http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotape_format_war
It's still used in some in professional television.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotape_format_war
It's still used in some in professional television.
Rookje
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I remember my dad got so annoyed by this thing he took it and threw it over the fence in our backyard.
Aww, memories.
smuldegspaj
Banned
I never had one.. but laserdiscs where truly the end of hi-fi awesomeness.
probably the coolest format ever. Tailored to cinemaphiles.
probably the coolest format ever. Tailored to cinemaphiles.
lastplayed
Member
How my dad used to listen to more than one CD...
Was always amusing listening to it clunk away as it swapped discs.
Was always amusing listening to it clunk away as it swapped discs.
trudderham
Member
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Oh right, laser disc
Apparently they're still being made.
Apparently they're still being made.
kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
Commodore C2N cassette deck. Cough within 200 yards and it stops loading.
You forgot this piece of essential equipment:
PastorOfMuppets
Banned
My very first "MP3" player.
For a short while, there was a middle ground between flash/HD based MP3 players and CD players since there was that transition period from physical media to digital media for music. People who had tons of CD's still wanted to listen to them on the go but if you were rearing for a long trip, you could just burn yourself a CD full of MP3's and have multiple albums worth on your CD player. So for a while, the MP3CD player was the choice for people with large digital and physical libraries. iRiver was like the Apple of the MP3CD player industry but the value of these things dropped once HDD based MP3 players got cheap.
For a short while, there was a middle ground between flash/HD based MP3 players and CD players since there was that transition period from physical media to digital media for music. People who had tons of CD's still wanted to listen to them on the go but if you were rearing for a long trip, you could just burn yourself a CD full of MP3's and have multiple albums worth on your CD player. So for a while, the MP3CD player was the choice for people with large digital and physical libraries. iRiver was like the Apple of the MP3CD player industry but the value of these things dropped once HDD based MP3 players got cheap.
PastorOfMuppets
Banned
Also, while everyone remembers Napster, remember some of the early alternatives?
Scour Exchange one of the first Napster alternatives. Prior to release, Scour Exchange was widely considered to be the most reliable way to download MP3's via website. One of the first victims of the lawsuit happy music industry at the time:
WinMX: Usage jumped quite a bit after Napster died.
Morpehus/Kazaa: Post Napster, probably the goto choice for P2P for a few years.
Audiogalaxy: Man I loved this one. Interesting interface but it also had some exceedingly rare files and bootlegs that I have not been able to find online since it went down.
eDonkey/eMule: For a while if you wanted to find rare obscure movies, this was the place to go.
A bunch of them are still around in some form or another but by in large, torrent sites have become the method of choice for pirating files.
Also, anyone on 56K back in the day probably remembers stopping people from downloading from your computer because they were slowing down your connection. If I remember correctly, I was downloading MP3's at a 3-4 kb/s clip - 6 on a good day, so uploading a file to anyone else just added another 10-20 minutes to my 3.2 mb download.
Scour Exchange one of the first Napster alternatives. Prior to release, Scour Exchange was widely considered to be the most reliable way to download MP3's via website. One of the first victims of the lawsuit happy music industry at the time:
WinMX: Usage jumped quite a bit after Napster died.
Morpehus/Kazaa: Post Napster, probably the goto choice for P2P for a few years.
Audiogalaxy: Man I loved this one. Interesting interface but it also had some exceedingly rare files and bootlegs that I have not been able to find online since it went down.
eDonkey/eMule: For a while if you wanted to find rare obscure movies, this was the place to go.
A bunch of them are still around in some form or another but by in large, torrent sites have become the method of choice for pirating files.
Also, anyone on 56K back in the day probably remembers stopping people from downloading from your computer because they were slowing down your connection. If I remember correctly, I was downloading MP3's at a 3-4 kb/s clip - 6 on a good day, so uploading a file to anyone else just added another 10-20 minutes to my 3.2 mb download.
Ooooh oooh oooh does this count?
Oh god, you just threw my brain into a time machine!!! Seriously, flashback to pre-talking 6er. Crazy.
Spiffy_1st
Member
I got all of the yellow ones on the same stick once.
DeEJaYMiND
Member
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Hmmm I wonder if limewire is applicable here.
