Nokia 9000 Communicator (1996) | The first official 'smartphone' to hit the market with a laptop-like design, featuring LCD display screen of 640 x 200 pixels and full QWERTY keyboard.
the coquette urge to journal, to buy a typewriter, to listen to CDs and records, to send letters, to talk on the landline, to use a flip phone, and to just disconnect from the bullshit of the modern world ~~
Btw I'm not proud of this, but I'm not not sort of writing a crossover where forty-five-year-old Jonathan Byers, established NYC photographer, grudgingly has to do a photoshoot with a defrosted Captain America and is very much annoyed at the prospect.
Will it see the light of day? Almost certainly not. Does it include a scene where Steve shows Jonathan, fellow artist, some of his sketches, and Jonathan whips out his phone to show off his forty-year-old little brother's artwork (that's hanging in a major gallery) because he can't resist showing off how successful Will is and how proud he is of him? Well, I'm just not at liberty to say.
My most boomer opinion is that I hate that almost all daily online services require me to sign in with my smartphone. My smartphone is currently broken so I can't even sign into my bank account or my e-mail.
My second most boomer opinion is that I fucking hate that opening devices and replacing the battery so they can go on working for another few years is considered fucking illegal by most companies.
I don't consider doing everything online and/or with my smartphone convenient at all, because when it gets stolen or broken, you're basically handicapped. I don't want to have to make an account to find out where the mail service has delivered my package! I don't want to have to sign in with my e-mail to be able to open a locker at a concert hall! I don't want to have to get a new phone every two years! I don't want to have to go online to turn on my tv! I want off this ride!!!
similar to the greentext stuff - i was visiting with my neighbors and their grandkids were around, and I said to this eight year old, "Hey, you wanna know something cool? I was playing the game when the Endermen came out." and his eyes went wide, like this kid looked like i told him i landed on the moon. His grandma thought it was really funny, and she said she has no idea what i'm talking about, but her grandbabies do, and that's incredible to her.
oh that's fun lmao, when minecraft & that update's existed for more than your whole life, and yknow being that young and like Next Year fr is this huge time scale away, a couple of years is a quarter of your life thus far and like maybe nigh half of the part of your life you actually have longterm memories for....i was checking out this dev's blog's archives about a:tdd's release in 2010 & in one entry they compared the implicitly Roughly concurrent release of Minecraft and i was like hey whoah. forever primarily being a game i've Heard Of more than any more direct exposure so i had no precise sense of [before minecraft release] [after minecraft release] Year 0 there but it's like for sure back in thee day when minecraft was a new thing, huh