Comments on: Casualties of Tech: 40 Activities Made Obsolete

By: eight

eight — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:34:09 +0000

I miss the arcades =(

By: Jennifer Ichameleon

Jennifer Ichameleon — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:27:25 +0000

…email someone who's not into social networking…
We sometimes forget that email was the 1st Social network, lol.

By: Kinesthe

Kinesthe — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 08:16:26 +0000

I'm a teenager and I know what all of these things are
And no, it's sad that I thought I had to write this……

By: JR Raphael

JR Raphael — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:21:29 +0000

Good point — we inadvertently lost that button when we made a tweak to the site design a few weeks ago. Consider its reappearance at the top of our “to do” list, though (extinction, be damned!).

By: CyndiB56

CyndiB56 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:45:35 +0000

Add to your list: The ability to email a URL of this story to someone else who's not into social networking.

By: dantynan

dantynan — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:17:20 +0000

you definitely do not want to see JR 'cud'. he's got like six stomachs. it's not pretty.

By: JR Raphael

JR Raphael — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 05:47:04 +0000

Keep up that sweet talk, and I might just put out tonight. ;-)

(No cudding, though. Gotta draw the line somewhere.)

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:51:43 +0000

Despite the tone of your reply, I did like your article very much and was impressed with your accuracy and attention to detail as well as your lively writing style. If I rephrase it as “your article was a 9.9 out of 10,” do you like that better?

By: JR Raphael

JR Raphael — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:01:32 +0000

Thanks, professor. Now that I know what you'd agree with, I'll be able to sleep more easily at night. The fact that I didn't mention a handful of low-powered, community-owned TV stations should qualify me for execution; every feature story, after all, should be a complete encyclopedia of information with no fact omitted, regardless of its relative insignificance to the vast majority of people.

What would we do without people like you around who can swoop in and tell us how to do our jobs better? Gosh, I'm just relieved I have your approval on everything else. Let me know if I can get you a soda or maybe some snacks while you're here.

(For more on my new pal Adam, please see slide #8, “Smarty Pants,” on my story entitled “It Takes a Village Idiot: The Jerks of Online Forums.” http://www.pcworld.com/article/163734-9/it_take...)

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:36:56 +0000

"All-digital broadcasting system"? Do more research, dude. Only FULL-POWER stations were required to switch. In New York State alone there are well over a hundred Class A, Low Power, and translator stations ( http://www.ntia.doc.gov/dtvcoupon/LPTVmap.html ) that AFAIK still aren't required to switch, including the one broadcast channel I'd most like to get. "Primarily digital" or "digital-based" I'd agree with.

Other than that, cool list. I'm old enough to remember all of those.