Technological experiences current youths won't make anymore

[The Larch]

I remember a summer job I had back in 88 or 89 and being in awe of the fax machine. "I just got a fax from Finland!"

Heh, my mother worked for a British company since the mid 70s and when she started they didn't even have a direct phone line to their offices, phone calls had to be routed through the nearest village switchboard operator and getting a call to or from their central offices was a small odissey. Then they got a switchboard operator for their company alone. Then at some point in the early 80s they got a telex and my mother swears that everybody was amazed at such a technological breakthrough.

[garbon]

The business cards for my company list a fax number along with our direct lines. However, no one actually knows if there is actually a fax machine somewhere connected to that number.

[Valdemar]

My card lists a direct fixed line number, but in the 3,5 years I've been here I have never had a phone on my desk. I asume that anyone calling the number is autodirected to my cell without ever having been through a land line

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[Brazen]

Today's youth have never had to wait five minutes for the TV to warm up, watched just three channels, have broadcast finish at the end of the night then switched it off until just a white dot and the smell of static remains. Or have to wait three weeks for a repair man to turn up with a new valve.

[derspiess]

The business cards for my company list a fax number along with our direct lines. However, no one actually knows if there is actually a fax machine somewhere connected to that number.

I still use a fax machine pretty heavily.  I have an electronic fax number to receive incoming faxes & send them to my email address as PDF attachments.  But as I lack a scanner at my desk, I often have to use our ancient POS fax machine.

We have several clients who do not have voicemail-- that is a major pain in the ass.

[Warspite]

Young people today don't know what it's like to get 5 AOL CDs in a month in mail.

Yes. Now I have to pay for my drinks coasters. 

[The Brain]

In my experience only the third world (the US and Africa) used fax machines after 2000.

Hell a colleague even came across a US government form that had to be filled out with a typewriter. Who the fuck has had a typewriter since the 80s? Luckily we worked at an old company and he could find one in the basement.

US = laughing stock.

[HVC]

In my experience only the third world (the US and Africa) used fax machines after 2000.

Hell a colleague even came across a US government form that had to be filled out with a typewriter. Who the fuck has had a typewriter since the 80s? Luckily we worked at an old company and he could find one in the basement.

US = laughing stock.

Please type = block letters FYI

[The Brain]

In my experience only the third world (the US and Africa) used fax machines after 2000.

Hell a colleague even came across a US government form that had to be filled out with a typewriter. Who the fuck has had a typewriter since the 80s? Luckily we worked at an old company and he could find one in the basement.

US = laughing stock.

Please type = block letters FYI

Well I suppose it's possible that he's a complete moron.

[garbon]

In my experience only the third world (the US and Africa) used fax machines after 2000.

Hell a colleague even came across a US government form that had to be filled out with a typewriter. Who the fuck has had a typewriter since the 80s? Luckily we worked at an old company and he could find one in the basement.

US = laughing stock.

I only use a scanner at work.

[crazy canuck]

I remember a summer job I had back in 88 or 89 and being in awe of the fax machine. "I just got a fax from Finland!"

Had to laugh, I remember the first time I saw a fax.  I think it was 87 or 88.  A professor brought in a lengthy fax he had recieved from Australia overnight.  He was very excited about the new technology and told us it would change the world.

[crazy canuck]

In my experience only the third world (the US and Africa) used fax machines after 2000.

Hell a colleague even came across a US government form that had to be filled out with a typewriter. Who the fuck has had a typewriter since the 80s? Luckily we worked at an old company and he could find one in the basement.

US = laughing stock.

I suppose if you dont care about knowing for certain that the communication was recieved you would not use a fax.  But in most of the civilized world things like being certain a communication was recieved and having the ability to demonstrate that fact still count for something.

[The Brain]

In my experience only the third world (the US and Africa) used fax machines after 2000.

Hell a colleague even came across a US government form that had to be filled out with a typewriter. Who the fuck has had a typewriter since the 80s? Luckily we worked at an old company and he could find one in the basement.

US = laughing stock.

I suppose if you dont care about knowing for certain that the communication was recieved you would not use a fax.  But in most of the civilized world things like being certain a communication was recieved and having the ability to demonstrate that fact still count for something.

OK, Luddite.

[garbon]

In my experience only the third world (the US and Africa) used fax machines after 2000.

Hell a colleague even came across a US government form that had to be filled out with a typewriter. Who the fuck has had a typewriter since the 80s? Luckily we worked at an old company and he could find one in the basement.

US = laughing stock.

I suppose if you dont care about knowing for certain that the communication was recieved you would not use a fax.  But in most of the civilized world things like being certain a communication was recieved and having the ability to demonstrate that fact still count for something.

When I send a document in the e-mail, the recipient can write me back that they got it.

[Syt]

Today's youth have never [. . .] watched just three channels, have broadcast finish at the end of the night [. . .]

Good one. Hell, it was a major occasion when tv showed Ben Hur or Dr Zhivago.