• j4k3@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I see your overhead projector and raise you a zip drive and a mini disc. I blow my NES cartridge to bid adieu to you.

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      2 months ago

      I always thought zip drives were another term for flash drives because so many people just used the terms interchangably.

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        2 months ago

        Reminds me of how everyone is now misusing the term “ROM” to mean “Storage” when it actually means “Read-Only Memory”. Drives me nuts every time I see it in advertising.

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          2 months ago

          It’s funny to me that things like EEPROM are considered ROM. Like, ok, I can write to it? Read only, huh?

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      2 months ago

      I bet a zip drive could blow their minds. The mini disc and nes cartridge wouldn’t even phase them. Stuff like that are too iconic.

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        2 months ago

        I bet a zip drive could blow their minds.

        Show the Blue Yeti streaming generation the old boom mics we had. The ones that looked like refueling probes.

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          It’s crazy how ubiquitous those were. Anyone with a mic for their PC had that exact mic.

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          2 months ago

          Back when all that existed for online voicecomms was ventrilo, i took one of those boom mics and taped it to one of the ear muffs of an analog headset meant for cd players, as I could not actually afford a mic+headset combo.

          Worked for years rofl.