We’ve lived together for months
on August 30, 2019 at 12:01 amChapter: Suddenly Sal
Location: Jason's apartment, Joyce and Walky's apartment
Yikes, that cordless phone. Yikes, that Caller ID that is its own separate machine. So incredibly 2005.
does the caller id thinger count as an oversized comedy prop
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maybe it’s one of those home intercoms
I mean, LANDLINES, what are THOSE
They’re those things you hook your Apple IIgs up to so you can dial into a BBS with it.
(Serious answer.)
I hooked up my IBM clone!
My Amiga 1000.
2005 is right before the cutoff point, I think. I feel like if this strip was written even a few years later, they’d already be using cell phones.
I thought regular cell phones had already hit their stride well before 2005. Texting, phones that unfolded three different ways to give you a QWERTY keyboard, Symbian, the RAZR…
Smartphones only started really taking off in 2009, with the likes of the iPhone 3GS and Motorola DROID.
Cell phones were definitely common before 2005; I haven’t had a landline since 2003.
Also, since I paid for J&W!, I probably should’ve downloaded the strips before the domain change. Whoops!
All the pages should also be on the new server. Just exchange “itswalky” for “joyceandwalky” and they’ll pop up. It’d still work, but the DNS is giving me problems so I just made a dumb redirect, which blitzes it for now.
Ah, okay, makes sense. It’s funny, I was looking forward to seeing Joyce and Walky up on here, but I wasn’t in any rush to reread it until you actually started posting it. Go figure I guess.
I think THE PAST counts as an oversized comedy prop.
Depends how far you go into the past. Not all the moments were…bright.
Oversized tragedy prop?
Heh. I never even had one of those seperate Caller ID boxes; the cordless phones I bought always had a display that showed it. The only difference between my current landline phone (which is probably 15+ years old) is that the current one has a digital recorder, and the old one used a cassette tape. Also, the display uses crappy LCD crystals instead of LED, so it’s difficult to see in low-light conditions. Thanks to AT&T’s U-verse though, Caller ID also displays on the TV screen, making it easier than ever to ignore telemarketers! 😀
Same here. A separate caller ID box would have been dated in 2005. The cordless phone my family got when we moved into our first house in 1998 had built-in caller ID, and rather annoyingly it was talking caller ID, so the phone would shout “Call from Blah Blah Blah”. Everyone but my father hated that feature, but he insisted on leaving the talking feature on. Even the novelty of having a name badly mangled by the text to speech got old. The display alone would have been fine.
Yeah, I figured it was a joke on Jason that he was still using it.
I don’t think I’ve ever had one of those cordless landline phones. I went from using the corded landline phone in my parent’s house when I was a kid to a cell phone when I went to college.