50
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kazr posted:i think you're confusing millennials with whatever dip poo poo name is eventually coined to the generation after, op Hmm, you're probably right. Time all runs together when you get to be my age. (Gen Xer here.) I'll try making the thread again in 15 years.
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Jun 7, 2016 09:53
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Bismuth posted:Sorry you're having a hard time adjusting, grandma It's been a struggle, I tell you what. I got my first smartphone last month. So shiny, but I had a heck of a time figuring out how to make a phone call with no keypad.
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Jun 7, 2016 09:55
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These drat kids just don't know about obsolete technology!
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Jun 7, 2016 09:57
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Facebook Aunt posted:Hmm, you're probably right. Time all runs together when you get to be my age. (Gen Xer here.) I'll try making the thread again in 15 years.
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Jun 7, 2016 09:59
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Nonviolent J posted:most researchers and commentators use birth years ranging from the early 1980s to around 2000 Wait, what? I thought it went Gen X, Gen Y, then Millenials, but it turns out the Millennials are Gen Y? Boy is my face red.
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Jun 7, 2016 10:00
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Facebook Aunt posted:It's been a struggle, I tell you what. I got my first smartphone last month. So shiny, but I had a heck of a time figuring out how to make a phone call with no keypad.
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Jun 7, 2016 10:00
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Facebook Aunt posted:Wait, what? I thought it went Gen X, Gen Y, then Millenials, but it turns out the Millennials are Gen Y? Boy is my face red.
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