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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 23:55:07 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Do you think younger kids get amused when they see older technology like dial-up internet or PSTN public phone?

   • Tyler K. Nothing (tylerknowsnothing@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 23:56:46 JST Tyler K. Nothing

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     @nixCraft I have my doubts. Who knows. Kids are ... different now. 🤔

   • enoch_exe_inc (enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 00:01:53 JST enoch_exe_inc

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     @nixCraft I’d imagine they do, although I don’t know any young kids myself.

     It wasn’t all that amusing when I was a kid, though. We didn’t get broadband until about 2004, so I was stuck with the 56k dialup Internet up until first grade. Even then, the Internet was still sooo slooow…I can’t believe how much patience I used to have.

   • RyanParsley (ryanparsley@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 00:23:40 JST RyanParsley

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     @nixCraft I have an 8 and 12 year old. There are quite a few toys geared toward toddlers that are stuck in time such that the kids are aware of "old technology".

     There's no _nostalgia like_ desire to have or understand the quaint objects. There's more of an amusement in how different they look from what they use.

     More of a "Things were weird when you were young" vibe than anything.

   • Freevolt (freevolt24@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 00:24:05 JST Freevolt

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     @nixCraft I mean I'm interested, but I basically have lived with them.

   • Randall Lee (bltpizza@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 00:24:56 JST Randall Lee

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     @nixCraft are there movies with dramatic moments where the hero is waiting for their dial up modem to connect to the Internet so they can stop the bad guys. That would be intense. HA! Other than that where would kids see a dial up modem?

   • Subhanu (subhanu@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 05:04:47 JST Subhanu

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     @nixCraft I really doubt that they get amused. The world has a much shorter attention span now IMHO