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   Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 09:38:20 JST Matt Blaze

   Ended up taking about blue boxes in my surveillance class today, and
   explaining that “long distance” calls cost extra was met with incredulous stares by many of the students.

   I am, as I understand it, very old.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 10:26:58 JST Rich Felker

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     • Coach Pāṇini ®
     • Dan Ports
     • AI6YR Ben

     @dan @paninid @ai6yr @mattblaze Um, OSM?

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     Dan Ports (dan@discuss.systems)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 10:26:59 JST Dan Ports

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     • Coach Pāṇini ®
     • AI6YR Ben

     @paninid @ai6yr @mattblaze Hey, you may make fun of MapQuest, but they're currently the only ones who haven't caved...

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     Coach Pāṇini ® (paninid@mastodon.world)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 10:27:00 JST Coach Pāṇini ®

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     • AI6YR Ben

     @ai6yr @mattblaze

     RamenCatholic 🐢 🌈 repeated this.
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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 10:27:01 JST AI6YR Ben

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     @mattblaze "We used to leave the house without a phone! And not text our friends before deciding what to wear that day!" 🤪

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     Dan Ports (dan@discuss.systems)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 10:27:15 JST Dan Ports

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     • Coach Pāṇini ®
     • AI6YR Ben

     @paninid @ai6yr @mattblaze I had to look up who owns MapQuest these days and apparently it is a mysterious company that appears to be a portal to 1996. They also operate WebCrawler, MetaCrawler, Dogpile, HowStuffWorks, and answers.com.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System1

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     Coach Pāṇini ® (paninid@mastodon.world)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 10:27:16 JST Coach Pāṇini ®

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     • Dan Ports
     • AI6YR Ben

     @dan @ai6yr @mattblaze
     I don’t think I’m making fun of Mapquest, I’m recognizing a LEGEND (pun intended)

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     run_atalanta 😷💯 (run_atalanta@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 10:29:13 JST run_atalanta 😷💯

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     • Coach Pāṇini ®
     • AI6YR Ben

     @paninid @ai6yr @mattblaze And the generatuon that will sneer and pull out both an atlas and a gazetter for the area.

     (cheez can I post anything without a typo?)