Wiktor
Member
You forgot this piece of essential equipment:
That is if you could find one think enough to fit. I couldn't, so I ravaged my mother's hair pins and squeezed then with pliers
Wiktor
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Jo Shishido's Cheeks
Member
Having a rush from seeing the Minidisc players here!
I had a few but the absolute finest, and probably the finest portable music player I ever owned, was this beauty:
It used to use these discs:
Where using ATRAC compression you could fit around 40 CD's onto a disc.
I had my entire music collection on a single minidisc!
I thought there would never be anything that could top that...
I had a few but the absolute finest, and probably the finest portable music player I ever owned, was this beauty:
It used to use these discs:
Where using ATRAC compression you could fit around 40 CD's onto a disc.
I had my entire music collection on a single minidisc!
I thought there would never be anything that could top that...
The Elite
BOSS
You can verb anything these days.
GTP_Daverytimes
Member
Was this for real???
In 20 years time people will be saying the same things for things like petabytes and exabytes.
Was this for real???
Haha hilarious.
GTP_Daverytimes
Member
I used to like beta =(
Betamax won.
Before GAF, Before forums, before the mainstream internet, before IRC, there was YOUR LOCAL BBS SCENE
.
Discussion forums, online text games (legend of the red dragon, tradewars), FILES of all kind, from the sharewares to random '80 porn pics in 10k gif format. Multinode chats, meeting up with girls and some very strange people. It was a true super hardcore underground network. Members were approved by the admins; you always have referals, a reputation was more important than anything. You also had inter-bbs forums where you could discuss with people from around the world (and messages could take a week to get to them!) Thats how I asked John Romero how he felt about Duke 3D! and he actually wrote back
And there was also the whole dark side of bbs; super hardcore warez scene groups, traders, real deal hackers/carders/phone phreaks; anarchists posting weekly virtual flyers about their meetings; art groups (people who made ascii/ansi art for warez groups, bbs, graphitis on the street, punks, and so on
If you grew up in the mid '90 as a teenager, bbses were THE SHIT. Thats how I first got internet access, by using a door system (kinda like an online program) to reach IRC. It felt like having an arm into the blender that was the underground scene at the time.
You can watch online for free something 'THE BBS DOCUMENTARY' that talks a lot about this semi secret culture; its a bit long (around 3 hours), but its a solid primer to what it was.
Is it now completely forgotten, most people involved with them moved out to irc in the late '90; and that was the end of it. I held on to my local boards until 1999 and most of them closed around then. The internet had won.
Discussion forums, online text games (legend of the red dragon, tradewars), FILES of all kind, from the sharewares to random '80 porn pics in 10k gif format. Multinode chats, meeting up with girls and some very strange people. It was a true super hardcore underground network. Members were approved by the admins; you always have referals, a reputation was more important than anything. You also had inter-bbs forums where you could discuss with people from around the world (and messages could take a week to get to them!) Thats how I asked John Romero how he felt about Duke 3D! and he actually wrote back
And there was also the whole dark side of bbs; super hardcore warez scene groups, traders, real deal hackers/carders/phone phreaks; anarchists posting weekly virtual flyers about their meetings; art groups (people who made ascii/ansi art for warez groups, bbs, graphitis on the street, punks, and so on
If you grew up in the mid '90 as a teenager, bbses were THE SHIT. Thats how I first got internet access, by using a door system (kinda like an online program) to reach IRC. It felt like having an arm into the blender that was the underground scene at the time.
You can watch online for free something 'THE BBS DOCUMENTARY' that talks a lot about this semi secret culture; its a bit long (around 3 hours), but its a solid primer to what it was.
Is it now completely forgotten, most people involved with them moved out to irc in the late '90; and that was the end of it. I held on to my local boards until 1999 and most of them closed around then. The internet had won.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
I had a Jaz drive and it failed within about a week. Piece of shit.
Remember Zip drives?
And WOW at the Game Gear Tv tuner! Such A flashback. Loved the 90s.
PalaceBrother
Member
My family should never have sold this. I played through so many Sierra games on it.
My first MP3 player
My friends and people had no idea what it was or why I didn't just use a cd player. Used flash memory, think I had only a 32mb card so I was only able to put like 8 songs or 6 if i was trying to put Gun's N Roses songs on it from Use Your Illusion. The songs even hung or skipped if it was impacted.
I think I still got in a drawer. Used parallel port though and don't have the cable anymore.
