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[–] 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I’m already friends with people who don’t remember a world without smartphones.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago*

    Being fair, all they're missing in comparison of the era between "post 9/11 and pre smartphone" (from my experience) was a lot of snotty teachers saying YOU WON'T ALWAYS HAVE A CALCULATOR WITH YOOOOUUUU

    Eat shit Mrs. Miller, I do and have for the last decade and a half. It doesn't make me much happier but at least I don't need to remember how to do long division on paper anymore, and that does make me happy.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    A coworker asked if I could help her cousin and their partner with something as they were moving in just a few blocks from my house. Afterwards we went out for dinner. I was showing them my new fancy foldy phone and the cousin was like "yeah, I really like Android phones over iPhones, I've always had iPhones because that's what my dad always had " and then I realised the three of them had all grown up in the age of smartphones. I had to break it to them that I was fully an adult when the first iPhone came out, and that while it was cool I never saw the need to have a phone that was also an MP3/video player. I had a minidisc player and books.

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