• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I like the idea old people have that knowledge is somehow lost between generations. Like kids watched Guardians of the Galaxy and were baffled as to what sort of mystical device Star Lord was playing his music on.

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      There is also a reverse phenomenon. At some point older people are just overwhelmed with the new things and have no clue when younger people mention them. I’m thinking about video games specifically. Most old people ended their video game days with “asteroids” as an arcade game.

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      Some knowledge is lost between generations… I’m a car guy and couldn’t drive a car from the early 20th century without instructions and I wouldn’t expect today’s teenagers up be able to boot a DOS game without instructions… Heck, give them a VHS player and watch their face when there’s screen tearing…

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      But now I’m thinking, doesn’t that also say something about disposability? Like where are all those cassette players? It’s only been 20 years since eveeyone had half a dozen, so now all are either in dusty drawers, or on landfills.

      And some of them were quite beautiful devices that I’d easily leave out like an art piece.

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        1 year ago

        Like where are all those cassette players?
        The changes came quick. Remember just before them 8 track players. I still remember having one of those mounted under the dash of my car. Right after the cassettes came CD’s. Remember how you could burn your own CD. Then came digital. Remember Ipods. I still have an Ipod without blue tooth. You have to plug headphones into it to hear the music. My newest car doesn’t even offer a CD player anymore.

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          That’s just the thing, it’s so recent and everyone has, or had, a bunch of all these things, where are they?

          In the 90’s it wasn’t uncommon to have old radios from the 30’s just as decoration or furniture. Even after moving to a new place. They were just kept as a relic.

          A walkman doesn’t take up much space, and some were fucking gorgeous, at least if handled correctly…