• The Bard in Green
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    13 days ago

    This shit sounds like when you’re mom tells you that the Facebook printed out her bank statement on the tax machine.

    My dear sweet mother asked me somewhere around 2005-06 “If we can fax paper, why not groceries, or pizza delivery?”

    Apparently she had believed, for decades, that fax machines literally transported physical paper over phone lines. She has a college degree, and my family is wealthy.

    Do not underestimate the mind boggling technical and scientific ignorance of old people who should know better.

    • @[email protected]
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      112 days ago

      I remember thinking that when I was a kid and saw a clip on PBS Kids of a kid using their home fax machine to fax their dad a picture they drew at work. I was also like 4 so teleportation was still distinctly possible to my brain