Fake: If you were texting while driving in 2004, you were likely using the 10 digit keypad on a flip phone.
Gay: gay marriage wasn’t legal in 2004
Physical buttons are the only way to type blind though, I still know the numpad layout by heart.
Youre either pretty young and never used numpad texting, or kinda old and never got used to it.
At least with a physical numpad people could text without ever looking at their phones.
Pocket messaging was actually quite useful. Especially in the winter.
and before the advent of swiping it also was a hell of a lot faster than any other input method for people who used it a lot, outside of the blackberry keyboards which were pretty awesome.
I used to text with my phone in my pocket riding my bike no handlebars. Where has the time gone…
I still know the numpad layout by heart, 20 years after having such a phone.
Mate anyone worth their salt could speed text on a t9 blindfolder under their desk and the teacher or police would never notice!
It gets to the point where you even learned the order of suggested word list. 73647 ->three down. The travisty when you used a word ever so more often and the order would change suddenly.
Is it that much of a leap to think they texted either in a traffic jam or even when they arrived at work after hearing this on the radio?
I’m all for being sceptical, but T9 texting could be pretty quick.
I don’t get your point about it being fake. Why would a 10key phone preclude texting while driving?
Arguably they were better at typing on blindly than your average software keyboard nowadays, especially with T9.
Because it’s just a stupid joke, following a trope.
Ah yes, the good old 15th month of 2004. I almost forgot!
In the text, it says that they’re still happily married “>20 years later”. That’s why they came up with 2004, because 2024-20=2004, not because they thought the first “04” was the year…
I see I interpreted it as “it was the reset after 20 years”
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gay marriage wasn’t legal in 2004
Not the the USA, but anon could get Dutch
and i don’t get why it has to be gay marriage anyway? the post indicates nothing about the gender of either person.
The joke is that 4chan anon posts are “fake and gay.” Which comes from how 4chan users themselves respond to eachother on their own board. So one response to these as a joke is to point out why they are fake and why they are gay. Since it’s a dumb joke, if you start applying logic to the explanation of course it breaks down.
/joke-explained
Oooooh i guess that went right over my head. :D Thanks for explaining.
Text your partner that you love them. Always great advice.
Texting while driving is great advice?
Voice controlled, yeah. I do it all the time
That tech did not really exist in cars 20 years ago
Bold of you to assume OP existed 20 years ago.
On T9 keyboards it was easy to do without looking.
555 666 888 33 0 999 666 88
Yeah, and i bet you have the new emergency number memorized too
I’m not old enough to remember what it was before 911.
if you think of them tell them you are explicitly by texting them
Isn’t this technically 4chanbeholesome
Well, yeah. It’s why I cross posted. If you find wholesome content on Lemmy, showing it here is a great thing. I don’t mind wading through the swamp that is a 4chan green text community to curate a bit of wholesome content when I find it.
