OT: 118th Obsequious Banter Thread: February is the month of food days

[CanadianFlyer88]

29125 = Tonight Want to Fight? It's phonetic. Pagers were a weird time.

How often did you send/receive a 29125 over a gambling argument?

 

[ajgoal]

I'm surprised there isn't one for "Made a collect call from 'HiImdone comepickmeup."

 

[JojoTheWhale]

I'm surprised there isn't one for "Made a collect call from 'HiImdone comepickmeup."

211 was asking for a pickup. 212 was telling someone else you’d pick them up.

I wish I forgot things. 210 was pay phone not working right. Yes, I built my own phreaking box.

 

[ajgoal]

Remember chacha? You could text a question and someone would text the answer back. It was also on browsers and became an app once smartphones became a thing, but I only ever used the text version.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

I remember writing some serious rants about the Flyers on myspace

 

[DancingPanther]

Pagers are still the #1 way to get ahold of doctors at the hospital. It's baffling. And yes, they're straight out of 1997

 

[flyersnorth]

MySpace was bad but Geocities sites with all that blinking html text was pretty atrocious

 

[Yukon Cornelius]

I got 24/25. I feel old.

8, 21,25 were no-gos for me. I remember the others,
Neither me nor my family could afford a VHS recorder, no need to have a pager, never used messenger.

 

[Flybynite]

MySpace was bad but Geocities sites with all that blinking html text was pretty atrocious

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

No pager
No MySpace



And I did use my disc man with a tape cassette outlet to play cd’s In my car with a tape player

Oh man. Remember the thing where you could play your iPod in the car by tuning to a radio station?

It's funny reading this pay phone/pager conversation right now, because I recently decided to go through my backlog of shows I want to watch, and I'm halfway through season 2 of The Wire. Crazy seeing digital cameras for the first time (again)

 

[PALE PWNR]

Oh man. Remember the thing where you could play your iPod in the car by tuning to a radio station?

It's funny reading this pay phone/pager conversation right now, because I recently decided to go through my backlog of shows I want to watch, and I'm halfway through season 2 of The Wire. Crazy seeing digital cameras for the first time (again)

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I always had the iPod radio thing lmao. That was hilarious when i was sitting in traffic and was competing with multiple people for the same empty radio stations

 

[PDX Flyer]

Oh man. Remember the thing where you could play your iPod in the car by tuning to a radio station?

It's funny reading this pay phone/pager conversation right now, because I recently decided to go through my backlog of shows I want to watch, and I'm halfway through season 2 of The Wire. Crazy seeing digital cameras for the first time (again)

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I still do the latter with my old 94 ranger. Only has about 130k miles. Guess I’m old. Using my smart phone though so making strides. My truck does have a CD player and I go to local music/ consignment shops and by cheap cds of classical music especially

Edit: meant former.... I’ll connect my music via radio station to my truck stereo

 

[mja]

I never had a MySpace.

 

[Embiid]

I never had a MySpace.

A pity...everybody needs their space.

 

[flyersnorth]

I remember having an ICQ account. That predated MSN Messenger and AOL AIM.

Even before that, I remember spending days in the computer labs on IRC and Usenet.

 

[Kermit the Prog]

Back in the day, you had a limited number of hours to access the Internet each month via the AOL discs. You had to monitor your usage.

Then, there were the chat rooms...

 

[JojoTheWhale]

I remember having an ICQ account. That predated MSN Messenger and AOL AIM.

Even before that, I remember spending days in the computer labs on IRC and Usenet.

I still use ICQ and IRC for some work purposes. That mIRC ping would probably wake me out of a sound sleep.

 

[flyersnorth]

Back in the day, you had a limited number of hours to access the Internet each month via the AOL discs. You had to monitor your usage.

Then, there were the chat rooms...

Oh man, I can't even count the number of those 3.5in floppies and CDs I received from them in the mail.

 

[Beef Invictus]

I'm surprised there isn't one for "Made a collect call from 'HiImdone comepickmeup."

I would be fascinated to learn how much of collect calling traffic was this, vs how much was actual accepted calls.

 

[Beef Invictus]

I still use ICQ and IRC for some work purposes. That mIRC ping would probably wake me out of a sound sleep.

!trivia


"Why is every third question about Cary Grant"

 

[DancingPanther]

I'm surprised there isn't one for "Made a collect call from 'HiImdone comepickmeup."

Hello this a collect call Mr. Floyd to Mrs. Floyd, do you accept these charges from the United States?

 

[Lord Defect]

I got 24/25. I feel old.

25

 

[flyersnorth]

25

The only one I didn't have was typewriter.... I mean, I'm sure I tried one for fun at some point, but can't say I ever really used one.

!trivia


"Why is every third question about Cary Grant"

Either that or "asl?"

 

[Flybynite]

Smart to paint the subway car red tho. Will hide those bloodstains.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Typewriters are mega satisfying, especially the "advanced" ones that had a memory bank that let you type out a string of characters and review them before hitting a key, and the whole line would get machinegunned out.