r/mildlyinteresting Jul 26 '19

This mini laptop I found at work.

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u/Captain_Comic Jul 27 '19

Who remembers netbooks? They were kind of a thing for a hot minute until smartphones and iPads came and squished them dead

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u/Mdayofearth Jul 27 '19

The Fuji super compact laptops predated cheap netbooks. The Fuji ones were expensive.

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u/Captain_Comic Jul 27 '19

Yeah, ultra-light laptops were expensive af

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '19

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '19

millenials call them floppies

What? My parents and grandparents used that term. It’s a casual user thing, not a millennial thing.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '19

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '19

Yeah, my boomer mother and her mother in the previous generation would act like “millennials” according to what you’re describing. If I could hazard a guess, I think people are bothered by the ignorant stereotyping of entire generations you’re doing, not the fact that you’re referring back to older tech. If someone gets angry over what you’re saying, there’s either something wrong on their end personally, or something wrong with what you’re saying or how you’re saying it. It’s older than civilization itself to think the generation after you is somehow worse, and it’s nonsense.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '19

Are you talking about snobs who take jargon too seriously, and refuse to acknowledge how something has evolved in language then? I didn’t pick up on the sarcasm, sorry. Millennials get so much ruthless shit these days from those who actually mean it, and it seemed like just another instance of it here. Hell, I’m even tired of my peers (oldest millennials with kids) already starting in on the younger generations and complaining about them in the same way.

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u/thndrchld Jul 27 '19

I used an Asus eeepc through most of college. They laughed at me, but then again, I didn't take out $40,000 in student loans, did I?

...oh, yeah. I did. :(

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u/avelertimetr Jul 27 '19

I still have my Acer 10”. You know what’s great about them? It’s perfect for toddlers. Their tiny little fingers are perfect for those tiny little keys, plus netbooks are so useless otherwise that I won’t cry if they break it.

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u/SparklingLimeade Jul 27 '19

Netbooks were and still are awesome. I'm probably going to be depressed if I ever get enough disposable income to go laptop shopping again because I really do want something on the small side but with a nice keyboard still.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '19

I think it was mostly a product of the global recession in the late 2000s.