I'm that old

Set the TV to channel 3

I'm this old...
- (I'm not actually this old, but I'm old enough that I've used this one)
- Master System memories ❤️

People still say they filmed something

We also dial the phone and roll down the windows. I guess some phrases transcend time.
- We turn the volume up despite it probably being a button, too.
- We also hang up phones, which used to literally be what we had to do, but which makes no sense today.
- I mean, I put down a deposit recently for a new car that will have roll down windows.
- Clocks still tick even though most of them are digital nowadays, and the floppy disk is still the universal symbol for saving. We humans love novelty but hate change.
They save their data to a solid stste disc that isn't a disc by using the icon for a 3.5" floppy disc. They punch out at the end of the workday and fill out a timesheet later.
Yeah, we use a lot of terms that are no longer literally true and kids know what it means even if they don't know how the term originated.
- The beauty of language is that you can understand without knowing what words mean
I mean... People still say "movie" which was short form for "moving pictures"

I’ve been saying this!…

If you miss Blockbuster, visit your library. Most have an A/V section now. They don’t advertise much. But it’s basically the same experience of renting movies; just without paying.

Currently watching The Boy with the Striped Pajamas, a classic I never watched…using my PlayStation 5, lol.

They also have hardcopies of video games! Usually, it's a pretty updated library of titles. 2 week rentals, you just have to go back and check it out again. Totally free.
Not all libraries are the same but if you're a gamer, you can try a nice collection, totally free.
- I finished Princess Peach Showtime from there. Seemed like a mildly interesting game but not something I wanted to own for myself.

Still using my tapes today. Work great and they do what I want, no ads, no subscriptions, I own it. Younguns missed out on the best time. They wont own a thing and will be consumed with ads and depression

It's shocking how apathetic many people have become to this. I don't want any kind of ad anywhere. When I have to use a browser that doesn't have my essential plugins installed every second of the experience feels like I'm taking poison damage.
- I'm exactly the same. My other half doesn't know how good she's got it 😂 I've ad-proofed as much of her stuff as I can.
- Studies have shown ads cause depression. But holy crao are people desensitized now. Its infuriating.
There are ways to own very high quality movies. Those ways just happen to not be legal. Still less of a hassle than maintaining a physical media collection.
I do own a record player so I see the point of added physicality though.
For a given value of great. The only tapes I'd describe as looking great are HDV tapes, and even then they're anamorphic and interlaced.
I'm all for owning media but whenever I see stuff like this I wonder what the person is watching stuff on. Tapes were fine on titchy CRTs but they look pretty horrid on TVs from this decade.
Somewhat ironically they'd probably look fine on the mobile devices the younguns favour!
- Well I have multiple crts haha. I use my flat-screen too and it looks fine. I've never cared about visual quality as much as audio

This reminds me of the "save" logo in almost every app. Apparently I'm one of the only people left alive that knows what a floppy disk was.

Fuck yall not old, just told my 16 year old I had to tape something and he said and I quote, "Like record something?" He 16 and he knew what I was talking about. Maybe her kids just sheltered.
- Yeah, but you'll notice that he had to double check with you to be sure though. So, he had his doubts.
There's a piece of software we use at work and the save icon for that is a downwards pointing arrow and a CD. No one knows what it means.
I just had to use one the other day at work on an old machine. Lol
Idk, my high school aged kid is using floppies to load software onto a piece of equipment in their shop class at school. It also accepts usb (but only at usb 1 speeds, and exfat formatted) .
The kids are into using floppies of different colors much like I was in my first comp sci class in high school.
It’s not ubiquitous but it isn’t quite as unknown as it was.
I mean I knew what an 8 track was in the 90s.
"Look, dad, someone 3D printed a save icon!"

I mean I used videotape too but sometime probably 25+ years ago I started saying "record".

I still have my old employee ID somewhere

i still have both my blockbuster and hollywood video nametags. without a doubt the best jobs i ever had, and now that i'm in my forties they're probably the best jobs i'll ever know.
- I was working too much to take advantage of the free rentals (they were my fourth concurrent part time job) but I loved working there regardless.

