That's going to be our dementia towns isn't it? No 1950s world for us. We'll all be sat there playing Mario 64, listening to The Prodigy, and wondering who that nice old lady is that lives with us...
Honestly, if I start to loose my mind, that's where I'd want to be. :(
Can I have my portable cd player back?
I just bought a Sony Minidisc player... I miss N3P Mixtape CDs. So, I'm embracing ludditerousness.
The technology isnt the problem, though. Its how people are using it that is.
This is just the "80s were so much better... as ling as you werent gay" or "50s were so much better... as long as you werent black" but for the 90s.
The people making our lives arent going to stop just cause you slap a fresh coat of ~~denial~~ nostalgia over it.
RCEs, RCEs everywhere
But I mean at least everything has a small memory footprint instead of using 4Gb to load a god damn web page.
Blockbuster doesn't carry pornography.
Skate parks, bmx(s), towering ice cream, starcraft on battlenet.
Towering ice cream? Twin towers?
With a little airplane cookie stuck in.
It's been 25 years, I think it's time.
will AOL Chat rooms be Matrix or XMPP?
I think I have enough hardware laying around to serve as a dialup ISP for this. And the upstream bandwidth I already have is probably more than that of my dialup ISP 30 years ago.
ICQ, please. Mine was 737916.
I had a six digit number too and I have unfortunately forgotten what it was and this is now one of my life's greatest disappointments.
let's bring ICQ back.
people who say this never actually, like, quit social media or anything that would bring them closer to this
Sounds like oomer behavior.
i'm still gonna run around with an Shenandoah beard, wide hat and wil clothes, and you can't stop me
I've been wondering what tech levels would be SELF SUSTAINABLE. Like the amish lifestyle is a circular economy, everything they need they can make themselves, grow themselves, and compost themselves. Like mostly.
But can you have something like electric motors or wind power in the same way? Can you have electronics? Can you have eReader? Like if you had a town the size of 50.000 people.
Theoretically advances in technology could allow for things like biological computing. Like a variety of seeds to produce plants making all sorts of medicine, or single cell cultures then organize into simple electronics. Not sure how sci-fi that is. But in a way that would be a "safe point" for civilization.
Because even after a limited nuclear exchange which is is getting more and more likely each year we're not going to have any global supply chain left.
One of the more misunderstood things about Amish people is that they cant have anything electronic. They arent against electronics. Like you said they practice self reliance above anything else, so they refuse to use anything that is powered by oil and gas because they cant make oil and gas products themselves.
One thing that has become really popular with the Amish is EBikes and solar power. Theyre fine with buying those things even though they dont produce them. And theyre fine with anything that runs on solar power because they have plenty of access to the sun.
Im not sure exactly how the loophole works that allows them to buy solar panels, since they aren’t producing them on their own. But the bigger thing to them is that the source of energy itself is widely available to them, which isnt true of oil or gas. Maybe it is that they could theoretically harvest solar power in other ways, so they are fine with buying a more efficient way to do it than what they can produce within their community. Something like that
Guck that, move it to summer 2001 so we can at least use ICQ and constantly warn everyone about 9/11
honestly right now ain't so bad. we got microbreweries and shit.
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