This sucks. I always liked reading it in class. I saw someone mention the other day that 1999 would have been a great year to stop society technologically. I think 2015 at the max.
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1999 is great except for one thing that smart phones excel at: travel. I dont want to go back to not having tickets, car/hotel rentals, maps, etc not easily accessible. Tracking flight when picking people up at the airport is amazing. I would be fine with no email, flip phones, golden eye on the n64, and all, but having travel at my fingertips is so much of an improvement.
Oh and when did Tivo come out, that was great.
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translate, to me, is under travel cause thats the only time I use it, but i could see where others use it more often. I do love nfc payments.
I dont use reninders, or FaceTime. I prefer to shop in stores and I never look at the weather anyways. I dont use notes enough that it really makes or breaks it for me.
Though having internet on my phone means no one asks me why I have a laptop stand in my bathroom so that's a plus.
I will add that my father (type 1 diabetic) has a insulin pump, blood sugar monitor, hearing aids all connected to his phone which has been super helpful. I think having a computer ink your pocket with wireless connectivity has been amazing for medical issues.
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Being so often on a motorcycle, weather apps are an important part of my day.
I use reminders, alarms, timers and calendars constantly.
Almost never Facetime. Infrequently phone, commonly teams or other messaging. These things are important for a guy that works shift work.
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The first GPS in a phone was 1999. First web browser was 1996, so technology existed for a simple weather service to work. 1999 palm pilots and black berrries had reminders and calendars. So its possible to get what you would need. I assume for alarms your want easy ways to set, cause a Casio watch from the 80s did that.
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I existed well before that. First email account was at Johns Hopkins in 79.
Lived by day planner type in the early 90s.
GPs was a godsend in late 90s doing service calls for HP in 80s.
Some of the modern tech has been incredibly productive enhancing
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I know you are exaggerating, but reality is not far off. Just took a moment to scroll through my recent calls received and 17 of the last 20 were spam. 85% does sound about right. Maybe even low. I don't even answer the phone anymore unless it is a known number. A real person will leave a message and I'll call back if needed. No message, assume spam/scam or someone looking for this Larry prick who is involved in real estate and somehow gives my number out.
There was a LinkedIn story several years ago saying something like 40% of all calls are expected to be spam by [insert whatever the year was, I don't remember]. My comment was something along the lines of:
Who are they kidding? The damn New Jersey solar power a-holes constitute at least 40% of the calls I get right now all by themselves.
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Funny enough, but I only get 1-2 spam calls a week now, sometimes it is even lower. I think my spam calls reduced when I locked all my credit down. That shouldn't be linked but it is a heck of a coincidence.
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I found that it exploded after taking my daughter on her official tour of University of South Carolina earlier this spring. After booking transportation, my spam calls (which used to be low like yours and a small fraction of what my wife gets) went up by several times. Cannot prove it, but feels like that was the pivot point where they are hacked or they just posted the number to people.
There was a charity race I used to run and, right after that race, I would be deluged with charity solicitations and/or scams. 95% sure it was from signing up for that race. Either the main central charity sold my data or the local affiliate that organized the local race sold my data or the race director/their company sold my data. It was clockwork, year-after-year. Run this 5K in December and charities calls or regular mail solicitations would go up 5-10 fold for the next month or two.
I finally started telling these people, someone is going to have to come up with a charity to benefit me if I donated to even half the people hitting me up for money.
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I stopped donating to charities because of the incessant spam asking for money. It's also insane how many charities ask small business owners for free shit, sometimes worth up to $800, for their name to be somewhere at the giveaway event. I get asked multiple times a month to give away free full day fishing trips as donations for auctions.
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I actually am not exaggerating. All my friends and family know I work nights and so they do not call unless it is an emergency.
I just scrolled through my calls and I have had 5 real phone calls since 31 Dec.
I get about 3-5 calls per day that are spam.
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Why, pray tell, would someone have a laptop stand in their bathroom in the first place? Luddite that I am, I have a trac flip fone for when we're separated, and a Jitterbug smart phone I use for text and phone calls only. I do get the medical advantages, but I prefer my life to not be inundated by, or firmly connected to the internet or a telephone. I truly wish for the days of just computers, but no internet, while knowing those days are way behind us.
Jerry Jeff Walker had a song on his Viva Terlingua album about Rollin' Wheels. "Rollin' wheels, they're rollin' on, Takin' us all on our way, taken back all that they saved." I kinda have that feeling about technology, while not wanting to go back to horse and buggy days.
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Haha i am definitely not a gamer, although I did play a whole lot of starcraft 2 back in the day. Good times playing 2v2 and 3v3 with my roommates when we actually had some free time.
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Slight disagree... if we had moved social media up a few years it probably would have prevented Peter Warrick from playing the the BCS championship in '99...
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Warrick was clothing at Dillards, Jameis Winston was crab legs (among other things). It's definitely hard to keep all the "Bowden School for Kids who Don't Steal Good" honor roll straight.
