Post #2778109
2023-11-13 14:39 UTC
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk I reckon it's pretty cool. Makes you think about the things you grew up with and have embedded in your thinking that actually make no sense now. Modem dialling is a classic of our generation I guess. Physical bells (phones, door chimes, etc). And things that are gradually fading like ICE vehicles (almost all the taxis in central Cambridge are electric now), lawnmowers, whipper snippers...
I still can't help but like the growl of a big V8 though (but don't want to own one).
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@yvan@toot.ale.gd 2023-11-13 14:47
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk ah, dot matrix printers! The sound of a CRT degaussing. Coins dropping into a payphone or vending machine. Change jingling in your pocket (I really don't miss it, always hated the stuff.) Machines that didn't keep you up at night with unnecessarily bright blinking blue LEDs. Devices you could turn on and not have to wait for them to "boot" and make a little noise to tell you they're ready. Almost getting run over by idiots on silent "GoPuff" and "Just Eat" e-mopeds every day. 😅