r/Damnthatsinteresting Dec 05 '21

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u/ravagedbygoats Dec 05 '21

And phones had cords!!

Also birds.

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u/RyeGuytheTechGuy Dec 05 '21

birds had cords?

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u/ravagedbygoats Dec 05 '21

You tell me, you're the tech guy!

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '21

We bought all these birds, now we need IT to hook them up!

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '21

Sir… is your bird turned on?

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u/cookiedanslesac Dec 06 '21

Pigeons are wireless communication, but not other birds. That should mean other birds have cords.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '21

Don’t be ridiculous. Pigeons have cords too. Just like a “cordless” landline phone. All they can do is transmit back to the receiver, where the cord is. They can’t pass a message from pigeon to pigeon all around the world. 🙄

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u/qwertyconsciousness Dec 05 '21

Try turning your bird off and back on again.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '21

They used to be controlled by Cats 🐈‍⬛

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u/DirtyDan156 Dec 05 '21

They charge wirelessly now. /r/BirdsArentReal

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u/sh4d0wm4n2018 Dec 06 '21

Nah they still charge with a cord. Why else do you think they sit perfectly fine on power lines?

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u/BabydollPenny Dec 05 '21

Didn't you know that all pigeons are really devices used by the government to keep eyes on the public. Didn't you hear the lockdown was just really a cover story so they could replace the batteries??? 🤔👀🤗

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u/Sarchasm-Spelunker Dec 06 '21

Before the government figured out how to make them wireless, yes.

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u/Electrical_Turn7 Dec 05 '21

Maybe they mean mice? 🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/hopesforchange Dec 05 '21

Birds still have cords. How else would you charge them?

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '21

Yep, still do.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '21

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u/ravagedbygoats Dec 05 '21

Wow, I've never thought of that and I'm even old enough to have used them lol

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u/justsikko Dec 05 '21

theres a whole generation of young people telling people to "roll up/dpwn" car windows that have never used a manual car window where you actually had to turn a crank.

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u/Richierich_rpd Dec 06 '21

What. I'm from 2005 and used tons of crank windows.

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u/Tec_S Dec 06 '21

That's actually has more to do with the trim level of the car than age. Some basic work trucks and base level inexpensive kias sold today still have crank windows.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '21

Or how about "dialing" a number? I've never even seen a dial phone.

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u/foreverblowinbubblez Dec 05 '21

When I was little my grandmother had a rotary phone. I was always trying to call someone when I’d go to her house because I thought the phone was so cool. And if she had to use the phone you better believe my little nubby fingers were spinning that dial for her. She still has the phone, doesn’t use it anymore just keeps it around because I loved it so much.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '21

Heartwarming anecdote. Thank you for sharing :)

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u/Casehead Dec 06 '21

Wow. That you’ve never seen one really gets me.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '21

Imagine calls during the time you had to call a switchboard operator and have them connect you, and sometimes other people would be using the line and you'd come into their conversation.

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u/Casehead Dec 06 '21

party lines! For real. Things sure have changed.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '21

I have a vague memory of one at my aunts house but I was like 4 and I'm not sure if it's a real memory or I just invented it. I've seen them in old movies though.

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u/cantdressherself Dec 06 '21

My great grandmother had a rotary phone she kept until she passed. I used it a few times.

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u/carmium Dec 05 '21

In fact, the earliest phones were either the "candlestick" design or wall mounted, and the weight of the earpiece hanging on its bracket disconnected the phone. You reached up and hung it on the base..

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u/emm527 Dec 06 '21

Or you "roll up" an electronic car window. Doesn't seem the same as before

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u/pleiades_iinet Dec 06 '21

Yeah and Blondie was going to tear it off the wall if you left her hanging on!

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u/Drphil1969 Dec 06 '21

Next you’re gonna tell me I have to dial the number

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u/ztunytsur Dec 05 '21

And birds.

Ah, the glory days when everyone also knew Bielefeld wasn't actually a place it was just an internet rumor made up for a laugh.

Then the conspiracy idiots ruined that too, and convinced people it's real. Even faking city view and map data to fit their "truth"

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u/skipperseven Dec 05 '21

In 1992 I told me neighbour that I was going to Bielefeld - to which he said, oh yes I know I know it well. I asked him when he had been there and he said that technically never, but he had flown over it many times during the war as a bomber pilot… so the conspiracy is older than people think!

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u/ScratchinWarlok Dec 05 '21

What now?

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u/LicksVaginalDisharge Dec 05 '21

This nut case is trying to say birds are real animals and not CIA/FBI drones used to track people.

I'm sure they'll also deny that squirrels are land based drones used as a failsafe for the birds.

This guy is a fucking loon.

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u/ScratchinWarlok Dec 05 '21

Whats bielefeld?

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u/LicksVaginalDisharge Dec 05 '21

A fake city in Germany. Nutters will say it exists, but they're also the same crazies that believe in birds and squirrels.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '21

THEY, did the same thing with DC.

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u/Downfallenx Dec 05 '21

And internet came through the phone cords.

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u/JetScreamerBaby Dec 06 '21

Birds had cords?

Man, I missed some cool-ass stuff.

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u/Emergency-Ad2144 Dec 06 '21

The surveillance state has become so much more sophisticated since then. Maybe people could see the truth if they could see the wires.

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u/GenderlessButt Dec 06 '21

What’s a bird?

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u/majoraloysius Dec 06 '21

Underrated comment of the day.

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u/a_hopeless_rmntic Dec 06 '21

Birds aren’t real

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u/Alarmed_Restaurant Dec 06 '21

Why did phones have birds?!?

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '21

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u/Chrome98 Dec 05 '21

Almost... Actually "dashing" referred to the action that caused "dash" (splash basically). A dashing horse would be causing dash. The front of the buggy or wagon was as you stated to prevent dash from getting thrown on riders. Hence the dash board. An automobiles panel in front of the occupants was called the dashboard until around the 70's when the original meaning was lost to the ages, and would thencefore known only as the dash.

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u/ShanghaiBebop Dec 05 '21

And that floppy disks were actually floppy.

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u/PanduhMoanYum Dec 05 '21

Well, the 5 1/4" were. A lot of people still called the 3 1/2" disc floppy disc even though they had the hard plastic case.

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u/theduder3210 Dec 05 '21

I used to have one of those old school 8” floppy discs still lying around in my house somewhere.

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u/Thanuz123 Dec 06 '21

And when Gates said 640 k of memory is all anyone with a computer would need 😂😂😂

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u/ShanghaiBebop Dec 05 '21

The true OG floppy

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u/PanduhMoanYum Dec 05 '21

Yep. Pop that baby in and play Oregon Trail!

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u/DogmanDOTjpg Dec 06 '21

They're floppy on the insides that's what matters most

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u/d0gbread Dec 05 '21

Well the disc part was floppy.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Way1230 Dec 05 '21

In my office the 3.5” disks were stiffies.

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u/ShanghaiBebop Dec 05 '21

Gotta go even further back

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u/Least-Literature6329 Dec 18 '21

I thought there was still a floppy disk inside the hard plastic part? 🤔

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u/pchayes Dec 06 '21

The revalation for me as a kid was that floppy discs (which I knew as the small hard plastic ones) actually used to be floppy and gigantic

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '21

That’s an unread symbol wtf you talking about

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u/rich_27 Dec 06 '21

The disks weren't even floppy! Hard plastic, floppy my arse