{"id":8015,"date":"2022-11-23T10:37:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T09:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/23\/my-friends-call-me-the-blackberry-queen-meet-the-people-clinging-on-to-old-tech-from-faxes-to-vcrs\/"},"modified":"2022-11-23T10:37:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T09:37:15","slug":"my-friends-call-me-the-blackberry-queen-meet-the-people-clinging-on-to-old-tech-from-faxes-to-vcrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/23\/my-friends-call-me-the-blackberry-queen-meet-the-people-clinging-on-to-old-tech-from-faxes-to-vcrs\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My friends call me the BlackBerry queen!\u2019 Meet the people clinging on to old tech \u2013 from faxes to VCRs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can keep your iPhones, emails and streaming videos. Aren from London, Lisa from St Louis and Billy from Wigan are quite happy with old-fashioned alternatives. And there are plenty more where they came from<\/p>\n<p>More than 40 years since the fax machine became an office mainstay, it seems the party is finally over. With telecom providers no longer required <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/01\/fax-for-the-memories-ofcom-backs-death-warrant-for-80s-office-staple\">to offer fax services<\/a>, these machines may soon be consigned to the dusty attic of bygone tech. But for the TikTok generation, who\u2019ve never known life without wifi, concepts such as fax, dial-up internet and Friday night trips to Blockbuster Video aren\u2019t just outdated, they\u2019re completely alien. Even so, not everyone has forgotten about the charms of older technology. From the clattering keys of an old typewriter to the nostalgic joy of a chunky Walkman, some people have never left their favourite tech behind.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/23\/my-friends-call-me-the-blackberry-queen-meet-the-people-clinging-on-to-old-tech-from-faxes-to-vcrs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/be94c46639f4f8bf3fdb4181adca3614e8d62aa2\/0_380_5912_3548\/master\/5912.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=acfc1e9d2bfddbaa930835f5065c98a5\" title=\"\u2018My friends call me the BlackBerry queen!\u2019 Meet the people clinging on to old tech \u2013 from faxes to VCRs\" \/>You can keep your iPhones, emails and streaming videos. Aren from London, Lisa from St Louis and Billy from Wigan are quite happy with old-fashioned alternatives. And there are plenty more where they came from<br \/>\nMore than 40 years since the fax machine became an office mainstay, it seems the party is finally over. With telecom providers no longer required to offer fax services, these machines may soon be consigned to the dusty attic of bygone tech. But for the TikTok generation, who\u2019ve never known life without wifi, concepts such as fax, dial-up internet and Friday night trips to Blockbuster Video aren\u2019t just outdated, they\u2019re completely alien. Even so, not everyone has forgotten about the charms of older technology. From the clattering keys of an old typewriter to the nostalgic joy of a chunky Walkman, some people have never left their favourite tech behind. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can keep your iPhones, emails and streaming videos. Aren from London, Lisa from St Louis and Billy from Wigan are quite happy with old-fashioned alternatives. And there are plenty more where they came from More than 40 years since the fax machine became an office mainstay, it seems the party is finally over. With &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/23\/my-friends-call-me-the-blackberry-queen-meet-the-people-clinging-on-to-old-tech-from-faxes-to-vcrs\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018My friends call me the BlackBerry queen!\u2019 Meet the people clinging on to old tech \u2013 from faxes to VCRs<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}