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Thanks for sharing. Always enjoyed CT as a student. Thought they did some good stuff. Hopefully they continue to publish great work via their online medium.
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Sucks but not unexpected. Print media is a money-losing dinosaur.
Having a CT to browse through when you had a break between classes was such a relaxing habit.
Now you spend that time with your face shoved in a phone browsing Brain rot TikToks while your phone collects every bit of data it can on you so Mark Zuckerberg et al. can make money on targeted ads.
Its simple things like this that my kids generation will probably never experience, and I don't really think they are better for it.
I saw an article recently that suggested that the prime era to have been born would have been like 1987-89 because at that age you would have experienced the pre-Internet, smartphone era and also be young enough to acclimate to modern technology relatively seamlessly.
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I've heard people describe those born then as effectively being the "last chopper out of Saigon". We threaded the needle perfectly in terms of learning how to survive pre-internet and being taught how to navigate the internet era. Many of the lessons learned before the internet have proven to be very translatable.
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That's a bummer. Even though newspapers were already dying out when I was a student (like I don't think I ever saw anyone reading any other paper), I always liked picking up a CT someone left behind and reading it before and during class.
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I am surprised it lasted this long. With everyone having a smartphone and tablet/laptop on campus anyway, I would have thought it would have moved online-only years ago.
Of course, this probably also means the quality of the publication will now become a shell of its former self. Not that it was excellent before, but it was for students by students, so you expect a certain level of unprofessionalism there. If they make it online-only and don't ensure its locked down to students access, you're going to get a ton of busybodies throughout the alumni base and geographic region that will start following it purely to spam complaints to the offices in Burruss Hall.
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A sign of the Times.
This sucks. I always liked reading it in class. I saw someone mention the other day that 1999 would have been a great year to stop society technologically. I think 2015 at the max.
1999 is great except for one thing that smart phones excel at: travel. I dont want to go back to not having tickets, car/hotel rentals, maps, etc not easily accessible. Tracking flight when picking people up at the airport is amazing. I would be fine with no email, flip phones, golden eye on the n64, and all, but having travel at my fingertips is so much of an improvement.
Oh and when did Tivo come out, that was great.
Google Translate. Apple Wallet. Reminders, Notes, FaceTime, Amazon/online shopping, weather... all tremendous conveniences.
translate, to me, is under travel cause thats the only time I use it, but i could see where others use it more often. I do love nfc payments.
I dont use reninders, or FaceTime. I prefer to shop in stores and I never look at the weather anyways. I dont use notes enough that it really makes or breaks it for me.
Though having internet on my phone means no one asks me why I have a laptop stand in my bathroom so that's a plus.
I will add that my father (type 1 diabetic) has a insulin pump, blood sugar monitor, hearing aids all connected to his phone which has been super helpful. I think having a computer ink your pocket with wireless connectivity has been amazing for medical issues.
Being so often on a motorcycle, weather apps are an important part of my day.
I use reminders, alarms, timers and calendars constantly.
Almost never Facetime. Infrequently phone, commonly teams or other messaging. These things are important for a guy that works shift work.
The first GPS in a phone was 1999. First web browser was 1996, so technology existed for a simple weather service to work. 1999 palm pilots and black berrries had reminders and calendars. So its possible to get what you would need. I assume for alarms your want easy ways to set, cause a Casio watch from the 80s did that.
I existed well before that. First email account was at Johns Hopkins in 79.
Lived by day planner type in the early 90s.
GPs was a godsend in late 90s doing service calls for HP in 80s.
Some of the modern tech has been incredibly productive enhancing
That having been said, 99% of my current phone calls are SPAM telling me they have reviewed my file and I can get 36.000 in debt consolidation loans.
I know you are exaggerating, but reality is not far off. Just took a moment to scroll through my recent calls received and 17 of the last 20 were spam. 85% does sound about right. Maybe even low. I don't even answer the phone anymore unless it is a known number. A real person will leave a message and I'll call back if needed. No message, assume spam/scam or someone looking for this Larry prick who is involved in real estate and somehow gives my number out.
There was a LinkedIn story several years ago saying something like 40% of all calls are expected to be spam by [insert whatever the year was, I don't remember]. My comment was something along the lines of:
Who are they kidding? The damn New Jersey solar power a-holes constitute at least 40% of the calls I get right now all by themselves.
Funny enough, but I only get 1-2 spam calls a week now, sometimes it is even lower. I think my spam calls reduced when I locked all my credit down. That shouldn't be linked but it is a heck of a coincidence.
I found that it exploded after taking my daughter on her official tour of University of South Carolina earlier this spring. After booking transportation, my spam calls (which used to be low like yours and a small fraction of what my wife gets) went up by several times. Cannot prove it, but feels like that was the pivot point where they are hacked or they just posted the number to people.
There was a charity race I used to run and, right after that race, I would be deluged with charity solicitations and/or scams. 95% sure it was from signing up for that race. Either the main central charity sold my data or the local affiliate that organized the local race sold my data or the race director/their company sold my data. It was clockwork, year-after-year. Run this 5K in December and charities calls or regular mail solicitations would go up 5-10 fold for the next month or two.
