re: #280 Belafon

I absolutely hate this type of thing:

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So they don’t know how to use a rotary phone. It has zero use today. I bet very few people know how to crank start a car. The video was kind of funny until the popup said “Kids think they’re so smart.”

I’m glad my kids don’t know what a rotary phone is. (Though I’ll probably teach ‘em anyway.) Knowledge of old tech is only useful for two things: Learn from their mistakes, and for updating it to new tech. Just ask the COBOL and FORTRAN programmers of the world, who rake in big bucks from people who persist in keeping old tech past its prime.