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HandoB4Javert
...except the printer
TwoForSpookin
And he did not, in fact, save any pussy for the rest of us.
technicalfool
Now all of this is [done poorly] in a smartphone [with appropriate software].**
**Subscription services may be required, cloudy connection mandatory, ownership not implied, everything you do may be monitored and used for targetted advertisement, individual pricing, behavioural modification and evidence of incorrect thought processes. Access may be removed at any time for any reason. You will own nothing and be happy.
euphoricopportunity
Is that Stephen Mann, the professor famous for "the wearable computing project"?
GrimleyGraves
Ahh, better times
ILDL
A little bit of everything all of the time.
linkdk59
What was this picture for, originally? For a computer?
TapeLeg
guardianzero
beat me to it! +1
ApoplecticApocalypticApothecary
The first time I heard music through the headphones of a Walkman it blew me away. It was at an outdoor gear show, I took off the head of my Woodsy the Owl costume (hoot hoot don’t pollute) to try it. Around 1979.
MysticHermitMax
Sound quality is DRASTICALLY worse though - I've been struggling to find a decent portable speaker/set (most budget-friendly speakers suuuck)
SackCrow
The eq sucks on a phone.
JustDriftingAboutTheInterWebs
How exactly is my phone a dot matrix printer?
CrabbyBlueberry
I will say that I am mesmerized by the fact that my phone could at least talk to a printer. However, never will I ever trust the technology to do so, since I would inevitably print to the wrong printer and or open my printer to print jobs from my next door neighbor. I suppose that makes me a millennial.
skathir
how often do you need to print out now vs when The Screechy Ones ruled schools/offices?
CallMeCourierSix
And they include like, five different audio sources. They really overdid it.
WisconsinCentral2714
I have that radio...
MightyIink
Half of that now requires a monthly subscription...
timoraTerror
Exactly. And you don't really own anything once the subscription ends.
amskray68
Not the printer
emu314159127001
Except for good speakers
an0therthr0waway
and just how did that happen...? https://pbfcomics.com/comics/technorgy
harthram
I can't watch OTA TV on my phone
somerandomhooman
Bob Sirott
genepoolboy
Shoutout to smartphone for replacing headphones, nobody uses those anymore
TheOneWhoSucks
twoamartist
I read an interesting article about the tanking backpack industry.
RevolutionOnHerLips
Wow I kinda wish I had a device to let me watch OTA TV like the watchman today, without using up bandwidth. Would be a fun toy.
aubuc
Oh yea? Try print something with a smartphone
technicalfool
Bluetooth thermal printer, but then you'll need two pockets. Or something like an Epson Workforce or HP Officejet 250 if you want a full A4 thing that can fit in a slim backpack.
RIxspacexCK
speakers and cameras back then had better quality. the audio receiver could play 8-track cassettes and disks!
cattlegrazer82
I know, right? My phone just plays 30 seconds of the same James Blunt song over and over.
aap71
nope! not cameras. not even close. your iphone camera today takes WAY better images by every metric than even very expensive film cameras and certainly better than early DSLR's
aap71
it's not just higher resolution, it's glass, clarity it's color science, it's gamma and dynamic range etc. stills and video are so much better now and billions have it on them all the time. plus, the recording fresh out the camera is much easier to edit in post with powerful programs that make it even better because there's so much more data to edit
Trunkmonkay
Are we from the same planet or do you actually think the VHS camcorder recorded in better quality than any phone made in the last 10 years?
fformulaa
My phone's not a boom box!! https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1dDBzcXA5MTE1ZmF6MmQwMTFqazZlMzMxcnExeW1uZXhwcGFyODA5byZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/hQUKlc421NIoU/200w.webp
Mithi
Something like this, if you need a bigger boom (with the one shown you even can link two of them together)
anarchoFeline
tell that to people on the bus
DrLOAC
Slightly off topic - I recently was watching some Lonely Island Vids and realized in this video Andy Samberg gets tazed in the ass by Ryan Reynolds.
Which is probably pay back because in I Just Had Sex he banged Blake Livley Reynolds wife.
PourMeAPuppersPlease
Thanks for that! I missed that link
wejustdontknow
Every phone speaker sounds like shit. You will never get that level out of a speaker the size of a Claritin.
LicensedAdHominem
My phone sounds way clearer than my old boombox and I can compare them live with a radio station or the same song on youtube vs a cassette. It can't get so loud nor bassy but I think the engineering ingenuity of these little squeakers is underestimated
fformulaa
Drideon
No optical disks in 1983 if I remember correctly. 93, sure.
HappyBanjoGuy
Some manner of optical disks was nainstreamed with the IBM PS2 series in 1987.
Glenalth
First commercial CDs were released in 82 and 83.
Drideon
Well shit on me. Those had to be astronomically expensive. My dad bought us a 100 mb hard drive in the late 80’s and it was like 600 bucks.
astrangehop
DO you remember longboxes? There was a whole packaging format to fir on Vinyl LP shelves.
dobroweigh
But at what cost??
malakim
'bout tree fiddy
EricPisch
Vastly cheaper than buying that lot when it came out
Atomic2
I think they were speaking metaphorically.
astrangehop
SO much. You will have everyting and nothing in tha palm of your hand. Whenever you wish to look something up or communicate with a friend there will be constant clamours for your attention from other things. You will see how many undread emails you have when you wish to look at the time. It will be the most interesting thing at any given moment, and less fulfilling than 10 minutes of gardening or a good fart 99 percent of the time.
nddstgm9gz12
Just the fact that you can’t call anyone out of the blue anymore is the worst effect of all this. Second worst is there’s never a daily newspaper lying around in the break room to read. You can’t buy the paper for $1.50 and then give it to someone else to read.
dobroweigh
I never thought there's such straightforward relation between the fact I can't call smb out of the blue and technological progress... I mean I never could but the others... I shall think about it.
nddstgm9gz12
Oh I still call people. But it’s not the same since nobody checks their voicemail. You’re expected to text the reason you called, and it’s like if it was a text I wouldn’t have called in the first place.
dobroweigh
Well I just hate being distracted whether the distraction is a call or a visit. Text is much less distractive. The dislike of distractions is because of the lack of time. Not sure if it's the gadgets who eat all the time or there are other reasons...
OobieDoobBenubi
Depends what brand and model you buy.
dobroweigh
Is there a brand where they aren't buying me instead? Some device which I have control over? I guess not.
OobieDoobBenubi
Actually yes. Pinephone. Open source Linux based phone.
dobroweigh
Indeed. There were rumors about a Linux based phone for a long time, maybe some prototypes and finally there's a commercial one. Let's hope it survives.
OobieDoobBenubi
I just don't think enough people care about privacy and control. They would sell their mother's butthole pics for a convenient app.
And then there's the whole tribalism thing that comes natural to humans. There are more people than I like to remind myself of that will literally buy an iPhone only because that's what that popular kid has.
All that depressing stuff said -- phones like the Pinephone will always exist because small companies can build them with off the shelf components.