The ’90s called, they want their phones back.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/10105454

• Gen Z’s nostalgia for the early 2000s is sparking a revival of landline phones, seen as a retro-chic escape from the digital age.

• Influenced by '90s and 2000s TV shows, young adults like Nicole Randone and Sam Casper embrace landlines for their vintage appeal.

• Urban Outfitters capitalizes on Gen Z’s love for nostalgia by selling retro items like landline phones alongside fashion trends from the '90s and 2000s.

  • BolexForSoup@kbin.social
    1·
    7 months ago

    and tells all their journalists they cannot use it as anything other than an original source to what a specific public figure has to say.

    You had me until this. For starters, that means no outlets can carry stories from other outlets, severely hampering the dissemination of information/stories/etc. You’d need like 8 subscriptions just to get a picture of what happened yesterday in your town, city, state, nation, etc.

    Additionally, this heavily restricts the range of available whistleblowers/sources and how exposed they have to be.