It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency

Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by CPLX on Sunday May 30, 2021 @05:39PM (#27337103)

You could book plane tickets.

That, literally all by itself, would be enough for me to think building the internet was worth it.

You kids have no idea how much fun it was to go downtown to a travel agent just to find out how much it would cost to fly home from college for Christmas.

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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by B1FF_PSUVM on Sunday May 30, 2021 @05:59PM (#27337265)

> go downtown to a travel agent

Phones were out, too?

("You kids" should realize that most of the stuff done on the web today was done by mail or phone during most of the XX century, especially in a country as spread out as the US. Ring up the merchant with the order, sing out the credit card, done, was the MO from the 70s to the late 90s.)

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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by CPLX on Sunday May 30, 2021 @07:39PM (#27338118)

I mean, yes. You’d need to go get the paper tickets.

Obviously there were variations on how people would do things and mail order existed but I’m speaking literally, that’s how we used to do it and when the internet came along it got way way better.

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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by B1FF_PSUVM on Sunday May 30, 2021 @08:33PM (#27338529)

> need to go get the paper tickets.

Darn, no mail service either. That's harsh.

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