I'm constantly lowkey furious that there is almost no tactile/kinesthetic pleasure in interacting with smartphones and other modern computers
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We shoveled driveways and mowed lawns to buy 300 baud modems and then pay phone bills to call 2 town's over on a BBS, so we could see text appear on our screen slower than we could read it. And we were GRATEFUL for every bit of this. Precious precious knowledge that connected us
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i bet she would be grateful if her smartphone had a clicky keyboard on it... but the only thing i really have to add here is that ToysRUs was really the end-all of tactile interaction when I was young. Touch **ALL the toys** even if you never get to take em home.
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And then, as adults, we wrote code and open sourced it, to help share the bounty.
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"I wish smartphones were more fun" Boomers: BACK IN MY DAY... Cringe
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the mall the mall was tactile, no matter how much you had to beg for it I had the classic love/hate relationship with the mall I still do
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The mall had a shitty Waldenbooks. It had 3 shelves of science fiction, and 3 shelves of science. And if you shoveled a lot of driveways, you could walk away with STACKS of books.
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And a generation later, you're..thankful for the unpeakable wealth and ease and connection you have? No. You're "continuously lowkey furious". What the ever living fuck?
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Lol. Lmao
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