# Who's the most technologically primitive doper?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-technologically-primitive-doper/303596>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 12, 2005, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-technologically-primitive-doper/303596 "2005-05-12T20:04:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-technologically-primitive-doper/303596/41 "2005-05-16T14:29:47Z")

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> [@VenusProbe](#):
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> OMG! I heat my house with computers and gadgets!
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> I have:  
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> [li]1 DVD player - **9 DVD players (no cable, so 1 by each TV, two portable ones for the kids, two on two computers (4)).**[/li][li]1 Palm Pilot -\*\* 0\*\*[/li][li]2 VCRs - **3** [/li][li]2 Cell phones - **3, (wifes’, Mine and one for work)**[/li][li]2 MP3 players (they actually belong to the girls) - **1** [/li][li]2 Laptops (soon to be 3) **0** [/li][li]3 TVs - **ditto** [/li][li]3 Video Cameras - **3 (one on each digital camera and a stand alone)**[/li][li]3 Digital cameras - **3 too, (the stand alone is a digital camcorder)**[/li][li]4 Dish receivers (1 with PVR, 1 hooked to a computer) - **No cable or dish** [/li][li]4 game systems **2, (or 4 if you count the two gaming computers)**[/li][li]4 GPSs - **0** [/li][li]7 Computers (Networked and sharing DSL) - **4 (but only three are in use and only two are networked)**[/li][/ul]
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> no dishwasher and my car doesn’t have a working radio (67 Mustang (is that a girlie car?)) - Have a dishwasher and no, the car is NOT a girlie car, unless it has a 6 cylinder. 😉

Sounded like my house for the most part.

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**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-technologically-primitive-doper/303596/42 "2005-05-16T14:34:58Z")

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I’m so primitive I"m prokaryotic.

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**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-technologically-primitive-doper/303596/43 "2005-05-16T16:32:51Z")

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> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#):
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> Pfft, amateurs.
> 
> I post on the Straight Dope using UNIVAC!

Feh, I key at 52Kbps. It’s hard on the fingers, but a little work builds character.

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