Wait till the perfect second to hit record on the radio to make a mix tape
That radio DJ speaking in the middle of the song you’re recording.
The 1900s
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MapQuest printouts.
Being able to chalk off the often embarrassing or cruel lessons of childhood as something personal, rather than something someone saved in video, to hound you with for the rest of your life.
Clean freshwater.
I feel personally attacked by this comment.
I don’t think there’s a human alive today that has. We’ve been dumping chemical waste in water supplies for centuries, but particularly nastier stuff (PFAS) over the last century.
The internet in it’s heyday, when it was a genuinely thrilling place to find information, and quite a lot of weirdness, and before it was swamped by corporate interests.
I remember starting out with gopher and a paper print out of ‘The big dummies guide to the internet’ which was a directory of almost every gopher and ftp site (pre web) along with a description of what you’d find there. Then the web came along and things got really good for a while. Once big corporations got involved it all went down hill.
Do you use this? I’ve been thinking that there has to an underground “internet” that mimics the old web. I was thinking that it would be BBS or something. I haven’t gone down any rabbit hole yet because lemmy has been scratching the itch alright.
Interesting, I’ll look into Gemini.
Any good links you can recommend?
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Here’s a good overview on youtube
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
I would limit it to the “web” in it’s heyday. The internet as a whole is more wild than ever. And there’s a chance that the fediverse could be just as thrilling in 10 years as the web was 20 years ago (and could be swamped by corporate interests).
I don’t think the internet is getting less thrilling and weird, if anything it’s downright scary at this point, it’s just really easy to enter a walled garden, never leave, and never find the interesting stuff.
in its* heyday
in its* heyday
If you like gopher, you’re gonna love Gemini: https://github.com/kr1sp1n/awesome-gemini
I’ve been keeping half an eye on it for a while, I should probably give it a go again.
Having to wind back a cassette or vcr with a paperclip or spoon if the strip got tangled, or even just having to wait for the player to forward/rewind
Rushing to the boombox when you hear your new favorite song, to record it to cassette
Rushing to it? Nah, just sitting next to it for hours with finger on “Pause”.
Rushing? You mean you didn’t spend whole evenings with your finger in the record button, just in case it came up?
Is that the first step to becoming Geezer Butler? Or do you have to be butler first?
And rage at the dj when they would talk over the song intro.
Which they did on purpose, so you can’t use the recorded song commercially.
The modern day equivalent of this is including sound effects or a break in the music in the official youtube music video to prevent people from using yt-dlp to rip the audio directly to their playlist.
Competent search results, where you could plug in absolute nonsense and it would understand based on context clues. Now it’s a braindead AI that decides what it wants to see for you, and if you want to search for an exact thing adding more keywords makes it less likely to find it.
Check out marginalia
Setting up your computer before you go to bed to download a demo for a game that’s… 20 MB large! Waking up in the morning to inevitably discover the download failed part way through.
sometimes I still have to do this, sure not for something that’s only 20mb but a 1gb file can take a whole night to download in my uni accommodation. The landlord doesn’t seem to give a shit though because they’re still advertising that the building has “up to 100mb/s” wifi speeds.
1kB/h is still “up to 100mb/s” so he’s not wrong.
I mean change mb to gb and it’s the same story today.
Remember download managers?
What a blast from the past! Totally forgot that these were a thing lol.
Where my download accelerator plus gang at
Getright was my choice for years, until it decided to scrap an entire 600MB iso I had downloaded over 56k, and start over. Getright pissing me off was thebmain reason why I got pretty good at perl 25 years ago - I decided to write my own download manager.
Sounds like a villain origin story
I’m not denying anything
Not as extreme, but I still remember downloading GTA 5 for 16h, that was some shit internet
I’d say it’s as extreme
I remember using a program called Go!Zilla to accellerate and manage my downloads, you could even pause downloads!
This think that was basically a P2P downloader.
Waiting for a single image to load on the screen from top to bottom, one line at a time and being charged per minute for the privilege.
Kids three days won’t get to experience par files
The French revolution.
Are the French ever not revolting against something?
Nope. We could and should learn a lot from the French when it comes to making our voices heard.
No, the French are always revolting.
Does anyone else remember Stumbleupon?
That’s how I found a lot of places I still visit like xkcd.
