Put another way: The fields of modern digital audio file metadata contain keys descended from the specific features of data-storage technology from 1912.
And people think it’s odd that we still use the floppy disk icon to mean “save”.
This got me thinking: Does this mean that kids these days aren’t doing the banana telephone thing? I’m young enough to never have seen a telephone (as opposed to a mobile phone) other than in movies and museums, but maybe I lived in sufficient temporal proximity to the era of wired telephones to have banana telephones as a part of my childhood.
That got me thinking. The universal hand sign for “call me” or “I’ll call you” is to stick out your thumb and pinkie and hold your hand to your face like you’re talking on the phone. It just doesn’t work the same if you hold your hand flat like it’s a smartphone.
Put another way: The fields of modern digital audio file metadata contain keys descended from the specific features of data-storage technology from 1912.
And people think it’s odd that we still use the floppy disk icon to mean “save”.
Hell, it has to be a steadily increasing number of people who don’t know what the phone icon is supposed to represent.
Motion to make this the telephone icon
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Mom: “Your phone is ringing.”
Son: “Could you answer it real quick while I wash my hands?”
Mom: “How do I answer it?”
Son: “Hit the buttplug.”
Well, someone oughtta sit those kids down and show them I Love Lucy or something, goshdarnit!
I’ve located Fred Mertz!
This got me thinking: Does this mean that kids these days aren’t doing the banana telephone thing? I’m young enough to never have seen a telephone (as opposed to a mobile phone) other than in movies and museums, but maybe I lived in sufficient temporal proximity to the era of wired telephones to have banana telephones as a part of my childhood.
You mean ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring, banana-phooooooooooone?
Ping pong ping pong ping pong ping… Ponana-PHOOOOOONE
But it’s the best, beats the rest! Cellular, modular, interactivodular!
Seriously though, because of Raffi, it might be a few generations before people in general don’t know of Banana Phones.
That got me thinking. The universal hand sign for “call me” or “I’ll call you” is to stick out your thumb and pinkie and hold your hand to your face like you’re talking on the phone. It just doesn’t work the same if you hold your hand flat like it’s a smartphone.
Nah the younguns think you have to hold a phone like a fuckin slice of toast now anyway
Hold hand in claw (like you’re going to grab a giant burger). Move hand toward side of head. Mouth the words “call me”. It works.
Are you saying I’m obsolete?
How very dare you sir!
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My oldest kid called it the “toaster” button…
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