#early smartphone

[sacchiri]

Hellsing 2002 calendar illustration.

Ein wunderliche und erschröckliche Hystori von einem großen Wüttrich genant Dracole wayda Der do so ganz unkristenliche marrter hat angelegt die mensche, als mit spissen als auch die leut zu Tod geslyffen

A wondrous and frightening story about a great berserk called Dracula the voivode who inflicted such unchristian tortures such as with stakes and also dragged people to death

#hellsing #alucard #kouta hirano #translation was found in a comment by u/lazyfoxheart on r/Kurrent #fun fact this is the highest quality version of this image that exists online #i know because i've been looking forever for a version that's clear enough to actually read what hirano wrote under '1443' #but there weren't any so i had to take matters into my own hands #the real image on the back of the guidebook is only 2 inches tall so i had to take this with my smartphone and will my hands not to shake #anyway i'm pretty sure it's supposed to say Eğrigöz (the location vlad was imprisoned) so yeah. thank you hirano very cool #if i might rant for a sec it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure that out because i didn't have the guidebook at first #and in the images i could find online that part was just a blur that looked suspiciously like a person's signature and i was like. who tf #i was thinking matthias corvinus since he issued some political propaganda against vlad iirc but it didn't match his signature on wikipedia #then i thought it might be vlad II dracul's since he probably had to sign an agreement to send his sons over as hostages at some point #but that didnt seem right either so i kept skimming vlad's wiki page #and then i was like goddammit...hirano.....you just misspelled Eğrigöz didn't you.. .... #i maybe should've made a separate post dedicated to this instead of writing a novel in the tags but eh #the hellsing brainrot runs deep #also- i put it in the source link at the bottom of the post but the german inscription is copied off a real woodcut of vlad from 1491 #except instead of depicting him as an adult hirano drew him as a child which gives the inscription a very different feel imo #the one final thing that interests me about this is the fact that hirano published this calendar in 2002 #which is REALLY early in the series. like this was before volume 5 came out?? #i have no idea why he decided to do a massive spoiler drop in a random piece of japan-only merch #sandwiched between a drawing of alucard as john travolta from saturday night fever and integra as a fish no less #it makes me really curious to know what the fan response to this was back then. like did people even know who this was #maybe im just an idiot and everyone back then was like 'ah yes its alucard as a 12 year old. how very informative'

[your-resident-boat-person]

This might sound completely stupid but I want to go back to approximately 2010 Era portable technology. I want my phone to have a normal sized screen that I don't need to strain my thumbs to use. I want it to be this fun little device with apps that are fun little distractions. Remember talking ben and angry birds and plants vs. zombies? Now all we have are these awful soulless time wasters. I want my phone to be able to do Google and YouTube and basic web surfing, not be the center piece of my entire life. I remember when having a smartphone was a convenience. Now, not being at home in front of a computer is no longer an excuse not to have work done. There is no "I can't right now." You always can. I want to carry around my DSi or 3DS with me for gaming. I want to carry around an extra iPod or MP3 player for all my music. I want separate specialized devices that do one thing really well. I want all my devices to have headphone jacks. I hate having my smartphone as the most important object in my life. Like, I already carry a separate game console and iPod Touch, but it's just not the same.

I've been wanting to switch to a dumb phone for forever now, but the idea of texting with a number pad sounds awful. I also need my phone for school stuff. I must sound like such an old man, but technology has become so mundane. I miss frutiger aero.

#2010s nostalgia #2010s internet #early 2010s #2010s #early 2010s nostalgia #technology #smartphone #nintendo ds #ipod classic #ipod #ipod touch #frutiger aero

[watermelinoe]

my niece once got upset w my dad bc he wouldn't buy her some overpriced drunk elephant skincare product. she was freaked out about getting wrinkles. at age eight. i wish her mom had never bought her that damn smartphone

#idk if my brother is dad of the year or anything but he didn't want her to have the smartphone so points for that #her mom bought it so she could track my niece whenever she's with her dad (my brother) and text her constantly #and considering she's so petty that she made my niece leave an easter gathering with a terminal family member early it's like #i'm sure she has her side of it and my brother was probably a dick somehow but girl you're punishing an eight year old about it #and i really don't think shit like ''ice age is for boys (so i won't watch it)'' came from my brother #i'm sure i'm biased bc it's my brother but genuinely i think she bought my niece that phone to spite him #and now she's just glued to it bc that's what smartphones are designed to do !!!! #you would really fuck up your own kid's attention span and self esteem just to get back at your ex??? #and this isn't even the worst parenting move on her part but luckily that guy died and can't be around my niece anymore ever <3 #but i just worry about her. since i moved away i don't really get to see her. #and not to be narcissistic but i feel like it's good for her to see women w short hair no makeup comfy clothes etc. #i wanna be a good example for her #i told her she should just worry about washing with soap wearing sunscreen and drinking lots of water #i just can't relate at all. at her age all my friends were boys and i was into dinosaurs and pokemon and werewolves #a lot of girls... didn't really like me 😔 i remember being upset bc one girl called me a tomboy #anyway if u read all this. secret radioactive kiss just for u. mwah 💚

