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    XrdsAlumHamilton Nolan
    5/19/16 5:17pm

    I can believe this. In 2014 AOL still had 2.3 million dialup users paying an average $20.86/month, accounting for most of its profits.

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      pre-emptive sighXrdsAlum
      5/19/16 5:20pm

      I’m only half way through re-shingling my roof with the AOL free trial CDs I got in 1998.

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      JVBaseballSuperstarXrdsAlum
      5/19/16 5:20pm

      HOLY SHIT. If I hadn’t moved back in with my parents for a brief time in the 2000's they’d be those people using AOL. So I guess my parent’s have the economic crisis of 2008 to thank for their ability to use Netflix?

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    PopChipsHamilton Nolan
    5/19/16 5:23pm

    Unsophisticated Gawker reader here. I don’t know what snapchat is or how one would access it. So, I typed in snapchat.com. The opening screen asked if I wanted a snapchat geofilter. What the hell is a geofilter?

    Well, now, I’m just depressed.

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      madmadammimPopChips
      5/19/16 5:28pm

      I still think of Snapchat as a sexting app, but for some reason, a bunch of professional associations I belong to use it for something or other. I’m pretty sure they are not using it for sexting, but I don’t want to find out.

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      Flying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)PopChips
      5/19/16 5:28pm

      Does it matter what it is? Of course you want a snapchat geofilter. It’s what makes you on fleek or whatever it is the kids say.

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    IAmNotADamnWriterHamilton Nolan
    5/19/16 5:20pm
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      reoneIAmNotADamnWriter
      5/19/16 5:33pm

      Lol..the first thing I noticed about this picture was the landline phone. I can only think of one person that has one still.

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      IAmNotADamnWriterreone
      5/19/16 5:59pm

      I have a landline connection, but with a cordless phone. I’ve had the number forever. I refuse to give it up. I also have a cell. So maybe that’s two people.

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    BrocephalusHamilton Nolan
    5/19/16 5:15pm

    This is exactly why I do not understand why so many companies/politicians/whatevers put so much stock in opinions shared on Twitter, Facebook, etc. The vast majority of people have zero interest in what goes on there and don’t participate.

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      The ever-present football-player rapistBrocephalus
      5/19/16 5:17pm

      Technically, if you’re not an active, productive member of the online community, do you even count as a real “person” anymore?

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      EvenBaggierTrousers4Brocephalus
      5/19/16 5:19pm

      So you’re saying I shouldn’t put all my money into a vape store...

      But seriously, I agree. I guess most of that shit is some exec trying to justify his job by proving he or she has their finger on the pulse of young America.

      “Johnson, what’s the new thing people are doing?... Fartchat? What’s that? Pictures of people farting into their smartphone camera? Really? OK, how can we leverage that into votes/dollars? Johnson, why are you snickering?...”

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    helpmeithinkimfallinginloveagainHamilton Nolan
    5/19/16 5:19pm

    how do i find the sexy chat room? help

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      DarthPumpkinhelpmeithinkimfallinginloveagain
      5/19/16 5:20pm

      Try AskJeeves.

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      XrdsAlumDarthPumpkin
      5/19/16 5:23pm

      Got that right. Jeeves is one kinky freak.

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    ThomasMooreHamilton Nolan
    5/19/16 5:33pm

    If people “hear” about a particular technological innovation is irrelevant. It’s what these trends do that matters.

    I guarantee you that if, say, something like Googles driverless vehicles or deep learning technologies get off the ground the effect to middle America’s dependence on service economy jobs is going to be fucking savage. We’re going to see unemployment numbers like we have never seen before.

    And since the tech leaders that shape these technologies are ever more secluded from the Americans you describe the impacts they create are even worse.

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      XrdsAlumThomasMoore
      5/19/16 5:44pm

      Permanent 20% unemployment at least. Conservatives will hate it, but they’ll have to accept some form of UBI if they don’t want riots in the street.

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      I'dBuyThatForADollarXrdsAlum
      5/19/16 6:44pm

      Given their attitudes about SNAP, disability, or any of the social safety net in general, I predict they will never accept UBI. Arm yourselves. It’ll be Mad Max in 20 years.

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    Flying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)Hamilton Nolan
    5/19/16 5:27pm

    Only 27% of people have heard the term “sharing economy,” and only 11% have heard the term “gig economy.”

    Because they’re stupid fucking meaningless terms for a job type that already exists: Self-employed.

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      wombat23Flying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)
      5/19/16 5:52pm

      or contract worker, not everyone lives in a fucking wes anderson movie.

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      Flying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)wombat23
      5/19/16 5:54pm

      The only people who are part of a ‘gig economy’ are musicians and comedians. And they’re too cool to call it that.

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    FreakyHijiki Esq.Hamilton Nolan
    5/19/16 6:04pm

    TO ANYONE WHO MAY BE ON THE INTERNET FOR THE FIRST TIME:

    Stay away. It’s not worth it. It’s nearly 100% bullshit and teens. It’s depressing, makes you stupider and the main plot lines are Donald Trump, “Berniebros” (Don’t ask, it’s not worth it.) and idiots threatening and female Video game journalists.

    No, seriously. That’s right. If you spend too much time on the internet you start thinking “Video game journalism” is a real thing.

    Listen, you have it way better without the internet. The phone book is nearly just as fast and you always end up hiring someone competent in your local community rather than some dipshit 24 year old on a razor scooter who works for, I’m sorry *independently partners with* an even bigger dipshit silver-spooner 29 year old *tech entrepreneur* named “Blayden” or some shit whose primary business objectives are to abuse workers and get laid.

    If you value your time, your money, your mental health, and your dignity, just stay off. If people really want to reach you, don’t worry. They will. If you want to read the news, spend a buck on a paper and keep some journalists employed.

    The internet will only make your life worse while simultaneously telling you that your life is SO MUCH BETTER. Its like cable television, if Comcast decided it was going to try to be your middle school best friend.

    That is all.

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      EryktheDeadFreakyHijiki Esq.
      5/19/16 6:24pm

      Do not listen to the above poster. Cat Videos make it all worth it.

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      FreakyHijiki Esq.EryktheDead
      5/19/16 6:47pm

      DO NOT HEED THE SIREN SONG OF CAT VIDEOS! RUN BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!

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    TheEvilAttorneyHamilton Nolan
    5/19/16 5:24pm

    Whoa, whoa, whoa. Are you saying I don’t need to lay my junk on a photocopier and mail it to someone via USPS anymore? I can use one of those “apps” the kids keep talking about? Can someone teach me how to do this?

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      festivusaziliTheEvilAttorney
      5/19/16 5:40pm

      Snapchat can’t give you same warm feeling of satisfaction that freshly scanned balls can, though. Nobody puts any work into their craft these days.

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      TheEvilAttorneyfestivusazili
      5/19/16 5:51pm

      That reminds me, just yesterday my nephew Jaden-Skye was suggesting that I use something called a 3D scanner to scan my junk, then use a new fangled 3D printer to print it out and next day FedEx it to the sassy cashier at the Ralph’s grocery store down the street. I don’t even know where to begin with all that rocket science!

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    Brody's Ugly BabyHamilton Nolan
    5/19/16 5:48pm

    I had that same SE/30. I fried it trying to install Aldus PageMaker.

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      Declan HackettBrody's Ugly Baby
      5/19/16 6:15pm

      The good old days! I was using it on a Plus with the external HD20SC…

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      Maxine Floeffler, Super DelegateBrody's Ugly Baby
      5/19/16 7:23pm

      I never realized that was a Houghton Mifflin product. I wonder if they ever tried to design their book covers or interiors with it?

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