110: The UPC of the Beast

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4.8 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Will's daughter recently had her first encounter with a corded telephone, which got us thinking about other technologies that are on the way out or have already vanished from society. In this ep we touch on a wide range of aspects of the old phone system, what things were like before every product had a barcode on it, whether we're trending toward a cashless society or not, how in the heck they processed credit card transactions before the magnetic strip, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	So should we just get into it? You want to tell you want to you want to complain about the thing that is not a thing worth complaining about?
0:04.9	It's, I'm going to minimize your they can't have the nice thing or something.
0:22.0	I don't know, but I'm irrationally angry about this bread.
0:24.9	It's so hideous.
0:26.5	It's awful.
0:28.3	Why did they?
0:29.5	They made the perfect laptop and then they ruined it.
0:32.8	Okay.
0:33.7	I'm being a bit flip as I often am.
0:35.7	I think people take me at my word a little too much.
0:38.5	This isn't you being flip. I know how you feel about the notch. Listen, just just so you know,
0:43.6	like a lot of the people you listen to on the internet are often playing an exaggerated character
0:47.3	of themselves. But not in this case. But not, come on, goddamn. Look, I mean, I genuinely revile
0:52.8	the notch. I don't actually think that they
0:54.4	ruined the laptop with it, but I kind of do. Just to be clear, how old is the phone that you're
0:58.4	carrying now? It's not, dude, it's an iPhone 8. It's like three years old. Five years old. No, there's
1:05.6	no way the iPhone 8 is that old. 8, 10, 10. 10. iPhone 8. 2017.
1:11.8	Okay.
1:12.0	It's four years old.
1:12.9	Four years is perfectly acceptable time to have a phone, man.
1:15.5	That is a,
1:16.0	that is an apropos.
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