• d3adpaul77@lemmy.org
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    3 days ago

    It’s not the technology it’s the culture behind it. the same was said about TV. American mainstream consumerist culture is the cancer,

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    In 1970, I’d get home from kindergarten and watch Mr. Rogers in B&W. My mom didn’t like color TVs for a long time because the colors were “wrong”–she was an artist, a painter. So, we didn’t have a color TV till the mid-70s when she saw a Sony TV and decided the color was okay.

    EDIT: I don’t like that Lemmy is changing my double hyphen (--) to an en-dash. I guess I’ll need to escape it from now on. I don’t like being tagged as AI, when I’m clearly just an old-school non-AI bot.

  • Bluewing@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Streaming music was available back in the 1970s. It consisted of you and your friends sitting on the floor with an AM radio and a portable cassette recorder and hoping the local station would play your song you wanted to hear and record. And IF your timing was right, you could get the whole song recorded. All so you could play it back on that cheap tinny sounding recorder. Such recordings were often used as a gift to your latest girl/boy friend with “Our Song” on it.

    • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Hmm. 1970 is a little early for a kid to have a portable cassette recorder. Transistor radios were just getting affordable enough to give a kid.

      • Bluewing@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        First, yes I’m bloody old. I had a small and cheap transistor radio mid/late the late 1960s. I got it for Christmas and I listened to it at night before I went to sleep. We had a much bigger multi-band transistor radio they kept in the kitchen that was a fancy one that was dual power. Batteries were expensive and often hard to afford as a kid. I do remember trying to make those batteries last as long as possible. Because we only went to town once a week sometimes even only twice a month. But the things I heard and learned about if the air was right and the am skip was good, and I could find those far distant stations was wondrous to a child.

        We did have a cassette tape recorder by 1972 at the latest. It wasn’t that me and my sisters each had a recorder, we just had the one for the whole family. And I can remember arguing about who got to use first-- me or my sisters. Kind of like the old RCA black and white tube TV. And most families had one. I can remember my Grandfather using it to record Polka and waltz music that he played and some voice stories of his early life. When he died in 1973 I was given a box of dozens of cassettes he had recorded telling those stories and him playing his banjo. Sadly he tapes have long since been worn out.

        Thanks for the memory prompt! Those times were often hard at the moment, but for each one of those there is an equally good memory of family and friends over shadowing them. You made my tea taste better this morning.

  • rose56@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    I guess people sit all day and stream stuff, because you cant do hobbies like dance, yoga, bicycle or anything else looool.

    • 1984@lemmy.today
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      3 days ago

      Yeah most people dont have the energy for those things, but its by design. Work and family takes all your energy. And then they want you to watch tv so you can get served ads, or watch news so you feel small and afraid.

  • Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    There were huge antiwar protests and the National Guard shot a bunch of students at Kent State. But thank God there was no streaming TV. That would have been insufferable.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
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      3 days ago

      You could stream 144p6 video with phone-like audio with a RealPlayer browser plugin and a 28k modem in 1998. DVD-quality video (high bitrate 480p30/480i60/480p24/576p25/576i60, now considered low-end for movies) only became available to stream about 10 years later.

  • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I wonder when I first started regularly streaming video? I remember downloading things to watch because streaming was too slow. Probably YouTube, but I don’t remember when I started using it.

    • Capt. Wolf@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      I think it was RealPlayer for me. I remember finding different sites and praying the connection was alright. That they were at least close enough in the world that you didn’t see that awful word, “Buffering…” Then I learned how to rip the whole rt file. Pretty sure I still have Trigun in rt actually…

      Then once Winamp had video streaming, I remember surfing through crap on there all the time. Sooooo many weird foreign movies and anime…

      • ShankShill@sh.itjust.works
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        4 days ago

        I lived in the middle of nowhere and my dial-up could only do 19.6k.

        Good enough to “12/f/Cali sorry no mic I gotta TracFone with no minutes parents keep the house phone in their room cuz I got caught talking to guys lol”

        And that’s how me as a 14 year old boy paid for my cellphone with no job.

      • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I remember watching South Park on RealPlayer…I guess it was streaming and I forgot! Yeah, that’d be my first time as well.