[–] Morbo 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
I got a phone extension in my room when I was 15, which was before the consumer Internet days. The liberation that brought to me was unbelievable. I no longer had to watch my language and could act like my regular self on the phone. Nowadays texting and other private messaging systems have made most everything private so long as you lock your phone. Kids today won't know the horror of a sibling or parent listening in on a conversation on a different phone extension. Ahh, the good old days.
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[–] Morbo 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
If you raise them properly you won't have to worry about that as much. Kids need a fair bit of range and trust so they can learn how to live without helicopter parenting. This along with a healthy dose of consequences for actions are what kids and parents lack today. If you were afforded trust by your parents and did bad things nonetheless, the don't deny your kids the same opportunity to learn through living.
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[–] voteforfreedom 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
that became an issue when Baud Internet became a reality...GOT was born with baud tech
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[–] voteforfreedom 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
back in the days, the phone line was all....the most powerful family member would dominate the phone line
then came BBS systems...you would use the phone to call computers within your local area (even long distance) to connect computers
The <nerds> started dominating the phone lines, we would share files at 12k ...then 24k...then 64k....but we connected beyond voice and idle chatter....we started using the phone lines...commandeered those lines like fucking pirates and changed the world
Today the phone lines we take for granted led the way from the BBS to Internet
[–] hang_em_high 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I think this really affected my life. Good luck talking to girls with this pressure ... especially when your parents would poke fun of you afterwards
[–] 7448903? 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
The kitchen wall phone you took with your long coiled cord around the doorway into the other room and pulled up a chair.