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[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

You used to have to print out a document and then scan it into another machine that would use landlines to send it to another printer so someone, somewhere else, could have the document.

[-] emptiestplace@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

And that was really good! Someone, somewhere else, could have the document - wow!

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[-] root_beer@midwest.social 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Bullshit they could work on channel 4 too; the NES and the SNES both had a switch in the back for that, I assume the Genesis and TurboGrafx16 did too

[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 7 points 2 years ago

"You have mail"

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 7 points 2 years ago

Using two VCRs to edit a video project for English class.

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[-] penquin@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

We had no power in our home.

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[-] Kindness@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

I still dream in black and white.

[-] Tyfud@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Channel 3 or 4 I believe. They're set such that woukd allow you to choose if one or the other was selected for something like a vcr. This was the precursor to different inputs on tvs.

[-] tfowinder@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Can someone explain this to me pls?

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[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Let me just call someone if they're still at home on this payphone to look it up in the encyclopedia that was printed 20 years ago

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 7 points 2 years ago

Blowing the cartridge may or may not work.

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[-] jupiter_jazz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago

I had a couple of magazine CDs that I got from a trial subscription.

https://archive.org/details/launchcdmagazine

AOL zines were pretty neat.

https://medium.com/s/requiem-for-an-internet/how-aols-tween-zine-scene-pioneered-the-digital-self-9f2e261a6d2a

Researching for essays was annoying because you had to actually leave your house and go to a library to get books. (But libraries are fun for personal reading.)

[-] jumjummy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago
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[-] slingstone@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

The top dial on the TV had the VHF (lower number) stations. The bottom had the UHF( higher number) stations. In spite of all those channels being available, many places only had three, maybe four that had a station in range to be received intelligibly.

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