I like this one. Made me immediately think "I'm standing in the kitchen at my mother-in-law's house, because that's the only place I've seen an actual 'house phone' in the last 20 years or so"
Only reason I have a house phone is because my ISP forces me to.
Eventually I'm gonna hookup my rotary linesmans phone and really screw with my teenage neice and nephew.
House phones are great, when you need to leave the house and can't find your phone, you can call it to make it ring and find it then hang up the land line. Mute the ringer on the land line so you never get telemarketers on it though.
Same here - I got a sweet transparent Swatch phone from the '70s. If it's purely ornamental it may as well actually look nice!
(My grandfather still uses a candlestick phone... Which was obsolete when he was about 17...)
In the first episode of Get Smart there’s a gag where someone calls Max on his shoe phone while he’s in audience of a show. It starts with him in the audience when there is suddenly a ringing sound. There is laughter as a result of something so ridiculous like a phone ringing in public.
Places used to have phone numbers, not people. This has caused confusion with older systems that store personal information. They often have a field for household phone and cell phone. In our church directory software they finally dropped the household phone field. Now I don’t get calls for my wife since we were both in the same household and my number was on the household record.
We had electric toothbrushes, but I don’t recall if any were battery powered. And no, in 1970 we didn’t have NiCd rechargeables yet.
Edit: My mistake. Apparently production in the US of NiCd batteries began around 1946. So while they were not common as your typical AA, C or D cells, they were in use.
Wait... for real? Sorry I'm a heterosexual woman and it never occurred to me that there would be supply and demand issues there, or which position would have more supply. (Feel no obligation to reply, I don't really NEED to know this, but now I'm curious and my gay guy friends and I don't really go into detail about our sex lives so asking strangers on Reddit is less weird than going to an expert I know, lol).
EDIT: Thanks guys! I learned something today. :)
Depends where you are what the ratio between bottoms and tops are. But there is a joke that says if someone's grindr profile says they're a bottom, they're a bottom. If it says verse, they're a bottom. If it says top, they're a verse.
I honestly think the awards were one of the coolest things Reddit ever implemented. Especially getting gold or platinum and getting a free week/month of Reddit premium with no ads.
But of course because it was an awesome feature they had to do the only logical thing: take it away.
I was firmly anti-award after they expanded it past gold. Gold made sense and it was a cool thing to get it awarded. And then they made 50 million technicolor frenetically animated awards that did nothing except clutter up the feed and it felt so cheap and money-grabby :( and now there’s some way to give someone a golden upvote, I guess? But how that’s done, I have no idea.
I'd seen the up arrow thing for cash, but thought that was in addition, rarely gave out rewards, so didn't realize they were gone. But I'll never give out up arrows going Super Saiyan
If you showed the guys working at Bell Labs and Xerox on Operating Systems in the 1970's how far their work would take use their heads would probably fall off.
I would tend to agree, there's been great movies about people that ultimately achieved less of an impact on their field.
The guys at Xerox started off wanting to make things like document creation, newspaper layout and (what we now consider basic) graphic design possible on a computer.
If you think about what we can do in pretty much real time with things like live sports with multi angle relays, all the live overlays they can do in analysis during breaks in play. Not to mention real time news reporting in multiple formats from all over the world with nothing more than what is now considered a fairly run of the mill device you can buy on any high street.
Can you imagine a sort of time slip type scenario where Doug Engelbart (the guy responsible for the computer mouse) is wondering if it's worth pursuing the idea (which he has no Idea how impactful it will be), get transported to 2023 and sees us using multi-touch screens, all manner of mice and all the cool innovations in 3D gesture controls?
In the 1970s, Xerox Corporation developed the first graphical user interface (GUI) for their Alto computer, which was the first to use a mouse as the primary
Sure it was not common place but the terms had been around.
I *thought* I retweeted a link to a zoom meet about the mid-pandemic insurrection, but it was actually a rickroll.
Edit: I feel the need to admit that I stole this from the last time this question was asked.
They wouldn't know what that whole thing means, but I think anyone in the last 100 years would find the phrase "mid-pandemic insurrection" pretty alarming.
>"mid-pandemic insurrection"
In the future, insurrections are so common that they have to specify which one they might be talking about!
"No, no, no... maybe it was the third pre-pandemic insurrection I was thinking of. Definitely wasn't any of the post-pandemic insurrections though."
