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"The probability of knowing what an acoustically coupled modem looks like is inversely proportional to knowing what Fortnite is" I happen to know about both, r
by kemonocode 8y ago
"The probability of knowing what an acoustically coupled modem looks like is inversely proportional to knowing what Fortnite is"
I happen to know about both, really. All I can see is a bitter boomer talking down to anyone born from the mid-eighties onward. (The actual article is fine, but that sentence sticks out like a sore thumb and makes the rest seem sour)
- spectramax 8y agoI would take that as a joke. But I agree, it does have the elitist tone to it.
- peter_d_sherman 8y ago"The probability of knowing what an acoustically coupled modem looks like is inversely proportional to knowing what Fortnite is" ...And yet, the author of the article seems to know what both are... paradoxically... <g>
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoIf he's said "inversely proportional to having played Fortnite" then I think he wouldn't have been far off the truth?
- empath75 8y agoInversely proportional does not mean there is no overlap :)
- peter_d_sherman 8y agoExcellent Point! I stand corrected! :)
- slantyyz 8y ago>> All I can see is a bitter boomer talking down to anyone born from the mid-eighties onward Isn't calling the author a bitter boomer the same type of generalization as that sentence you find so offputting? I'm a Gen X-er, and someone from my generation could have just as easily made the same misguided joke. Acoustic couplers were still quite common when I started using computers in the early 80s. Heck, my high school still used card readers for "data processing" classes right up until the mid-to-late 80s.
- darkpuma 8y agoNote that the boomer did not say: "anybody who knows what fornite is CERTAINLY does not know what an acoustically coupled modem looks like"