This photo of the Moscow metro today made some people nostalgic, others just a bit pompous
This photo of people on the Moscow metro went viral today because it reminded people of a past we’ve left behind.
https://twitter.com/1NikolaMirkovic/status/937081232281792517
Some people were glad our trains don’t look like that anymore. Others, less so. Here’s a flavour of what people said online.
1.
No wifi?
— Matthew Kracht (@solon594bce) December 3, 2017
2.
I do prefer paper books, having a lot of gadgets. So do many others in Russia. We have WiFi in Metro.
— ღ Елена Петрова 🇷🇺 (@Enchanteressse) December 3, 2017
3.
No money for tablets they would say!
— Cryptoha [ETH] [BTC] [LTC] [XRP] (@cryptoha) December 3, 2017
4.
Well, presumably books aren't bugged the way smartphones are.
— Carrie Sweet (@CarrieSweet2017) December 3, 2017
5.
Books, not phones. Cool.
— j anderson (@harrypillsbury) December 3, 2017
6.
Imagine cutting down trees instead of reading ebooks just to look cooler.
— shirulosa 5-fosfato (@shiru__desu) December 3, 2017
7.
Books don't produce deforestation . Paper production has been controlled and organised for years . In Europe at least . Europe has seen a growth in forests in the last 100 years
— Volodia (@Volodia11) December 4, 2017
8.
There is a betreyar! pic.twitter.com/ycoliTOabK
— Fırat Akyıldız (@whiskeyinthejar) December 3, 2017
9.
Well, those devices are called a books, that way you're reading and that's how people install new applications in their brain.
— Miguel Angel (@Miguel2punto0) December 3, 2017
10.
Isn't it funny? The first thing that flashed through my head unbidden was: ah, some kind of performance art, no?! (& for the record I'm 56 and a lifetime bibliophile. What happened to us?)
— mirabile dictu (@proteanclod) December 3, 2017