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King Hong Kong posted:I saw someone on Reddit, who only knew the TV network, confused by why a movie theater would have that name. Hell this was me as a 9 year old playing some edutainment game about early 20th century immigration in the late 90s. I was very confused why Nickelodeon was there until I learned what it aas
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ulmont posted:People in prison. I think this is true. I work in a motel, and last week a guest asked how they could make a collect call. I didn't know, so I had to look up. "How to make a collect call" in Google. It gives you mostly results related to prisons. Son of a Vondruke! fucked around with this message at 13:12 on Apr 30, 2021 |
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Son of a Vondruke! posted:I think this is true. I work in a motel, and last week a guest asked how they could make a collect call. I didn't know, so I had to look up. "How to make a collect call" in Google gives you mostly results related to prisons. How do you do it now? Back when there were those 10-10-220 and 1-800-collect numbers, but I assume those are long gone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy_kpO7zO7g
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The_Franz posted:How do you do it now? Back when there were those 10-10-220 and 1-800-collect numbers, but I assume those are long gone. Even George Carlin did one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDonrJ2WVWM He addressed this in his bit about advertising telling everyone they would just have to deal with it.
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The_Franz posted:How do you do it now? Back when there were those 10-10-220 and 1-800-collect numbers, but I assume those are long gone. It was hard to figure out, not much non-prison info online. I think you have to call the operator and get them to do it.
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How many of you have made a collect call to your parents and instead of saying your name you're all like "pick me up at (person's name's house/random place/city/street name)"? I did a few in the mid-late 90s: "This is bell Canada, you have a collect call from: 'I made it to place/concert/etc. still alive see you in a few days' will you accept the charges"? "Thats good, see you then, I don't accept the charges". wesleywillis fucked around with this message at 14:12 on Apr 30, 2021 |
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AmbassadorofSodomy posted:How many of you have made a collect call to your parents and instead of saying your name you're all like "pick me up at (person's name's house/random place/city/street name)"? “You have a collect call from BOB WEHADABABYITSABOY.”
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The_Franz posted:long distance charges in north america are still a thing that exists, even though phone numbers have no connection to your physical location and haven't since 2004 when number porting was allowed. i can only surmise that they exist primarily to rip off old people who don't know any better The fact that I'm roaming when I leave the city in Canada but can go all over the US on the same plan is such bullshit. Also I was a very anxious child so I always waited for my parents to accept the charges and actually speak to them.
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AmbassadorofSodomy posted:How many of you have made a collect call to your parents and instead of saying your name you're all like "pick me up at (person's name's house/random place/city/street name)"? Alllll the time when I was 13.
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I tried dialing 0 from my smartphone; error message. Of course, if you have a smartphone and it's connected, you don't need an operator for anything. And there's no (or very little) "out of network" fees. Racked up a BIG bill with those on my first cell phone, cause I didn't notice the icon changed. Useless local plans... Pre-paid phone cards; used to be they were sold everywhere. I had one I carried and recharged for years, so i could make pay phone phone calls without needing change, or call my friends without my parents asking questions about the bill. For that matter, I can't recall the last operating pay phone I saw. Were they taken off the streets, or do I just not live in places with them in every bus depot and convenience store?
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I'll be damned if I remember where, but I've seen two or three payphones in the last few weeks. Didn't stop to check if there was a quarter in the return though. I think the last time I made a collect call was about this time in 2005. Had just arrived in the Bahamas and wanted to let my parents know I made it there and was too drunk to remember how to use the calling card (they were giving out Bahama Mammas at the airport). So I just dialed 0 and was all like "yo I want to call Canada please". wesleywillis fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Apr 30, 2021 |
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Cobalt-60 posted:For that matter, I can't recall the last operating pay phone I saw. Were they taken off the streets, or do I just not live in places with them in every bus depot and convenience store? AmbassadorofSodomy posted:I'll be damned if I remember where, but I've seen two or three payphones in the last few weeks. I saw four this morning on my way home from work. Two outside a convenience store, one at the bus stop, and one on a random street corner along my bus route.
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God, I used to do this all the time. Not only do I now not remember why I even started, I don't remember if I ever found any change or not. Also, the recent posts reminded me of a good Neko Case song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91jgjTAmNQU
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a kitten posted:God, I used to do this all the time. Not only do I now not remember why I even started, I don't remember if I ever found any change or not. You used to do it because when you were a kid all you had was your allowance and if you found a quarter, that would get you TWENTY FIVE penny candies.
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a kitten posted:God, I used to do this all the time. Not only do I now not remember why I even started, I don't remember if I ever found any change or not. I check the coin return on the CD jukebox at my favorite bar every time I go there. It's on the side of the machine towards a wall, so drunk people tend to not find it. I also make sure to queue up the longest and most annoying songs if I do find anything in the return slot.
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I was watching the start of Guys and Dolls last night and there's a guy who goes down a row of payphones searching the return slots. I found 50p in one of those once! Only once.
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Long distance charges were something nasty if you ever called long distance to play PC games with a direct modem connection. I used to play games like Doom and Warcraft with my cousin in a different state and the long distance bills would end up being hundreds of dollars.
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Original_Z posted:Long distance charges were something nasty if you ever called long distance to play PC games with a direct modem connection. I used to play games like Doom and Warcraft with my cousin in a different state and the long distance bills would end up being hundreds of dollars. My family's first internet experience was with eWorld. Wiki says there was a subscription rate, but I don't remember that part. I do remember Dad being flustered at the long distance charges. That was the end of the experience with eWorld. We lived in the sticks and long distance rules at that time said that you could only call free within the county. The county had a grand total of three stoplights. No major ISPs had local numbers. The only ISP with a local number was because of a weird glitch in the rules. There was one town in a neighboring county you could call free. That was our local dial-up number. It was hilarious at the amount of CDs that AOL, Prodigy and Compuserve mailed out. They didn't have local numbers, so they were useless. Actually, one was good. AOL had a promo in a MAD Magazine, which also contained a few old MAD music tracks. I kept that one. On a related note, when we signed up with the ISP in mid-1996, they had a few internet packages. 20 hours for $15 or unlimited for $20 (or $30). Dad was smart enough to go unlimited.