Pretty sure I got this in the same year as well
My friends and people had no idea what it was or why I didn't just use a cd player. Used flash memory, think I had only a 32mb card so I was only able to put like 8 songs or 6 if i was trying to put Gun's N Roses songs on it from Use Your Illusion. The songs even hung or skipped if it was impacted.
I think I still got in a drawer. Used parallel port though and don't have the cable anymore.
Pretty sure I got this in the same year as well
Ignatz Mouse
Banned
I have owned or used waaaaaay too much of this stuff.
The good old NC. I used it so much back in the day that I can't use anything else to this day. So much better than the windows interface.SPeaking of nostalgic software:
Here's a pic of what I'm using now. Same interface/shortcuts and highly customizable.
http://i.imgur.com/lVK79.png
its not even the right laptop model.. just wanted to picture it ^^
anyone here played Omega Virus? "30 minutes until i take over *evil laugh*"
We still play Omega Virus on camping trips.
I also have each of these original games;
Axis & Allies (1984)
Conquest of the Empire (1984)
Broadsides and Boarding Parties (1984) (actually, a friend has it now that I recall)
Fortress America (1986)
Shogun (1986)
Not surprising, I can/could never find anyone to play with since the games last 3 hours or longer .
Of course board games are not "tech"...so....
Was going to ask if anyone remembers a particular "chat client" and then was very surprised they still have the same URL and started up again. Regardless, anyone here also hang out at The Palace (www.thepalace.com - as it was and apparently is again).
You could create your own "server" on your PC. Create multiple "rooms" made of up of a static picture. People would visit your rooms with "avatars" and chat in chat bubbles. You could write scripts that would kick in by triggering when certain words were spoken. It had its own script "language" that people could "master".
DeEJaYMiND
Member
I as the Sysop of XTC BBS during the 90's. I had 250MB of disk space... 250MB!!!!!!! I remember that when i got my hands on PCBoard i spent 3 days just messing arround and not sleeping
PalaceBrother
Member
I as the Sysop of XTC BBS during the 90's. I had 250MB of disk space... 250MB!!!!!!! I remember that when i got my hands on PCBoard i spent 3 days just messing arround and not sleeping
I had a 40MB hard drive on my 386sx16.
I had to uninstall Word Perfect every time I wanted to play Ultima VII. I would install the game, play for a few hours, then uninstall it & re-install Word Perfect.
Every time.
Several times a week. ugh.
DeEJaYMiND
Member
Remember those 486DX2 that got that TURBO button? That was some overclocking power right there
nice one, that woke memories long forgotten.
As a teenager i spent an awful of time on the german anime palace. these days they use Phalanx 4 as software.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Ahh right, program-based chatrooms. I guess they became obsolete with messengers and forums.
CommonSense
Banned
Oh man, I loved that thing!
acheron_xl
Member
I had one of these:
It was glorious. Hooking my SNES up to it made me feel like some kind of a badass, even though playing on a tiny black and white screen left something to be desired.
It was glorious. Hooking my SNES up to it made me feel like some kind of a badass, even though playing on a tiny black and white screen left something to be desired.
Lv99 Slacker
Member
As a little kid I sat this next to the bath and just made silly noises and voices into it to listen back and laugh at later. I had another one that was white with a wired microphone later when this one broke, but this is the one I remember the most fondly because of the colour of it. XD
Black and white, connected up and recorded directly to a VHS player, so you couldn't even take it outside, but I made hours upon hours to dumb films with this. I even attempted animation on it even though it didn't have a still capture option so i would just hit record and stop very quickly. Shame I chucked out all the tapes a long time ago, I would love to see them again if just to embarrass myself hahaha.
I was also one of those kids that had a Game Gear instead of a Game Boy, complete with massive battery chargers and screen 'enhancer' zoom in things all over it. Never had the TV tuner though
Later on I got a Game Boy Pocket and the Game Boy Camera and Printer. God I loved those. A shame the ink of the printer would fade to almost nothing on the stickers over time. I did all sorts of weird stuff with it, like photo based comics. Found one that is still sort of viewable..
Baraka in the White House
2-Terms of Kombat
Ninja Scooter
Member
Remember having one of these as a kid, but no CD burner, so I used fill like 5 or 6 discs up with songs and take them to my friend's house to burn them. Man how tedious.
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