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The vinyl record, the Eight Track cartridge, casette and walkman remind me of getting old but now then vinyl record and casette do a comeback, I wonder if I still feel that old from what I saw on that article?

Gen Z Loves Cassettes. But Wait, How Do These Things Work?​

The Spotify generation is buying albums on tape, getting schooled on how people listened to music in the ’80s and ’90s​

By
Joseph Pisani

Aug. 12, 2024 9:01 pm ET

Amy Campbell recently bought her first cassette. Her next step: Learning how to play it.
“I struggled a little bit,” the 26-year-old said about the Kacey Musgraves album she ordered in March from the country star’s website.
Campbell, a student in Rockford, Ill., borrowed her mom’s tape player but couldn’t figure out which direction the cassette was supposed to go in. Also difficult: finding a tune.
“You have to keep fast-forwarding, rewinding, pausing and playing to find the right song you want,” Campbell said.
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The Last Stand said:
on those TV/VCR carts they'd wheel into the classroom
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I have one of those that I keep my big HDTV and my computer on as a display in front of my standing desk, shit's so cash

as for the thread- was digging through some stuff and found some troll images I made a couple of decades ago, and even more feels old, man was some pictures I did for a bit on making silly little stop motion stuff and I suggested some common household things to make it easy, like
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CD jewel cases and spindles for stands! Everybody has those!
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a simple usb webcam, external and 320x240!
 
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Im one of those autists that doesnt like to sit normally in a chair. Unfortunately I think I messed my knee up a little bit the other day from sitting weird for too long :(

Also I have finally started learning touch typing (I had typing classes in school growing up but fucking Mavis Beacon would piss me off so bad for some reason and I never got the hang of it) and Ive discovered that I like copying the text from public domain books on the internet archive and typing them up for reading while practicing. I still remember when youd go over to some other kids houses and their parents had sharpied out the letters on the keys on the keyboard, straight nightmare
 
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Im one of those autists that doesnt like to sit normally in a chair. Unfortunately I think I messed my knee up a little bit the other day from sitting weird for too long :(

Also I have finally started learning touch typing (I had typing classes in school growing up but fucking Mavis Beacon would piss me off so bad for some reason and I never got the hang of it) and Ive discovered that I like copying the text from public domain books on the internet archive and typing them up for reading while practicing. I still remember when youd go over to some other kids houses and their parents had sharpied out the letters on the keys on the keyboard, straight nightmare
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Typing Of The Dead is a pretty great way to learn typing.
 
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The Last Stand said:

I remember this song from middle school. Was stuck in my head for weeks.
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What makes me feel old is thinking of the (fantastic) song that he sampled, "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap that came out just a few years prior to it, and how the original took off partly because it was used in a well known episode of The O.C.

 
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What makes me feel old is thinking of the (fantastic) song that he sampled, "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap that came out just a few years prior to it, and how the original took off partly because it was used in a well known episode of The O.C.

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I knew I recognized that sound. The vocoder type sound was pretty interesting at the time, too. Reminds me of the vocoder Laurie Anderson used on O Superman.
 
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At a birthday party recently talking to this girl I know. Next song starts playing, me and most of the other similarly aged guests recognise it immediately and start singing along. Girl looks confused.

Her: what music is this?
Me: Good Charlotte, don't you recognise it?
Her: No, when were they popular? Oh, that was before I was born.

I'm not old I'm not old I'm not old :'(
 
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Caught myself in a conversation at work on Friday with a few of the guys (all of us early 30s) involving old music tech: LPs, cassettes, walkmen, etc.

I went on a 10 minute sperg rant about shellac records and gramophones/phonograph players.

I then imagines if I'd had this conversation with the current of crop of late teens or twenty-somethings. They wouldn't have a fucking clue what I'm talking about.

One of my talking points on the music cassette, at least, was how that particular medium hasn't yet been taken over by hipsters in a resurgence, unlike LPs. You can still get top tier albums on tape for next to nothing. Shit, I got a VGC US-import copy of Kilroy Was Here (Styx) for the equivalent of 5 USD. Oddly enough, China still produces brand new cassette tape players. I bought a rad transparent one a few months back, cost me almost nothing.
 
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I hop on you-tube regularly to listen to the ambient music mixes that are spat out by the dozen daily. I remember looking for an old music video that was uploaded around the time period I started on you-tube and it was just gone.
The way you-tube used to be around the time is forgotten by people nowadays due to content farms and live streamers.
 
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Flavius Claudius Julianus said:
I then imagines if I'd had this conversation with the current of crop of late teens or twenty-somethings. They wouldn't have a fucking clue what I'm talking about.
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Ever tried to explain to a zoomer why amps with vacuum tubes are better?
 
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PointOfNoReturnPoint said:
The way you-tube used to be around the time is forgotten by people nowadays due to content farms and live streamers.
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YT used to use star ratings, needed a Flash player to play vids, and had more of a "Wild West" feel to it. And when YT first launched, I thought it was some annoying fad.

There's this vid site called VidLii, which is now like what YT was. Though YT then may have been less "edgy" than VidLii can be now.
 
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YT used to use star ratings, needed a Flash player to play vids, and had more of a "Wild West" feel to it. And when YT first launched, I thought it was some annoying fad.

There's this vid site called VidLii, which is now like what YT was. Though YT then may have been less "edgy" than VidLii can be now.
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I remember the star ratings. The usual youtube outro was "give this video 5 stars" then subscribe. One other thing was the 10 minute limit on videos unless you were a documentary channel that needed approval. The video, super Mario brothers frustration was uploaded to a 9/11 conspiracy channel initially to get around this.
 
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