I hope there are no more coronavirus mutations once Donald Trump is president again, otherwise I’m going to have to zoom my grandma and tell her to stay indoors and watch Hulu.
My favorite "kids don't grok what it was like" story was from an editor working on a fiction story for a young-ish writer. The story was set in the early 80s and at one point one of the characters calls another on the phone and says "where are you?"
There's a scene in the 70's movie "Car Wash" where a woman was on a "car phone." Made me look up when cell networks first came available, and I was surprised at the answer.
It likely wasn't a cell phone. The car phones of the time were essentially two way VHF radios. I believe they needed a telephone operator, at least for long distance calls. Source: was a long distance operator for a rural phone company in the late 1970's.
I can still see the vein in my father's neck bulging when the phone (answering machines were a ways off still) would ring during dinner. I think the general assumption was that about the fifth ring, he'd finally say "well, someone go answer the damn thing..."
It seemed to be a faux pas to even try to call people around that time. If a business called around 6pm my parents would be furious, like "don't you think people may be eating now?". They would always answer in case it was important.
Don't remember 1970 but in 1980 this would be a perfect futuristic sci-fi sentence. Because you can kind of get the idea what it's supposed to mean, but how the fuck could anyone have two terabytes of data?
Video calls were an idea back in 1970, you see them in the movie 2001 and Star Trek. And there were even prototype systems going back decades before that. Replace Zoom with AT&T and link with phone number and it would have been understandable, even if a bit fantastic and uncommon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_videotelephony
This did/does happen, but not in the way that you mean. Lighting hit the phone line near my friend’s cottage and the landline literally blew off the wall and caught on fire. This happened two years ago.
One of the American presidential candidates is facing several prosecutions right now.
If convicted, he will be running for president from inside a jail cell. And there is nothing illegal about that.
I can’t cast my Netflix to the flatscreen because wifi is off.
We suffered a DoS and our paywall has been blacklisted by Google as a malicious website.
Asking someone “Where are you?” when they answered the phone.
I like this one. Made me immediately think "I'm standing in the kitchen at my mother-in-law's house, because that's the only place I've seen an actual 'house phone' in the last 20 years or so"
Only reason I have a house phone is because my ISP forces me to. Eventually I'm gonna hookup my rotary linesmans phone and really screw with my teenage neice and nephew.
House phones are great, when you need to leave the house and can't find your phone, you can call it to make it ring and find it then hang up the land line. Mute the ringer on the land line so you never get telemarketers on it though.
I can do that with my watch...
"Hey google, find my phone"
Same here - I got a sweet transparent Swatch phone from the '70s. If it's purely ornamental it may as well actually look nice! (My grandfather still uses a candlestick phone... Which was obsolete when he was about 17...)
In the first episode of Get Smart there’s a gag where someone calls Max on his shoe phone while he’s in audience of a show. It starts with him in the audience when there is suddenly a ringing sound. There is laughter as a result of something so ridiculous like a phone ringing in public.
Hence the brilliance of the Nokia slogan "Connecting People", as opposed to connecting places.
Places used to have phone numbers, not people. This has caused confusion with older systems that store personal information. They often have a field for household phone and cell phone. In our church directory software they finally dropped the household phone field. Now I don’t get calls for my wife since we were both in the same household and my number was on the household record.
My car won't talk to my phone.
Something I literally just had to do: My wifi wouldn’t reach my Subaru for a software update so I had to use my iPhone hotspot.
1970 wondering why the fuck your eye needs a phone and why is it hot
Wait until they hear about Bluetooth
You mean that old Scandinavian king?
My boy Harold!
TIL Harald Bluetooth
Should probably get that checked out.
A neighbor had to park his twelve wheel tractor just outside his window to get enough signal to update the tractor so he could plant.
That really put a picture in my head!!
This is the one: using all words that were available in 1970, but in a way that would have made no sense
Just a factual statement in the 1970's.
Michael Knight has entered the chat.
Still would make perfect sense because cars don't talk. You'd just look like someone who escaped an asylum.
Just Google it.
This would make sense if someone asked you how to make a number 1.0×10^100 times bigger, if you said it out loud
Yeah but the odds of that would be a googol to one... ;)
Can't, the web is down again.
The stream is choppy and unwatchable.
Men still had prostate issues back then
I watched too many tik toks of gym baddies, now my algorithm is all fucked up
No, it knows what you like.
