This was cutting edge tech… I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs…
Naw. I’m this fucking old:
Wooo, look at hoity toity FancyPants over here with their screwdriver. All we could afford to fix our cassette tapes was a pencil. And a blunt pencil at that. And it was probably stolen from school!! Screwdrivers indeed!
The screwdriver is not for the tape. It’s for adjusting the audio head so it can pick up the data on the tape.
When someone gave you a tape with some nice games on it there was a near 100% chance you needed to adjust your datasette to read them.
Don’t you use a flathead for that?
A flathead is still a screwdriver, is it not?
It was a Philips screw IIRC. You can also use a flathead screwdriver on them but you shouldn’t IMHO.
Old enough to remember using a 3½” floppy disk to boot my first PC and mess around with GW/Q-BASIC and play DOS games.
The disks were strongly perfumed (I guess the guy I bought my pirated games from liked to do that for some reason), and I still remember that aroma.
Old enough to remember why computers with no hard drives had 2 floppy drives: OS in A:, application in B:.
config.sys and autoexec.bat gang.
When you had to choose between booting your OS at all or loading Doom.
This guy nibbles… And Gorillas
I remember the moment I realised my fancy new Walkman could read data CD-Rs and I could fit all my mp3s into one 700mb disc. I felt insane, majestic, limitless.
Kids, I played Leisure Suit Larry on a Macintosh II
My favorite memory of that era was awkwardly asking my mom historical questions to get past the age block.
‘Mom! Who was Nixon’s vice president?’ or something like that.
Ah, life before the Internets…
2001, Dre’s album drops, nobody has it yet. In walks the kid who has a T1 line and a 5 disc CD copier with a spindle of discs. He sits down in homeroom, puts the spindle on his desk and says Dre’s new album five bucks right here.
He sold out before the end of the day, made a good amount of cash, and was racking it in for months getting people albums that they requested because none of us could get it work with our slow connection. Of course when the two competing ISPs upgraded their networks later that year, he lost the majority of his business, but for a few months he was our pirate savior.
There was a kid who was selling the cheat codes for pokemon he printed off gamefaqs at my school. One of my friends found out I had internet access and asked me if I would get them for him. After I did that some other people asked me as well. Eventually the kid who was selling them got wind of it and got a couple of his other friends together to jump me on the playground at recess. I remember laying on the ground looking up at him standing over me threatening me if I didn’t stop doing that and just thinking “this is really stupid…”
The playground Mafia, you stop cutting into my business or your going to have an extra long nap time. Capiche?
Yea, that’s what it felt like lol.
Everytime I see limewire I feel left out.
Where are my Kaaza hommies at??
Where are my eMule fuckers at?
No SoulSeek fans here?
That’s the modern napster IMO.
Just a shame it’s hard to automate.
What do you want to automate with it though?
Isn’t slskd enough?
What’s slskd?
I just want to send a list of music and download it automatically, with a specific bitrate, regexed or if-checked for “cover”, “instrumental” etc.
It’s a soulseek deamon which you can control with for example a Webinterface.
So for your usecase you probably need to script those checks yourself.
Slsk (Soulseek) was far superior. It was the best for getting full albums and leaked stuff. If you found someone with a fast connection and thick library it was like gold.
Shoutout to everyone that got Modest Mouse’s We Were Dead album with “Mike Jones” randomly played in the background.
Slsk is still around today and people swear by it.
Because it’s pretty much under the radar of the industry and you can find all kind of music there. Is nice.
I’m this old:
I mean, they are half right. The music industry is eating itself. Back catalog is outperforming new releases year after year because new music is dead.
New music is thriving. There is more music of almost every style and genre imaginable being released today than ever before. What’s dead is traditional music distribution channels and marketing avenues like radio, and the popular means of promoting music now reward the most dogshit meme-able content. But if you seek out music yourself, the modern era is a paradise of incredible music; don’t blame music itself for the failures of the industry to reward good within it.
New music is surviving. Of course it will survive. Music is an expression of our humanity.
Thriving? I think not. When was the last time you went to a bar and people just starting singing and playing folk music? When was the last time you even heard of that happening? Once it wasn’t weird, it was normal.
Music is dead because it has been elevated to something that is performed by the few and consumed by the many, instead of something that we all live together.
“Haute cuisine is dead! When was the last time you walked into a restaurant and saw aspic on the menu? When was the last time you heard of somebody serving aspic? Once aspics weren’t weird, they were the hottest fashion!”
^ That’s you.
Trying to define the relevancy and lifeline of music as a whole based on the popularity of pub folk music is crazy.