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In the 80s some organizations had terminal severs available via modem. Almost certainly for after hours connections to their local servers for employees. But most of these terminal servers were not secured. If you could connect you could reach anything on the network. But who cared about hacking local mainframes when you could get the ip addresses of other similarly open terminal servers across the county, telnet to them and realize they also allowed you to make outgoing modem connections in their area? That's how we connected to BBSes without paying for long distance. By the time admins realized how open their servers were and started locking them down, it was basically the time the Mosaic browser was released and we quickly stopped caring about BBSes.
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I am not that old to remember the nitty gritty of dialup pricing - it was hell, and at some point I was only allowed to use the internet for like 2 hours on a Saturday afternoon - but one thing I do remember are shiny books for kids and whatever that told you about cool websites to visit! Of course, those books don't feel as immediately dated/pointless as the drat Minecraft guide books I saw at the store.
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Tangentially on topic, but I feel within the spirit of this thread: what are some jobs that don't exist anymore? It's interesting to think about professions that people devoted their lives to that are entirely irrelevant. Computer is a big one, where people would be paid to compute things. Are operators still around? Obviously there's lots of really old ones from before the industrial age like scribes and criers and food testers, but I'm a bit more curious in ones that are within the last 200 years or so, where there still may be people alive that have those skills (or remember their parents having them)
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CodfishCartographer posted:Tangentially on topic, but I feel within the spirit of this thread: what are some jobs that don't exist anymore? It's interesting to think about professions that people devoted their lives to that are entirely irrelevant. Computer is a big one, where people would be paid to compute things. Are operators still around? Obviously there's lots of really old ones from before the industrial age like scribes and criers and food testers, but I'm a bit more curious in ones that are within the last 200 years or so, where there still may be people alive that have those skills (or remember their parents having them) The entire crew of jobs around running coal fired boiler based industry.
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Elevator operators.
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People who knew how to operate physical printing presses. Filing clerks. The guys putting all the memos and poo poo into physical files and also were able to find them again.
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Anne Whateley posted:Stenographers might be the biggest one recently They use digital keyboards now but still very much exist?
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CodfishCartographer posted:Tangentially on topic, but I feel within the spirit of this thread: what are some jobs that don't exist anymore? It's interesting to think about professions that people devoted their lives to that are entirely irrelevant. Computer is a big one, where people would be paid to compute things. Are operators still around? Obviously there's lots of really old ones from before the industrial age like scribes and criers and food testers, but I'm a bit more curious in ones that are within the last 200 years or so, where there still may be people alive that have those skills (or remember their parents having them) Blacksmith and buggy whip manufacturer are the two I'm used to hearing as being (effectively) eliminated. I expect they both still exist in hobby form, though (I know blacksmithing does), so they're not as dramatic as elevator operators.
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People that work in the automotive manufacturing industry, or at least most of them anyway.
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The guy or lady who had to push around the cart delivering everyone’s paychecks a la Superman III probably doesn’t have a job anymore. I think we’ve talked about projectionists already, but that’s a dead job. Movie theaters still have “projectionists” but it’s no longer the skilled profession it once was. Sure there are theaters that still need that particular skill, but it’s not like there are any 18 year olds breaking into the industry. Even the ornate movie palace near here is digital now.
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Milkman. Except in the porn industry I guess.
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While not "literally" dead in the sense that there are still a few either highly specialized or old af tradesman hanging in there, it seems like a whole range of repairmen are going the way of the dodo: shoe repair, clock repair, small appliance repair, camera repair, lawnmower repair, etc. It's just that everything is either cheaper to just replace now or designed to be impossible to fix.
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Krispy Wafer posted:The guy or lady who had to push around the cart delivering everyone’s paychecks a la Superman III probably doesn’t have a job anymore. Tea ladies. Large offices used to have women pushing around essentially little snack carts, so you could keep caffeinated (for free) and keep working. They were often the custodians of office gossip.
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Imagined posted:While not "literally" dead in the sense that there are still a few either highly specialized or old af tradesman hanging in there, it seems like a whole range of repairmen are going the way of the dodo: shoe repair, clock repair, small appliance repair, camera repair, lawnmower repair, etc. It's just that everything is either cheaper to just replace now or designed to be impossible to fix. Yeah I was thinking about these too. Watch repair is maybe the one thing that still sticks around cus rich dudes love their watches. It sucks as a hobby photographer cus a lot of old film cameras benefit a lot from regular service, and sometimes there's only a handful of people in the country (sometimes world) that regularly service some models. Quality film development is hard to come by too, though surprisingly lots of drug stores still offer 1hr photo services.
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Aircraft flight crews. It used to take as many as four people to manage a big plane, a pilot, a copilot, a flight engineer and a radio operator/navigator. As technology improved those tasks are now all automated or managed by the pilot. Co-pilots are only there for redundancy at this point and I expect in the near future will be eliminated in favor of automation or remote piloting.
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Huh, I always assumed copilots were there for safety purposes. Make sure there's nothing key that the main pilot forgets, or in the event that main pilot had a heart attack or something and someone needs to take over.
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This is correct and it is still official FAA policy that pilot and co-pilot do not eat at the same restaurant in case of food poisoning
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