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Post by spacein_vader on Oct 26, 2021 9:23:55 GMT
20 years ago this week 2 products were launched:
The iPod, with a massive 1gb HDD holding over 1,000 songs. Using the firewire interface (which will definitely supercede USB) and simple, bloat free iTunes software to manage it.
Windows XP. People look back at it now with rose tinted glasses as one of the good windows releases but that was only really true post Service Pack 2. The first releases had hardware conflicts galore and were ridiculously insecure for something designed to be connected to the Internet.
Any other tech stuff that you remember like it was yesterday even though it was decades ago?
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Post by KD on Oct 26, 2021 11:00:03 GMT
My mate showed his oldest kid The Matrix the other day and it reminded me I had the Nokia 7000 series phone it promoted.
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Post by quadfather on Oct 26, 2021 13:09:49 GMT
Technics SL1210 turntables were first made in 1972. That is almost 50 years ago now.
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Post by hedben on Oct 26, 2021 13:23:34 GMT
Mobile gaming peaked with the Nokia 3230, released in 2004. It had an AR game (Agent V) that used the camera and tilt controls to shoot little bacteria type enemies from all around you. Blew my tiny mind. I still have my old one stowed away in the obligatory box of cables and chargers that every bloke has. And it still works perfectly. |
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Post by gamingdave on Oct 26, 2021 14:15:02 GMT
Technics SL1210 turntables were first made in 1972. That is almost 50 years ago now. Mine were purchased in 1994 and still going strong |
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Post by quadfather on Oct 26, 2021 14:19:09 GMT
Technics SL1210 turntables were first made in 1972. That is almost 50 years ago now. Mine were purchased in 1994 and still going strong Yup, same here. Solid bits of kit indeed. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2021 14:24:11 GMT
I got the first ipod that Christmas, absolutely lovely bit of kit and it lasted ages. Revelation not having to carry a cd player around in your pocket hoping it doesn't skip.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2021 14:29:10 GMT
I miss my minidisc player. Can't remember when they came out but my god were they not just the greatest thing ever.
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Post by Zyrr on Oct 26, 2021 19:44:01 GMT
I bloody love minidisc. To me, that was the pinnacle of portable music media, before the iPod came along and stuffed everyone's pockets with thousands of poorly compressed MP3s and killed it dead.
I've still got three fully working Sony portable MD recorders which I use on the regular (which my kids are absolutely mortified by, hehe).
I even recently recorded a bunch of Speccy tape s onto a blank MD and then loaded them onto a +2 just for the hell of it.
My kids think I'm about the most embarrassing human being who ever lived lol.
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Post by jellyhead on Oct 26, 2021 21:02:28 GMT
I take it you lot have all got a youtube subscription to TechMoan? If not, check it out, you'll bloody love it.
He's gone a little bit into reviewing new cheap tat and gizmos but his older videos on the history of formats and the kit used to play them on are great.
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Post by dfunked on Oct 26, 2021 21:45:26 GMT
Always wanted a minidisc player... Did a couple of week's work experience with a radio station and they used them pretty heavily. By the time I could afford to move away from cassettes it was all CDR and iPods.
+1 for the SL1210 gang. Mine were a set of used ones that needed a service but were still pretty bulletproof. I've heard of them surviving falls down flights of stairs no problem.
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Post by RadicalRex on Oct 26, 2021 22:00:09 GMT
Got my first mobile in 2000, a Siemens C25. You could program your own ringtone, which was so rad. 7 years later, the first iPhone was released. I feel old.
In 2009 I got a PS3, the only console to date without ethernet but with RJ45. It also had sixaxis motion controls which made everything that used it worse.
In 2011 I got a Motorola Defy which you could throw all over a parking lot without it taking any damage, using some version of Android 2 which was way ahead of iOS. Loved that phone.
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Post by Fake_Blood on Oct 26, 2021 22:01:20 GMT
I miss after market car stereos. Motorised ones with 4x40W written on them and something like XtreamBass.
