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Dick Trauma posted:We had filmstrips when I was a kid. They were like a cartridge that was inserted into the projector. You'd have the soundtrack on a cassette and when it dinged the teacher would advance to the next image. Some of the ones we had in my school had a built in tape player and speaker, and would automatically advance the projector the next slide at the chime.
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There was a time in the 90s where the coolest thing ever was surfing, and Bill and Ted style surfer dudes were everywhere going "dude" and "whoa" and "bodacious!". I never understood it. It went away with Chip and Pepper tshirts. Oh god flip projectors. Man a class was taken up with those ancient flim strips when I was a kid. Only some times did we have a tape to go with it, most of the time we just read out the captions from the bottom of the slide. Those things got insanely hot, and once the film actually caught on fire because the teacher left it so long answering questions.
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Inspector_666 posted:Within the last year I overheard somebody saying that Facebook was just a flash in the pan.
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Remulak posted:It is and they know it. Big pan though. Well yeah. Teenagers are already abandoning facebook.
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Tunicate posted:Well yeah. Teenagers are already abandoning facebook. I think of Facebook as a disease.
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Remulak posted:It is and they know it. Big pan though. Hey when was the last time you heard somebody mention MySpace outside of "oh wow MySpace still exists?"
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I remember having to watch some ancient sex ed video on a 16mm projector in middle school. And I'm not even that old, this was like in the early 00s.
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Coffee And Pie posted:I remember having to watch some ancient sex ed video on a 16mm projector in middle school. And I'm not even that old, this was like in the early 00s. I just imagine that every single one of these has Troy McClure in it.
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As long as it has that terrible warbling narration and lots of splices from breaks then it's perfect. I had an ornery bio teacher that used to say "We're not going to watch a movie: we're going to watch a film" and then we'd get 30 minutes of some 1960s black and white documentary about the paramecium.
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Jun 3, 2014 01:00
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To be fair, some of those older ones are actually far better. At my local high school, they still pull out an old filmstrip for cellular biology, because it covers te basics in a much clearer method than anything newer. It'd be nice if copyright law would explicitly allow format-shifting though.
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Nothing like the look of a well worn 16mm that's been re-recorded onto a VHS to make "the joy of birth" into a horror film. I think the winning line we had from one was "You can say anything mum, it's the 90s!" in a film about how heredity disorders were passed. Oh and this in 1991... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZslqNCoe-s BogDew has a new favorite as of 01:50 on Jun 3, 2014 |
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WebDog posted:Nothing like the look of a well worn 16mm that's been re-recorded onto a VHS to make "the joy of birth" into a horror film. I'm pretty sure it always looks like a horror film, regardless of media.
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WebDog posted:Oh and this in 1991... Oh my god the nostalgia. 
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Collateral Damage posted:When I was in grade school I remember we got to watch presentations that were pictures shown by a slide projector accompanied by a soundtrack that came on reel. The teacher had a "portable" reel to reel player that she'd haul out and set up on the desk, and the sound track would have a beep or ding sound to signal that it was time to change slide. When I was in elementary school (1995-2000 or so) we still had these. Kodak carousel slide projector with either a reel to reel or cassette audio track that beeped when the teacher had to advance the slide. I guess that somewhere around that time computers reached a decent price point for educational use, or my school district had a major funding windfall. In middle school we went from slide projectors and green monotone PCs running 3.1 in the computer labs to eMacs and even carts with 30+ Mac laptops with OS X that teachers could request for their class periods. Our county libraries went for Mac products which was nice. I can't imagine how frustrating it would be to have incompatible files between library and school computers. Back then, not everyone had a home computer. Especially one with an internet connection.
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Anyone else remember those transparent calculators for use on Overhead Projectors in classrooms? These guys take me back! 
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Hey when was the last time you heard somebody mention MySpace outside of "oh wow MySpace still exists?" Our parents have Facebook, we can't ever leave
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p-hop posted:When I was in elementary school (1995-2000 or so) we still had these. Kodak carousel slide projector with either a reel to reel or cassette audio track that beeped when the teacher had to advance the slide. I guess that somewhere around that time computers reached a decent price point for educational use, or my school district had a major funding windfall. In middle school we went from slide projectors and green monotone PCs running 3.1 in the computer labs to eMacs and even carts with 30+ Mac laptops with OS X that teachers could request for their class periods. Both Apple and Commodore were widespread in schools in the 1980s and in full color. I did learn BASIC on some variety of monochrome IBM beast that had the screen and double disk drive as a single unit (and raised hell if you turned it on with the keyboard unplugged). High school started with 3.1 and went to Windows 95 the next year. Only one classroom was wired for the internet when I graduated. I can't recall us using the slide projector very often, but do remember listening to The Three Musketeers on it. It had to be very abridged as I think we powered through it in one class session. I think every classroom in elementary school also had a record player, which is how I was introduced to Disco Duck. I know I've mentioned these before in this thread, but here's a real piece of obsolete school technology: System 80. It was a punch card machine. The cards were plastic and had a plastic handle on the end so you could easily slide them in and out. This article is dated 1971. We were still using them in the late 1980s, though you probably imagine the problems with punch cards. It had no brains at all to it and was completely reliable on the cards to work. Not to mention that it sounded like a jet taking off. If I remember correctly, they also were extremely hot to the touch.
