Evolution of Technology

[SciFi Chick]

via Law & Order

Pretty fascinating.

[Rommie]

Interesting yes, but I really wish they'd have put what years the various seasons were from that the photos were in- some of us don't exactly know what year the show started and all that...

[SciFi Chick]

Interesting yes, but I really wish they'd have put what years the various seasons were from that the photos were in- some of us don't exactly know what year the show started and all that...

They mentioned, in the article, that the show ran from 1990 to 2010, so you can extrapolate what year the seasons are in from there.

[Morrolan]

i like guessing the age of a movie or tv series by looking at the mobile phones they use.

[Sigma_Orionis]

And if it's old enough not have cell phones by the cars they use....

[Morrolan]

And if it's old enough not have cell phones by the cars they use....

exactly.

[The Supreme Canuck]

Flip phone. Must have been filmed around 2002.

[Sigma_Orionis]

Whippersnapper

[cid]

...flip phone...heh...still got one of those in the bedroom...push button but pulse dial...

Got it as a premium for a magazine subscription IIRC...still works just great...it's old enough
that the sticker I put on it has the area code that changed sometime last century...

[Thumper]

And if it's old enough not have cell phones by the cars they use....

exactly.

Oh I love that. Seeing some nice LTD's, 442's, Bonnevilles....How about a Javelin?

[Morrolan]

And if it's old enough not have cell phones by the cars they use....

exactly.

Oh I love that. Seeing some nice LTD's, 442's, Bonnevilles....How about a Javelin?

Steve McQueen's Mustang GT 390 in Bullitt...

[FZR1KG]

There are young kids around now whose parents don't remember a pre-computer age because they were born well into the home computer era.

[The Supreme Canuck]

As someone born after home computers were a thing, and whose dad and aunt were IT people... this seems normal to me.

[geonuc]

Love the Star Trek communicator reference ...

Minor derail: In my group meeting yesterday, I was regaling the minions, who are all younger than me and mostly much younger, with the story of my Rand McNally atlas I still have from the 1980's when I worked at a power plant. I worked in a shop with road whores - guys (almost always guys) who would hop from job to job across the country. The shop atlas had the locations of all the nukes in the country marked on it, so after someone got off the phone from accepting the next job, they'd look at the map to figure out where it was they just agreed to travel to. I was the one bought the atlas, so I kept it when I left.

One of the minions remarked, jokingly, of course :They didn't have Google maps back then?" "Nah, it was still in beta"

[Thumper]

I still have some RM Atlas's, though I haven't bought one in a while. We'll be driving somewhere new, and my buddy or wife will say, I'll just "GPS it on the phone." Then we hit a dead zone, the app won't update, the phone locks up, and they are completely helpless. My sister once drove around aimlessly back and forth less than a half hour from my house because she got off route with a road closure that completely stumped her phone. I pull out the paper, unfold it, and we get to where we're going, always.......

[geonuc]

I still have some RM Atlas's, though I haven't bought one in a while. We'll be driving somewhere new, and my buddy or wife will say, I'll just "GPS it on the phone." Then we hit a dead zone, the app won't update, the phone locks up, and they are completely helpless. My sister once drove around aimlessly back and forth less than a half hour from my house because she got off route with a road closure that completely stumped her phone. I pull out the paper, unfold it, and we get to where we're going, always.......

That's dinosaur talk.

[Thumper]

I still have some RM Atlas's, though I haven't bought one in a while. We'll be driving somewhere new, and my buddy or wife will say, I'll just "GPS it on the phone." Then we hit a dead zone, the app won't update, the phone locks up, and they are completely helpless. My sister once drove around aimlessly back and forth less than a half hour from my house because she got off route with a road closure that completely stumped her phone. I pull out the paper, unfold it, and we get to where we're going, always.......

That's dinosaur talk.

Yeah, but I don't drive into lakes or the side of moving trians...
or trains.

(edit because I can't spell "train")

[FZR1KG]

Reminds me when my cousin who is a doctor and lives in Sydney got lost driving us to a wedding reception she should have know how to get to.
She couldn't work out if she needed to turn left or right but knew she needed to head West.
I looked at the Sun, and said since it's about noon the Sun is ahead of us, we need to turn left.
Took some convincing to do as well, because how the hell can anyone know which way is West by looking at the Sun and knowing the time? That's just insane.
When we got to the wedding she was telling everyone how I worked out how to get us there.
Amazing apparently.

[SciFi Chick]

Reminds me when my cousin who is a doctor and lives in Sydney got lost driving us to a wedding reception she should have know how to get to.
She couldn't work out if she needed to turn left or right but knew she needed to head West.
I looked at the Sun, and said since it's about noon the Sun is ahead of us, we need to turn left.
Took some convincing to do as well, because how the hell can anyone know which way is West by looking at the Sun and knowing the time? That's just insane.
When we got to the wedding she was telling everyone how I worked out how to get us there.
Amazing apparently.

City girl vs. country boy. I reckon you're being a bit too hard on her.

[geonuc]

Navigating by the sun? Who'd have thunk that possible?

[Sigma_Orionis]

Almost as incredible as determining the circumference of earth by from looking how something blocks the sunlight at a well.....

[Rommie]

Navigating by the sun? Who'd have thunk that possible?

I got more lost than I had in a long while when in Argentina despite it being a grid city. I wanted to go east at noon and promptly went in the opposite direction more than once until it dawned on me why that kept happening.

[FZR1KG]

Navigating by the sun? Who'd have thunk that possible?

I got more lost than I had in a long while when in Argentina despite it being a grid city. I wanted to go east at noon and promptly went in the opposite direction more than once until it dawned on me why that kept happening.

rofl

This still happens to me in the USA and I've been here two years now!
Drives me nuts.
Back in Oz I spent so much time in the bush I could walk all day and get back to my camp site within few hundred yards or so anytime I wanted using no compass or gps. Here I keep drifting further and further away and it doesn't even feel right but my subconscious can't seem to make that connection to correct it.