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Just had a comment remind me of my old blackberry phone from circa '08. I'm not sure it would stand up well for utility on most functions of smart phones today. I think It would stand up fine in some phone specific functions.

What are some old/older devices, analog or digital that you owned and miss, or at least have some nostalgia for?

No limit, did you own an abacus?

Just had a comment remind me of my old blackberry phone from circa '08. I'm not sure it would stand up well for utility on most functions of smart phones today. I think It would stand up fine in some phone specific functions. What are some old/older devices, analog or digital that you owned and miss, or at least have some nostalgia for? No limit, did you own an abacus?

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I used to have a Nintendo 64.

Just pop a cartrige in and you have a full game, no DLC, no micro transactions, no globohomo messages, just fun. Of course, tech has come a long way and the N64 is very outdated compared to what can be rendered now. But man, those were days.

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Physical media was, is, the best way to go. No censors modifying what you bought, or refusing to let you access what they had.

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Multi-player was so much fun. Perfect dark. 4 controllers. Throwing proxy mines while you pelt the kid who is screen watching with a couch pillow. Now we play beeriokart for the nostalgia.

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Blockbuster/ video stores Was bullshitting yesterday on here about it. Miss the experience. Just like cd/album sleeves, something tangible lost.

There's still one open apparently in oregon

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I miss going into music stores and you could grab any album over to a kiosk to preview it. That was fun, and I found a much larger variety of stuff compared to always being shown things based on what I have already heard.

Talking to the person behind the counter at those old video shops was cool, there was always that one guy, or maybe the owner that was just really into bizarre or unknown titles that they could point you toward.

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Carburetors

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and a normal gas can.

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Buy yourself some metal jerry cans and call it a day.

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Those are too expensive for me.

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Mini disc players

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1/8th inch stereo jacks in phones.

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Casio calculator watch

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IRQs and DMAs in jumper form on computer hardware, so I wouldn't have to read about shitskins building supercomputers every other week.

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1200 baud modems and internet pre-world wide web

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Did those girl sing on connection or was that superficial tone for the 14.4K era?

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OS/2 Warp

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Old computers. It was all so simple back in the day, and exciting. I remember the first computer I ever saw at a friend’s house, a Commodore VIC-20. My first computer, a Commodore 64, didn’t even have a storage device. I can remember spending hours on that thing punching in programs in Basic and then begging my mom not to turn off the computer because I’d lose all my work. Then we got an Apple IIc with a monochrome monitor. Hell, I can remember spending DAYS on that thing playing games, I had so many pirated games it was awesome. Then we finally upgraded to a Mac SE FDHD with a 40MB hard drive w/ two 3.5” high-density drives. That thing cost like $3,500 back in the day (‘89). Hell, I can remember going to college and I was broke as a joke, but I wanted to build a PC so I grabbed an old 386 from work and put in the cheapest 486 motherboard I could find, a 486SLC that cost $99. I dropped in a 850MB Maxtor HD in that sucker, I was like WTF am I ever going to do with that much HD? So I partitioned it with 250 MB for Windows 3.1 and 600MB for Linux. I think I spent like three weeks trying to download Red hat Linux from the university, but the connection was so shitty that my modem kept getting disconnected. Finally got it up and running, except that I didn’t have enough Ram to play Doom so I had to swipe memory from my parents Mac Quadra every time I wanted to play it, and then put the memory back when I was done. Ah, those were the days...

Now I hate computers.

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You should maybe get into retro computing as a hobby.. if you have a lot of space and cash to spare.

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For sure, except that I don’t have space or money 😆

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Neither do I, but that's the result of said ancient computer hobby..

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