It was a miracle to figure this out for the first time.
Same here. Think what we could have done if had cordless drills at the time!
If you want to blow their millenial/zoomer minds, ask them about phone phreaking.
... Ok, I'll bite. What is that?
Before phone switching was handled digitally, you could hack the analog automated switch board with tones played thru the send line of your phone. There was a whistle that came in a cereal box that could get you free long distance. I've never done it tho, that was well before me.
Apparently you could record the tone it made when putting quarters in and just play it back through the mic to trick the payphones into thinking that you were putting quarters in.
Never worked for me.
Also apparently you could tear a dollar at just the right spot before feeding it into a change machine to get the quarters and your dollar back.
Never worked for me.
How did we go from whistling into telephones to blowing air into axe wounds?
You can still do this on POTS phones, at least to dial. Just playing the right sounds into the microphone will dial the number.
Wow.... that's clever.
How about an 8 track beside a folded piece of your cigarette pack?
Or match book
that works on the old tv's also. You put the paper folded jammed into the channel knob hole where the shaft of the channel changer goes into the tv and if done in the right direction/side then it will fix you verticle sync so the picture doesn't do a ferris wheel the frames moving to the top of the screen and the next frame moving up from below constantly rotating up.
Those were the days.
I used to skateboard when i was younger, and i always used tapes while boarding around town instead of cds. Tapes didnt skip.
I actually have more positive feelings about tape than optical media. It's probably because I used writable and rewritable CDs and DVDs a lot, and that kind of sucked. At least when you record a tape, you can be pretty sure it's good by the time you get to the end. With optical media, you could spend a lot of time writing it, only to find that for SOME FUCKING REASON it didn't work, and now you have a shiny coaster. If it wasn't rewritable, there were no second tries. With a tape, you could keep trying until the tape wore out or you got it right.
They know. Because this is reposted 5 times a year all over the net. They've also seen the 45 adaptor.
Boomer tech. They knew they were the Betas at the time, but resorted to even lower Vile Homo Servants (VHS) instead. jews slaves either way. Fucking Boomers.
That's a great line. Really true. Awesome. But sometimes I think some individuals of above and below generations don't get fucking sarcasm.
E: Not saying you. Christ. Everything nowadays must be marked with an "I didn't mean you!"
only if the population takes the time to study the past a little bit to realize we have it so easy. We are stupider though since we learn by memorizing instead of using logic and figuring it out so we have lost the path that makes the journey the important part since so much is absorbed that will make other connections/associations in our minds.
Honestly this generation is dumb as shit because we have so many distractions, and so much multitasking that nobody can conceptualize a long-term thought anymore without being interrupted. Our brains are rewired for ADD. Few people read anymore because you'll get through 2 pages and be interrupted. There's always something ready to interrupt us every single day. These days I have to lock myself in my car in order to read a book.
I read speeches from the 1800's and they all look like complex run-on sentences because people's short-term memory could actually follow along with it and conceptualize it when times were slower.
Anyone remember those rental DVDs where you buy the DVD disk for like $4 and as soon as you unsealed it a chemical process would begin which rendered the DVD unreadable in 5 days? Therefore you were "renting" the movie as you couldn't watch it past 5 days.
You could put those in the fridge and get a few more days out of them.
Yes vaguely, had a friend that shelled out big bucks for Disc-to-Disc copier, so would run a few batches before orig went kaput, and give them away. Used to stop by groc store on way home from night college class in 2005 and they still had actual VHS, $1 for 3 days. When they went on sale got copies of Ed's Next Move, Next Stop Wonderland, and Empire Records for 50 cents. Still have working copies but prolly the boxes are now worth much more.
Oh yeah, I also had a friend that went to the library and rented 10 music CD's and just ripped them all to wav and went back for more.
Haven't heard of those movies. Are they rare or something? I want to put together a list of VHS movies or made-for-tv shows that you can't find digital copies of to keep an eye out for when I shop thrift stores.
Sorta rare, very odd, sorta B- romantic comedies that never made it. Featuring actors/actresses that later became a bit famous. Guess Empire Records had soundtrack that outsold movie by 10x. Funny and fitting that Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a total douche in his premiere in Next Stop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FrpLyK9mdw
works best if you angle the pencil then it doesn't slip and not rotate the side it's inserted on where if you angle around 20 or 30 degrees instead of straight up 90 degrees the pencil fits more tightly and slippage is eliminated.
used the big eraser that fitted on the end of the pencil, didn't have to tilt pencil.
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