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minus-squaredumpsterlid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·6 months agoI don’t understand, where is the part of this device that forces ads on you?
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·6 months agoYou see you’d either have to remember every single number you ever needed OR you had to look the numbers up in a very thick book with very thin pages. The pages that were ads were even coloured differently. Idk, perhaps you’ve heard of “the yellow pages”? Also, waiting music.
minus-squaredumpsterlid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoGood good, I was going to say that clearly looks like a Russian spy device placed clandestinely on American soil right under citizens very noses but you have assuaged my fears.
minus-squareLeftHandedWave@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoOr you could pay the operator to give you and/or connect you, but that cost you money, so no need for an ad!
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-26 months agoYou can always squeeze a couple more pennies out of the situation. That’s the wonderful thing about capitalism; it’s not about what is needed, it’s about the profit you can make by any means necessary. ^/s
minus-squarewise_pancake@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5·6 months agoI remember calling collect but then yelling “it’s me pick me up” when they asked for your name
minus-squaregarbagebagel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoIn the yellow pages book in the little cubby below
I don’t understand, where is the part of this device that forces ads on you?
You see you’d either have to remember every single number you ever needed OR you had to look the numbers up in a very thick book with very thin pages.
The pages that were ads were even coloured differently.
Idk, perhaps you’ve heard of “the yellow pages”?
Also, waiting music.
Good good, I was going to say that clearly looks like a Russian spy device placed clandestinely on American soil right under citizens very noses but you have assuaged my fears.
Or you could pay the operator to give you and/or connect you, but that cost you money, so no need for an ad!
You can always squeeze a couple more pennies out of the situation.
That’s the wonderful thing about capitalism; it’s not about what is needed, it’s about the profit you can make by any means necessary.
^/s
I remember calling collect but then yelling “it’s me pick me up” when they asked for your name
Bob Ihadababyitsaboy
*WehadababyEETZaboy
In the yellow pages book in the little cubby below