[nitw]

i think it's such a funny detail that basically all characters in mp100 use smartphones and it's just reigen (and in turn, mob) who believes in flip phone supremacy

#i just checked in s3e7 and both tome and kijibayashi use smartphones as well #i used to think this story took place in like the very early 2000s solely based on the flip phones #but then teru pulled out a smartphone gjdjhekskgkg #leo.txt #mp100 #mob psycho 100 #also inukawa has what's basically the equivelant of a psp or nintendo switch

[soapdispensersalesman]

#Loopt #webcore #techcore #internetcore #old web #old internet #social media #social network #geosocial #geosocial network #geosocial media #2000s #2010 #2010s #early 2010s #motorola #smartphone #app #application #mobile #homepage

[venacoeurva]

Good lord at this rate you're better off just buying a cheap phone to use as an mp3 player and just not activate it than even bother with a touch screen mp3 player unless you're ready to drop like $1000 because everything else is immensely questionable

#my mp3 player's port died :'] #unsurprising but yet my old coby(?) one from about.... 2009? is still kicking #buttons are very finicky though #and teeny tiny storage #vena vents #not art #might as well try to get a smaller tracfone for $50 and get full app store capabilities #and then a backup if my actual phone dies ig #A lot of the non-touch ones out there are either very old or just not ideal/very cheap #Makes me miss my old prepaid from like 2014 that was one of those really early cheap smartphones that were in fact very stupid #It'd be good for this but its screen was broke and we don't have it anymore #I'd get an ipod touch but I do NOT wanna deal with itunes shit

[casbitchh]

used a landline phone with a cord and everything for the first time in like a decade. god i love hotels

#retro vintage early 2000s landline my beloved #when i own a house i will have a landline and exclusively use that for phone calls #i’m freeing myself from the smartphone shackles

[neverevan]

sometimes I wish I was born just 10 years earlier, but I know that if that was the case I could've never left the country I was born in and I could've never made the friends who mean the world to me now, so I deal. but man, if I could've been 20 in the early 00s instead of being a fifth grader... I would've loved that.

#I know this doesn't make much sense to anyone else #but I feel such a profound connection with media from the early 00s #the tv shows the music the fashion #and maybe some of it is coming from being a kid at the time and looking up at teenagers #and some of it is coming from me watching 00s tv shows in my twenties #but idk just imagining that sort of life #making things happen for yourself #not having a smartphone #just... yeah I remember and I wish I was older at the time #newbie stuff

[unproduciblesmackdown]

similar to the greentext stuff - i was visiting with my neighbors and their grandkids were around, and I said to this eight year old, "Hey, you wanna know something cool? I was playing the game when the Endermen came out." and his eyes went wide, like this kid looked like i told him i landed on the moon. His grandma thought it was really funny, and she said she has no idea what i'm talking about, but her grandbabies do, and that's incredible to her.

oh that's fun lmao, when minecraft & that update's existed for more than your whole life, and yknow being that young and like Next Year fr is this huge time scale away, a couple of years is a quarter of your life thus far and like maybe nigh half of the part of your life you actually have longterm memories for....i was checking out this dev's blog's archives about a:tdd's release in 2010 & in one entry they compared the implicitly Roughly concurrent release of Minecraft and i was like hey whoah. forever primarily being a game i've Heard Of more than any more direct exposure so i had no precise sense of [before minecraft release] [after minecraft release] Year 0 there but it's like for sure back in thee day when minecraft was a new thing, huh

