Our Children Will Never Know The Link Between The Two…

Another fun thought. What is the icon that you click when you need to save something in Word or most other programs? Most of today's youth has no idea what that icon represents, they just know that it is the "save" icon.

 

Yep, still obvious. lol.

Then again, it may be the fact that when I was young I made a habit of pulling the tape out and winding it back up with a pencil myself.

This was around the age I was also constantly sat down at the table with pencils/crayons/ect and it was discovered I'm not to bad at drawing either. lol.

Then again, it might just be the fact when I see the pegs in the cassette and the hex shape of the pencil it just clicks, I dunno. >.>

Also, as a side note. I wouldn't put that floppy save icon only on the young, I've come across some old people who don't know too. (Mostly the ones who are late in catching up with the digital times.)

 

Well, if you've used audio cassettes, then it's an entirely different story. However I wouldn't call it "obvious" if that is the case.

 

Is that a pic of an audio tape and the rewinding device ?

lol

Omg so many times did one of those shoot out of my car's player, ... auto reverse my ass


Gru

 

you mean oh how many times did the cassette go bungee jumping out of your car player?

 

Have to be pretty young not to recognise a 3.5" diskette I'd think?

 

not really ... the 3.5 for anyone id say maybe 16 down might be something they have never used

 

3.5 inch floppy was the standard read/write media all the way until USB keys turned up, but for the last few years they were nonetheless useless. Re-writable CDs and DVDs were more restrictive in when you could write things, and considering the size of them I figure they don't sell anymore.

The only reasons discs are still used are that they're cheaper to make for selling audio, video and games and the copy protection systems are better established.

 

I don't get it... what does a pencil have to do with a cassette.

 

Ask Kyoji. He knows things.

 

CD-Rs and DVD-Rs still have usefulness for burning ISOs for installation media, for the time being. RWs maybe not so much, though I'm sure you can still get them.

Floppies, on the other hand, I think are actually more expensive than a DVD-RW now. I don't know if you can even get 5 1/4" ones - I haven't seen one in many years now.

P.S. OK, so from a search (purely for interest's sake!) it's quite possible that the 5.25" disks are out of production - it's still possible to get them in limited quantities but usually well over $1 each. Sometimes much more - there was a box of 10 selling for $50 on a classifieds site.

 

You forgot a picture of scotch tape also.

 

lol thats what I was thinking scotch tape was a must for either splicing one back together or covering up that notch on top of the cassette so you could record over that captain and tenille tape mom got you for your brithday

 

Just thought about the last time I bought a magazine(Nintendo Power) or called a 900 number for codes. Fucking Game Genie, Running Pad, Super Scope. Sonic you can't touch this, MvC2... you can have this, Tekkan Tag are you serious, bringing Eddy you're delirious. I'm getting old!

 

I remember floppy disks as the sole reason I became a gamer. The endless amounts of cheap copies of Amiga games my stepdad had "acquired" from friends and other sources. Oh man, original Worms, X-Com and the like. Those was the days.

Tapes as well, making tapes of stuff from the CDs and radios to play in our shitty little car stereos.

Today's generation know nothing about nothing. Poor bastards.

 

The fact that we managed to squeeze games that you could spend hours playing into 1.2 MB was amazing.

 

so sad. Same goes for vcr tape rewinders.

 

Imagine how many of those bad boys needed for say, World of Warcraft

 

So who here actually is in the 30+ plus club anyways?