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wasting timeline - Wrong Hands (wronghands1.files.wordpress.com)
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[-] [email protected] 89 points 9 months ago

The "now" of this comic is actually 2014, almost a decade ago.

Wonder what the actual "now" cell would contain today. I guess a screenshot of this comment about it being a decade old.

[-] [email protected] 56 points 9 months ago

2014 wasn't a decade... ago, oh my fucking god.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

As far as I'm concerned, it was the 90s about a month ago.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

That's it, I'm going to my local skate shop and buying a skateboard. Electric of course, because my knees are fucking shot.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

The fact that there are still skate shops proves my point. I truly am 2 Legit 2 Quit.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

But how to decode that data. Better hope they find some info on character encodings too.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

That, and it would be in portrait mode, with a video playing. And ads taking up a third or the screen.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

That explains why there was no 2010s panel

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

TikTok, and not being able to break away from it

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

It would contain just a big "E"

[-] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Deep fried memes were also 5 years ago though

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

No, not deep fried, surreal or absurd

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Same thing, but on a phone :v

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That's the point of the comic, it would basically just be the same panel with more ads each time. We're caught in a techno-cultural recursion.

Think about the difference between pre-smart phone and post-smart phone. Now think about the difference between the last generations of iphones.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

2010's = You show your IRL friends the cool fresh meme you found

2020's = Endless doomscrolling to escape a dystopian, sick & crumbling world

2030's = 💥 💀

2040's = The Missing Decade

2050's =
divulgâche🐱‍🐉⚔️🐒

[-] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago

Time enjoyed is not wasted.

I keep trying to get this through to my wife, who burns herself out frequently with some dire consequences.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” -Marthe Troly-Curtin

[-] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Memes are free. Everything else is a subscription.

[-] balderdash9 14 points 9 months ago
[-] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

It's suicide by meme

[-] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Facebook??? Think I remember MySpace having most of the 2000s. Even then, I used Yahoo!, AIM, and MSN way more lol.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Son of a bitch!

[-] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

You're not allowed to do this to me 😭

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Instead of tamagochi it should be messenger

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Messenger? Like blackberry messenger or something?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

MSN messenger likely. But that didn't come out until 1999.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

msn messenger mostly, but also mIRQ and stuff like that

Edit: damn I just discovered that msn messenger was introduced in 1999. I thought it was older

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Interlinked

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Very clever

this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2023
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