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3rd Party Trackers

Posted by Dick Halsey on 11 March 2026, 1:37 pm

There are little things added to web pages to track you across the internet. You  have seen a time when you go to a website selling shoes then after that you start get hints suggesting shoes from other websites. Those are called 3rd Party Trackers. The trackers come from many companies that you have heard …

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Those Newfangled Phones

Posted by Dick Halsey on 26 January 2021, 7:05 am

Here is a film from the 1940s showing people how to operate their new dial telephone. Before this you picked up the phone and automatically got an operator who would ask for the phone number you wanted to be connected to. Note that in this film the phone numbers are just 4 digits long. Grandpa …

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Old Technology vs. New Tecnolology

Posted by Dick Halsey on 5 December 2020, 7:20 am

Every time you have some new technology that you are having trouble with, just watch these kids trying to figure out what a dial phone is and how to operate it. I laughed a lot watching this.

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Dealing with Old Technology

Posted by Dick Halsey on 13 August 2018, 5:01 am

Here is something that I couldn’t resist showing. It is a few teenagers trying to make a call on a rotary phone. It is just something that they have never seen operate before. It was recorded by one of the kid’s father. I wonder if they could put a tape in a VCR and play …

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