#add in that [i also basically Heard Of mass effect but that's a game series w/a 2010 median which i had Any knowledge abt already] #so i have that reference point for a still like [niche video for When You've Played These Games For Sure] there but then like #if you were ten or even 5 yrs younger at the time you May Well Be much more at sea as your starting point there #(but i mean not that much; i didn't know a ton. reread those wikipedia plot summaries myself) #enderman came out? happy pride #shoutout to this one time i crossed paths w/this kid who was at the time probably like late middle school early high school age #who started talking abt pokemon like Clearly A Big Interest and i'm like my only Direct experience is playing pokemon go but i know Some #stuff b/c i was 5 in '99 when it was first making that huge splash lol. can make Some remarks....but also just Listening Attentively To You #Monologue like uh huh go off....i sure remember like the Sense of a couple yr's sagacity like being 9 i think reading a book abt 6th or 7th #graders (i.e. two or three yrs older) like My God They Must Be So Mature.... #and like ofc when skimming passages as an adult it's like omg l'enfants. Both Perspectives Being Accurate respectively lol #my vintage experiences like i've def saved things on the floppy discs of [save icons imagery]. have heard the dialup tones organically.... #but also; say; Home Computers That You Didn't Really Need To Know Much Abt Computers To Use were forever an everyday thing for me #having been born mid '90s....vs like in the '80s being nicher but also like. the programs to amateur code not being As Complex either #like [working on cars] of yore vs more modernly lmao....plus ofc in their designs; opening up a desktop Tower vs what? a tablet?? #ppl my age who had more substantial Online Access earlier than i did maybe having at least picked up some html; which i did not lol #also didn't have too much Gamer Experience ever; what i did largely desktop then laptop pc wasd+mouse style.... #didn't have a smartphone till maybe 5 yrs after they were starting to become more commonplace #vs that again to an 8 yr old of today [commonplacer smartphones] is your whole life basically too. i remember when we flipped those phones. #(i do fr lol. did have one of those first for a good while.) #granpa granpa....mh being fourteen yrs old meaning like the Teen Fans of Today were probably not watching it as it aired lol #whereas i Was that teen fan of those yesteryears. and all my stories for it like fuckin uhhhhhh [crickets chirping] [studio audience laugh] #though You Don't Need The Fans like mh is a long movie ppl can newly discover Whenever that holds up; plus it has bonus lore #mostly what i could even Possibly bring is just the particularly nicher older bonus lore. but like grandpa simpson (the simpsons) for sure #which is to say: humorously irrelevant & perhaps somewhat cantankerous #whilest i'm vaguely aware there may have also been that minecraft resurgence (esp through streaming?) from 2020 on.... #but evidently Like Mh something that continually revives / takes on New Fans / Participants #for sure i might well be playing some tf2 myself if i had the technical capability (i would have the poor personal ability i always did lol #real games of yore but it never gets old also. though i know Of Late there was a bot problem / just neglected maintenance? that get fixed? #These Have Been The Tag Tangents. maxed out thirty tags i know that's right

[indeedgoodman]

#art #design #high fashion #2000s #2000s nostalgia #y2k #00s #early 2000s #2000s aesthetic #2007 #regis #kelly #apple #smartphone #phone #apple news #iPhone #1st generation #technology #technews #tech #Apple #IndeedGoodMan #fyp #tumblr #foryoupage #for you page

[pinkfey]

i feel like just thirty years ago if you whipped out a camcorder and recorded random unaware strangers on the street to commentate on them you would be ostracized and considered a huge creep and yet,,

#smartphones and their consequences have been a disaster for— #like what’s the difference….. bc it’s being posted for an audience?? isn’t that even worse?? #the ‘you’re out in public’ argument would literally never stand in the nineties and even the early aughties. this is a recent phenomenon. #at least i think so #anyways.txt

[autisticbee]

dan vs technology is no longer hyperbolic in the 2020s

You know, cause i only saw the show this year it didn't even occur to me that it was hyperbolic but, yeah 😭 I wonder how Dan feels about smartphones...

#i think they were actually in the show towards the end but shh #those were the early smartphone days lol

[chalkythetalkie]

How can i see the date a tumblr post was posted. This is driving me insane

#i never did use tumblr mobile in my Tumblr Days bc i only acquired my first smartphone in uhh early 2016 #you used to be able to see the dates when you went into a person's blog!! is this feature nonexistent on mobile #anyway hi i'm testing this out. probably won't be actually Hanging Out on tumblr like i do on twitter but yknow #it's good to have another place to keep track of people and also to easily store conveniently tagged pretty pictures for a rainy day

[theologicalphysics]

#just pondering what it would mean if he did #because 'tell me something only he would know' gets tricky with public figures #whereas if somebody showed up with a smartphone covered in the fingerprints of somebody who died in the early 90s #I would definitely have some follow-up questions #and by me #I obviously mean Rachel Fawcett MP #bbc ghosts

[soapdispensersalesman]

#Loopt #social media #frutiger aero #webcore #techcore #internetcore #2010 #early 2010s #2010s #social network #geosocial #geosocial media #geosocial network #app #application #smartphone #mobile #sam altman

[venacoeurva]

I love those chunky phones they have for construction workers/equally as rough areas of work, love a flip phone that are hefty enough that it looks like you could inflict blunt force trauma by lobbing it at a home invader

#vena vents #not art #we need more chunky phones idc #I also think we should bring back the concept of touch screen and physical keyboard phones esp slide up phones #hell make the keyboard another screen that is where the keyboard shows up #the early concepts of that were wasted on early smartphones that sucked ass #Anyway I'm looking at old phone models like 2011 old and mentally just chimp screaming from the throwback