George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Moooooommmmm!!
David 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️NB they/them@georgetakei I remember. It didn’t take long for my dad to get a second line because he needed calls to come through.
Ryan2one3@georgetakei [pulling pants up] dammit, mom!!
Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀
In Search of a Better WorldI'm having trauma flashbacks, make it stop...
MasterMischief@georgetakei I'm in this toot and I don't like it.
Gallen 🔜 LIFC, EF@georgetakei
I think picking up the phone is already a foreign concept for the younger generations lol.
@dgar
I think picking up the phone is already a foreign concept for the younger generations lol.
@dgar
Mary_ann_8101999@georgetakei that feeling I missed her
Quark Maker@georgetakei Internet? Pah! I go back far enough to remember that happening with local BBSs in the bad old days of FidoNet and the 1980s/early 90s.
ferricoxide@georgetakei
As was the fashion at the time.
As was the fashion at the time.
Graham Downs@georgetakei he he he. Good times!
stux⚡️@georgetakei 
it's true
it's true
mrpieceofwork@georgetakei with me it was roommates and like 5 lines... and then 3 years later came cable. SOOOO much better AHHHHHHH. Also, the telco industry was on fire, and then wait... what? TV from the ether? WOW. Now what's coming? *AI makes a modem chirp in giddiness*
Professor SmartassShit. I'm even older than that.
Bradley Michael@georgetakei I still think about this whenever I hear a fax machine go off because it was what kicked me off the Internet in my teen years. That rang and I had 2-3 minutes to wrap up whatever I was doing before losing connection.
Zuri (he/him) ❌️👑 | 🕐 CET@georgetakei and the internet would scream at you when you tried to connect to it.
It knew what was coming and we shrugged it off. So naive in hindsight …
@georgetakei lol, I literally just saw this meme template used for another internet-related meme over there on LinkedIn only minutes ago
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