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Teen here. I don't see how this is considered a bad thing. I've never needed to mail a physical letter before. We're experiencing a shift of paradigms. Physical

• DanBC 13y ago
  It's just one of those "Oh God I'm getting old" moments. When you realise that the person you're talking too wasn't born when Star Wars was released - well, ok. But then you find out they were born after "Little Mermaid". There's that xkcd about "Little Mermaid" being closer to man being on the moon than to today. You know they don't know what a shared party line is. (I lived in a village. There was one phone line, shared between several houses. They used phased switching to make the correct phones ring. When you picked up the handset you either got a dial tone or you got someone else's conversation.) Okay, that's ancient, they don't know it. But then you realise that they don't know what an acoustic coupler is, and they've never dialed a number but punched it in on buttons. And then they were born around the time I got my fourth cell phone (Motorola StarTac). You know they don't know what Compuserve is. Or what AOHell is. Or why InternetTV and midi signatures make some grown men cry. But then you realise that they've probably never used a real smtp client, only webmail. Yahoo! has never been big in their lifetime - they can't remember when buying yahoo stocks was the punchline in a timetravel movie. I was raging today because I found out that Intel has some network drivers that are 2 GB. But I remember the time when a mouse driver was 10 MB and I thought that was too much.
  • qu4z-2 13y ago
    2GB? Seriously? Wow. Maybe I'm old, but I still feel like 10MB is too much for a mouse driver...