Set the TV to channel 3
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2025
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I'm this old...
(I'm not actually this old, but I'm old enough that I've used this one)
I have...
I am also Spartacus.
Master System memories ❤️
People still say they filmed something
We also dial the phone and roll down the windows. I guess some phrases transcend time.
We turn the volume up despite it probably being a button, too.
We also hang up phones, which used to literally be what we had to do, but which makes no sense today.
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.
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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.
The beauty of language is that you can understand without knowing what words mean
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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.
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.
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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
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.
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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Studies have shown ads cause depression. But holy crao are people desensitized now. Its infuriating.
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.
For a given value of great. The only tapes I'd describe as looking great are HDV tapes, and even then they're anamorphic and interlaced.
I'm all for owning media but whenever I see stuff like this I wonder what the person is watching stuff on. Tapes were fine on titchy CRTs but they look pretty horrid on TVs from this decade.
Somewhat ironically they'd probably look fine on the mobile devices the younguns favour!
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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.
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.
Yeah, but you'll notice that he had to double check with you to be sure though. So, he had his doubts.
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.
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I mean I used videotape too but sometime probably 25+ years ago I started saying "record".
I still have my old employee ID somewhere
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.
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Or a stapler, much to my distress
Me: You know, the thing! It holds paper together using tiny bits of warped metal!
Them: ...
That seems more like "these kids don't know basic things and/ or their names" rather than "these kids don't know colloquialisms from previous decades"
Paper is still everywhere and staples are everywhere. How do they not know what a stapler is?
Yeah, it's a staple!
Paperclips are for quitters.
Binder clips, best office supply ever. Fight me, I’ll die on this hill.
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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".
They still use reel-to-reel tape drives on mainframes to store data. Just like they did in 1967.
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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I still keep my Blockbuster membership card on me, just to remind me of a different time.
Well, I thought they were talking about gluing something together...
Reminds me of the time I used a rotary phone at my grandma's and... *POOF*
I feel like a dinosaur for even remembering Blockbuster lol
My friends kids are competent at taping wrapped presents.
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