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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’ve been saying this!…

If you miss Blockbuster, visit your library. Most have an A/V section now. They don’t advertise much. But it’s basically the same experience of renting movies; just without paying.

Currently watching The Boy with the Striped Pajamas, a classic I never watched…using my PlayStation 5, lol.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They also have hardcopies of video games! Usually, it's a pretty updated library of titles. 2 week rentals, you just have to go back and check it out again. Totally free.

Not all libraries are the same but if you're a gamer, you can try a nice collection, totally free.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I finished Princess Peach Showtime from there. Seemed like a mildly interesting game but not something I wanted to own for myself.

[–] RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

My kids: "like.. sellotape?"

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I still have my old employee ID somewhere

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i still have both my blockbuster and hollywood video nametags. without a doubt the best jobs i ever had, and now that i'm in my forties they're probably the best jobs i'll ever know.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

I was working too much to take advantage of the free rentals (they were my fourth concurrent part time job) but I loved working there regardless.

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 53 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 38 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

(I'm not actually this old, but I'm old enough that I've used this one)

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (3 children)

People still say they filmed something

[–] RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

I mean... People still say "movie" which was short form for "moving pictures"

[–] thesystemisdown@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (6 children)

We also dial the phone and roll down the windows. I guess some phrases transcend time.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We also hang up phones, which used to literally be what we had to do, but which makes no sense today.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is it possible to program a smartphone, so that, using gesture control of some sort, you can hang up a call by dramatically placing the phone down face first on a hard surface?

I SAID GOODDAY SIR!

If you set it down hard enough, yes it will disconnect the call.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

We turn the volume up despite it probably being a button, too.

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

They save their data to a solid stste disc that isn't a disc by using the icon for a 3.5" floppy disc. They punch out at the end of the workday and fill out a timesheet later.

Yeah, we use a lot of terms that are no longer literally true and kids know what it means even if they don't know how the term originated.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

The beauty of language is that you can understand without knowing what words mean

[–] Pnut@lemm.ee 17 points 2 days ago (5 children)

This reminds me of the "save" logo in almost every app. Apparently I'm one of the only people left alive that knows what a floppy disk was.

[–] TheTurner@lemmy.zip 2 points 23 hours ago

I just had to use one the other day at work on an old machine. Lol

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fuck yall not old, just told my 16 year old I had to tape something and he said and I quote, "Like record something?" He 16 and he knew what I was talking about. Maybe her kids just sheltered.

[–] GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Yeah, but you'll notice that he had to double check with you to be sure though. So, he had his doubts.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There's a piece of software we use at work and the save icon for that is a downwards pointing arrow and a CD. No one knows what it means.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Idk, my high school aged kid is using floppies to load software onto a piece of equipment in their shop class at school. It also accepts usb (but only at usb 1 speeds, and exfat formatted) .

The kids are into using floppies of different colors much like I was in my first comp sci class in high school.

It’s not ubiquitous but it isn’t quite as unknown as it was.

I mean I knew what an 8 track was in the 90s.

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I feel like a dinosaur for even remembering Blockbuster lol

[–] applemao@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Still using my tapes today. Work great and they do what I want, no ads, no subscriptions, I own it. Younguns missed out on the best time. They wont own a thing and will be consumed with ads and depression

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's shocking how apathetic many people have become to this. I don't want any kind of ad anywhere. When I have to use a browser that doesn't have my essential plugins installed every second of the experience feels like I'm taking poison damage.

[–] applemao@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Studies have shown ads cause depression. But holy crao are people desensitized now. Its infuriating.

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm exactly the same. My other half doesn't know how good she's got it 😂 I've ad-proofed as much of her stuff as I can.

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[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

There are ways to own very high quality movies. Those ways just happen to not be legal. Still less of a hassle than maintaining a physical media collection.

I do own a record player so I see the point of added physicality though.

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[–] stoly@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

I mean I used videotape too but sometime probably 25+ years ago I started saying "record".

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I don't get it. The little plastic data slabs in Star Trek TOS were called "tapes". Apparently the term didn't have the staying power Roddenberry expected. I wonder how much longer we'll keep calling our little pocket supercomputers "phones".

[–] JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They still use reel-to-reel tape drives on mainframes to store data. Just like they did in 1967.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

We had those at my first programming job. At a later job in the 90s one of my minor duties was to swap out the tape cassette for daily backups. It held 8Gb and was about the size of a deck of playing cards. I remember talking with another guy about how amazing it was to put 8 gigabytes in your shirt pocket. Now that's a fraction of a micro SD smaller than my fingernail.

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[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

My friends kids are competent at taping wrapped presents.

"She has chosen... poorly."

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

I still keep my Blockbuster membership card on me, just to remind me of a different time.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Reminds me of the time I used a rotary phone at my grandma's and... *POOF*

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