Posted on 02/27/2015 6:10:40 PM PST by Zeneta
I hate texting. I hate the way it restricts me. It's great that I can stay in touch while on the road, but it's a pain in the butt.
I can't reference my thoughts with links that would generally be a few "copy and paste" clicks away.
I can't stand the screen size of my "Smart Phone" and I have one of the largest available.
I hate using the pop up key board that tries to "Help" me.
Ever try to search for and paste a link to something that wasn't already planned for?
Good luck.
I love my PC.
I love that I have the ability to capture information and relay it in seconds. Information that may or may not be stored on my machine. A quick search and a few clicks and I can send it to you without jumping through smart phone hoops.
I hate Texting.
I hate BRB, and all the others that are making people lazy when trying to express themselves.
WTF !!
It's the death of us, the death of our language and the meaning of words in their proper context.
Touch screen convenience at it's best?".
Short cuts designed to "Help" us get our message across have made so many miss the message all together.
I hate Texting.
Where’d you get a pc in 1985?
OK, Soo, I worked for this delivery company and there lots of machines that went in and out of our warehouse. It may have been 86, but nevertheless.
We had every failed PC makers machines as well as hundreds of the very first IBMs and their knockoffs shortly thereafter. I “found” a leftover IBM knockoff and maybe it was in 86?
Do you remember the KayPro ?
I had one.
I think a bag phone today would only work as a door stop.
I think a bag phone today would only work as a door stop
My question is whether or not the “service provider” is or has to provide service to these outdated phones?
Dale, if you have anything newer than this, I'm amazed.
Smart Alec! Freshie boy! ......uh, what’s ur #?!
lol
then why do you do it???
As to the undead.
How am I doing?
I know there seemed to be a pause in activity but can you give us a sense of where you think this may be going?
Will accept limited calls during emergency circumstances such as when our water heater let go last week.
The flip phones of 6-8 years ago still work. Don’t know if any of the early 90’s versions of a flip phone would.
I refuse to either text or (usually) take phone calls*; email only.
Will accept limited calls during emergency circumstances such as when our water heater let go last week.
I’m with you.
I keep my phone on Silent ALL the time.
Thanks
11:11. My dead husband is saying Hello! No text, no nothing. Its 11:11. Angles!
Hi Honey!
How am I doing?
Sorry, you're out of the running; we need at least 1000 posts for you to be in consideration, and then we'll have to have undead board approval, it gets really sticky from there....
“Back in the late 90’s Motorola used my company as a test bed with their text device that opened up like a clamshell to replace our pagers with. it soon became a pain in the ass with co-corkers texting questions every 10 minutes.
I have hardly texted ever since.”
Early 90’s my dept. thought it would be field work time saver to install a DOS software texting program so the secretary could send a message to our pagers along the lines of “Appointment set for you at 2:00pm, 123 Elm st.”.
The secretary didn’t like typing out long messages so all she ever sent was “call the office”.
Thanks. I like it! Great article.
Sorry, you’re out of the running; we need at least 1000 posts for you to be in consideration, and then we’ll have to have undead board approval, it gets really sticky from there....
I think it was the absence of the early Zot that has done me in.
After all, once the Viking Kitty brigade gets pinged there’s no telling where things will go.
I’ll have to leave to math to the much smarter Freepers among us.
LOL... haven't seen that in awhile
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