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1. hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 06:55:31 CEST hankg
   I guess it was inevitable that this would be considered an interesting factoid in a home remodeling show. Although I'd say it should have been prefaced with "up until the late-20th century." Wait till they find out we had massive books of phone numbers you had to flip through to try to locate a business or a person.
   • Super Nintendo Chalmers (64bithero@mstdn.games)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 06:55:29 CEST Super Nintendo Chalmers

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     @hankg just confirms my theory: I’m ancient.

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   • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 06:59:58 CEST Michael Vogel

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     • Nonya Bidniss 🥥🌴
     @hankg @Nonya_Bidniss My mobile phone number is from the last century as well. I had my first contract in 1996 and then ported that number to several providers - so I can remember that really well.
   • hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 06:59:59 CEST hankg

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     • Nonya Bidniss 🥥🌴
     @Nonya_Bidniss I can still remember my first phone number, my grandparent's phone number, etc. I have to think before I start typing my current phone number though lol.
   • Nonya Bidniss 🥥🌴 (nonya_bidniss@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 07:00:00 CEST Nonya Bidniss 🥥🌴

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     @hankg Remember when we remembered phone numbers?

   • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 07:12:55 CEST Michael Vogel

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     @hankg Some fun facts about old phones: In the 80s it was possible to call the "German Democratic Republic" (East Germany) directly from West Germany. But the number of slots was really small. So when my mum wanted to call our relatives there, she told me to keep trying until I got through. Sometimes it took up to half an hour. And of course we had no repeat function because we had a rotary phone.
   • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 07:19:07 CEST Michael Vogel

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     @hankg Another fun fact: In the old analogue German telephone system, a call was not really terminated until both parties hung up. So if I called a friend and he hung up after the call (and I stayed on the line) and he picked up the phone again to dial someone else, we would be reconnected because the call was never fully terminated.
   • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 19:49:05 CEST Michael Vogel

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     • alastair87
     @hankg @alastair I know why I don't watch that kind of shows.
   • hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 19:49:06 CEST hankg

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     • alastair87
     @alastair Right but the factoid is for viewers not the people in the video.
   • alastair87 (alastair@social.alastair87.me)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 19:49:22 CEST alastair87

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     @hankg@friendica.myportal.social All of those people look old enough to have been alive when landline phones were more common and they still exist today. I have one connected for emergencies.

   • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 20:04:29 CEST Michael Vogel

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     • Michael Vogel
     • alastair87
     @hankg @alastair I can remember MTV like it had been at the start.
   • hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 20:04:30 CEST hankg

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     • Michael Vogel
     • alastair87
     @heluecht @alastair I always flashback to VH1's "Pop-up Video" from the 1990s where they'd give you little factoids about the artist, song, or music video while the video played. For younger folks, we used to have a channel that just played music videos called "MTV" but then they never played music videos so they made another one called VH1 that eventually also never played music videos.
   • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 20:17:43 CEST Michael Vogel

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     • Michael Vogel
     • alastair87
     @hankg @alastair BTW: I just had to play this legendary song:
     Dire Straits - Money For Nothing (Lyric Video)
   • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 20:20:20 CEST Michael Vogel

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     • Michael Vogel
     • alastair87
     @hankg @alastair Concerning MTV: This had been the first song they played:
     The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star - 1979 HD & HQ
   • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 05:16:35 CEST Michael Vogel

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     • Michael Vogel
     • alastair87
     @hankg @alastair I hadn't found that one.
   • hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 05:16:40 CEST hankg

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     • Michael Vogel
     • alastair87
     @heluecht @alastair I like the original video more I think.
     - YouTube