The Kins posted:

Welcome to... The Bubble Generation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEub5U9UeX8

One of those weird dead-end technologies that became obsolete just as it started getting commercialised. A couple of Konami arcade games like the original Gradius toyed with using Bubble Memory cartridges instead of the traditional ROM boards, but stopped due to their low speed, high price and extreme sensitivity to electromagnetic fields.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEueYGq2mT4

Cojawfee posted:

In the US at least, rural areas do not upgrade very fast if ever. There are plenty of people who are still renting a rotary phone from their phone company.

EugeneJ posted:

What was the website that was like a bunch of colored balls in a room that everyone currently viewing the room could grab by clicking and moving them?

So you had 20 people working together to draw a giant dick or spell out "gently caress YOU" with the balls

Humphreys posted:

Data Graham posted:

I'd almost forgotten that Fedora used to be a household word among nerds for totally different reasons.

Trebek posted:

This is one of the saddest things I've ever read. Then I remember only a year ago I was using a cassette adapter to play my phone in my car.

Data Graham posted:

Ah yeah

How many of us does this trigger memories for?

Light Gun Man posted:

I remember certain anime VHS tapes I had would come out of the VCR after being played, slightly warm and smelling kinda like pickles. I think it was just one company's tapes.

Neito posted:

Just cus every time it comes up people gush, I'm going to point out that most physical keyboards on phones were dumb and I'd gladly give up that bulk considering it provided basically no benefit.

Also, swype-style keyboards are dumb, and I hate everything.

(No, seriously, I just think on screen keyboards are done really well, and there might be a lot of comparison to at-the-time onscreen keyboards, which were poo poo at the time?)

Platystemon posted:

This hand size chat is a proxy for talking about dick size, right?

Humphreys posted:

Would you like a HDMI capable graphics card for your Commodore Amiga?

Skoll posted:

Like this? They're called RCA ports.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/onkyo-6-disc-cd-player-black/6762924.p?skuId=6762924

Das Butterbrot posted:

do you want to record your vinyls onto cd? just get a cheap USB audio interface for your pc and do it that way. added bonus of latency free (well, more like very low latency) recording and a better DAC than the lovely realtek IC on your motherboard.

something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Focusrite-2i...JY0QA14E9DDX4NN

only other thing you'd need are cables w/ RCA jacks on one side and 6.5mm jacks on the other.

Platystemon posted:

lol if you don’t compile your own GNU Hurd

tactlessbastard posted:

Bf1942 best Bf

Dr. Quarex posted:

I bet that 16-year-old caught by the FBI posts in this thread.

Skoll posted:

That's a safe bet. I'm not touching it.

EVIL Gibson posted:

There were still problems especially with the ever increasing burn rates. Finding a good burner drive and then the media that works well with it (that could handle the burn speeds) was like trying to find two specific needles out of a haystack of needles of too many brands and types.

I took the "LiteOn" as a good drive and the first to really fix the buffer underrun problem (think it was called Burn Proof?) And just looked for discs that it would be able to handle.

To be honest, I was okay at burning at 4 or 12 (since CD ROM s at the time read the slower burned rates) and waiting longer than trying to hit the 32 -48x write speeds.

Now that I am talking about it, around that time manufacturers tried to increase the read and write speeds and found a hard limit when generic CDs/DVDs we're used . Like above 52 or maybe 54 discs kept shattering and ruining drives from the plastic shrapnel.

Instant Sunrise posted:

context for this:

In the 80's was the early beginnings of cable and satellite TV. At the time, satellite was primarily used to go between the studios and cable headend facilities, who'd broadcast it to their paying customers. And as a result these signals were broadcasted in analog and entirely unencrypted.

To have satellite TV at home wasn't just a small DirecTV dish you'd stick on the roof and not really have to worry about. It was a big ugly thing about 5 feet in diameter and was on a motorized mount to steer it. This equipment was not at all cheap, running into the 4 or 5 digits in the 80's. But one of the things you could pick up was the satellite feeds that would normally go between a station like HBO and the cable TV head end, essentially getting HBO for free.

As you can imagine, HBO was really not happy about that idea, and so they started encrypting their satellite feeds, and sold decoder boxes which required a subscription.

Captain Midnight here was somewhat annoyed that the TV he had been getting for free would require a subscription now, and so he ended up hijacking the satellite feed for everybody to broadcast that message.

oohhboy posted:

How did he manage that? Did he sneak into a ground station to type the message?

Platystemon posted:

√2 or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_216

Data Graham posted:

The reputation preceded firewire though.

Further back it was SCSI and ColorSync.


E: also pervasive 24-bit color cards and no arbitrary RAM limits.

TenementFunster posted:

this guy owns and i love his bitchy passive-aggressive demeanor regarding youtube comments. i hope he never stops reading them. stay angry, you little british weirdo.