Category Archives: Technology Jokes

Why Does Technology Play Tricks On You?

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car key fobHave you ever felt that technology has some mystical way of playing tricks on you and fooling with you at times?

Take for example the electronic key fob for my car, which has never had a range of more than a few feet, but which in the last few weeks has dropped to about two feet at best, and then required me to press the button twice instead of once to unlock the car.

After two weeks of frustration and pondering as to why it was doing this, I decided to Google for information on this, and as I thought, it meant the battery in the key fob was getting low.  The having to press twice plus the alarm light flashing on the dashboard when I did unlock the door confirmed this.

Well frustrated because I only had a new battery put in the key fob 18 months ago, I went onto eBay and purchased another battery – actually two batteries since they were so cheap.

That was last Friday evening, and ever since I placed that order with eBay, guess what?

The range on the key fob is better than ever, the door now unlocks right away instead of my having to press the button twice, and all because I ordered a new battery.

The batteries arrived in the mail yesterday, but I guess I don’t need them now…

Do you have stories like this where technology has played tricks on you?  If so please leave a comment and let us know.

Cell Phone For Seniors

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This might not mean anything if you are under 40 or thereabouts, but back in the day, we didn’t have the convenience of push button digital phones.

Oh no – we had those lovely rotary dial phones, and it took forever to dial a number, especially if the phone or your finger slipped, and you mis-dialled.

NO auto-redial – you had to do it manually

NO address book – except the one you wrote in

NO voicemail or text – if you missed a call – no way to know

And so in honor of the phones of yesteryear, here is a phone that us seniors (or at least us old enough to remember) can identify with…

Cell phone for seniors complete with rotary dial and analogue dialling

New Discoveries

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After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York archeologists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, a California archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story in the LA Times read:  “California archaeologists, finding traces of 200 year old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.”

One week later, The Jersey Journal, a local newspaper in New Jersey, reported the following:

After digging as deep as 30 feet in his back yard, Vinny ‘Bada Bing’ Manziano, a self taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Vinny has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, New Jersey had already gone wireless.”

Just makes me proud to be from New Jersey.