Microblog Memes

We also dial the phone and roll down the windows. I guess some phrases transcend time.

They save their data to a solid stste disc that isn't a disc by using the icon for a 3.5" floppy disc. They punch out at the end of the workday and fill out a timesheet later.

Yeah, we use a lot of terms that are no longer literally true and kids know what it means even if they don't know how the term originated.

They also have hardcopies of video games! Usually, it's a pretty updated library of titles. 2 week rentals, you just have to go back and check it out again. Totally free.

Not all libraries are the same but if you're a gamer, you can try a nice collection, totally free.

It's shocking how apathetic many people have become to this. I don't want any kind of ad anywhere. When I have to use a browser that doesn't have my essential plugins installed every second of the experience feels like I'm taking poison damage.

There are ways to own very high quality movies. Those ways just happen to not be legal. Still less of a hassle than maintaining a physical media collection.

I do own a record player so I see the point of added physicality though.

For a given value of great. The only tapes I'd describe as looking great are HDV tapes, and even then they're anamorphic and interlaced.

I'm all for owning media but whenever I see stuff like this I wonder what the person is watching stuff on. Tapes were fine on titchy CRTs but they look pretty horrid on TVs from this decade.

Somewhat ironically they'd probably look fine on the mobile devices the younguns favour!

Fuck yall not old, just told my 16 year old I had to tape something and he said and I quote, "Like record something?" He 16 and he knew what I was talking about. Maybe her kids just sheltered.

There's a piece of software we use at work and the save icon for that is a downwards pointing arrow and a CD. No one knows what it means.

i still have both my blockbuster and hollywood video nametags. without a doubt the best jobs i ever had, and now that i'm in my forties they're probably the best jobs i'll ever know.

That seems more like "these kids don't know basic things and/ or their names" rather than "these kids don't know colloquialisms from previous decades"

Paper is still everywhere and staples are everywhere. How do they not know what a stapler is?

Paperclips are for quitters.

They still use reel-to-reel tape drives on mainframes to store data. Just like they did in 1967.

You set up a camcorder aligned perfectly with the TV, play the on demand stream and tape it so that when it eventually gets removed from the streaming platform you still have a backup on tape.

If you grew up with camcorders, you could use that verb for general video recording, even with your phone

But it is not always available afterwards. Sometimes you have to capture that stream of bits yourself. Without a DVR that’s kind of difficult to do depending on the platform. Though I would def use the term “record” rather than “tape”. (Though you might store it in a tar archive afterwards…)