Post by niemand88f on Jul 14, 2014 11:59:36 GMT -5
Utah is really stuck in the past because pay phones are everywhere (and there are several arcades and drive-in theaters).
I received a giant envelope unexpectedly from my grandfather on Saturday. It contained all the emails I had sent him around 1999-2001, that he had apparently printed out and saved. Including email forwards and other similarly fascinating material from my @aol.com email...
Utah is really stuck in the past because pay phones are everywhere (and there are several arcades and drive-in theaters).
I received a giant envelope unexpectedly from my grandfather on Saturday. It contained all the emails I had sent him around 1999-2001, that he had apparently printed out and saved. Including email forwards and other similarly fascinating material from my @aol.com email...
This is actually really sweet!
Making mix tapes was hell, and then I'd be halfway out on my run and suddenly decide I wanted to skip from song 3 to 7 and chew up a bunch of battery power fast forwarding while running to a mechanical whirr sound.
Utah is really stuck in the past because pay phones are everywhere (and there are several arcades and drive-in theaters).
I received a giant envelope unexpectedly from my grandfather on Saturday. It contained all the emails I had sent him around 1999-2001, that he had apparently printed out and saved. Including email forwards and other similarly fascinating material from my @aol.com email...
This is actually really sweet!
Making mix tapes was hell, and then I'd be halfway out on my run and suddenly decide I wanted to skip from song 3 to 7 and chew up a bunch of battery power fast forwarding while running to a mechanical whirr sound.
I remember thinking I was Queen Shit of Shit Mountain when I discovered that my car stereo could FF through songs and stop automatically between them, thus eliminating the need to FF, stop, figure out where you were in the tape, FF some more--or discover you'd gone too far and have to rewind, etc.
Making mix tapes was hell, and then I'd be halfway out on my run and suddenly decide I wanted to skip from song 3 to 7 and chew up a bunch of battery power fast forwarding while running to a mechanical whirr sound.
I remember thinking I was Queen Shit of Shit Mountain when I discovered that my car stereo could FF through songs and stop automatically between them, thus eliminating the need to FF, stop, figure out where you were in the tape, FF some more--or discover you'd gone too far and have to rewind, etc.
I remember my first tape deck that could do this. It was revolutionary, a total game-changer! Nothing better will ever be invented!
I have one I bet most of YOU won't remember. Back in the day, if you received a phone call (it didn't work if you initiated the phone call) you could hang up the phone, run downstairs and pick up an extension, and continue your conversation. A call didn't get disconnected for like 30 seconds if the person who received the call hung up. 'Memba that? I do.
Post by curbsideprophet on Jul 14, 2014 14:36:22 GMT -5
I definitely spent time trying to record songs off the radio onto a cassette tape. I also remember waking up and needing to wait for them to announce the school closings list on radio. None of this instant gratification of being notified by text or looking it up online.
I also remember waking up and needing to wait for them to announce the school closings list on radio. None of this instant gratification of being notified by text or looking it up online.
For my RI peeps.."No school Fosta/Glohsta" RIP Salty Brine