Remember When?

AOL - yes! "get off the phone, I want to dial-up!"

And I remember my parents buying a Commodore 64 with a tape deck for installing the games ... (games that I can remember were Exodus and Booty)

But I don't remember the other two but then, I'm in the UK so my first experience with Nickleodeon and The History Channel have, in the grand scheme of things, been pretty recent.

I do remember watching the first play of Wannabe by the Spice Girls on MTV at my friend's house and thinking "not keen but that is going to go stratospheric!"

 

And when the adults tried to use discipline in public, no one gave them flak over it. Remember that?

And no, I actually managed to get to Oregon a couple of times. Once it was literally down to just me and myself after everyone else drowned, starved, or succumbed to some horrid disease and/or injury.

 

Remember when people were interested in new things, and not bloody vinyl. (seriously, why would I pay £200 for an outdated piece of kit?)

 

Because it sounds better. Of course it is overpriced but vinyls have a purer sound... Digital recording doesn't capture a complete wave sound. When you play a digital sound on DVD or where-ever, it transform the sound back to analog form, and some samples can be lost in the process. The vinyl recording records and plays in analog form, so there's nothing to be lost in the process.

sorry for being a smartass.

 

That's fair enough.

This might seem blasphemous, but I've never been listening to The Who on CD and thought to myself 'If only I could hear the last vibrations of the guitars in Sympathy for the Devil this would be beyond perfect. It might be better, but it doesn't justify spending so much money to me.

 

No, it's not. Vynil offer a 50 DCB signal to noise cancellation, compared with 90 DCB for CD and 120 for some digital formats. When people talk about vynil's "warmer sound", that's what they're talking about. It's just interference in the signal.

Of course then you have to talk about bit rate which analogue doesn't have. And that would be super pertinent if you could find anyone who can distinguish between 320 and higher. You need special speakers for that, but then you could buy them instead of a recordplayer and be just as well off.

ON TOPIC!
Remember when @Lewdog had a picture of a koala bear for his avatar?

 

Remember when he had a lemur in his avatar?

(What's with the stars'n bars anyway? Early 4th of July celebration?)

 

Remember when I had Cthulhu as my display picture? Wow, that was a long time ago now.

 

Yeah, I guess genre is also important. It doesn't make sense listening new electronic music on gramophone, but for Sinatra and other old music it's better to listen on vinyl, I guess. I'm not an expert, we were just talking with friends about that a few days back.

 

I was in a patriotic mood.

 

Remember when the minidisc was considered a competitor for the CD?

Remember when metal was big in the 1980s?

Remember when metal was big in the 2000s?

Wonder when metal will become the "it" genre again...

 

What kind of mood were you in with the giraffe?

 

In a...um...over-reaching mood?

 

A mood for necking?

(I know, it's a bit of a stretch...)

Remember when, "Don't touch that dial!" made sense? And when TV stations signed off for the night with The Star-Spangled Banner? And there were only three networks (you were lucky if all three were viewable in your area)?

Remember when you actually dialed a phone?

Remember when your car radio had to warm up before you could hear anything?

Remember when every car had a choke knob?

 

That's a pretty spotty assertion.

 

I don't remember when cars had choke knobs (much - my uncle restores old cars and his have them), but I remember our tractor having one, as well as all the outboard motors for our boats and even our chainsaws.

 

But he made the ascertation confidently with his head held high.

 

Remember inkwells?

 

Just how old are you? Do you also remember the U.S. Civil War?

 

I don't remember inkwells, but I remember school desks that had holes for inkwells!

 

Actually, no joke, so did mine. This was in the mid 1990s! I went to a first school where apparently Mr Gradgrind had just stepped down. I remember when we had a school trip to see the Lindisfarne Gospels and they kind of looked like school text books.

 

No joke. I was in elementary school in the early seventies, and we had desks with holes for inkwells. Apparently, ball point pens had only just been invented, and we were the early beneficiaries of this glorious new technology. Alas, I never had the opportunity to take the pigtails of the girl sitting in front of me and dunk them in the inkwell, though I've seen that done in movies. Argh! What else have I missed in my pathetically narrow little life?

 

That is a rite of passage I apparently only just missed out on too. I'm devastated. I also remember those HUGE pencil sharpener machines: that when you put the pencil in it would start rattling and growling like a demon. Those things scared me as a kid.

 

If I ever did that, then the pigtailed girl would come to me with her huge jock brother ready to rearrange my bones as a lesson for messing with his sister's hair.

So I never did that.

 

I'm 61. When I was young, ballpoint pens were still expensive and unreliable (pre-Biro). So fountain pens were still plentiful, even though the tide was turning.

Desks had, and needed, blotters, and many a shirt was ruined by a leaking pen until Biro introduced the inexpensive and reliable Bic pen.

Not Civil War era, but the Korean War had just ended, and France was losing control in the little Southeast Asian country of Vietnam.