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DirtyMick posted:Zip drives... for when I needed to move a huge amount of data. We used those for C++ class in high school (late 2003) to store our programs on but they kept getting stolen so our teacher had to lock them up every day lol. I guess they were p expensive then?
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Zip drives ruled, I had this one It took the regular 100 MB disks OR the new 250 meg ones. Then CD-Rs suddenly became cheap and 
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Games that a crew of like a dozen people could make, and still be considered AAA titlesSkeleton Ape posted:Zip drives ruled, I had this one I have fond memories of the zip drive because I used to go to a computer meeting thing in the 90s (yes they existed pre-internet popularity) and people used to give me 250MB zip drives loaded with  When you were a kid, that was awesome.
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Sep 15, 2015 00:20
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Skeleton Ape posted:
I've got one sitting on my desk at the moment. The pricing on those things is bizarre, last I checked Best Buy was selling them for the same amount they were in '97.
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Sep 15, 2015 00:48
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prinneh posted:Came here to post this. MiniDisc was just so cool, I went straight from a walkman to a minidisc. Used my old cassette player to re-record my tapes to minidisc. Fantastic, every other physical media has been a let down. Yeah. Its kind of time consuming to make playlists on MD from a CD but it puts you in physical contact with physical media which is not something common these days. Honestly I still use mine sometimes regardless of the fact that my Sony phone has music playing capabilities. The discs just look so cool... 
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The Goatfather posted:meanwhile, apple still bans all emulators from the app store xcode 7, now available in beta, lets anyone compile and sideload stuff right to their device without a paid membership give it a try, its pretty sweet
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:it was 3.5 inch you gently caress i guess when its that small every fraction matters 
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Sep 15, 2015 00:58
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VHS tapes were a nuisance in my childhood but now I truly miss the physicality of stuffing one info a vcr and the satisfying clicks, whirr, and static as it began to play. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmjzBbLuMJc
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Toadvine posted:VHS tapes were a nuisance in my childhood but now I truly miss the physicality of stuffing one info a vcr and the satisfying clicks, whirr, and static as it began to play. same, but i know if i started watching a vhs tape now it wqould annoy me just as much as it did 20 years ago. maybe more
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Panty Saluter posted:same, but i know if i started watching a vhs tape now it wqould annoy me just as much as it did 20 years ago. maybe more I really used to love the way VCR's and freshly rewound tapes smelled for some reason.
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Sep 15, 2015 01:20
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Preoptopus posted:I really used to love the way VCR's and freshly rewound tapes smelled for some reason. A Correct Opinion also nintendo cartridges and manuals
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Sep 15, 2015 01:21
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Preoptopus posted:I really used to love the way VCR's and freshly rewound tapes smelled for some reason. Ah yes. Be kind, rewind That smell inside blockbuster. So 90s
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Sep 15, 2015 01:24
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my translucent atomic purple gameboy color. I mean my phone could emulate it and drat near everything else with better battery life and a backlit screen. but... it's just not the same as when I was a kid 
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Sep 15, 2015 01:29
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When I worked at Blockbuster we had a bank of 4 of these on the counter ready to go at a moment's notice 
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Sep 15, 2015 01:29
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revmoo posted:Ah yes. Be kind, rewind the blockbuster near my house was split into an olympia sports and massage therapy place. rip
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Sep 15, 2015 01:29
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I kind of hated my old BBS because I wanted my email to update more than once or twice a day. Of course now, a quarter century later, we're all permanently connected everywhere and I kind of hate how I'm constantly expected to keep up on work emails at all hours of the day and night. I also hated having only a certain number of turns a day to spend in Legend of the Red Dragon, but in the early 90's it was worth it to play an RPG with strangers online. That was downright magical at the time, and set the stage for a hell of a lot of Kingom of Loathing 15 years later. I miss games that force you to limit your daily play and severely discourage having multiple accounts.
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Skeleton Ape posted:Zip drives ruled, I had this one Fixed that for you.
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Panty Saluter posted:A Correct Opinion Back when manuals were made "in character" to get you ready for the game while it was installing. Lots of neat descriptive fluff (useless, but I like reading that poo poo), and something as simple as the overworld map from Zelda: A link to the past would get you all excited to play just looking at it. Now you get a dry, sterile slip that tells you the basic controls and how to set up an online account.
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Skeleton Ape posted:Zip drives ruled, I had this one I remember having to buy this for college
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Blazing Ownager posted:Games that a crew of like a dozen people could make, and still be considered AAA titles I miss this, we'll never have another quake or doom in our lives
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Wicker Man posted:Back when manuals were made "in character" to get you ready for the game while it was installing. Lots of neat descriptive fluff (useless, but I like reading that poo poo), and something as simple as the overworld map from Zelda: A link to the past would get you all excited to play just looking at it. Link to the past had a 45 page book that came with it. And then people still bought the entire walk through for it. Or waited till the Walk through issue of Nintendo Power came in the mail. http://www.zeldacapital.com/manual/alttpmanual.pdf
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Skeleton Ape posted:When I worked at Blockbuster we had a bank of 4 of these on the counter ready to go at a moment's notice You were doing the LORDS work, my friend. I miss video rental stores, specifically this one mom and pop place I would go two. They had millions of movies. I appreciate having Netflix, but a lot of times I just find myself browsing forever, starting one and then stopping 10 min in. I felt I watched a lot more movies back when I had to choose 3 and watch them with in 5 days or pay a late fee. There was also something about wandering up and down the aisles. I guess I'm just old.
