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Cartoon Man posted:Nothing sucked rear end worse than trying to assemble that desk or one like it. That’s like a six hour project for most mortals. It was such a loving Baby Boomer yuppie conception of how computers had to integrate into the home space. "You will be integrated into our expensive, tacky, cumbersome furniture which we will always have the money to hire someone else to manage." No wonder they got so livid in the 90s when their kids were like "I know you spent all this time making that piece of poo poo desk, but now we need to gut it and make a new one because the tech is out of date."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7HlegQjcP4 🎵 We're turning your bedroom back into the computer room 🎵
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Jul 19, 2022 16:33
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mind the walrus posted:It was such a loving Baby Boomer yuppie conception of how computers had to integrate into the home space. And also a complete misunderstanding of the workflow of most people led to SO much space being wasted - CD racks because they assumed you needing to keep all your software install discs within arms reach, shelves sized specifically for the reams of paper you would be printing non-stop, and got to have a special shelf for the scanner you will never use. You could take all that away is replace it with drawers or cupboards and the entire thing would look 10x neater.
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Jul 19, 2022 16:50
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Sweevo posted:And also a complete misunderstanding of the workflow of most people led to SO much space being wasted - CD racks because they assumed you needing to keep all your software install discs within arms reach, shelves sized specifically for the reams of paper you would be printing non-stop, and got to have a special shelf for the scanner you will never use. We definitely had some cabinet doors to hide the monitor, that were probably closed about once, then just there when the next monitor was too big for the doors to close.
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Jul 19, 2022 16:52
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Also that desk would inevitably hang around until the late 2000's/early 2010's, even as the desk was falling apart, the fake woodgrain lamination peeling apart to reveal the crumbling particle board. Certain areas like the pull out shelf for the keyboard would be inexplicably greasy forever no matter how much you wiped it, from a combination of hand oils and melting wood glue and the aforementioned peeling lamination. Always dusty, no matter what. Some areas of both the desk and the computer chair would have duck tape. Empty CD cases everywhere. Sticky notes everywhere with your parent's passwords, but the websites aren't written down, so they don't know what the passwords are for so they're afraid to throw them away. It would be called the "downstairs computer" because everyone had their own laptops already in their bedrooms but for some tasks your parents insisted on the "downstairs computer", maybe because that's the only place where certain files or log-ins were saved. The "computer room" also becomes the storage/junk room. Every time I visit my parents to this day, if I go to get a glass of water in the night, I will see the blue glow and hear the muffled sounds of my dad playing Wolfenstein for the 500000th time at 3AM  gently caress that computer desk setup tho
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Jul 19, 2022 17:14
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"The Downstairs Computer" would be a very powerful username.
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Pasketti posted:The "computer room" also becomes the storage/junk room. I think this is pretty much a standard. I remember in the late 80's when we moved into the house I spent most of my youth in, we put up shelves, and some file cabinets and the computer desk. By the time 2003 rolled around and it was time to move out, it was just full of long obsolete software, ancient issues of Mac World (we had switched that computer to a PC in 1997), and I think even an unopened copy of Astyanax for the NES was unearthed.
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I am going to take a guess that the distinctive particle board odor is somewhat toxic/carcinogenic.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:I am going to take a guess that the distinctive particle board odor is somewhat toxic/carcinogenic. good
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Jul 19, 2022 22:06
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Yall suck I'd be jealous as gently caress of anyone who had that desk. Give it to me you malcontents, I'll use it
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Jul 19, 2022 22:29
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Gonz posted:
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Jul 20, 2022 00:27
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i think i know where she got the printer.
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Jul 20, 2022 00:36
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Raise your hand if the first thing you notice was not the hot girl smiling at you, but rather the fact that there is no PC and it's weirdly set up like a loving typewriter.
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tribbledirigible posted:Raise your hand if the first thing you notice was not the hot girl smiling at you, but rather the fact that there is no PC and it's weirdly set up like a loving typewriter. That was definitely the second thing I noticed.
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tribbledirigible posted:Raise your hand if the first thing you notice was not the hot girl smiling at you, but rather the fact that there is no PC and it's weirdly set up like a loving typewriter. 
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Every once in a while I do a reverse image search on that photo, to see if I can find any background info. Of course nothing turns up, but earlier tonight I saw a comment where someone pointed out that the drawer has been installed backwards, or else the protective strip has been torn off. Also since there's no PC, who knows what the speakers are plugged into.
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Jul 20, 2022 03:20
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There is also what appears to be a DSL modem plugged into nothing in particular too
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Jul 20, 2022 04:19
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:Every once in a while I do a reverse image search on that photo, to see if I can find any background info. Of course nothing turns up, but earlier tonight I saw a comment where someone pointed out that the drawer has been installed backwards, or else the protective strip has been torn off. Also since there's no PC, who knows what the speakers are plugged into. Aux jack on a portable CD player. Nothing in the Discman though.
