fugitive247Feeling old af on here tonight, therefore... ISO people of Mastodon who remember life before microwave ovens, cable tv, push button landlines, and the like. Not into griping or geezing, but some generational familiarity would be welcome. Cheers, folks.
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK@fugitive247 It was well into the late 1980s (probably around 1988) when my family first got a microwave, we still had dial telephones in Britain (even in London) until 1990, and cable TV only arrived in the town I then lived in around 1994!
@vfrmedia If it's any consolation, there are rural tech "dead zones" here in the Ozarks (Arkansas/Missouri) whose residents are lucky to have landlines with sketchy dsl. I. Can't Even. 🤔 😜
@fugitive247 one of the rural sites I work at (15km away from town) only got VDSL 2 months ago (before that we were using a cursed satellite link (laggy, and got slower as you went through the allowance) and then a WLAN connection from a tech company nearby that had earlier purchased a leased fibre optic circuit from British Telecom, but we were charged per gigabyte for using that, our latest connection (also from BT!) is unlimited...