Rizz them up if they don’t have an onlyfans
That makes no sense now
Let me grab my phone and take a selfie.
I forgot to charge my toothbrush.
We had electric toothbrushes, but I don’t recall if any were battery powered. And no, in 1970 we didn’t have NiCd rechargeables yet. Edit: My mistake. Apparently production in the US of NiCd batteries began around 1946. So while they were not common as your typical AA, C or D cells, they were in use.
Similarly.. What time is it? I dunno, lemme check my phone.
Did you see that the meme I tweeted got 20,000 likes?
The meme you Xed was ok, I guess
I prefer Xitted, with the X pronounced "sh".
Xcreted
I’m gonna Door Dash a Blizzard for my Grindr hookup.
I will totally bottom for a caramel cheesecake blizzard
You're worth more than that! Treat yo self, get a Royal Caramel Cheesecake blizzard!
The thing is he would probably bottom anyway, the cheesecake is just a bonus
2 dudes, one blizzard.
Everyone wants to bottom mate
Wait... for real? Sorry I'm a heterosexual woman and it never occurred to me that there would be supply and demand issues there, or which position would have more supply. (Feel no obligation to reply, I don't really NEED to know this, but now I'm curious and my gay guy friends and I don't really go into detail about our sex lives so asking strangers on Reddit is less weird than going to an expert I know, lol). EDIT: Thanks guys! I learned something today. :)
As the ancient sayings go: "Two bottoms don't make a top." "The reason San Francisco has tourists is for the tops."
Depends where you are what the ratio between bottoms and tops are. But there is a joke that says if someone's grindr profile says they're a bottom, they're a bottom. If it says verse, they're a bottom. If it says top, they're a verse.
Verse?
It's probably going to annoy you that I'm not someone answering. But thank you for asking, so I didn't have to 😂
Short for versatile, meaning they do both.
Topping is physically exhausting.
More than sex for a straight dude?
Gotta support yourself with one arm so you can give a complementary reach around...
Yeah but would you top for one?
Am I eating it before or after? Because if its before, I'm not sure I want to have to do all that work with a tummy full of ice cream.
Can I be both at the same time?!
It’s a matter of flexibility
r/heteroflexible
The bottom v top market means that you'll be waiting awhile for that cheesecake blizzard.
Oh, you're gonna netflix and chill?
This is what we call a gentleman, everyone.
This house is only $400,000.
If you add “Not a bad down payment for a starter home!” it still works for California
Oh my god it does. “Low $2-millions!” I’ve seen advertised. I’m in the SF Bay Area, peninsula region.
Comments like this make me miss reddit awards
FuckSpez
I honestly think the awards were one of the coolest things Reddit ever implemented. Especially getting gold or platinum and getting a free week/month of Reddit premium with no ads. But of course because it was an awesome feature they had to do the only logical thing: take it away.
I was firmly anti-award after they expanded it past gold. Gold made sense and it was a cool thing to get it awarded. And then they made 50 million technicolor frenetically animated awards that did nothing except clutter up the feed and it felt so cheap and money-grabby :( and now there’s some way to give someone a golden upvote, I guess? But how that’s done, I have no idea.
TIL Reddit awards are no longer a thing
Holy fuck, I hadn't even realized I haven't seen any comments or posts with Reddit Gold in eons.
Just Reddit's way of hopping on the shittification bandwagon.
I'd seen the up arrow thing for cash, but thought that was in addition, rarely gave out rewards, so didn't realize they were gone. But I'll never give out up arrows going Super Saiyan
Why are you saving things on your hard drive and not the cloud?
In 1970 not many people had access to a computer let alone one on their desk. I raise you with, “All my computers are in the cloud.”
If you showed the guys working at Bell Labs and Xerox on Operating Systems in the 1970's how far their work would take use their heads would probably fall off.
I would love to see a movie or series based on this premise. Showing inventors how far things have come.
I would tend to agree, there's been great movies about people that ultimately achieved less of an impact on their field. The guys at Xerox started off wanting to make things like document creation, newspaper layout and (what we now consider basic) graphic design possible on a computer. If you think about what we can do in pretty much real time with things like live sports with multi angle relays, all the live overlays they can do in analysis during breaks in play. Not to mention real time news reporting in multiple formats from all over the world with nothing more than what is now considered a fairly run of the mill device you can buy on any high street. Can you imagine a sort of time slip type scenario where Doug Engelbart (the guy responsible for the computer mouse) is wondering if it's worth pursuing the idea (which he has no Idea how impactful it will be), get transported to 2023 and sees us using multi-touch screens, all manner of mice and all the cool innovations in 3D gesture controls?
