CoffeeMaker on 18/8/2019 at 15:24
Quote Posted by Pyrian
The nice thing about being behind the curve is that you get to skip a lot of the flashes in the pans.
True. I've sure skipped a lot of those. There was a time when you were nothing if you did not have avocado-themed kitchen appliances. My ma opted for hanging out in nothinghood until the fad passed. "Their idea of avocado is what happens when you don't eat the guacamole right away or store it with a layer of lime juice on top."
Also and probably out of just being broke I somehow went straight from iterations of ordinary FM/AM radios right past all the Walkmans to a dual-cassette Panasonic boombox when I finally got into "portable" music. As a result I was highly enamored of the iPod when it showed up.
Portable is an interesting word anyway, right? Or so I discovered when lugging around a 38-pound Compaq 2-floppy suitcase with a nine inch screen. Luggable may be an invented word but at least it was completely honest.
And then there's Facebook, one can hope, if taking a long view of what can count as flash in the pan.
I opened and closed my FB setup in 2010 while Zuckerberg was still talking about how privacy was so over and the way forward was for everyone to share everything with everybody. All I could think was how boring life would be for hackers. Well, and what a pain in the neck it is to fashion reliable code to use in a warehouse full of many-to-many data relationships. But I also deleted my FB account on the spot when I read the fine print of the first privacy terms update after having become a Facebook member.
Tu casa es mi casa --aka
your data she is mine -- did not sit well with me at all.
icemann on 18/8/2019 at 17:23
Man I used to tape everything on to VHS. When the ABC channel started screening Doctor Who from it's first ever episode from 1963 to the shows cancellation in the 80s, I taped that like crazy. It took them 2-3 years to get through all the episodes (1 per day on week days at 6pm). I recorded the whole lot. Also taped all of the cartoon Gargoyles, Evangelion (the anime) and Parker Lewis Can't Lose. The good old days :).