• pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    Yes. It was early social media.

    I always kept a Garfield plushy in my car window, to let people know how I felt about Mondays.

    We were pretty desperate back then.

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      1 month ago

      People used to post their phone number in newspaper personals so they could talk to someone. Now they’re probably live streaming on twitch

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        I once stumbled across a VHS recording a 1980s public access equivalent of a hot tub stream, it was about as surreal as one would expect.