Post #2482686

2026-05-09 14:01 UTC

I think a lot about the pastfuture, visions of the future from the past that could have been but never were. Like, what if we traded apps on minidiscs? What if you jacked into cyberspace via a payphone? Anyways, here’s finger running on a pager:

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@nlupo@amikejo.xyz 2026-05-09 14:14

@benbrown@masto.hackers.town I like the retro futurism ideas and aesthetics.

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@jackgangi@masto.hackers.town 2026-05-09 14:53

@benbrown@masto.hackers.town that's what I love the most about Apple TVs "for all mankind" the subtle technological tweaks that have taken place because the timeline is different. They call the iPhone the Newton

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@egoldblatt@gardenstate.social 2026-05-09 17:00

@benbrown@masto.hackers.town That is amazing.

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@scrottie@bsd.network 2026-05-09 20:07

@benbrown@masto.hackers.town (pic of a lillygo pager with a little pager style keyboard of little oval buttons and a screen taking up most of the top half of the small grey unit. screen says goatOS // Finger, then benbrown in a box, then below that "THORSDAY MAY THOR STRIKE DOWN MY ENEMIES!!! I wrote about my new baq." Just in case anyone needs a desc. Please pardon the @!)

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