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How has Tiger not reared its head yet? Shame. Two of my favorites (actually my only two): 
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I had a Game & Watch Donkey Kong. It was fun. Also funny to see it on display at the Smithsonian for a while 10 years later.
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Skeleton Ape posted:Zip drives ruled, I had this one I must say that I didn't have this model, which may be wonderful for all I know, but everything said about the "click of death" and Zip drives is true. I still hate Zip drives and I will always hate Zip drives. I lost a tremendous amount of data when they became mandatory in college (late 90's). If you haven't seen what happens to them, take one apart and you'll see why the "click of death" is a hardware virus. The head scratches the disk, the head re-homes and tries again ad infinitum, and it breaks itself. They chose to let the head float on the copper wires instead of positively attaching it. I remember hearing the click and running across the computer lab to eject the disk before it would screw the drive. This was a near daily occurrence. Whomever decided that slamming the head to park if it can't read the zero block needs to go to hell. In addition, they used two huge springs to eject the disk. This would cause some of the external readers to throw the disk a good 3 feet on eject. I had one of them that did that. I used to put my hand in front of the drive to avoid this. Several in the computer lab did the same. All things considered though, I am nostalgic for them. Data storage is too cheap now.
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Dr Cheeto posted:The noise a dial-up modem made I really never thought I'd miss this but I do Also I bought minidiscs without buying the player just because they were so cool looking Corn Glizzy fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Sep 15, 2015 |
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I owned this (briefly) and played it more than any sane person ought to. When you're a poor video game junkie and your parents won't underwrite your habit, Tiger was there. I traded this in for an Atari 7800 that was massively discounted at the time. Maybe a joke in the long run but I got my 25 dollars worth for sure. I'm amazed that I'm at all functional given the depths of my video game habit as a youth. Every spare moment and quarter went to playing video games. I would calculate my savings in terms of the number of plays I could get (they were mostly 25 cents at the time, kids...if you can believe it). If I were smart at all I'd have invested that money and been a millionaire by now. Also no one mentioned Tiger because that's more 80s tech, home slice 
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Every time I read the "Couldn't you turn it off?" in this thread regarding modem connections, I hear in my head "DON'T YOU KNOW THE HAYES AT COMMAND SYSTEM?" (In the voice of conan the librarian of course, because otherwise it'd be hayes command set)' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZHoHaAYHq8 I miss "Old" Al. Also, the 90s was the end of FM radio contests that didn't completely loving suck. TwoFire fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Sep 15, 2015 |
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Preoptopus posted:Link to the past had a 45 page book that came with it. And then people still bought the entire walk through for it. Or waited till the Walk through issue of Nintendo Power came in the mail. Thank you so much for posting this, I had completely forgotten about that manual. I'm thinking it might make a cool base for a photoshop thread (or something). Content: I used to hate missing TV shows I wanted to watch because they were only broadcast at certain times. Now I'm so spoiled for choice I hardly watch anything. Progress! But, recently I saw the HD restoration of Ken Burns' Civil War on PBS with my family, and it was really kind of nice watching something that started promptly at 8 and ended at 10 every night for a week. It was a nice centralizing ritual. Ken Burns is not a technology but I hated him in the 90's when I had to watch his films in school and I love him now that I'm a pretentious douchey adult, so it's kind of similar.
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A Mean Cow posted:Sprite based graphics. sprite supremacy
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 This thing changed my life. I have the internet now (obviously) but the process of dialing and connecting was like some sort of ritualistic dance, when completed you would be faced with new, daily surprises, what manner of news will you see? Did your favorite comedy website somethingawful.com post a new update? Who has sent you E-mail? A buddy list showing people you know and were actually excited to talk to because it was still a magical way to communicate and share things with other people. You: Hey, you wanna chat? Them: Okay! Who the hell feels this way anymore. Now it's: You: Hey, you wanna chat? You've been blocked.
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A Mean Cow posted:
yep, nowadays i get blocked on twitter by people i've never interacted with, heard of, or even knew existed
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To everyone saying MiniDiscs: Hell yeah. I still own mine. Those things were great. I had the soundtrack to Dune 2000 on them I ripped. Says something about the era.
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red_dirt posted:I've got one sitting on my desk at the moment. The pricing on those things is bizarre, last I checked Best Buy was selling them for the same amount they were in '97. The pricing for TI calculators is ridiculous. When I bought my TI-89 it cost like $280, and this was a few years into the age of smartphones. On Amazon you can currently get a TI-89 for around $150+, which is still a lot for something with that kind of hardware. But I guess that's what happens when one manufacturer controls the market. At my high school TI calculators were mandatory, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's still like that today. Years ago I heard that only a few people in the world knew how to make those things but it was probably just a rumor 
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i am filled with nostalgia for obsolete consumer electronics, but i am on the toilet now so i should be done pooping it out soon.
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Serious Frolicking posted:i am filled with nostalgia for obsolete consumer electronics, but i am on the toilet now so i should be done pooping it out soon. That is an interesting place to store a VideoDisc player.
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A Mean Cow posted:
AOL was pretty amazing early on. Everything from Popular Mechanics to Marvel had wholly devoted sections in AOL. This was before everyone developed their own websites. The chat rooms in AOL were unbelievable. I discovered warez and traded porn on dial up. Talk about a crap shoot. poo poo'll never be new again. I really would have expected we'd be in the era of 3D avatar chat rooms by now but people don't really chat much now.
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