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| TJ | Jan 21 2008, 08:56 AM Post #1 |
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It's easy not to notice how quickly we adapt to technology and take it for granted. I ran across this TV report from 1981, showing an early effort to put newspapers online. Best parts: a dial telephone (!) and "we can print it on paper and save it!"
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| rc.cope | Jan 21 2008, 03:43 PM Post #2 |
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I still have an old 'dial' telephone. The best thing about it is I don't have to "press 1 for English." |
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| TJ | Jan 21 2008, 09:06 PM Post #3 |
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So you never get any customer service? |
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| Ade | Jan 21 2008, 09:24 PM Post #4 |
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It's only cos a touch tone is too complicated for him :
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Went to the JobCentre today, and the Army were there going "Be the Best" ... now T-Mobile just told me I didn't have the qualifications to sell phones, Microsoft said I didn't have the qualifications to answer the phones, and the Army want to let me loose with a machine gun? | |
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| TJ | Jan 21 2008, 09:34 PM Post #5 |
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I thought at first maybe he gets all his questions answered in person, but then realized his back couldn't take the long drive from Wisconsin to Bangalore.
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| rc.cope | Jan 21 2008, 11:04 PM Post #6 |
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No, goddam it. I have three touch tone phones. But I still have a dial phone from way back. Whadda ya want me to do? Throw it out? Hell, I might be able to get a little coin for it on Ebay. Naw, I don't deal with Ebay. You know, way back when, phones were used to talk to other people. I know, what a reality check.
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| rc.cope | Jan 21 2008, 11:17 PM Post #7 |
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Oh, and speaking of customer service...the last time I needed some help, I was connected with some foreign sounding dude who sounded as though he was from Mars. He said; "Hello, how may I help you, my Name is Robert." And I replied; "NO, MY FUCKING NAME IS ROBERT!!!!!!" |
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| Ade | Jan 21 2008, 11:47 PM Post #8 |
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. In work, I obviously deal with a lot of outside contractors. Two of the worst are Dell, whose warranty line seems to be run by either people called 'David' or 'Victoria', and British Telecom who anglicise everything, from their Indian call centre. |
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Went to the JobCentre today, and the Army were there going "Be the Best" ... now T-Mobile just told me I didn't have the qualifications to sell phones, Microsoft said I didn't have the qualifications to answer the phones, and the Army want to let me loose with a machine gun? | |
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| kikisfishy | Jan 22 2008, 08:30 PM Post #9 |
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just like 'big nothing' with simon pegg, where each level of the call centre had eveyone named the same, could have sworn i heard an aol 'dave' flicking through the customer service manual, so i just kept telling him i had checked everyhting i knew he would go and ask me to do... got passed to level two the 'karen' level |
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| rc.cope | Jan 22 2008, 09:00 PM Post #10 |
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It is not just 'foreigners' that irk me. I called DirecTV one time, and all the stupid woman could say was "ah, let's see", "ah, um, let's see", "uh um," Finally I just hung up, called back and got a different person. Sometimes, I will get hooked up with an automaton, and then I will finally say, "Look, I just want to talk to a person." What has happened with this world when all it takes is for somebody to pick up a phone and say 'hello'? :angry: |
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| streppy | Jan 26 2008, 12:06 AM Post #11 |
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I'm an avid fan of the show Life on Mars, which is currently doing reruns on one of the Sky channels and I think the primary reason for my addiction is the whole how far we've come issue...I have a vague memory of my brother in law having an 8 track in the car,(which was also a Cortina) I remember ambulance drivers in regimental dress that did no more than load patients and drive them to hospital and may have had a vague memory that saline was something they had encountered in a school science lesson...I remeber when th epostie also looked like an army cadet. I often wonder what my grandmother, who lived in a butt and ben with an outside toilet and no inside running water and died on my 6th birthday would make of the homes we live in today,where we can communicate with the entire world with the clack of a few keys... How far we have come, indeed! |
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| Ade | Jan 26 2008, 02:24 AM Post #12 |
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I remember CDs, and when stamps cost 19p! |
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Went to the JobCentre today, and the Army were there going "Be the Best" ... now T-Mobile just told me I didn't have the qualifications to sell phones, Microsoft said I didn't have the qualifications to answer the phones, and the Army want to let me loose with a machine gun? | |
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| rc.cope | Jan 26 2008, 03:51 AM Post #13 |
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I can remember ringer washing machines, penny candy, and party lines on the telephone. I can also recall doing business with a pencil and paper. When I was a kid, I visited mt grandparents after a 25 cent bus ride. They used to make hillbilly coffee in a big pot, and being only 8 years old, they let me drink it, too. I remember owning one of the first Frizbees ever made. Indeed, we've come a long way.
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| Ade | Jan 26 2008, 04:07 AM Post #14 |
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In my lifetime, the major seminal brands have been computer based companies ... Microsoft, Google, Intel, AMD, Amazon, Apple ... and the old sticklers like McDonald's and Coca Cola, both of which have had to modernise. The only other way it's gone is consolidation ... like Tesco, Asda Walmart with a finger in every pie, or outsourcing to India. When India gets to expensive, they will go to Africa. Cheap and shite Chinese manufacturing accounts for the other bit. |
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Went to the JobCentre today, and the Army were there going "Be the Best" ... now T-Mobile just told me I didn't have the qualifications to sell phones, Microsoft said I didn't have the qualifications to answer the phones, and the Army want to let me loose with a machine gun? | |
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| Ali | Jan 26 2008, 12:34 PM Post #15 |
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Hoho ... youngster! I remember when vinyl took over from shellac, and stamps cost 3d (1.25p)! And I'm still a teenager. |
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