posted by andoba on Jul 29, 2009:
I don't know if my country is undeveloped or what, but I remember most of them as every day things when I was a children, and I was born at 1992 so not that much late. We even had a Super 8 B/W projector from the 70's because we couldn't afford a VCR player.
EDIT:
Detaliling it:
Audio-Visual Entertainment
1. Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something.
We got a DVD player 3 years ago. Until then, a VCR player from the 80's.
2. Super-8 movies and cine film of all kinds.
Look up.
3. Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo. See what happens when you give a Walkman to today’s teenager.
Nothing sounds as good as our good old Kenwood sound stereo. It even has CD!
4. The number of TV channels being a single digit. I remember it being a massive event when Britain got its fourth channel.
TVE, TVE2, A3, T5 and C9... Nothing else, unless you lived in a super neighborhood with antennas newer than 1980.
5. Standard-definition, CRT TVs filling up half your living room.
Still many people use CRT around here. We used one until this year, when ours blowed up. But on our old house there's still a CRT of course. Until it breaks up.
6. Rotary dial televisions with no remote control. You know, the ones where the kids were the remote control.
Until I was 10 or 11 we had an ELBE with a huge push button dial (8 channels allowed), and rotatory dials for changing contrast, brightness and others... Remote included TV came when it broke.
7. High-speed dubbing.
What does this mean?
8. 8-track cartridges.
Same.
9. Vinyl records. Even today’s DJs are going laptop or CD.
Still around and still will be for purists. Anyway, unless you we're 14 in the 70's, I think that everyone knows tapes more than vinyl discs.
10. Betamax tapes.
Too expensive. Those we're a legent no one had seen outside El Corte Ingles lol.
11. MiniDisc.
Look up.
12. Laserdisc: the LP of DVD.
Look up.
13. Scanning the radio dial and hearing static between stations. (Digital tuners + HD radio b0rk this concept.)
Still have to suffer both. Everywhere. Anyway radios sounds cool.
14. Shortwave radio.
Still heard it at the car until I was 10 or around so.
15. 3-D movies meaning red-and-green glasses.
That is true.
16. Watching TV when the networks say you should. Tivo and Sky+ are slowing killing this one.
Only for people with good pockets.
17. That there was a time before ‘reality TV.’
That is so true.
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.
We've had two modems. A 12.2 KbPs modem bought in 1997 and a 28.8 KbPs from 1998. The first sounded way better. It had more bass, I'm serious.
20. The buzz of a dot-matrix printer
When ours busted up I was like 4 so i don't remember.
21. 5- and 3-inch floppies, Zip Discs and countless other forms of data storage.
3'5 we're around until so few time, in my school we still had many so many 5.25 inch units and discs...
22. Using jumpers to set IRQs.
IRQ's?
23. DOS.
BASIC. DOS was for rich lol.
24. Terminals accessing the mainframe.
I guess supercomputers still work the same way.
25. Screens being just green (or orange) on black.
What about dark and light green? Amstrad CPC ruled.
26. Tweaking the volume setting on your tape deck to get a computer game to load, and waiting ages for it to actually do it.
We had a 3" floppy unit. It was ubber.
27. Daisy chaining your SCSI devices and making sure they’ve all got a different ID.
SCSI was for rich people lol.
28. Counting in kilobytes.
Yeah.
29. Wondering if you can afford to buy a RAM upgrade.
Still wondering the same thing.
30. Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time.
Still do the same.
31. Turning a PlayStation on its end to try and get a game to load.
We had a Mega Drive, Playstation was like... 149000 pesetas?
32. Joysticks.
Still around.
33. Having to delete something to make room on your hard drive.
That 1.25 GB HDD... XD
34. Booting your computer off of a floppy disk.
That Windows 3.1 installation... XD
35. Recording a song in a studio.
Yeah, now they're recorded at the bathroom.
The Internet
36. NCSA Mosaic.
What??
37. Finding out information from an encyclopedia.
Still.
38. Using a road atlas to get from A to B.
Look up.
39. Doing bank business only when the bank is open.
Look up.
