I still have my old employee ID somewhere
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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.
I was working too much to take advantage of the free rentals (they were my fourth concurrent part time job) but I loved working there regardless.
I feel like a dinosaur for even remembering Blockbuster lol
My kids: "like.. sellotape?"
My friends kids are competent at taping wrapped presents.
I mentioned UHF to one of my (younger) coworkers, and he had no idea what that meant...
Well, UHF is still a common term if you're a radio amateur. Along with VLF, LF, MW, SW, etc.
We've got it all! (We've got it all) On UHF!
Funnily enough, that's how we got to that- several of us going out to lunch, I was driving, so my music, and one of the Weird Al polkas was playing, and he was asking who it was .. even my kids have heard of Weird Al so me and the other old farts are trying to figure out if he's messing with us or really didn't know... So we were listing off Weird Al's works, and UHF came up, we described the plot, he asked if UHF meant something in the context of a TV station, and that's when we old farts crumbled into dust.
"She has chosen... poorly."
I forgot how tapes work, and pulled on a loose tape hanging out of a bag, messing it up.
… I have no concept of what you mean, having not forgotten how tapes work.
Set the TV to channel 3
I'm this old...
(I'm not actually this old, but I'm old enough that I've used this one)
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People still say they filmed something
I mean... People still say "movie" which was short form for "moving pictures"
We also dial the phone and roll down the windows. I guess some phrases transcend time.
I mean, I put down a deposit recently for a new car that will have roll down windows.
It would be cool to have power windows that are activated by a hand crank. You would just rock it one direction or the other, but maybe bonus points if you have to continue rotating it to keep the window moving.
Cool? Yes. But the whole point of crank windows is mechanical simplicity. This is anything but that.
Clocks still tick even though most of them are digital nowadays, and the floppy disk is still the universal symbol for saving. We humans love novelty but hate change.
We turn the volume up despite it probably being a button, too.
We also hang up phones, which used to literally be what we had to do, but which makes no sense today.
Is it possible to program a smartphone, so that, using gesture control of some sort, you can hang up a call by dramatically placing the phone down face first on a hard surface?
I SAID GOODDAY SIR!
If you set it down hard enough, yes it will disconnect the call.
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.
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I’ve been saying this!…
If you miss Blockbuster, visit your library. Most have an A/V section now. They don’t advertise much. But it’s basically the same experience of renting movies; just without paying.
Currently watching The Boy with the Striped Pajamas, a classic I never watched…using my PlayStation 5, lol.
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.
I finished Princess Peach Showtime from there. Seemed like a mildly interesting game but not something I wanted to own for myself.
Still using my tapes today. Work great and they do what I want, no ads, no subscriptions, I own it. Younguns missed out on the best time. They wont own a thing and will be consumed with ads and depression
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.
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.
Studies have shown ads cause depression. But holy crao are people desensitized now. Its infuriating.
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This reminds me of the "save" logo in almost every app. Apparently I'm one of the only people left alive that knows what a floppy disk was.
I just had to use one the other day at work on an old machine. Lol
Idk, my high school aged kid is using floppies to load software onto a piece of equipment in their shop class at school. It also accepts usb (but only at usb 1 speeds, and exfat formatted) .
The kids are into using floppies of different colors much like I was in my first comp sci class in high school.
It’s not ubiquitous but it isn’t quite as unknown as it was.
I mean I knew what an 8 track was in the 90s.
"Look, dad, someone 3D printed a save icon!"
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.
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I mean I used videotape too but sometime probably 25+ years ago I started saying "record".
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