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beefnoodle posted:Although my grandparents had the equivalent for their pre-80’s era: a big wood console around their tv with a flip top to get to the turntable. Late 70s and early 80s we get the influx of faux-wood panelling that allows plastic-using appliances to ape the luxury and refinement of the older era. We start seeing a shift in consumer HiFi Audio in the 80s, with dark colors as a way to signal that this is the cutting edge poo poo. And your TV goes from being an appliance to the focus of your living room.
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I dunno if the blizzard of 93 aka "storm of the century" has already been covered in this thread. I was just thinking about it, it's one of my earliest memories. And I remember people wearing I SURVIVED THE BLIZZARD OF 93 tshirts Like so: 
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FilthyImp posted:I dunno if we went through this before in this thread, but those old time consoles reflected the idea that entertainment in your family room wasn't aimed exclusively at Tv/Records the way it was for the Radio, so those appliances had to find a way to blend in with the furniture. Another iteration of this happened with computers in the mid-late 90s to early 2000s. People would buy those giant workstation things that were basically a big cupboard you put the computer in with doors to hide it away in when it wasn't being used. I'm sure everyone has parents/grandparents who had one of these things in the corner of the dining room with a lovely supermarket-bought PC in it:  ...every crevice stuffed full of AOL CDs and unread manuals, and a printer right where you want to put your legs.
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Sweevo posted:Another iteration of this happened with computers in the mid-late 90s to early 2000s. People would buy those giant workstation things that were basically a big cupboard you put the computer in with doors to hide it away in when it wasn't being used. I'm sure everyone has parents/grandparents who had one of these things in the corner of the dining room with a lovely supermarket-bought PC in it: I'm sitting at one of those right now. poo poo...
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Dixville posted:I dunno if the blizzard of 93 aka "storm of the century" has already been covered in this thread. I was just thinking about it, it's one of my earliest memories. And I remember people wearing I SURVIVED THE BLIZZARD OF 93 tshirts I don't as much remember the storm of the century in 93, but I definetely remember the Great Ice Storm of '98: https://www.mynbc5.com/article/from-the-archives-the-great-ice-storm-of-1998/29815226 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1998_North_American_ice_storm I was in high school, and we left early the day it started, and then had the next 2 days off (I want to say it started on a Wednesday?) There were people without power for close to a month in my area (northern VT.) And yes, plenty of t-shirts were made:  
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twistedmentat posted:There's something that i don't think we've talked about, home furnishings that are decidedly 90s. I'm thinking entertainment centers designed to hold your tv, vcr, stereo and and other thing you want to plug into it. With glass doors in front of everything of course. I'm pretty sure sharp corners were illegal on all furniture in the 90's. Every last corner was rounded with a 1" to 2" radius. Everything was either finished in a natural light wood, or a venier. Not just any venier, it was a Earth tone grey with colorful flecks.
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Sweevo posted:Another iteration of this happened with computers in the mid-late 90s to early 2000s. People would buy those giant workstation things that were basically a big cupboard you put the computer in with doors to hide it away in when it wasn't being used. I'm sure everyone has parents/grandparents who had one of these things in the corner of the dining room with a lovely supermarket-bought PC in it: We just had an old desk/hutch with the typewriter compartment retasked to hold the monitor
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Dixville posted:I dunno if the blizzard of 93 aka "storm of the century" has already been covered in this thread. I was just thinking about it, it's one of my earliest memories. And I remember people wearing I SURVIVED THE BLIZZARD OF 93 tshirts From K-12, we only got one day out of school for weather. That Monday was it. We didn't get snow, but did lose power for three days.
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Sweevo posted:Another iteration of this happened with computers in the mid-late 90s to early 2000s. People would buy those giant workstation things that were basically a big cupboard you put the computer in with doors to hide it away in when it wasn't being used. I'm sure everyone has parents/grandparents who had one of these things in the corner of the dining room with a lovely supermarket-bought PC in it: And then Gen-Xers and Millennials who: 1. Didn't have money, especially right away 2. Knew what the gently caress terms like "airflow" and "dust" meant Immediately threw that poo poo in the trash.
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I hate those loving PC cabinets. I used to do in home Geek Squad in a previous life and those things were the bane of my existence. Cables run through weird slots and crevices, god forbid if you had to disconnect the PC and extract it from one. The worst one I dealt with was at a smokers house who kept an ashtray right there on one those things and blew his smoke right into the cabinet and the PC. I think I showered for 2 hours straight after that job...
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Not quite as bad, but at the office someone put their computer in a shelf on their desk that's enclosed on 4 sides. When I had to jump on it after she was laid off, I found that the monitor cable was exactly long enough to fit into the computer and she never tightened the screws, causing it to immediately pull out when I turned the computer on. I had to move the entire desk just to plug it back in. At the other office/training company, there's two banks of computers for students to test on. The owner is freaky about looking neat so he had all the cables bundled up and zip tied, which means you need to cut apart the zip ties any time you change a single thing, and there are some plugs running through holes that they can't come back out of because of their shape.
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The desk I'm using right now is a holdover from the 90s, but all I had to do to make it a big flat workspace was disconnect the raised shelf the printer and whatnot were originally supposed to go on, as was the custom at the time.