Or a stapler, much to my distress

Me: You know, the thing! It holds paper together using tiny bits of warped metal!
Them: ...

That seems more like "these kids don't know basic things and/ or their names" rather than "these kids don't know colloquialisms from previous decades"
Paper is still everywhere and staples are everywhere. How do they not know what a stapler is?
- Yeah, it's a staple!
Paperclips are for quitters.
- Binder clips, best office supply ever. Fight me, I’ll die on this hill.

I still keep my Blockbuster membership card on me, just to remind me of a different time.

I don't get it. The little plastic data slabs in Star Trek TOS were called "tapes". Apparently the term didn't have the staying power Roddenberry expected. I wonder how much longer we'll keep calling our little pocket supercomputers "phones".

They still use reel-to-reel tape drives on mainframes to store data. Just like they did in 1967.
- We had those at my first programming job. At a later job in the 90s one of my minor duties was to swap out the tape cassette for daily backups. It held 8Gb and was about the size of a deck of playing cards. I remember talking with another guy about how amazing it was to put 8 gigabytes in your shirt pocket. Now that's a fraction of a micro SD smaller than my fingernail.
Every once in a while I think about downloading a LCARS theme
By TNG, which started airing in 1987, data was mostly kept in (isolinear) chips and the computer, which still feels natural.

Duct tape?

Or tape worms? 🤔 No idea.

Well, I thought they were talking about gluing something together...

My friends kids are competent at taping wrapped presents.

Reminds me of the time I used a rotary phone at my grandma's and... POOF

I feel like a dinosaur for even remembering Blockbuster lol

My kids: "like.. sellotape?"

I mentioned UHF to one of my (younger) coworkers, and he had no idea what that meant...

Well, UHF is still a common term if you're a radio amateur. Along with VLF, LF, MW, SW, etc.
We've got it all! (We've got it all) On UHF!
- Funnily enough, that's how we got to that- several of us going out to lunch, I was driving, so my music, and one of the Weird Al polkas was playing, and he was asking who it was .. even my kids have heard of Weird Al so me and the other old farts are trying to figure out if he's messing with us or really didn't know... So we were listing off Weird Al's works, and UHF came up, we described the plot, he asked if UHF meant something in the context of a TV station, and that's when we old farts crumbled into dust.

I'm kinda curious what they meant too. Live media is available on demand afterwards these days.

You set up a camcorder aligned perfectly with the TV, play the on demand stream and tape it so that when it eventually gets removed from the streaming platform you still have a backup on tape.
- Hah!
If you grew up with camcorders, you could use that verb for general video recording, even with your phone
- Perhaps this is a regional difference then. I did grow up with camcorders (and used them extensively during university) but I'd never use "tape" as a verb for filming something with them.
  To me "taping" refers to using a VCR or audio cassette to capture something from TV or radio. I suppose one might say "I've got tickets to a taping of (TV show)" but that feels a bit outside the scope here.
  Language is a funny thing!
But it is not always available afterwards. Sometimes you have to capture that stream of bits yourself. Without a DVR that’s kind of difficult to do depending on the platform. Though I would def use the term “record” rather than “tape”. (Though you might store it in a tar archive afterwards…)
- That's the thing, it doesn't feel like a situation where one would use the verb "tape", so I'm curious what she was referring to.

I forgot how tapes work, and pulled on a loose tape hanging out of a bag, messing it up.

… I have no concept of what you mean, having not forgotten how tapes work.

Dylan Dog Dead of Night. It's just so bad it's good lol

Why not have your spirit go live in the last operative Blockbuster in Bend, Oregon?

Instructions unclear. Arrested for attempting to squat inside the last operative Blockbuster in Bend, Oregon. Turns out, the courts do NOT accept "childhood nostalgia" as a legal defense against breaking and entering.

"She has chosen... poorly."