What a neat little website! I recognized every one of them except for the device along the right hand side that resembles an old TV remote and beeps loudly. I vaguely recollect its shape and styling, just cannot recall exactly what it is. (Older radar detector was the best my mind could come up with!)
@PooltoyWolf I’m guessing you didn’t pay attention to the hover-over text.
It looks like there’s a geographical reason neither you nor I recognized this thing.
@Limewater@PooltoyWolf Did you try just “pressing” the buttons for a few seconds? On my phone (android), I can get hover text to appear if I hold down the link.
@Limewater@PooltoyWolf@tinamarie1974 While I’m sure we can all come up with an extensive list detailing the various reasons why we have earned eternal condemnation, learning to use hover text on your phone probably will not qualify. You’ll have to try harder…
@Limewater@shahnm Yes, that usually works, but the nature of hovertext is that on a desktop machine, it makes its presence known as soon as you hover over an object. On mobile, additional interaction is required to ever know it’s even there.
Did you try just “pressing” the buttons for a few seconds? On my phone (android), I can get hover text to appear if I hold down the link.
yeah, and that’s why I have a pair of ‘self-like’ listed in my meh profile… wasn’t until later that I figured out you can click on it again and “un-like”
@Limewater@PooltoyWolf@tinamarie1974 on my iPhone 6 I can press the image once and it will show me the hover text. I click a second time to play the sound. Third time to turn it off.
@earlyre back in the day, I had reprogrammed my computer’s “error ding” sound to use Curly from the 3 Stooges saying “I’m trying to think but nothin’ happening…”
So much more satisfying than that windows CLUNK noise.
I still have a rotary phone hooked up. I can place calls, because it would cost too much to translate pulses to DTMF, but it rings and I can answer it.
@craigthom@PooltoyWolf Have you seen this sort of endearing and hilarious video of a couple of teenagers trying to figure out how to dial a rotary phone?
My brother also has a rotary phone, and he taught my nieces how to use it. They can also tell time from a clock face.
My parents didn’t have a touch tone phone until around 1990, which I bought them one. Mostly because I was fed up with having to go use a pay phone to check my messages. Remember checking messages on an answering machine?
My parents are still using that phone (with built in answering machine). They still don’t have call waiting.
@craigthom@PooltoyWolf@shahnm That’s a shame if true, as it helps to develop the ability to graphically recognize and process information. You can tell the time from just a glance, you don’t need to read the numbers - you can figure out time duration just by drawing some imaginary lines across the clock face. If schools are doing this, that’s pretty stupid. Plus I’d miss “quarter-to”, “half past” and lyrics like this:
It’s quarter to three
There’s no-one in the place
'Cept You and me.
@craigthom@PooltoyWolf@shahnm@stolicat it is true. There is an a thread from earlier this year where we discussed this and how schools are not teaching cursive. Really sad
@craigthom@shahnm@stolicat@tinamarie1974 I would personally argue that being able to read hands on a clock is eminently more useful as a life skill than being able to write in cursive.
@craigthom@PooltoyWolf@shahnm@tinamarie1974 you should at least be able to read it - have you ever looked at the writings in, say, the Declaration of Independence, or Lincoln’s Gettysburg address, or originals of some of Shakespeare’s sonnets, or an old letter from a parent or lover, and you can get a feel for the writer’s feelings and emotions as they wrote. You can’t get that from just text.
@craigthom@shahnm@stolicat@tinamarie1974 Of course! Note that I referred to learning to write in cursive, which is quite a bit different than simply knowing how to read it.
@PooltoyWolf@shahnm@stolicat A quarter of an hour is still fifteen minutes, whether the clock is displaying a face worth hands or numerals. We know how much a quarter dollar is.
Parents can teach kids to read a clock. It shouldn’t take that much time.
Reading and writing cursive is a different matter. Although my signature is just about the only cursive I’ve written in over forty years. I haven’t done it since I was required to in school.
@craigthom@shahnm@stolicat I think you’re putting a bit too much faith in parents who would rather hand their kid a smartphone than actually teach them how to do anything. But I agree, for a child who’s eager to learn, clocks are easy. We had one of those (once ubiquitous) blue and yellow ‘clock trainers’ in my early elementary school classrooms.
@craigthom@shahnm@stolicat@tinamarie1974 Depends entirely on how often you use it, and how fluent you are in it. For those of us like me who haven’t written anything in cursive other than our signatures in over a decade, it’s a pointless and superfluous endeavor, and writing in standard manuscript is much faster.
I turned them all on like it suggested.
Would not recommend.
I read the bottom of the page. Published in 2012, was supposed to be finished by 2015.
I have a feeling it hasn’t been updated in a long time.
@RiotDemon Never, ever read the bottom of the page. Ever.
@RiotDemon @shahnm But then we would miss the geocities visitor counter!
/giphy web view counter
What a neat little website! I recognized every one of them except for the device along the right hand side that resembles an old TV remote and beeps loudly. I vaguely recollect its shape and styling, just cannot recall exactly what it is. (Older radar detector was the best my mind could come up with!)
@PooltoyWolf I’m guessing you didn’t pay attention to the hover-over text.
It looks like there’s a geographical reason neither you nor I recognized this thing.
Eurosignal
@Limewater Hovertext doesn’t work on mobile devices.
@Limewater @PooltoyWolf which is so frustrating!!
@Limewater @PooltoyWolf Did you try just “pressing” the buttons for a few seconds? On my phone (android), I can get hover text to appear if I hold down the link.
