every time someone reposts this I wonder if this is one of those AI generated photos in which everything in the photo looks vaguely identifiable but it's not really identifiable because it's AI and not real. But the man is a man. I know that much.
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No I can see some stuff I can recognize
ah ok
It's still like that with iphones
I remember programming the songs by pressing the buttons in the right order from some website.
I used to have a different ring tone for every friend. I still think of them when I hear "their" song.
Real nerds learned how to create SP-MIDIs and structured them to degrade gracefully no matter how limited your phone's synth chip was.
y'all remember the "ring back" tones? i don't think they ever really took off since they are a ring tone that people hear when they call you instead, which is... just... totally idiotic... but i did encounter it a few times in the wild.
It's INSANELY popular in Iran and pushed hard by the service providers
I guess its gone from America but it is still very popular in india ... partly because the Network Providers give it as a free feature ... neat cause my friends never pick up quickly
Is the quality not trash anymore? Maybe it's gotten better and i didn't notice, but music over the telephone has always sounded muddy and distorted to me.
I actually called someone with one of these a few months ago. Blew my mind it still existed!
In some ways though that was kind of part of the fun. You had to really want the song to be willing to do that lol
And after a month, you realized that you Pavloved yourself into thinking your phone was ringing and hating the song when you heard it casually.
It's like using your favorite song as an alarm. Don't know how that doesn't ruin those songs for people.
Unless it's changed recently I still had to do that for whenever I used my iPhone. Couldn't get audio to be a ringtone and had to run iTunes and do some conversion weirdness.
iPhone is pretty weak for that but you can also use Garageband on your phone to do the conversion.
Bonus points if you transferred the file to your phone via IR.
Careful posting this sort of thing. You might accidentally summon the Crazy Frog, and then we'll all be sorry.
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Hey apple!
I found a better quality image of this photo but I still don't have any idea what the hell is going on
You know it smell crazy in there
Mickey Gurdus, an Israeli ham radio operator and media listener. In the age before the internet he used to listen to every transmission he could find from his homemade lab.
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The person appears to be wearing a diaper. And in the top right corner there's a post with what appears to be Hebrew writing.
In the right side of the picture there's a collection of remote controls and I've counted several phones and calculators scattered about.
Given the disorganized appearance, and the 5 dollar headphones, I'll venture a guess that this person is not so much a professional anything, as much as a Middle Eastern hermit wackjob.
Yeah, looks like an electronics hoarder. Each of those things at one time had a purpose, but 90% of it is sitting there unused and needs to be discarded/recycled.
A lot of radio equipment.
BBC News on the monitor.
Maps of Iran on the wall.
I'd bet on amateur/independent journalist picking up as much radio traffic as possible.
Air traffic control at home.
It's just a picture of my home lab.
Looking nice bro!
Converting and downloading ringtones was such a pain. It was almost worth paying $2.99 plus $20 in data charges for a 30 second clip that sounds like it's playing on a victrola.
Actually did this for O Green World by Gorillaz when I was 13 in '05. When the bill came in, my dad beat me senseless with those old jumper cables. Man, I loved that funky little ringtone.
Two throwbacks in one.
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