sure kid. for me it would be a long interstate road trip in a car that runs leaded gas, has no A/C and only an AM radio.
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I've never even owned a car with A/C. I guess you can't miss what you don't know?
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I still remember driving to summer holiday in Italy and my mum having the paper map out, the road marked with yellow highlighter and all the exits and changes written out beforehand. No A/C as well.
There was the pilot, and the navigator, whose job it was to read the map and say stuff like "the exit after this"
Somehow family members who lived through this lost the ability to navigate. I though my sister and later mother were fucking with me when I would ask and they would repeat word-for-word what apple maps just said, expecting me to read the names of every street we drove by. No turns out they literally cannot read a map and say "turn right in 2 streets, right before the McDonalds", they have to follow the little arrow until it gets to the turn. This was 2 different road trips btw.
The whippersnappers think that as long as the ad is coming from someone hot and it's in their FYP, it must not be an ad.
Fedi is great because if you saw as many ads as I see every day on fedi, it meant you had at least one virus, not three.
Eh, as a member of Gen Z I remember AOL dialup before we moved to cable, and using Mac os 9 on some of the iMac g3's the school had for reader rabbit/type to learn.
I fondly remember infecting the family XP machine for cursor mania lmao.
Kind of like the modern "Lincoln telegraphing a samurai".
Now w3c has decided our browsers should run everybody's malware, and it's totally fine if every site breaks if we try to disable the malware
You gui's have ads ? Never seen one in 10 years
It's so jaring to use my work computer, I can't install an ad blocker, and it's over vpn which avoids my networks pihole. How do people deal with that level of advertising?
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Or you're a teenager making fat stacks with multiple ad bars. And by fat stacks, I mean fractions of a cent.
There was an ISP that also gave a discount (or was it free?) if you had the ad bar running. NetZero was it?
I think? or Juno.. one of the dialups.
man I cant believe I remember Juno.. or NetZero.
edit I just looked it up.. NetZero still exists.And is still operating, as a dialup internet provider.
more so.. the company that owns NetZero, also owns Juno.. and owns K-Marts (Americas K-Mart, not Australia's) BlueLight Internet service as well.
Talk about a memory hole
Wow, that's wild. I guess there's still a market for dialup, even in the age of mobile and satellite.
Basically every time America gives huge telecom conglomerates money to expand rural services they literally just steal it and face no consequence whatsoever. It’s such a scam, politicians look good because they vote to spend 400 million dollars to expand rural access, comcast and Verizon take with the promise that in 5-10 years things will be better, then they do nothing hoping people will forget. Even when an expose article is written on the issue American cynicism kicks in and the politicians get away with letting them steal literally hundreds of millions of dollars.
It’s basically money laundering. It’s also a reason rural areas (which already tend to skew republican) have more support for musk, because for a lot of them starlink is the only real option for passable internet, but that’s expensive for internet that is pretty shitty compared to a basic broadband connection. And thus ~20% of rural Americans and almost 30% of Americans on tribal lands have no access to broadband in 2026
It is America, i'm sure theres still places that have nothing but phone lines for access to the outside world.