@Limewater @PooltoyWolf @shahnm well I’ll be damned that works!! Thanks
@Limewater @PooltoyWolf @tinamarie1974 While I’m sure we can all come up with an extensive list detailing the various reasons why we have earned eternal condemnation, learning to use hover text on your phone probably will not qualify. You’ll have to try harder…
@Limewater @shahnm Yes, that usually works, but the nature of hovertext is that on a desktop machine, it makes its presence known as soon as you hover over an object. On mobile, additional interaction is required to ever know it’s even there.
@Limewater @PooltoyWolf Well then… go to Hell!
@Limewater @PooltoyWolf @shahnm
I’m sure there is someone to blame for your ignorance. scapegoat, where are you?
@JnkL is to blame for this!
@Limewater @mike808 @PooltoyWolf @shahnm Oh yes! I am easily to blame for ignorance!
@JnKL @Limewater @mike808 @PooltoyWolf Yeah @JnKL, but what the fuck do you know?!?
Did you know that @carl669 is the keeper of the count?
@Limewater @mike808 @PooltoyWolf @shahnm I know I am the scapegoat for 17 more days!
I know I want you to have a great evening.
Have fun!
@JnkL is to blame for this!
@JnKL @Limewater @mike808 @PooltoyWolf @shahnm
yeah, and that’s why I have a pair of ‘self-like’ listed in my meh profile… wasn’t until later that I figured out you can click on it again and “un-like”
@Limewater @PooltoyWolf @tinamarie1974 on my iPhone 6 I can press the image once and it will show me the hover text. I click a second time to play the sound. Third time to turn it off.
This was so cool.
yay!, now i can download those soundfiles, and use the ICQ “Uh-OH” for Txts on my phone!
…that wasn’t an idea a had a long time ago or anything…no…
@earlyre back in the day, I had reprogrammed my computer’s “error ding” sound to use Curly from the 3 Stooges saying “I’m trying to think but nothin’ happening…”
So much more satisfying than that windows CLUNK noise.
Vinyl is back, baby!
I am too old for some of these video game ones.
I still have a rotary phone hooked up. I can place calls, because it would cost too much to translate pulses to DTMF, but it rings and I can answer it.
It was my grandparents’ phone.
@craigthom Was that first ‘can’ supposed to be a ‘can’t’?
@PooltoyWolf Correct! Thanks.
I can’t place calls with it. I looked into it,. but it wasn’t worth the cost. Mainly it’s just a ringer and conversation piece.
@craigthom Still sounds neat!
@craigthom @PooltoyWolf Have you seen this sort of endearing and hilarious video of a couple of teenagers trying to figure out how to dial a rotary phone?
@PooltoyWolf @shahnm That’s great!
My brother also has a rotary phone, and he taught my nieces how to use it. They can also tell time from a clock face.
My parents didn’t have a touch tone phone until around 1990, which I bought them one. Mostly because I was fed up with having to go use a pay phone to check my messages. Remember checking messages on an answering machine?
My parents are still using that phone (with built in answering machine). They still don’t have call waiting.
@craigthom @shahnm I heard some schools are no longer teaching kids how to read analog clocks.
@craigthom @PooltoyWolf @shahnm That’s a shame if true, as it helps to develop the ability to graphically recognize and process information. You can tell the time from just a glance, you don’t need to read the numbers - you can figure out time duration just by drawing some imaginary lines across the clock face. If schools are doing this, that’s pretty stupid. Plus I’d miss “quarter-to”, “half past” and lyrics like this:
@craigthom @PooltoyWolf @shahnm @stolicat it is true. There is an a thread from earlier this year where we discussed this and how schools are not teaching cursive. Really sad
@craigthom @shahnm @stolicat @tinamarie1974 I would personally argue that being able to read hands on a clock is eminently more useful as a life skill than being able to write in cursive.
@craigthom @PooltoyWolf @shahnm @tinamarie1974 you should at least be able to read it - have you ever looked at the writings in, say, the Declaration of Independence, or Lincoln’s Gettysburg address, or originals of some of Shakespeare’s sonnets, or an old letter from a parent or lover, and you can get a feel for the writer’s feelings and emotions as they wrote. You can’t get that from just text.
@craigthom @PooltoyWolf @shahnm @stolicat agree!
@craigthom @shahnm @stolicat @tinamarie1974 Of course! Note that I referred to learning to write in cursive, which is quite a bit different than simply knowing how to read it.
@PooltoyWolf @shahnm @stolicat A quarter of an hour is still fifteen minutes, whether the clock is displaying a face worth hands or numerals. We know how much a quarter dollar is.
Parents can teach kids to read a clock. It shouldn’t take that much time.
Reading and writing cursive is a different matter. Although my signature is just about the only cursive I’ve written in over forty years. I haven’t done it since I was required to in school.
@craigthom @shahnm @stolicat I think you’re putting a bit too much faith in parents who would rather hand their kid a smartphone than actually teach them how to do anything. But I agree, for a child who’s eager to learn, clocks are easy. We had one of those (once ubiquitous) blue and yellow ‘clock trainers’ in my early elementary school classrooms.
@craigthom @PooltoyWolf @shahnm @stolicat
Hmm - “one more for the road” - now there’s a song lyric from a different age.
@craigthom @macromeh @PooltoyWolf @shahnm
For those of us from a different age …
@craigthom @PooltoyWolf @shahnm @stolicat no cursive, really? I do it daily, I find it faster than printing.
@craigthom @PooltoyWolf @shahnm @stolicat @tinamarie1974 Yeah, I have looked at fome of thofe documents. As a fpeaker and reader of modern Englifh, I find them difficult to parfe.
@craigthom @shahnm @stolicat @tinamarie1974 Depends entirely on how often you use it, and how fluent you are in it. For those of us like me who haven’t written anything in cursive other than our signatures in over a decade, it’s a pointless and superfluous endeavor, and writing in standard manuscript is much faster.
The brutally painful to hear yet again, Nokia ringtone.