Shit that reminds you that you’re getting old - Re: Fwd: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fwd: Damn young’uns

sherwoods110 said:
Hearing a list of celebrity birthdays on the radio last night definitely reminded me that I am getting old.

Diana Ross - 82
Keira Knightley - 41
Steven Tyler - 78
Martin Short - 76
Jennifer Grey - 66
Kenny Chesney - 58
Richard Dawkins - 85
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It's like when you realise some of your favorite songs are over 30 years old and you remember when they were new.
 
Dysnomia said:
It's like when you realise some of your favorite songs are over 30 years old and you remember when they were new.
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"Josie's vacation far away" was 41 years ago.

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So recently I was listening to music, and I decided to listen to a song from the Black Eyed Peas, and the comments are the usual people going on about how the song is "nostalgic" and it reminds them of being a kid, but then something stuck out to me. Someone said they loved this song as a kid and that they are now 24, only for me to realize I also loved the Black Eyed Peas when I was a kid, and I turn 21 next month. I'm used to numbers in the 20s seeming far out to me, but now I'm in my 20s; I'm really becoming old now.
 
mystery laptop was found in the office
we don't want to deal with a bunch of bullshit from corporate about getting the laptop done up to the nines so I'm tasked with reformatting it
I'm gearing up old school for the twelve labors of Hercules, looking up sources for install discs, starting to research drivers
then I find out it's just "hold f12, select factory restore"
 
Paul Revere Pantry Raider said:
I remember using those paper maps and for closer data - MapQuest. It's a shame that AAA stopped doing TripTix, because those were pretty awesome. Never used them, but my parents relied on them to go anywhere more than an hour away from home. I remember flipping them page to page along the destination.
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I have the AAA 'trip computer'. Size of a calculator, with (probably) 2k of memory. Predicted routes based on major cities, major highways, and interstate exchange distances. Definitely NOT a GPS, but was a supplement to Trip Tix. Gift from my dad, prized possession.
My first (long) biz trips: State Farm road atlas and a pencil.

Additional: RIP to an old friend-
My La-Z-Boy recliner was curbed this weekend. Started dumping me backwards. Wife was SUPER impressed that I could complete the maneuver with a backwards somersault. Springs popped out the back, the (all wood) frame started making loud pops (explosions, according to the wife), and very unstable.
It was saying: "Boss, I'm tired".
I remember it as new. Date of manufacture: June 1989.
 
I remember when my Minidisc player was hot shit, for however long that fad lasted

Other than that, my hip hurts.
 
This morning I went to cross my legs and I realized that I don't remember the last time I attempted this and I didn't know if I was going to be able to do it.
 
ComStar said:
I remember when my Minidisc player was hot shit, for however long that fad lasted

Other than that, my hip hurts.
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radio LOVED minidisc, shit instantly blanked a zillion times and you could get two hours mono per disc, it was great for recording and replaying stuff, also using it for live playing of elements that change out daily like sports and news cuts
only bad thing was you couldn't just drag and drop the files from original MD, just that second gen one they tried to push
in fact, Kamen Rider stage shows in Japan ran their sound effects mostly off MDs into the 2010s
 
Watching a zoomer on Youtube explain to his audience that the internet is @25 years old.

...all my rage...
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
radio LOVED minidisc, shit instantly blanked a zillion times and you could get two hours mono per disc, it was great for recording and replaying stuff, also using it for live playing of elements that change out daily like sports and news cuts
only bad thing was you couldn't just drag and drop the files from original MD, just that second gen one they tried to push
in fact, Kamen Rider stage shows in Japan ran their sound effects mostly off MDs into the 2010s
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Fuck Sony for ruining that format. If they just had abandoned their proprietary codecs/software and allowed mp3/general data on it it could've lasted for 5-15 years longer. I think mp3 CD players were competitive for longer.
 
Attempt Turd said:
Fuck Sony for ruining that format. If they just had abandoned their proprietary codecs/software and allowed mp3/general data on it it could've lasted for 5-15 years longer. I think mp3 CD players were competitive for longer.
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iirc really the ONLY thing it had was the proprietary codec, and the storage space really wasn't anything more than those little CDs, they just had the totally fucking dank cassettes that held them
otherwise it was essentially the same as a tiny CD-RW?
Japan and radio used them for years and years but yeah the USA was late to the MD party so when shortly after you could just write your own CDs it flopped for normal humans
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
iirc really the ONLY thing it had was the proprietary codec, and the storage space really wasn't anything more than those little CDs, they just had the totally fucking dank cassettes that held them
otherwise it was essentially the same as a tiny CD-RW?
Japan and radio used them for years and years but yeah the USA was late to the MD party so when shortly after you could just write your own CDs it flopped for normal humans
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I think the first versions had something like 70MB capacity and the later versions a little over a 100MB but this was at the same time of 100MB zip drives and 128MB SD cards that cost like a $100 or more but the MDs were like $3. The codec was better than MP3 CBR at first but you has to record it at 1x. The later versions were faster like 3-4x but you had to reencode your lossy MP3s with lossy AAC for maximum lossyness at the equivalent of 4x or something like that.

I think they had MDs for general data storage in Japan about theee years to late but it never made it to the west.

Anyone want to chime in on how the RIAA fucked portable consumer DATs?
 
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