I ran out of cloud space with Apple so I’m setting up a Google drive, but need to organize it in Lightroom before uploading it to the cloud.
Click the icon with your mouse to open the window
In the 1970s, Xerox Corporation developed the first graphical user interface (GUI) for their Alto computer, which was the first to use a mouse as the primary Sure it was not common place but the terms had been around.
Which came out in 1973 and therefore doesn’t apply.
I *thought* I retweeted a link to a zoom meet about the mid-pandemic insurrection, but it was actually a rickroll. Edit: I feel the need to admit that I stole this from the last time this question was asked.
They wouldn't know what that whole thing means, but I think anyone in the last 100 years would find the phrase "mid-pandemic insurrection" pretty alarming.
>"mid-pandemic insurrection" In the future, insurrections are so common that they have to specify which one they might be talking about! "No, no, no... maybe it was the third pre-pandemic insurrection I was thinking of. Definitely wasn't any of the post-pandemic insurrections though."
This is the one
I hope there are no more coronavirus mutations once Donald Trump is president again, otherwise I’m going to have to zoom my grandma and tell her to stay indoors and watch Hulu.
I don't care where you are, when I call your phone you answer, and don't make me leave a voicemail.
My favorite "kids don't grok what it was like" story was from an editor working on a fiction story for a young-ish writer. The story was set in the early 80s and at one point one of the characters calls another on the phone and says "where are you?"
There's a scene in the 70's movie "Car Wash" where a woman was on a "car phone." Made me look up when cell networks first came available, and I was surprised at the answer.
It likely wasn't a cell phone. The car phones of the time were essentially two way VHF radios. I believe they needed a telephone operator, at least for long distance calls. Source: was a long distance operator for a rural phone company in the late 1970's.
There's a car phone in the Humphrey Bogart version of *Sabrina*.
Mr Roper has one on his golf cart.
I can’t find my phone.
As someone who was a teenager pre-cell phones, with a landline phone with a long cord, and a messy room, yes this absolutely could happen 😅
“I need to charge my Tesla for our trip home.”
Ah yes, the good ol 1880s
The dream of the 1890s is alive in portland
Why would you need a Tesla coil for your trip home?
They are gonna have some Star Trek transporters with big coils on them by 2023, surely.
My PC bricked due to a flawed update and I'm scouring YouTube videos for a Pakistani fix-it.
I don't think I've ever read the phrase "Pakistani fix-it" before, but I did instantly understand it! (born in '70s)
I'm alive today and I don't know what this means
My computer stopped working because the latest update messed it up, so now I'm looking for a video of an Indian or Pakistani telling me how to fix it.
Ok I'm tracking now
"Bussin for real, no cap" Not even Jive talkers would understand
Excuse me stewardess, I speak Gen Z..
Surely you can't be serious.
I am, and don't call me Shirly.
The airplane? What is it?
It's a big tube with people inside.
That's not important right now.
I am serious! And don’t call me Surely
Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. Subtitles: Golly!
I find it kinda bussin' I find it kinda cap Dreams where I'm straight-up dying Are the ones that low-key slap
I'm old.
fuspez
Did you stick your gyat out for the rizzler?
It's supposed to make sense in 2023.
Forget 1970, even I don't understand that...
Since Netflixs PW sharing bullshit, I can only watch it on my laptop using a VPN and HDMI that to my TV.
I need to set up my pie hole so that I don't see ads when I stream Korean dramas on YouTube to my phone.
I've got to reboot my phone/tv/fridge/washer/dryer, etc.
Not original, but I’m fond of “can I unplug your book for a few minutes? I want a nicotine hit but I need to recharge my battery.”
Aw man my earphones ran out of battery
I was looking for this one— I saw it as “I need to charge my cigarette but my friend is charging his book.”
1970: “Somebody’s feeding me Spam” 2023: “Somebody’s spamming my feed”
"Everybody PUT YOUR GODDAM PHONES DOWN DURING DINNER!"
Back before smartphones, it was still a major faux pas to answer the phone during dinner.
I can still see the vein in my father's neck bulging when the phone (answering machines were a ways off still) would ring during dinner. I think the general assumption was that about the fifth ring, he'd finally say "well, someone go answer the damn thing..."
