@ryo "I’m so glad that Japan is such a technologically backwards country!"
I heard that a lot of people in Japan still don't use credit cards, and that there are still pretty old computers being used in many places because they work. Just seems like a place that doesn't like unnecessary change, so evil shit has to be implemented my more slowly, while the west has embraced this cancerous mentality of changing everything all the time for no reason because it's SO MODERN.

I remember watching Game Center CX and realizing that Japan was still using fax in the late 2000s (or was it the early 2010s?). I thought that was pretty based. And I know that it's still used in the 2020s too. The downside is that from what I know, computers never got quite as big as in the west and a lot of people basically skipped that and went straight to Satanphones. Normalfags in particular. I'm sure that all the cool people still used computers.

Did Linux get more popular, though? I think I remember a chart on 8/tech/ showing that the BSDs were a little more popular in Japan? I think because of better language support early on. Hell, even now, FreeBSD has Japanese in the TTY and Linux doesn't unless you use a framebuffer terminal emulator like fbterm, yaft or mlterm. Those can also display images, though (with the possible exception of fbterm?), which is neat. Works even on really old hardware: https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=BP8AIceWgxA