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OutOfPrint posted:Oh poo poo someone else who could hear that. People thought I was crazy because I could hear a TV that was on and muted's sine wave buzzing from a room away. On a CRT it's the horizontal retrace circuit, meaning it's ~15.7kHz the whole time the TV is switched on. LCDs also make high-pitched whining for different reasons, particularly if you display a lot of thin horizontal lines.
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80s/90s guitar solos eventually evolved into poo poo like Dragonforce, which is provably the dorkiest music ever created.
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Imagined posted:Everyone I know who was old enough to drive during the 90s has a story about loading 50 or so CDs into one of those giant binders and then having it stolen. Someone broke into my sister's car and stole three tennis balls and a gallon of vinegar, but left all her CDs because she had terrible taste.
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EvilGenius posted:Any UK goons over 30 or so will remember watching Eurotrash with the door shut. Was essentially 'here's some weird sex things happening in European countries'. I'm sure there were other topics, but I don't remember. Everybody remembers the kinky stuff, but it was maybe 3 minutes per episode, and was usually something pretty tame like "check out this Dutch bar where all the waitresses are topless", and you'd see 10 seconds of tits and then 2 minutes of weird men with dubbed voices talking about how they saw some tits. Sweevo has a new favorite as of 17:36 on May 11, 2019 |
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Jaguars! posted:I dunno if car alarms were old hat in America by the 90's, but here in NZ we thought Grandad's brand new 92 Corolla was pretty swanky because it had an alarm. It was known as 'the pop-pop car' because of the lock/unlock chirp it made. I've been selling some old car magazines on ebay, and flicking through them to check their condition I noticed that there's suddenly an explosion in ads for car alarms in about 1992-ish. Late 80s, nothing. Then suddenly there are four or five ads in every issue all through the mid-90s. Then it dropped off again. Handbrake/steering wheel locks too.
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May 2, 2019 10:35
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twistedmentat posted:I remember iMacs first coming out, and like, what the hell? I guess if you were someone who just needed a basic computer they were fine, but I remember people going "no, its better than a pc in every way!". Though when pressed, they were not able to articulate why. Plus it had the worst mouse of the era. This has been the attitude of Mac fanboys since forever. It's like talking to people in a cult.
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May 7, 2019 15:58
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You could press a certain key or key combination and the game would flip to a screen showing a fake spreadsheet or similar so that it look like you were working.
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May 8, 2019 13:20
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twistedmentat posted:Though was using the CD for the sound better than having sound files? Music tracks will be CD-quality and you can just set them playing automatically without any assistance from the computer. Files would have taken processing time to play, and would have sounded like crap on a typical early-90s sound card.
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AngryRobotsInc posted:I think Final Fantasy VIII's Zell is one of the most late 90s character design, if you don't count The Bouncer (started development in the 90s, but came out 2000). Zell owns a black shirt with flames on it and listens to a lot of lovely Nu Metal.
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Jollity Farm posted:I remembered that Technohead - I Wanna Be a Hippy existed, and went top ten in the UK in 1996. Though they played a censored version for the radio, of course, in case any tiny teens like me decided that they would like to get stoned on mari-marijuana. I have their album, and I Wanna Be A Hippy is basically one silly novelty song on what's otherwise a CD full of pretty hard Dutch-style Gabber.
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big trivia FAIL posted:sneaks in. 9 year old me loved this movie What was it with futuristic/post-apocalyptic movies and rollerskates? 
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Aug 26, 2019 20:29
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Every parody song was by Weird Al. Every whiny white-boy rap was an unreleased Eminem track. Every comedy rant was by George Carlin. Every lovely prank phone call was by Howard Stern. Every porn clip was a Britney Spears sex tape. E: https://www.somethingawful.com/news/pirated-1999-files/
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Iron Crowned posted:I remember when people tried to make .ogg a thing What about .asf videos?
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Literally everything on Kazaa/Morpheus/WinMX/eMule/etc had names like that. "big_sex!!!!!!_15yoBlowjob_britney_spears_sextape[REAL].SOUTHPARK.fullmovie-unreal_tournamentISO.avi" (4.2MB) - was really a porn clip from a tame softcore site "FatAsianAnalFisting[!!!!!!!]_(BEST).howard_stern_prankCall_breastfuck_lesbian_spicegirls.rm" (663kB) - a 15sec clip of a chinese TV show with no audio "Russian_lolita_fucks_teacher_HOT!!!!!_JackieChan_best_fight_scenes-buffy-sexscene(banned!).wmv" (2.20MB) - a grainy video of two kids doing wrestling moves in the garden "dildo-fisting-ass_eminem.unreleased_fightclub.mp3.avi" (185MB) - a scrambled 5th-generation VHS copy of an unfunny MST3K episode dubbed over by a kid swearing Sweevo has a new favorite as of 20:53 on Nov 5, 2019 |
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twistedmentat posted:I'd also put the cavet of One Hit Wonder in your county, because I'd love to know what stuff that were huge in the US were one in the UK, A whole lot of lovely hair metal bands like Motley Crue, or Poison were huge in America and had maybe one top 20 single/album elsewhere.