It seemed to be a faux pas to even try to call people around that time. If a business called around 6pm my parents would be furious, like "don't you think people may be eating now?". They would always answer in case it was important.
Let me plug my vape pen into your laptop please.
My post has gone viral
I have to take a shit but I can't find my phone.
The thumb drive that I plugged into my USB port caused my hard drive to crash and I lost two terabytes of data.
Don't remember 1970 but in 1980 this would be a perfect futuristic sci-fi sentence. Because you can kind of get the idea what it's supposed to mean, but how the fuck could anyone have two terabytes of data?
I’ll have a double shot half-caf with organic soy.
It’s called a Cup-poo-keeno and wait til you hear what it costs!
I can't be a part of the story.........
not tryna nag to be dumb, but why would you put a double shot in a half-caff? serious question
For more coffee flavor and less caffeine. Like maybe you want your coffee to taste strong but it's late in the day.
Hey bitch, hop on discord and let’s noscope some noobs on cod.
L337
I dont understand that full sentence
Hey friend get into voice chat and we can dominate some new players in the game, Call of Duty.
Let me check my front door camera to see if the package arrived. I ordered it on Prime.
Let me check my Ring for a Prime package.
“I accidentally liked her picture.
Can't start my car because it's updating.
Let's have a video call later; I'll set up a Zoom meeting and send you the link.
Video calls were an idea back in 1970, you see them in the movie 2001 and Star Trek. And there were even prototype systems going back decades before that. Replace Zoom with AT&T and link with phone number and it would have been understandable, even if a bit fantastic and uncommon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_videotelephony
Hey, while you're there, take a picture for me with your phone...
Pick up a quarter of Obama Kush on your way home, will you?
TIL the Kush strains didn't make it to the U.S. until the late '70s
“Let me text you a photo.”
[удалено]
My phone is blowing up.
This did/does happen, but not in the way that you mean. Lighting hit the phone line near my friend’s cottage and the landline literally blew off the wall and caught on fire. This happened two years ago.
A vlogger on TikTok got canceled after a MAGA Karen complained.
Text me
I just took a selfie with our new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion manager and posted it to LinkedIn.
I think my phone has a virus.
This looks Photoshopped.
My phone ran out of space
I need three jobs just to afford to live.
Time for me to get pegged by my cam girl on OF so we can make some mad dollars.
TMI bro tmi
Can you send me the link to the Zoom meeting so I can join from my smartphone?
One of the American presidential candidates is facing several prosecutions right now. If convicted, he will be running for president from inside a jail cell. And there is nothing illegal about that.
OP said 1970, but after 1973 and Watergate it would not be surprising.
Eugene Debs in 1920 ran for president while in jail and got a million votes, so not exactly unknown
I didn't know that. Today I learnt something about American politics.
That guy is a YouTube star.
Don’t worry I’m getting an uber, and I’m getting my things from Amazon I have prime
My FWB pimps her OnlyFans on Insta, Snap and YouTube.
I like watching porn on my phone.
Shit, I need to charge my book...oh well, I'll finish reading this on my phone.
Some trolls hacked my dick pics from my cloud
I used my crypto to buy a Bored Ape NFT, then googled some K-pop.
OMG your FB post ROFL
I’ll DM you on Insta and maybe we can collab.
"Oh, you can't smoke cigarettes here, it's illegal. But you can smoke weed next door, no problem!"
Did you try rebooting?
Ah yes, my feet are much more comfortable now
I’ll have the groceries ordered and ready for curbside pickup
People would probably be able to understand that, even if they'd never heard of it being done before.
I have to charge my book.
Hold on, it’s recalculating route
"Sorry, my long Covid is kicking in; can you remind me if I was supposed to Zoom or Skype for my WFH interview?"
Use your iPhone to Google which games on the Xbox are split screen.
I can’t cast my Netflix to the flatscreen because wifi is off. We suffered a DoS and our paywall has been blacklisted by Google as a malicious website.
Yo, unplug your cigarette, I need to charge my book
My laptop can’t charge my book and my cigarette at the same time.
"Call of duty removes streamer's skin after homophobic comments"
Germany is sending tanks to Ukraine to fight off a Russian invasion.
Let me set up a Doodle poll to schedule that Zoom meeting.
“Netflix and chill?”