Obscure / Rare Technology you used.
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RobXIII
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jesus christ, looking at the palm pilot again, i realized they still have their hooks in me, pretty sure i had the palm pro, palm 3, either a palm 3c or e, a palm v... and get this
i even had the palmv fucking modem
anyway i realized i still subconsciously have my smartphone task buttons like a palm pilot, calendar/phone/task/memo
jesus, it literally took me 2 adult hand writing books to stop writing in grafiti
my "e"s are still fucked
I used to load up and update every news app, then go out to lunch somewhere while reading the daily news with my Palm pilot (no internet obv). Ahh simple times.
I pirated the hell out of those apps, and thought Worldclock with it's sun graphic was mindblowing
rhinohelix
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Ugh, I sold cars for a while and got a car phone to enable me to call customers on the way home to "follow up". I thought it would impress them and probably did sell a car or two in 1994. Any money it made me was wiped out when my first wife treated it like a mobile phone and talked for like 200 minutes to her mother one day and rang up like a $500 phone bill. I canceled the service and didn't get another mobile phone until 2002.
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Siliconemelons
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that little thing performed as well as a desktop p3, I played EQ on the thing and it served me well for many years. The main issue with my little laptop was it was windows ME haha. I got to use the nub mouse very well because of that thing and still to this day can navigate with it just as well as a trackpad
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BrutulTM
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Long distance is probably the #1 thing I remember my parents fighting about as a kid. My mom was a telephone addict and it really added up for a while there.
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Control
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It's a little weird when you see something that you had but you for some reason completely forgot that type of thing ever existed.
Another example: pull out head units
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Zip drives weren’t particularly rare, everyone I knew had them for a minute there.
So my old company was still using a blueprint machine as late as 2015-2016. Which these were decidedly NOT rare….40 years ago. It was getting harder and harder to find supplies for it.
This was the old school ammonia-using blueprint machine, and the room it was in wasn’t vented. You could only make so many copies before you had to leave because of the ammonia.
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So my old company was still using a blueprint machine as late as 2015-2016. Which these were decidedly NOT rare….40 years ago. It was getting harder and harder to find supplies for it.
This was the old school ammonia-using blueprint machine, and the room it was in wasn’t vented. You could only make so many copies before you had to leave because of the ammonia.
Similar-ish to this:
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Hoss
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I used to have this awesome calculator that calculated your biorhythms. My dad was pissed at me for no reason one day so I calculated his biorhythm and showed it to him to prove it had nothing to do with me, it was just biorhythms! He smashed the calculator against the wall and I was still grounded.
Closest pic I can find to what I remember.
Closest pic I can find to what I remember.
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Captain Suave
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I have one of those in a drawer. Still works great. I always found those buttons super satisfying to press.
My mother's family is in Brazil. I remember calls being almost $2/min. We had a lot of, "HappybirthdayitsgreattalkingtoyouweloveyouallGOODBYE!"
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Lanx
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in my college years (late 90s/2000s) cell phones were still being charged by the minute. i honestly don't know how we functioned w/ 200minutes a month free nights and weekends.
i'd have a cellphone for myself and my gf/wife and a beeper too, i got tired of having a phone around after college and decided not to have one for a few years, i missed out on blackberry, and i think i went to the shitty droid as my first come back phone
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Siliconemelons
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I was going to add this, I used this after my brother, my bro used this for HS and college then I got it and had no idea how to use it … ti83 for me!
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Cad
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You mean you guys weren't on your high school calculator team which basically required HP 32S2's?