If only the pace of technology was the only paradigm shift to have to worry about since the 80s/90s
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This post makes my knees hurt
Wait… what happened to people born in 1989 that didn’t to those born in 1991???
My aunt was born before TV was broadcast
My mom had the first tv in our community when she was a kid cause her dad owned the general store. Before that they all gathered around the radio at the store. By they, I mean the entire community cause he was the only one with a radio as well.
I remember beta vs VHS debates, now get off my lawn!
Beta was superior
Funny story. Back in the 1960s porn shops invented loop booths. You'd pay a quarter and have five quiet minutes alone to watch an 8 mm porn movie. When the time came to switch over to video, the porn shops went with the cheaper option. The guys who made the tapes put them on VHS because the porn shops were the biggest market at the start. When guys went to buy dirty movies for home viewing they saw that most were only available on VHS.
That's how Sony lost billions.
Porn is the spice of media. Whoever controkes porn contrôles the medium .
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So was HDDVD. Both lost for the same reason, money backed the rivals.
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I wish that wasn't painfully true.
hold up now.
Wasn't expecting that to be associated with 1990
The other day, someone in one of the gaming communities posted a comparison of the progress of video games from mid-90s to mid-aughts, and a more recent decade. It was clearly meant to be slightly exaggerated since the the recent screenshots were all the same one from fortnite, but the point still stands.
I wouldn't trade my 90s childhood for anything in the world.
Nah fuck em. They invented nuclear physics and they can't figure out a goddamned email? Skill issue.
When I was growing up the “big scam” was chain mail and televangelists.