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Jul 20, 2022 05:43
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Milo and POTUS posted:Yall suck I'd be jealous as gently caress of anyone who had that desk. Give it to me you malcontents, I'll use it Growing up in the 80s/90s I had a wooden desk full of little compartments and cubby holes and drawers and one of the drawers had little compartments in it! I loved it. Everything in its little place. You deskless guys are missing out.
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Jul 21, 2022 05:36
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I have a pretty simple ikea computer desk that works great, the micke. But my dad was handy so he'd build a computer desk in the house, built into the wall and also made it so everything was hidden away because he's one of those "wires are messy" and so if you had to do anything that involved getting to a wire, it was a chore.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDs8fdwQ40w
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The tracking adjustment at the start adds a special something
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Jul 25, 2022 05:00
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The one-two lunch of Tom Kenny and Wayne Knight is 
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Jul 26, 2022 08:42
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I wonder if Jill and Tom were dating at this point, or if this is where they met.
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Jul 26, 2022 13:32
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My parents had (and still have) a fancy rolling desk that is a fixture. Not entirely sure what mom uses it for but it's still there.  Not this specific one but a similar design. Pretty sure their's wasn't thousands of dollars either.
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Jul 27, 2022 06:16
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You definitely had cheap versions of them, but i guess the 'original' ones were pretty expensive. My dad has one with a flip open lid.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:My parents had (and still have) a fancy rolling desk that is a fixture. Not entirely sure what mom uses it for but it's still there. My mom has one of these too, she always called it a secretary desk. It's really meant for hand-written correspondance and such, since they've rarely got enough space for anything as large as a typewriter and definitely not a computer, so (nowadays, anyway) it's not really suited for being a "working" desk as much as a statement piece.
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Jul 27, 2022 13:50
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Yeah, my grandfather had one of those desks from the mid-70s in his office and used it for stuff like going through all his mail, banking and financial stuff, and building model aircraft.
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Jul 27, 2022 14:11
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My mom had this GIGANTIC L-shaped desk for a few years. Imagine something like this: Mixed with Gonz posted:
The thing was large enough to partition off sections of our living room at the time. I kinda want an L-desk (I'd like to have a little more desk space, and one of those blotter calendars that for some reason i've always associated with being important), but I like my current standing desk too much to change.
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Heath posted:My mom has one of these too, she always called it a secretary desk. It's really meant for hand-written correspondance and such, since they've rarely got enough space for anything as large as a typewriter and definitely not a computer, so (nowadays, anyway) it's not really suited for being a "working" desk as much as a statement piece. My dad had an actual rolltop one he used for storing coins he'd run put on railroad tracks. That's all I remember it being for, that and bills and such. Dad stuff.
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Jul 27, 2022 16:20
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:My dad had an actual rolltop one he used for storing coins he'd run put on railroad tracks. Reminds me of those machines at amusement parks that would take a penny and smoosh it into an oval shape with a different design, usually the park mascot. Never see them anymore, not sure how they were legal either since you were destroying or defacing a coin. Edit: Apparently they're still around and plentiful, 3,300 or so. Guess I just don't go anywhere anymore Admiral Joeslop has a new favorite as of 05:00 on Jul 28, 2022 |
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Reminds me of those machines at amusement parks that would take a penny and smoosh it into an oval shape with a different design, usually the park mascot. Defacing/destroying currency is only illegal if you do it in an attempt to defraud. Smashing a penny or drawing a cigarette in George Washington's is perfectly fine.
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Jul 28, 2022 12:15
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Just once I want to get one of those Snake Plissken $5 bills
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Jul 28, 2022 13:25
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Most Americans can't afford to destroy money. Even pennies.
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Jul 28, 2022 13:45
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Ambassadorofsodomy posted:Most Americans can't afford to destroy money. Even pennies. I can. With my rear end.
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Ambassadorofsodomy posted:Most Americans can't afford to destroy money. Even pennies.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:I can. With my rear end. Hell yeah, rear end Pennies.
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I still use a 90s desk that my dad bought as bare wood then finished himself. The big unibody shelf thing that you put printers and whatnot on came off pretty easily, one of the drawers went missing more than a decade ago, and the rollout keyboard tray's a bit of a tell, but that aside it's just a big flat desk with a circle carved in it from a Dell CRT that was entirely too heavy.
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I have a very specific memory of my parents getting our first computer in 97/98 and shopping for a roll top desk for it. In one of the catalogs, they had desks that looked like a normal roll top, but had a space underneath to hold a CRT so that it was hidden beneath the surface and tilted up with a piece of glass covering it. Outside of the terrible ergonomics I can’t imagine they were a hot seller since GIS doesn’t turn up any pics of one in action, just this one without a monitor. 
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