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Post by RadicalRex on Oct 26, 2021 22:03:07 GMT
Oh yeah, loved those. Didn't like that you had to remove the front panel to prevent it from being stolen though.
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Post by lukasz on Nov 18, 2021 2:06:59 GMT
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Post by Nanocrystal on Nov 18, 2021 4:15:04 GMT
Still got my little minidic player, and a bunch of discs of various music including an album I wrote and recorded myself using an 8-track. Must find a way to rip that onto mp3 or something as it's my only copy.
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Post by Lizard on Nov 18, 2021 5:27:48 GMT
I remember having a random brand 32MB (presumably flash memory) MP3 player circa 2000. It didn't really cut it and went back to my walkman until I got a MP3 discman a couple of years later. The latter was a revelation as the first mass-storage portable music player I had. I can only imagine how frustrating navigating it would be today.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2021 7:09:39 GMT
I've got a sony minidisk recorder somewhere along with a couple of random albums of groups I'd never really heard of but could get minidisks of them cheap to see what they were like.
I also remember spending what was almost a months wages on a Sony Walkman a few years before that (in the late 80s) and listening to Suzanne Vega while I was guarding Greenham Common from the peace protesters. I also learnt that the Americans really did behave like they were in the movies and that all that high fiving wasn't just exaggerated for the films. Also I learnt how to eat my own body weight in fast food as their base had everything.
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Post by dominalien on Nov 18, 2021 9:13:28 GMT
I miss my Palm. It was so elegant and well-thought-out way before Apple learned to do it. It was a long time after Windows devices took over that I used one for the first time and I just couldn't believe that piece of crap pushed Palm out.
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Post by SpiralScratch on Nov 18, 2021 11:30:20 GMT
Clearing out old clothes i found an ipod shuffle (lime green) in the pocket of a jacket. 2005? I'd forgotten those ever existed but fuck that was 16 years ago.
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Post by quadfather on Nov 18, 2021 12:01:20 GMT
I was looking for a specific lead the other day and in this box of random crap I have, I spotted an old creative labs "zen" touch mp3 player that's as old as the hills.  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2021 12:02:54 GMT
That's the fucking one I had!!!!
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Post by quadfather on Nov 18, 2021 12:04:58 GMT
haha, do you want to buy it off me?  I bet it's still got whatever songs were on there years ago. I'll have to fire it up, if it works! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2021 12:08:50 GMT
I wonder if I still have mine kicking about anywhere. I loved it. That's a wee touch slider thing below the round button isn't it.
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Post by dogbot on Nov 18, 2021 12:09:53 GMT
Clearing out old clothes i found an ipod shuffle (lime green) in the pocket of a jacket. 2005? I'd forgotten those ever existed but fuck that was 16 years ago. Nice. I finished clearing out our last, unused moving boxes last week and found an iPod Nano. A black 8GB one. What a great little bit of kit that was. Got me through a lot of times. |
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Post by quadfather on Nov 18, 2021 12:11:13 GMT
I wonder if I still have mine kicking about anywhere. I loved it. That's a wee touch slider thing below the round button isn't it. That's the one. Super fucking sensitive too iirc rendering it practically useless 😀 |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2021 12:16:04 GMT
Ha ha yes that's my recollection of it as well. Pretty sure it's a mighty 128MB as well but I may be misremembering.
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Post by quadfather on Nov 18, 2021 12:17:19 GMT
I've got 20gb in my head but that could be bollocks
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Post by 😎 on Nov 18, 2021 12:32:33 GMT
I had the Creative Nomad Zen Xtra that had a gigantic 40Gb HDD inside it. I loved that player. I often think about buying one off eBay for the nostalgia, but I’m too used to Bluetooth and streaming audio now for it to make any sense. This bad boy:  |
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Post by Vortex on Nov 18, 2021 12:32:46 GMT
Still got my little minidic username possibly checks out if it's crystalline |
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