40. Shopping only during the day, Monday to Saturday.
Look up.
41. Phone books and Yellow Pages.
Look up.
42. Newspapers and magazines made from dead trees.
Look up.
43. Actually being able to get a domain name consisting of real words.
Who gets domain names?
44. Filling out an order form by hand, putting it in an envelope and posting it.
Look at 42.
45. Not knowing exactly what all of your friends are doing and thinking at every moment.
Look up.
46. Carrying on a correspondence with real letters, especially the handwritten kind.
Look up.
47. Archie searches.
48. Gopher searches.
49. Concatenating and UUDecoding binaries from Usenet.
Look up.
50. Privacy.
That is true...
51. The fact that words generally don’t have num8er5 in them.
52. Correct spelling of phrases, rather than TLAs.
What?
53. Waiting several minutes (or even hours!) to download something.
Good 12.2 KbPs modem...
54. The time before botnets/security vulnerabilities due to always-on and always-connected PCs
True.
55. The time before PC networks.
?
56. When Spam was just a meat product — or even a Monty Python sketch.
Since when Spam was meat?
Gadgets
57. Typewriters.
We used one until 1998 or so.
58. Putting film in your camera: 35mm may have some life still, but what about APS or disk?
Got our first digicam at 2004, and what is APS? Disk?
59. Sending that film away to be processed.
True.
60. Having physical prints of photographs come back to you.
True.
61. CB radios.
What?
62. Getting lost. With GPS coming to more and more phones, your location is only a click away.
GPS in phones? LOL?
63. Rotary-dial telephones.
We had one until 1998.
64. Answering machines.
Look up.
65. Using a stick to point at information on a wallchart
Still used at schools.
66. Pay phones.
Still around.
67. Phones with actual bells in them.
Look at 63.
68. Fax machines.
Still around.
69. Vacuum cleaners with bags in them.
Still around.
Everything Else
70. Taking turns picking a radio station, or selecting a tape, for everyone to listen to during a long drive.
It was more like THIS IS MY CAR I CHOOSE THE MUSIC.
71. Remembering someone’s phone number.
What? That isn't done now?
72. Not knowing who was calling you on the phone.
Still around.
73. Actually going down to a Blockbuster store to rent a movie.
Still around.
74. Toys actually being suitable for the under-3s.
Still around.
75. LEGO just being square blocks of various sizes, with the odd wheel, window or door.
That is true.
76. Waiting for the television-network premiere to watch a movie after its run at the theater.
That is true.
77. Relying on the 5-minute sport segment on the nightly news for baseball highlights.
That is true.
78. Neat handwriting.
Still around.
79. The days before the nanny state.
What?
80. Starbuck being a man.
Until this year no one knew starbucks.
81. Han shoots first.
What?
82. “Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.” But they’ve already seen episode III, so it’s no big surprise.
What?
83. Kentucky Fried Chicken, as opposed to KFC.
What?
84. Trig tables and log tables.
What?
85. “Don’t know what a slide rule is for …”
What?
86. Finding books in a card catalog at the library.
Still around.
87. Swimming pools with diving boards.
Still around.
88. Hershey bars in silver wrappers.
What?
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
Still around.
90. A Marathon bar (what a Snickers used to be called in Britain).
What?
91. Having to manually unlock a car door.
Still around.
92. Writing a check.
Still around.
93. Looking out the window during a long drive.
Still... around. :S ?
94. Roller skates, as opposed to blades.
Still around.
95. Cash.
LOL?
96. Libraries as a place to get books rather than a place to use the internet.
Still around.
97. Spending your entire allowance at the arcade in the mall.
Not around... Sadly.
98. Omni Magazine
What?
99. A physical dictionary — either for spelling or definitions.
Joke?
100. When a ‘geek’ and a ‘nerd’ were one and the same.
Until TV didn't start with that until 2002 or 2004 no one knew what nerd or geek was.