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Yea I'm using a desk my sister got out of the garbage at her first apartment. The finish is coming off and the top is watered damaged to hell and back. At least there's a place where you can put your legs. That cabinet thing above doesn't not even have that.
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All this talk about computer desks & cabinets made me think of this photo: Definitely a late 90s/early 2000s 'web porn' vibe - but just look at that furniture!
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TITANKISSER69 posted:All this talk about computer desks & cabinets made me think of this photo: I just realized I have that chair.
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I was thinking about the cultural decade thing the other day and I suspect the big pandemic will one day be remembered in the same way as the wall falling, with changes we can't see right now divided into before and after it.
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TITANKISSER69 posted:All this talk about computer desks & cabinets made me think of this photo: I'm just thankful that display technology transitioned from
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A cami that is also a crop top is very 2000
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FilthyImp posted:I dunno if we went through this before in this thread, but those old time consoles reflected the idea that entertainment in your family room wasn't aimed exclusively at Tv/Records the way it was for the Radio, so those appliances had to find a way to blend in with the furniture. I'd love to read more about this kind of thing. Any suggested links? VVV thanks! beefnoodle has a new favorite as of 02:49 on Apr 6, 2020 |
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beefnoodle posted:I'd love to read more about this kind of thing. Any suggested links?
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This was my favourite 90's thing ever.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLVq0IAzh1A stone cold classic 
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Randaconda posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLVq0IAzh1A gently caress you I had a BMG and Columbia House membership and having checked the boxes for rock/rap received this in the mail unasked for from one or the other. Opened it and listened to it and realized I owed them 18.99 for something I assumed was aimed at middle aged women. Fortunately I learned that minors can’t enter a binding contract and I owed them less than the penny I taped to the business reply mail card  Sting is awful
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Randaconda posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLVq0IAzh1A My parents loving loved this song.
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Sting is the epitome of a guy who on-paper seems cool as gently caress but outside of his young work all of his stuff is a Boomer afternoon nap given sentience.
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Jaguars! posted:I was thinking about the cultural decade thing the other day and I suspect the big pandemic will one day be remembered in the same way as the wall falling, with changes we can't see right now divided into before and after it. I'm inclined to agree with you, though I'd argue the millions of jobless claims in the past couple weeks will make the immediate changes apparent, possibly even on the same level as 9/11.
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Dixville posted:I dunno if the blizzard of 93 aka "storm of the century" has already been covered in this thread. I was just thinking about it, it's one of my earliest memories. And I remember people wearing I SURVIVED THE BLIZZARD OF 93 tshirts Don't remember the T-shirts, but I remember it being a big deal because a metric fuckton of snow landed in an area where that kind of snowfall rarely happened. Also remember waking up to a bone-chillingly cold house at sunrise because the power went out and our house just happened to have all-electric heating. The entire family had to trudge through what seemed like knee-deep snow to my grandparents' house, as theirs had gas heat, dodging downed power lines the whole way. I remember spending the rest of that day snacking on cheerios listening to my grandparents, mom and aunt trade stories I can't remember about life in our backwater neighborhood.
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listen in 1993 this poo poo was revolutionary
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It is really hard to properly appreciate how loving futuristic that z-axis and pseudo-fidelity was. MYST and DOOM were like goddamn bombs getting dropped on our eyes.
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mind the walrus posted:It is really hard to properly appreciate how loving futuristic that z-axis and pseudo-fidelity was. MYST and DOOM were like goddamn bombs getting dropped on our eyes. I've said it before but getting a 3D graphics card, and using it to run stuff in the glorious 640x480 HD-textured mode smoothly around mid-90's was one of the only "holy poo poo"-moments I have truly had with PC hardware.
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I still remember the first time I played Quake with a graphics card, it was mind blowing. Things went from chunky square blocks to smooth and round, which was just unheard of back then. 
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And the colored lighting was completely over the top.
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The Voodoo graphics cards where in every magazine. I remember getting my Nvidia Geforce 256 and being able to play Jedi Knight and Xwing Alliance with max graphics at that 1170x768 or whatever resolution that my 300 pound 19” crt could do with my Pentium 3 600 mhz processor. Spent a lot of time on that machine...
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Overwatch Porn posted:listen in 1993 this poo poo was revolutionary Yeah, I even tried to make my own MYST once. It didn't go very far, I think I made a bird house.
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90s Solo Cup posted:Don't remember the T-shirts, but I remember it being a big deal because a metric fuckton of snow landed in an area where that kind of snowfall rarely happened. Yeah my whole family had to sleep in the same bed because the power went out. I don't remember much else but i was only 4.
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KozmoNaut posted:And the colored lighting was completely over the top. at least you could see things with color. the 00'/10's had a period of lighting trends which amounted to 'let's just make this too dark to play and fill it with jump scares', which was annoying.
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StrangersInTheNight posted:at least you could see things with color. the 00'/10's had a period of lighting trends which amounted to 'let's just make this too dark to play and fill it with jump scares', which was annoying. "'realism means too much bloom and BROWN"
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That was my first game boy, it owned.
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