That caption adds negative value.
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2025
1 points (100.0% liked)
Nostalgia
2958 readers
1 users here now
nostalgia noun nos·tal·gia nä-ˈstal-jə nə-, also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- 1: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia
Rules for Nostalgia Lemmy Community
1. Respectful Nostalgia Share nostalgic content and memories respectfully. Avoid offensive or insensitive references that may be hurtful to others.
2. Relevant Nostalgia Posts should focus on nostalgic content, including memories, media, and cultural references from the past. Stay on topic to preserve the nostalgic theme of the community.
3. Source Verification If you share nostalgic media or content, provide accurate sources or background information when possible.
4. No Spamming Avoid excessive posting of similar nostalgic topics to keep content diverse and engaging for all members.
5. Positive Discussions Encourage positive discussions and interactions related to nostalgic topics. Respect different viewpoints and memories shared by community members.
6. Quality Content Strive to post high-quality content that sparks nostalgia and meaningful conversations among members.
7. Moderation Guidelines
-
Respectful Behavior Treat fellow members with kindness and respect. Harassment or disrespectful behavior will not be tolerated.
-
Appropriate Content Only Ensure all content aligns with the nostalgic theme and community guidelines. Inappropriate or offensive material will be removed.
-
Engagement and Participation Engage actively with posts and discussions. Constructive feedback and contributions enrich the community experience.
By adhering to these rules and guidelines, we can create a welcoming and enjoyable space to relive nostalgic moments together. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to reach out to the moderators. Thank you for sharing your nostalgia responsibly!
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Indeed, it would have been a lot funnier without the caption.
Just for you:
I had to lol...I lifted it off matsto, not giving a fuck about the caption, yet it's consumed the comments...
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
My app happened to crop the caption so I doesn't even see it until I saw your comment. I wholeheartedly agree with you, but also don't like that it lead me to that negative value caption.
Tl;dr your comment has neutral value 😀
As if cassette tapes were some obscure niche and not a major media format for years
Those of us who used them ain't dead yet!
I'm young enough that CDs had taken over by the time I was born, but my parents still used their massive cassette collection for about a decade.
So this should be familiar to people born after cassette's prime time
I literally use them for my baby. I've got stacks of old rubbish on tape (got them for free) that's getting taped over to provide easy, tactile storage of spoken word and music. Nothing obscure is being destroyed - it's naff compilation tapes and similar shite. If they wear out then I can just dump the digital audio onto another tape.
They're easy to choose from, don't play infinitely, fairly hard-wearing, and the quality isn't bad because the tape deck I record with is a fancy direct-drive unit.
It's kinda funny recreating some old Swedish comedy stuff for her. As in, when I was little I had tapes that were either dubbed from other tapes or from records that a family member borrowed from a library in Stockholm. For my daughter I'm grabbing the audio from YouTube rather than the library abroad, but the end result is the same. Multiple levels of nostalgia and a load of tapes aren't going to landfill.
An old person with low self-esteem wrote that caption.
What in the boomer shit is this caption?
It's just gatekeeping for Muppets.
Bic pens were better because their caps were shaped perfectly for the job.
I dont know which cap you had but it was the worst idea because my caps were round and unsuitable for that. I used the pen itself.
The part that protruded down from the cap along the side of the pen to form the "pocket clip" fit between the gear teeth and made turning easier & more reliable - you slid the cassette down the body of the pen until that part engaged the teeth. Later I came to prefer the style of pen below due to the flatter protrusion, but both worked pretty well.
IIRC, using two yielded the best results, as one wound while the second stabilized the other spool. 🤓
I was never careful enough with them to even have thought of that. I'd get the cassette on the pen as described, then whirl it around & around in the air like a noise maker to wind the tape.
fuckin' hell bro, that's some PhD shit
The Gordon Freeman of the taking up cassette slack world
(I'm taking the piss, but man this would have halved the time it took to spool back up my old Atari tapes)
You would've loved the gadget that pre-teen me epoxied together from a pen body+cap and a sibling's pullback racecar mechanism.
Wind up the bot, hold the 2nd pen & cassette, and let'er zip that tape back up to cherry new. Tubular. 🤘🏼
Good on you friend, yeeehaa!
I was five, maybe six when I started fucking about with my Atari 800 - I just played games while listening to Another One Bites The Dust on vinyl repeatedly. The fact that someone took on software owner's challenges at that time when I was struggling to write my own name brings me immense joy.
Good on you dude!
Ha! By that time, my parents had sent me to "computer summer camp" as punishment for garbling my dad's work computer (IIe? IIc?) somehow. By the end of the same summer, I was champing at the byte to go back and clunk in BASIC, Hex, and Pascal for that sweet sweet post-apoc green screen hit of dopamine. Literal magic, all of it, and I knew then I wanted to be a gawdamned wizard.
(FWIW, years later, it was apparent they hadn't learnt their lesson when they forced me to join the church's Bible Quiz team wherein us teens memorized entire Gospel books for later use in a jeopardy-ish team battle royale format against other churchs' teams of hormonal malcontents & blithely saccharine tryhards.)
Oh, and said sibling is apparently about your age. They weren't as excited that I'd turned their car into a tape-fixer, but then I showed them how to launch a bucket w/ an m80, so we were square. 🤣
Japanese pencils are slightly bigger in diameter than American ones, they fit perfectly into the cassette sprocket while American ones leave enough room for the pencil to spin without spooling the tape.
load more comments
(1 replies)
My first acy of piracy, tho I did not know it at the time, was recording songs from the radio to blank cassettes.
If only we could steal cars that way.
You wouldn't...
That wasn’t piracy. That was fair use.
~~I don't think that's how Fair Use works.~~
~~...by which I mean, it's not.~~
Not that it really matters. Much like those idiotic FBI warnings on media. I'm in the UK and seeing them annoys me no end. The pirated stuff doesn't have the warning! I bought it! Fuck off! Also you have no jurisdiction, you arrogant twats.
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Universal_City_Studios%2C_Inc.
ruled that the making of individual copies of complete television shows for purposes of time shifting does not constitute copyright infringement, but can instead be defended as fair use
This is video recording of broadcast media, but is the same idea as audio recording broadcast media.
I stand corrected!
I was aware of the ruling but not of the fair use defence.
Ignorance is not innocence, we are coming for you.
Just so long as nobody gets pregnant - I sure wouldn't want to have to explain how that happened from doing some old school music piracy.
I heard there were also pirate broadcasts of ZX Spectrum computer tapes.
ouch, my back
Cassette tapes were such an obscure format.
That's meant to be a joke, right?
...
I mean, I've seen dumber. So, yes?
If I actually thought they were obscure it seems unlikely I would have known the name of the format.
load more comments
(2 replies)
But doctor, those are my eyes.
That cartoon has a glaring error: cassette tapes did not perform the pencil surgery on each other. Humans performed the pencil surgery on the cassette tapes.
load more comments
(1 replies)
explanation for the 7,999,999,997 people?
If the tape got pulled out, a pencil fit right into the hole with gears on it so you could twist just one side to roll it back up until tight.
Tell me you are 60+yo without telling me your age.
Yeah, no…
Casettes were still well in use into the ‘90s. CDs were expensive, and unless you bought a new car, CD players were not likely installed your car. I didn’t have a factory cd player installed in a car until 2004. Before that it was a portable player with a cassette adapter.
So a 40yo would have a good shot at getting this joke. A 50yo should have no excuse.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Lol chill, we millennials aren't that old.
view more: next ›