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Collateral Damage posted:When I was in grade school I remember we got to watch presentations that were pictures shown by a slide projector accompanied by a soundtrack that came on reel. The teacher had a "portable" reel to reel player that she'd haul out and set up on the desk, and the sound track would have a beep or ding sound to signal that it was time to change slide. Collateral Damage posted:This was mid/late 80s. Google tells me most of those tapes were from the early/mid 70s. Pogo Pedagog Presenterar 
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WebDog posted:Nothing like the look of a well worn 16mm that's been re-recorded onto a VHS to make "the joy of birth" into a horror film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q6k1Xl72jk In other nostalgia, anyone remember how Bill Gates and MS was viewed back in the 90's / early 2000? People would make photoshops equaling Bill Gates with Hitler, and Micro$oft was the big corporate devil. Now Gates is a saint and I don't really see anyone bothering to hate much on MS other than random ramblings.
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Pilsner posted:In other nostalgia, anyone remember how Bill Gates and MS was viewed back in the 90's / early 2000? People would make photoshops equaling Bill Gates with Hitler, and Micro$oft was the big corporate devil. Now Gates is a saint and I don't really see anyone bothering to hate much on MS other than random ramblings.  Those were the days. One of my classmates was a die-hard Mac fanboy (in the horrible Mac OS 9 days), so the Gates=Hitler material was pretty much a constant stream.
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Pilsner posted:In other nostalgia, anyone remember how Bill Gates and MS was viewed back in the 90's / early 2000?  What really started it seemed to be in 1998 with the Netscape lawsuits where stuff like this portrayed him as utterly alien and disconnected from reality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tr7_T_M0g4 Plus being attacked by pies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2jJKVsKBTI And found this, of a more spry Bill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TCxE0bWQeQ
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Coffee And Pie posted:I remember having to watch some ancient sex ed video on a 16mm projector in middle school. And I'm not even that old, this was like in the early 00s. I remember watching an Uncle's porn films on super-8, but that was pretty old - 1980s or so. Still, there's just something about super-8 porn that has a more natural feel, maybe it's the darkened room 
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SybilVimes posted:I remember watching an Uncle's porn films on super-8, but that was pretty old - 1980s or so.
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I personally love the video they made for his last day at Microsoft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1M-IafCor4 EDIT: ^^ Porn on LaserDisc is annoying because you have to flip the disc over halfway. Humphreys has a new favorite as of 13:26 on Jun 3, 2014 |
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Pilsner posted:In other nostalgia, anyone remember how Bill Gates and MS was viewed back in the 90's / early 2000? People would make photoshops equaling Bill Gates with Hitler, and Micro$oft was the big corporate devil. Now Gates is a saint and I don't really see anyone bothering to hate much on MS other than random ramblings. Nowadays, Gates is only Hitler to the neo-hippie slacktavist Facebook crowd, since he wants to murder African children.
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Humphreys posted:^^ Porn on LaserDisc is annoying because you have to flip the disc over halfway. Sounds like you need one of these! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt4YFPZ5rBc
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My girlfriend's dad had Judge Dredd on Laserdisc... Somehow, it is THE most appropriate movie for that format.
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strangemusic posted:My girlfriend's dad had Judge Dredd on Laserdisc... Somehow, it is THE most appropriate movie for that format. Was looking for an image of Blade Runner on Laserdisc when I happened upon this:  quote:The same year that brought you Blade Runner also brought us this $20000 (Twenty Thousand dollar) exercise cycle which "amalgamates a superior, industrial quality LaserDisc player with a video disc, a 45" rear screen video projector, and the Lifecycle electronic bicycle/aerobic trainer." Wow!!! The intricate and clever but overly expensive "solution" to a "problem" nobody had...using an obsolete format that never got a great foothold...the faux-wood paneling
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Back in the old days magazines like Creative Computing would publish simple programs in BASIC for you to type into your computer. There were also books like this one, which I took out of the library and read even though I didn't have a PC. That makes libraries the first app store!  
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Dick Trauma posted:Back in the old days magazines like Creative Computing would publish simple programs in BASIC for you to type into your computer. There were also books like this one, which I took out of the library and read even though I didn't have a PC. This book right here was the worst:  "Learn the basics even without a computer!" The basics of being poo poo.
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I still have that somewhere. 
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Humphreys posted:I personally love the video they made for his last day at Microsoft: 240p video is something I won't miss. http://vimeo.com/478337 (higher res version) and yet 240p pron then was just as exciting at 1080p is now.
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Please tell me this is some kinda art-type photoshopped commentary on technology replacing real-life experiences/interactions.
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The laptop stands don't cast shadows, so it's at least photoshopped; we can only hope that that was the intent. (On the other hand, there's the art theory that the true meanings of a work are what the viewers get from it, not what the artist intended.)
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Monkey Fracas posted:Please tell me this is some kinda art-type photoshopped commentary on technology replacing real-life experiences/interactions. Unfortunately, it's an advertisement. (For "multiplayer" bike training software.)
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Monkey Fracas posted:Was looking for an image of Blade Runner on Laserdisc when I happened upon this: My cousin's boyfriend does this during the winter months with a big screen TV, a stationary bike and YouTube. I thought he was just weird and am shocked to find out that there was someone who thought to try to develop this into a marketable product.
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That seems fun to me! I like cycling, but it's loving boring in the gym, even if you have music or something to watch.
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Pretty much every exercise bike, stair-stepper, elliptical, etc made in the past 20 years has what amounts to a rudimentary videogame built in, it just uses LEDs for the "graphics" of the hills and valleys you're navigating.
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mng posted:That seems fun to me! I like cycling, but it's loving boring in the gym, even if you have music or something to watch. My gym has these, where you can steer and shift and such.  Unfortunately the controls are absolute poo poo, steering is nothing like a real bike, the gearing is all funky, there's not much correlation between going up a slope and pedaling getting harder... Nobody uses them, and for good reason.
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