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jankforlife@lemmy.ml to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 4 days ago

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jankforlife@lemmy.ml to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 4 days ago
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    That’s right dear, our ancestors had buttons

    • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.ml
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      On the belly!

    • Mossheart@lemmy.ca
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      That’s right dear, a superior subspecies of our ancestors had headphone jacks, but they were forced into extinction by courageous product managers.

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      or dials even!

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        External antennas!

        Removable batteries!

        Several days, or even a week, between charges!

        • marcos@lemmy.world
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          They had to survive in a wild environment without chargers everywhere.

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            … and getting stepped on by dinosaurs

            • squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de
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              … who also had buttons and external antennas

      • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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        They had to switch to buttons because men had trouble calling numbers beginning with 9.

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      Back in the day, “Snake” and a T9 keyboard was all we had.

      We programmed ringtones from magazines - Through dialpad input, for goodness sake!

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      deleted by creator

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      Even by 2011 standards, the cartoonist was already behind on the times. Everyone had an iPhone or Android phone by then. There were still plenty of Blackberry, Symbian (Nokia), and Windows phone users around too, and those brands were all moving towards buttonless designs as well by 2011.

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        I got my first smartphone in 2013 or 14

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    Nowadays our phones just have temporary tails that are plugged in to charge.

    A Tail Plug, if you will.

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    Twisting those coils between your toes when lying on shag carpet, talking for hours, was the best.

    This should be marked nsfw.

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      Then you really got into a conversation and forget how long the cable was and the phone got shot back against the wall breaking it or you rip the entire phone off the wall, either way you’re grounded.

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    boomer ass meme lmao

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    Said the phone with T9 keyboard.

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    Oki doki boomer

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    The thing they’ll reciever attaches to is still part of the phone. So its more like long floppy necks

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