@timdesuyo I read somewhere that you could be sued (in Japan) if you don't blur people's faces when you take their 'candid' pics in Public. Maybe ONE DAY I'll go to #Japan, so I want to know.

I see the #TheBeforeTimes tag but still curious about the laws nowadays.

Y'all ever think about how weird it is that we used to get -- delivered to our door at no cost -- massive books containing alphabetical lists of the names, phone numbers, and addresses of everyone in our city?

Everybody just lived doxed all the time?

What universe was that in?

#old
#GenX
#Xennial
#TheBeforeTimes
#phonebooks

I have added the Spell Check ROM to my Psion 3a. It took me a beat to realise that not knowing the word "Internet" was not an error.

#psion3a #psion #theBeforeTimes

"And that, children, is what we did before AskMetafilter."

"When I was a student in the mid-90s, there was a cubicle in one of the University ladies’ toilets that was 'the problem toilet.' It was like a problem page..."

Great comment by penguin pie on wowenthusiast's question about pre-internet physical bulletin boards.

https://ask.metafilter.com/370857/Tell-me-about-your-adventures-with-pre-internet-physical-bulletin-boards#5277437

#PreInternet #BulletinBoards #history #TheBeforeTimes #communication #ProblemToilet #toilet #funny