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Nov 22, 2019 20:14
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Fame and how it works are weird things in and of themselves but the world is a big place. Really bizarre poo poo happens. Baywatch was 90's as hell in and of itself but specifically I want to talk about David Hasselhoff. Far as most Americans are concerned he was that guy on Baywatch. He did some acting before that but that was really his big thing; to an American that's the last thing he did. He just kind of vanished off the face of the Earth. His song 'Looking For Freedom' was HUGE in Germany. It's a completely forgettable cover of an equally forgettable late 70s German original, but it just happened to be in the German charts when the Berlin Wall came down and became something of an anthem for the reunification movement. Sweevo has a new favorite as of 00:11 on Dec 25, 2019 |
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chitoryu12 posted:It's set in a world where rock music is outlawed. This made me laugh, because "a world where music is banned" is literally the ONE idea anyone can come up with whenever they try to write a story, a game, a pretentious concept album, or pretty much anything based on rock music.
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jojoinnit posted:It's one of those little fashion things that you don't think about until you see people just stop doing it. 
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FilthyImp posted:I dunno if we went through this before in this thread, but those old time consoles reflected the idea that entertainment in your family room wasn't aimed exclusively at Tv/Records the way it was for the Radio, so those appliances had to find a way to blend in with the furniture. Another iteration of this happened with computers in the mid-late 90s to early 2000s. People would buy those giant workstation things that were basically a big cupboard you put the computer in with doors to hide it away in when it wasn't being used. I'm sure everyone has parents/grandparents who had one of these things in the corner of the dining room with a lovely supermarket-bought PC in it:  ...every crevice stuffed full of AOL CDs and unread manuals, and a printer right where you want to put your legs.
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The yahoo email account I use for throwaway stuff was originally a rocketmail account I signed up for in 1997.
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Cartoon Man posted:It’s probably one of those things that’s still ongoing but every generation claims it as their own and kids these days don’t understand. Only 
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https://www.somethingawful.com/video-game-article/normality-90s-pc/ https://www.somethingawful.com/video-game-article/oddball-90s-pc/
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Len posted:Because retrogamers are insane almost all of these are actually ripped to the internet. Makes more sense than the people who insist on keeping gigabytes of mis-dumped NES/SNES/Sega/Arcade ROMs that don't even work
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dialhforhero posted:I played this game exactly one time and by play I mean set up then didn’t play. My cousin was a fucker for this. Hero Quest, Space Crusade, and that Dark Tower game - "hey Sweevo, watch me spend an hour setting the game up (you're not allowed to touch any of the pieces!) and then I'll get bored and go away to do something else instead of actually playing."
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They carried on doing that poo poo with DVDs for a while. They'd release a series, but not as a box-set, you had to buy 45 discs with two episodes each.
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I buy and sell old magazines on ebay, and it's like there's a line in mid-late '96 where all the teen girl magazines suddenly became nothing but cover to cover "SPICEGIRLSSPICEGIRLSSPICEGIRLSSPICEGIRLSSPICEGIRLSSPICEGIRLS!"
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Artist: Yeah i'm just gonna draw my Beetlejuice ICP alopecia fetish art Marketing: Fine, as long as you make the tits big
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AlternateAccount posted:Is Usenet still a thing or did the spam ratio finally get too close to 100%? There are still groups of bitter old grognards trying to use it for discussion, but 99.9999% of the traffic is warez and child porn.
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Never in the woods, but I found half a torn up porn mag at a bus stop once, and it was just page after page of huge early 90s lingerie and unshaved bush.
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dialhforhero posted:The letter E would like to have a word with you. E's are good. The Shamen said so.
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Neito posted:This one was always nutty and weird to me because I've never, in my 20+ coffee-drinking years, ever had a Starbucks barista ever object to my ordering a "large" or "medium" whatever. Unless it was more of a thing on the west coast, it was purely an objection to "Thing different". It never happened. It's something Boomers invented just to have something else to complain about.
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Dammit Knuth, this is why it takes you 40 years to write half a book!
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CRTs are fine if you want to use them. The worst is when people try to mimic the effect with fake CRT filters, except they turn everything up to 11 and make it look like a broken TV from 1972.
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Horny or violent is fine, as long as nobody uses disgusting language like "hell" or "drat".
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Six-Of-Hearts posted:PYF: Post the Most Painfully 90's Things  There is nothing in this photo that doesn't scream 1994 - the drab colours, that horrible shirt, the ponytail, jeans with loafers, the lovely veneered plywood office table, the sega mega drive on a huge (probably 21" at most) black CRT television, and the dumb gimmick controller where you have to do real actions to control the game. Sweevo has a new favorite as of 14:25 on Mar 2, 2024 |
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The 90s thought diversity meant a bunch of white kids with different colour hair.
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I like the commitment to the comic trope of refusing to ever draw feet.
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I know this isn't the Post Your Unpopular Opinion thread, but I've only seen one episode of MST3K (Space Mutiny) and if they're all like that then I have no desire to see any more. MST wasn't on TV here, so it's not something I grew up watching, but I've seen people talking about it online for 20+ years like it was the greatest show ever. So I finally sat down and watched it about two years ago and it was painfully mediocre. I was expecting they'd maybe edit the movie down to 45 minutes or an hour to cut out the dull bits, and the jokes would be better (and more of them). But they just watch the entire thing no matter how boring and the riffing consists of sick burns like "wow this isn't very good" and "haha that guy is dressed like santa". Yeah humour is subjective and everything, but I think it's something you had to have watched when you were 12 years old, not 39. Coming to it fresh in 2019 it just didn't hit at all and I think there are probably random youtubers doing it better. 
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Disco Pope posted:The most 90s genre was surely grunge? Grunge is one of those things where people who were really into it think it was more popular than it actually was.
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