More people are making music today than ever before, as barriers monetary, technological, and knowledge-based only continue to lower with time. I have no idea how you’ve managed to draw the opposite conclusion.
Hi! I’m a musician with new music that is not dead! Check it out: www.thassodar.com
Bonus: 99% of them are instrumental, and the ones that aren’t don’t have any actual lyrics and are only on SoundCloud.
We’re as far away from the 90s as the 90s were from the 60s.
Ugh…
If they produced an equivalent of That 70s Show today the “very special episode of” would be the one where 9/11 happens.
I passed the day that was farther away from my birthday than my birthday was to the start of WW2 years ago.
I just checked and oh crap, me too! Almost 20 years ago…
But we are inching up to the 2060s! Lol
Let’s hope we make it there!
I’m monochrome cga screen old. Commodore VIC 20, Philips MSX, Video 2000 old.
Ah, a fellow ancient one from the time before color. Cheers.
Back in my day we had green text on black and we were happy.
Yup, and they sent men to the moon with 32 kilobytes of RAM. It was enough to go to the moon, and by god it was enough for you!
Remember how when you would burn a CD you couldn’t use your computer lest the write buffer dropped too low and the burn world fail?
Or trying to re-burn a cdrw but it was originally not burnt with the same soft as yours 😓
🗑️💿🚮💔
I remember the funny lines on the back when I accidentally bumped into the tower or had the subwoofer on as it was burning.
Also holding down on the close-pin on a discman (so it would keep spinning the disc) and differently coloured sharpies were a great way to colourize your collection.
I remember buying a stack of CDs only to find out they were +R, not -R, and this utterly useless (or something like that, can’t specifically recall whether ±R/RW).
There were no CD+Rs
I remember this being a DVD thing. By the time I got a dvd burner though mine supported both.
The RW issue with CDs was that a lot of older players couldn’t read them.
I damaged the laser on a PS2 by using a DVD-RW. They’re harder to read than a normal disc apparently, so it wore the laser down pretty quick
Can you believe my original ps1 is still rocking hard with zero adjustments?
My ps2 is currently dead, but it was because I used thicker wire than necessary when modding it a thousand years ago and I need to just heat up the solder a bit.
That console is a nightmare to disassemble/reassemble though and it’s been down for around 15 years. I’ll fix it one day.
I have an NES that just needs a simple fix. I keep saying that I’m going to get to it too.
And just saying, if it’s the 72 pin connector, you don’t need a new one. Just pop yours out and bend the pins back out. It’s very very easy, honest to God there’s no reason to get a new one. I have new ones in my closet, probably 20 of them, but I’ve never really needed to use any of them.
If you don’t want to fool with that PM me your address and I’ll send you one.
i witnessed the creation of the mp3 format!
RealAudio
oh yeah that piece of crap i haven’t missed ^^
It was better than WAV; a nice bridge over to MP3.
And rmvb files were all the rage. Those sweet video files with only 32MB… Peak compression. What the world was before h264 and before youtube existed was amazing.
Bink videos were the hot shit for games for a while, and RAD Game Tools started a whole era of standardization for multimedia processes that culminated in DirectX. With computing power increasing along with the market share of PCs, using standardized libraries for audio & video drivers became the sensible thing to do. Previously you had games programmers eking out every iota of performance by fine tuning that stuff at an assembly level (the Origin games with their memory managers and Chris Sawyer’s amazing if kind of insane feat in creating Transport Tycoon come to mind).
How else was I going to play pirated music in my car?
With a cassette to 3.5mm jack adapter and a discman on an anti-skip cradle, obviously
Commodore64 gang represent!
I’m hooking two vhs players together to commit piracy old.
my dad rented movies and did this do we could watch them over and over. og pirate for me
Was one of them ordered from germany so it didn’t have the macrovision circuit in it?
No idea, it was the neighbour kid’s VCR.
Kind of a joke few would get. For a period of time in the late 80’s into the early 90’s it was very hard to get a german made VCR. Odering them straight from there wasn’t really a option. You could only get them at high cost unless you knew someone in the military over there. They would go to the local PX, buy one and ship it home. It was good way to make really good quality copies.
I’m older.
Let’s just leave it at that
Yeah, I remember flippies and casettes, but I’m too young for 8 track.
Oh boy. I remember seeing an 8 track system once… I was very curious, and honestly, I still don’t have any of the answers I wanted. They’re just no longer relevant. The tech was old when I was a kid.
I used dial up, so anything that’s post-Internet, I’m probably older than. I still remember the idiot news anchors going “move over Internet, here comes the world wide Web”… They’re literally the same thing. What the fuck are you talking about?
A new use for my cassette recorder.
9600
1200
Other than storing programs in it?
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