posted by alphagamer on Jul 29, 2009:
The mother of a friend of mine still used DAT for backup purposes in her dental clinic not too long ago.
100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
posted by Barc0de on Jul 29, 2009:
many bootlegs and semi-pro recordings happened/happen on DAT. It's the medium of preference of professional hobbyist.
many bootlegs and semi-pro recordings happened/happen on DAT. It's the medium of preference of professional hobbyist.
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posted by Ed the Nerd on Jul 29, 2009:
My video cam is a super8, im 17.
Unemployment + hand-me-downs ftw :110:
My video cam is a super8, im 17.
Unemployment + hand-me-downs ftw :110:
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posted by 3do on Jul 29, 2009:
I actually wouldn't want to be a kid these days not thats its bad or anything but simply becuase i liked the fact that when i was younger we never had all this high-speed broadband with youtube..etc and you usually if we had a mobile it was a non-colour screen phones with basic wap and if you were lucky enough you had a phone with a basic colour screen and eventually a simple camera.
Quite a few things there that i remember especially Minidisc's, i even still have my Sharp MiniDisc player/recorder and a sony Minidisc walkman which was still used by myself up untill about 2007-2008 untill i got an Ipod shuffle.
Tchoin said:
From an article I read today:
Audio-Visual Entertainment
1. Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something.
3. Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo. See what happens when you give a Walkman to today’s teenager.
5. Standard-definition, CRT TVs filling up half your living room.
10. Betamax tapes.
11. MiniDisc.
13. Scanning the radio dial and hearing static between stations. (Digital tuners + HD radio b0rk this concept.)
16. Watching TV when the networks say you should. Tivo and Sky+ are slowing killing this one.
17. That there was a time before ‘reality TV.’
Computers and Videogaming
18. Wires. OK, so they’re not gone yet, but it won’t be long
19. The scream of a modem connecting.
21. 5- and 3-inch floppies, Zip Discs and countless other forms of data storage.
27. Daisy chaining your SCSI devices and making sure they’ve all got a different ID.
28. Counting in kilobytes.
29. Wondering if you can afford to buy a RAM upgrade.
30. Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time.
31. Turning a PlayStation on its end to try and get a game to load.
32. Joysticks.
33. Having to delete something to make room on your hard drive.
34. Booting your computer off of a floppy disk.
The Internet
37. Finding out information from an encyclopedia.
38. Using a road atlas to get from A to B.
39. Doing bank business only when the bank is open.
40. Shopping only during the day, Monday to Saturday.
41. Phone books and Yellow Pages.
42. Newspapers and magazines made from dead trees.
44. Filling out an order form by hand, putting it in an envelope and posting it.
45. Not knowing exactly what all of your friends are doing and thinking at every moment.
46. Carrying on a correspondence with real letters, especially the handwritten kind.
50. Privacy.
51. The fact that words generally don’t have num8er5 in them.
52. Correct spelling of phrases, rather than TLAs.
53. Waiting several minutes (or even hours!) to download something.
54. The time before botnets/security vulnerabilities due to always-on and always-connected PCs
56. When Spam was just a meat product — or even a Monty Python sketch.
Gadgets
58. Putting film in your camera: 35mm may have some life still, but what about APS or disk?
59. Sending that film away to be processed.
60. Having physical prints of photographs come back to you.
62. Getting lost. With GPS coming to more and more phones, your location is only a click away.
66. Pay phones.
69. Vacuum cleaners with bags in them.
Everything Else
70. Taking turns picking a radio station, or selecting a tape, for everyone to listen to during a long drive.
71. Remembering someone’s phone number.
72. Not knowing who was calling you on the phone.
73. Actually going down to a Blockbuster store to rent a movie.
74. Toys actually being suitable for the under-3s.
75. LEGO just being square blocks of various sizes, with the odd wheel, window or door.
76. Waiting for the television-network premiere to watch a movie after its run at the theater.
79. The days before the nanny state.
89. Sliding the paper outer wrapper off a Kit-Kat, placing it on the palm of your hand and clapping to make it bang loudly. Then sliding your finger down the silver foil to break off the first finger
90. A Marathon bar (what a Snickers used to be called in Britain).
91. Having to manually unlock a car door.
92. Writing a check.
93. Looking out the window during a long drive.
96. Libraries as a place to get books rather than a place to use the internet.
100. When a ‘geek’ and a ‘nerd’ were one and the same.
Link to full article (Wired)
I actually wouldn't want to be a kid these days not thats its bad or anything but simply becuase i liked the fact that when i was younger we never had all this high-speed broadband with youtube..etc and you usually if we had a mobile it was a non-colour screen phones with basic wap and if you were lucky enough you had a phone with a basic colour screen and eventually a simple camera.
100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
posted by WolverineDK on Jul 29, 2009:
Jamtex: with a culture where people spit, then I will doubt that TB is a thing of the past. But probably seeing a sign with a TB cross and a warning not to spit is a thing of the past. But I think it would be a good thing today if they showed that sign again. Cause TB is a still a bitch that isn't just like a fluke.
Jamtex: with a culture where people spit, then I will doubt that TB is a thing of the past. But probably seeing a sign with a TB cross and a warning not to spit is a thing of the past. But I think it would be a good thing today if they showed that sign again. Cause TB is a still a bitch that isn't just like a fluke.
That is true.
Barc0de said:
many bootlegs and semi-pro recordings happened/happen on DAT. It's the medium of preference of professional hobbyist.
100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
posted by Barc0de on Jul 29, 2009:
I pray that our grandchildren won't need to know what AIDS and cancer are
I pray that our grandchildren won't need to know what AIDS and cancer are
100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
posted by WolverineDK on Jul 29, 2009:
Yeah, that would be great if those two things were cured. But then again I fucking doubt it, cause until now every time a company has come up with a vaccine against AIDS , then either the company has disappeared or the vaccine did not work. Too many people has died of those two things illnesses. And people are still going to die from them.
Barc0de said:
I pray that our grandchildren won't need to know what AIDS and cancer are
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posted by Ed the Nerd on Jul 29, 2009:
So, by that logic, we should stop trying? :katamari:
WolverineDK said:
Yeah, that would be great if those two things were cured. But then again I fucking doubt it, cause until now every time a company has come up with a vaccine against AIDS , then either the company has disappeared or the vaccine did not work. Too many people has died of those two things illnesses. And people are still going to die from them.
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posted by Drew on Jul 29, 2009:
Cash is too essential to our capitalist society to throw away.
madhatter256 said:
A lot of retailers and banks (well mostly banks) are trying to make cash obsolete.
It will get to the point where purchases will be done electronically and not a simple cash transfer.
I do like to have cash on me, but I rarely do lol. I use my card all the time as I don't ahve to fumble with coins in my pockets, etc. and if I ever get robbed, it will be hard for them to use my card as it has my picture on it and I can easily call in and cancel it.
One thing I do worry about are the RFI cards that they are developing. They kinda have them out now for some gas stations where you 'wave' your card and it automatically does the transaction and no buttons were pressed.
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posted by WolverineDK on Jul 29, 2009:
Fuck no ! I am just stating the sad news about these things .
Ed the Nerd said:
So, by that logic, we should stop trying? :katamari: