WHY?
Being a boomer I don't miss anything about those cards. Drivers were awful (if even existed), sound quality mediocre and all of them came with a ton of compromises, if not quirks.
Being a boomer I don't miss anything about those cards. Drivers were awful (if even existed), sound quality mediocre and all of them came with a ton of compromises, if not quirks.
And also whether or not you're a collector of physical stuff.
I'm (mostly) not. I sometimes like reading about old technology, but I have very limited interest in owning any.
Of course my situation is only applies to me, but after some... things what happened in my life I understoođ what despite my initial reaction I care more about things what directly relates with my memoeries than with things which triggers my nostalgia factor. All and all the only things I have what relates to my memories is a "Six string samurai" DVD, a pack (or maybe two? It had been years since I toched them) of 5,25" diskettes and two pictures of some noname artists wich always reminds me of the place and time I got them.
People with old PC games might want to play and faithfully replicate them again just the same.
(Though modernized versions are often fine too.)
That CDs are not scaled for humans?
It sounds silly, but I find it extremely comforting to know I can play back my vinyl using entirely mechanical components. I don't expect the world to forget how to decode mp3s, or even loose the ability to generate electric to power my computers/storage to retrieve it. But, in the event all technology collapsing I've got a vibration trapped in a piece of vinyl, and I can play back by scraping a nail over it. There's something quite beautifully "pure" or simple about this. As much as analogue audio tape is doing similar, vinyl is a physical waveform.
Sure, in any world where this could happen there's going to be far more important things to worry about than playing back Paul Simon, but it seems easier to believe I could build a gramophone from first principals than a CD player. Comforting.
bombcar 8 months ago | next [–]
Vinyl is one of those things that is at the limit of human scale but still accessible - without any power you can spin a record and “hear” it by putting your ear near the needle. Both cassettes and CDs go out of human scale and into technology
Give me an old Commodore though and that’s a good time!
>people born from 1946 to 1964
how about them model trains tho? or muscle cars? Every generation has a thing they are nostalgic about.