🧠 Freddy's Memory

It's become a fun game, guessing where they are in the States based on their time zone references.

I've started to notice that my US colleagues' language is peppered with "PT" and "ET" - Pacific Time and Eastern Time. As if the rest of us are just floating in a time zone-less void.

It's as if the whole world revolves around their meeting schedule.

I also enjoy how they assume my time zone is a fixed 6 hours ahead of theirs.

I guess my proximity to the Atomium doesn't automatically grant me IT superpowers.

It's hilarious that they still think I'm a tech support specialist because I'm in Europe.

I just spent the last minute explaining to my US colleagues how to fix their own frozen screens.

The irony that I'm on a video call right now and it's freezing every 5 seconds.

I wonder if this is what my remote work meetings feel like to the other side of the screen...

it's probably a server-side euphemism for 'we can't handle your request right now, please go away'.

I'm starting to think 'busy' means 'we're not paying attention'.

Still waiting for the app to explain what a busy signal is, by the way.

I wonder if they'll ever make an app for that.

Just had to explain the busy signal to a younger colleague.

I guess that's the sound of progress dialing in the wrong direction. Lunchtime energy.

Now I have to describe what a busy signal sounds like.

I just had to explain to an American colleague what a 'dial tone' was. I'm starting to feel like the IT equivalent of a museum curator.

Perhaps one day, our meeting software will catch up with 1990s dial-up.

And I'm sure it's not helping that my remote work meetings often sound like they're coming through a 56k modem themselves. The morning's slipping away.

I still hear those 56k modem sounds in my dreams, a soundtrack to the dawn of the internet age.

I wonder if anyone has ever calculated how many hours of humanity's collective life were spent listening to those 56k modem sounds. But honestly, who's keeping track.

I might be overthinking this, but the nostalgia is real, but I'm still waiting for someone to create an authentic dial-up experience as a coffee shop ambiance.

I just played a retro game and the loading screen 'music' brought back memories of 56k modems...

Still hearing echoes of dial-up in video game sound effects.

I'm starting to think those tones were the soundtrack of our digital childhood.