Tell me about references in older media lost on modern audiences

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Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

I saw someone describe TV episode as a real who's who of x and I was thinking weren't there literal books called that? Turns out yeah. Listings of notable persons. Such a Sherlock Holmes era type thing in my mind.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2020 22:58

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 15:20

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

If you lived through the rise and fall off CDs, you also lived through DVDs and arguably Blu-rays. Minidisc. A whole load of non-SD flash-based cards. And that's just formats that didn't outright fail in a couple of years.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2020 16:28

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Alterian posted:

Modern tvs use a significant amount less electricity compared to older style tvs.

Steadily closing the gap though, with average size increasing massively and all the smart crap and image processing becoming unavoidable!

# ¿ Feb 22, 2021 19:39

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

New Yorp New Yorp posted:

the 3.5 inch disks weren't floppy at all!

They were though! No matter what they were encased in. The disk was floppy.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2021 22:17

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Powered Descent posted:

How do you use powerpoint on an overhead projector? Print out the slides onto transparencies?

You rip the back and the backlight off a monitor and you basically have an lcd transparent slide. I think there were commercial solutions like that too.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2021 23:19

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Mr Luxury Yacht posted:

It's also frustrating if things go wrong since the POST beeps can tell you what's failing if the computer won't boot. Some fancier motherboards have small seven segment displays on the board itself that displays the error code but if you don't have that it's entirely guesswork now.

I thought these beeps came through the onboard sound now? Heard of that anyway.

Also plenty of internal pc speaker piezo things on amazon now.

# ¿ Jun 7, 2021 21:11

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Did anywhere ever use rj45 for phones instead of rj11 anyway

# ¿ Oct 10, 2021 12:28

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Would the suit in Saturday night fever qualify? Like what would presumably evolve to what they're wearing in Miami vice, maybe. That's more what I imagine Larry wearing.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2022 14:50

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Radium code so bad it causes issues on Reddit

# ¿ May 4, 2022 23:08

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 15:20

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

For some time in the eighties you'd go to a theme park and they'd slap a sticker on your car in the parking lot without asking. I don't know how normal that was, though I do remember noticing cars having more tourist destination stickers on them as a kid and then that falling out of fashion somehow. It angered my father greatly.

# ¿ Nov 21, 2022 15:59

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