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[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Let's listen to this radio station play an unholy noise for about 30 minutes, record it in a cassette tape, and play the game recorded in those BAUD BOIS

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[–] 108@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My first one was wood grained

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[–] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

You used to have to print out a document and then scan it into another machine that would use landlines to send it to another printer so someone, somewhere else, could have the document.

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[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Blowing the cartridge may or may not work.

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[–] penquin@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago (6 children)

We had no power in our home.

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[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 7 points 9 months ago

"You have mail"

[–] jumjummy@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] jupiter_jazz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 9 months ago

I had a couple of magazine CDs that I got from a trial subscription.

https://archive.org/details/launchcdmagazine

AOL zines were pretty neat.

https://medium.com/s/requiem-for-an-internet/how-aols-tween-zine-scene-pioneered-the-digital-self-9f2e261a6d2a

Researching for essays was annoying because you had to actually leave your house and go to a library to get books. (But libraries are fun for personal reading.)

[–] root_beer@midwest.social 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Bullshit they could work on channel 4 too; the NES and the SNES both had a switch in the back for that, I assume the Genesis and TurboGrafx16 did too

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 7 points 9 months ago

Using two VCRs to edit a video project for English class.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Let me just call someone if they're still at home on this payphone to look it up in the encyclopedia that was printed 20 years ago

[–] tfowinder@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago (15 children)

Can someone explain this to me pls?

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[–] Tyfud@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Channel 3 or 4 I believe. They're set such that woukd allow you to choose if one or the other was selected for something like a vcr. This was the precursor to different inputs on tvs.

[–] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Kindness@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago

I still dream in black and white.

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