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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Using pencils to manually rewind cassette tapes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually, just having to rewind things at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I would just flip to the other side, that way it rewound itself

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Mom I'm playing Starcraft don't pick up the phone!"

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I referred to Jennifer Connolly as Stifler's mom and this zoomer gave me a blank stare.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Maybe because you meant Jennifer Coolidge.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If I wanted to talk to someone who wasn't in the same location as me, I had to know the ten digit number assigned to them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If they were in the same city, you only needed 7...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Using floppy disks in grade 2, then dvd+r in grade 4 and finally flash drives in 6+

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually know what this means, from getting my mom’s Atari to work on my grandmother’s TV

I think it was channel 2 for that one though, idk. We switched to using the flatscreen because of the annoying high pitched noise. (To the annoyance of all retro gamers who read this)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It was channel 4 for us, because channel 3 was the local CBS affiliate and it would interfere with the signal from the NES. There was a switch on the console to flip between 3 and 4, because it varied depending on location which channel was optimal.

Channel 3 was CBS, 5 was ABC, 12 was NBC, and that was it.

The ABC affiliate would also broadcast Sesame Street because for most of my childhood, we didn't have a local public television station. When we finally did get one, you had to get cable to pick it up where I lived. I have vague memories of having cable in the house for a brief time around the time the ABC station stopped carrying the show, but my parents dropped it pretty soon afterward when we started to want to watch exclusively Nickelodeon. At least I always assumed that was the cause, but the cost of cable was probably a bigger factor. They compensated for that by recording movies that came on network TV with the VCR, and we happily rewatched those constantly instead of whatever we were missing on cable. We had whole shelves full of just VHS tapes full of movies recorded off the TV.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Idk why my mind went to the snes satiliview thing where they had a satellite broadcast your game in a way it was kinda like the first live service game

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The best selling video game was all text with zero graphics; Zork.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah all is nice and dandy until you get eaten by a grue.

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