I finally started telling these people, someone is going to have to come up with a charity to benefit me if I donated to even half the people hitting me up for money.
I stopped donating to charities because of the incessant spam asking for money. It's also insane how many charities ask small business owners for free shit, sometimes worth up to $800, for their name to be somewhere at the giveaway event. I get asked multiple times a month to give away free full day fishing trips as donations for auctions.
The only time that works for you is if you need the tax write off.
Yup. I definitely don't need the tax write off
I'm in the same boat. I get maybe 1 or 2 spam calls a MONTH.
I actually am not exaggerating. All my friends and family know I work nights and so they do not call unless it is an emergency.
I just scrolled through my calls and I have had 5 real phone calls since 31 Dec.
I get about 3-5 calls per day that are spam.
I agree it has been huge productive increases, but I'm find being less productive
Why, pray tell, would someone have a laptop stand in their bathroom in the first place? Luddite that I am, I have a trac flip fone for when we're separated, and a Jitterbug smart phone I use for text and phone calls only. I do get the medical advantages, but I prefer my life to not be inundated by, or firmly connected to the internet or a telephone. I truly wish for the days of just computers, but no internet, while knowing those days are way behind us.
Jerry Jeff Walker had a song on his Viva Terlingua album about Rollin' Wheels. "Rollin' wheels, they're rollin' on, Takin' us all on our way, taken back all that they saved." I kinda have that feeling about technology, while not wanting to go back to horse and buggy days.
"Jerry Jeff Walker"
Oh my God.
He was born ...
In Oklahoma ...
Because I need to poop during my starcraft game?
And of course, I've never heard of starcraft game. I'll have to ask Betty Lou Thelma Liz or one of the desperados waitin' for the train...
That doesn't seem related to smartphones existing tho
How to tell people you are not a gamer without telling people you aren't a gamer.
Haha i am definitely not a gamer, although I did play a whole lot of starcraft 2 back in the day. Good times playing 2v2 and 3v3 with my roommates when we actually had some free time.
We all thought that line in the Matrix was a throwaway just to make it "current" and it turned out weirdly accurate.
When I saw this thread I thought the exact same thing. Then I also wondered if the manifesto came out today, what would Ted Kaczynski be on about.
and live in constant fear of impending y2k chaos? no thank you
LOL.
AI fears are much worse than that.
Agreed on 1999...
Yea, they say 2000 zero-zero party over. Oops! out of time.
Slight disagree... if we had moved social media up a few years it probably would have prevented Peter Warrick from playing the the BCS championship in '99...
But to play Devil's Advocate: Michael Vick is probably playing for FSU or Miami .....
Corey Moore likely wouldn't have played after speaking to the press.
Corey was just agitated. Peter was stealing... lobster and steak IIRC.
Warrick was clothing at Dillards, Jameis Winston was crab legs (among other things). It's definitely hard to keep all the "Bowden School for Kids who Don't Steal Good" honor roll straight.
I think about about these videos at least once a week.
How you doin', Randy?
RIP Randy.
Thanks for sharing. Always enjoyed CT as a student. Thought they did some good stuff. Hopefully they continue to publish great work via their online medium.
Sucks but not unexpected. Print media is a money-losing dinosaur.
Having a CT to browse through when you had a break between classes was such a relaxing habit.
Now you spend that time with your face shoved in a phone browsing Brain rot TikToks while your phone collects every bit of data it can on you so Mark Zuckerberg et al. can make money on targeted ads.
Its simple things like this that my kids generation will probably never experience, and I don't really think they are better for it.
I saw an article recently that suggested that the prime era to have been born would have been like 1987-89 because at that age you would have experienced the pre-Internet, smartphone era and also be young enough to acclimate to modern technology relatively seamlessly.
I've heard people describe those born then as effectively being the "last chopper out of Saigon". We threaded the needle perfectly in terms of learning how to survive pre-internet and being taught how to navigate the internet era. Many of the lessons learned before the internet have proven to be very translatable.
That's a bummer. Even though newspapers were already dying out when I was a student (like I don't think I ever saw anyone reading any other paper), I always liked picking up a CT someone left behind and reading it before and during class.
I am surprised it lasted this long. With everyone having a smartphone and tablet/laptop on campus anyway, I would have thought it would have moved online-only years ago.
Of course, this probably also means the quality of the publication will now become a shell of its former self. Not that it was excellent before, but it was for students by students, so you expect a certain level of unprofessionalism there. If they make it online-only and don't ensure its locked down to students access, you're going to get a ton of busybodies throughout the alumni base and geographic region that will start following it purely to spam complaints to the offices in Burruss Hall.
Lame
This exact thing is also kind of a storyline in Steve Carrell's new show Rooster
So who do we need to hire as Dean of Faculty to continue the print editions
Gutenberg?
It's worth the lost money if it got kids to slow down a bit