100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
posted by WolverineDK on Jul 30, 2009:
adoba: high speed dubbing if I remember correctly was that you recorded a tape over in double speed. Well I remember a professional tape deck where they recorded over to 7 other copies of a tape in "hyperspeed" (no shit and no joke) meaning when you push record and maybe play together then something like 1 minute (maximum) then you had seven copies of a tape. And well I will still use a dictionary in hard form, cause I like to buy them in hard form too. But as a bonus a CD version comes with the dictionary.
adoba: high speed dubbing if I remember correctly was that you recorded a tape over in double speed. Well I remember a professional tape deck where they recorded over to 7 other copies of a tape in "hyperspeed" (no shit and no joke) meaning when you push record and maybe play together then something like 1 minute (maximum) then you had seven copies of a tape. And well I will still use a dictionary in hard form, cause I like to buy them in hard form too. But as a bonus a CD version comes with the dictionary.
100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
posted by GodofHardcore on Jul 31, 2009:
I disagree on VInyl it's making a HUGE comeback
I disagree on VInyl it's making a HUGE comeback
100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
posted by Barc0de on Jul 31, 2009:
Last I heard the Playstation 4 will use Vinyl Discs (VD-ROM) as its storage medium.
Last I heard the Playstation 4 will use Vinyl Discs (VD-ROM) as its storage medium.
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posted by GaijinPunch on Jul 31, 2009:
Dont't forget masturbating to a still picture like a magazine. I miss the simple days.
Dont't forget masturbating to a still picture like a magazine. I miss the simple days.
You are high. It is dead as of a few years ago.
I disagree on VInyl it's making a HUGE comeback
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posted by sven666 on Jul 31, 2009:
unless you live in japan they wont experience standing in line for hours for essentials.
for instance:
paying your bills at the postoffice
fetching your cash at the counter in the bank
when the offlicence had the number cue system
:banghead:
unless you live in japan they wont experience standing in line for hours for essentials.
for instance:
paying your bills at the postoffice
fetching your cash at the counter in the bank
when the offlicence had the number cue system
:banghead:
100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
posted by Barc0de on Jul 31, 2009:
You know what else your grandkids won't remember? Their grampas with hair
You know what else your grandkids won't remember? Their grampas with hair
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posted by Taemos on Jul 31, 2009:
Haha, I found my MiniDisc player in my garage yesterday. It's a shame it doesn't work anymore... I really loved that thing.
Haha, I found my MiniDisc player in my garage yesterday. It's a shame it doesn't work anymore... I really loved that thing.
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posted by GodofHardcore on Aug 1, 2009:
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/06/02/vinyl_goes_from_throwback_to_comeback/
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/06/02/vinyl-makes-a-comeback-in-the-age-of-mp3/
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/commentary/listeningpost/2007/10/listeningpost_1029
http://www.amazon.com/Vinyl-Records-Albums-LPs-Eps/b?ie=UTF8&node=372989011
there are other online Vinyl only music stores but I can't find them.
If Vinyl is dead it's one pissed off Zombie
let the rest of the internet enlighten you
GaijinPunch said:
You are high. It is dead as of a few years ago.
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/06/02/vinyl_goes_from_throwback_to_comeback/
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/06/02/vinyl-makes-a-comeback-in-the-age-of-mp3/
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/commentary/listeningpost/2007/10/listeningpost_1029
http://www.amazon.com/Vinyl-Records-Albums-LPs-Eps/b?ie=UTF8&node=372989011
there are other online Vinyl only music stores but I can't find them.
If Vinyl is dead it's one pissed off Zombie
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posted by 3do on Aug 1, 2009:
I know the MiniDisc walkman still works although i don't have a spare battery so i will need to install Sonicstage and see whats on the MiniDisc's.
Got my sony MiniDisc walkman sitting on my desk along with two MiniDisc's and either in my room or up the loft i still have a sharp player/recorder unit.
Taemos said:
Haha, I found my MiniDisc player in my garage yesterday. It's a shame it doesn't work anymore... I really loved that thing.
I know the MiniDisc walkman still works although i don't have a spare battery so i will need to install Sonicstage and see whats on the MiniDisc's.