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Anonymous 2015-11-14 04:37:31 ID: 65fc7a No.17887

Favorite forms of out dated media? I have many, but VHS tapes have a special place in my heart.

Anonymous 2015-11-14 04:49:47 ID: 356a43 No.17888

Physical books are still not beaten, no matter what you say.

These are invaluable when I want to read but can't use my laptop or in any number of other scenarios.

They also feel great to use and are easy to read without eye strain.

Ereaders are proprietary scams that let megacorporations control your library.

Anonymous 2015-11-14 05:08:01 ID: 65fc7a No.17891

>>17888
I love reading real books too, especially the older ones that have that distinctive smell. I really don't like Ereaders that much either, mainly because of the cost and it obviously doesn't feel the same.

Anonymous 2015-11-14 05:17:33 ID: cc5134 No.17892

>>17891
>>17888
this. physical books are elder god tier.

Anonymous 2015-11-14 05:30:10 ID: 8a6b8f No.17893

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cassette tapes. memories of sharing mixtapes with mates and taping soykaf off the radio. upgraded to a 4 track (to record my flimsy bars lol) and later on I bought an old reel to reel tape recorder. fun times.

I have a ton of vinyl but I'm not as sentimental about that. I used to have a lot of books as well but I've been shrinking that down to essentials even though I now have more space to put the things rather than when I was flatting before. magazines maybe? are they dead yet? I have a few issues of various publications from over the years.

Anonymous 2015-11-14 08:12:04 ID: c71b7a No.17896

>VHS tapes have a special place in my heart.
Big fracking deal.

Anonymous 2015-11-14 12:32:59 ID: dc6225 No.17908

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>>17893
well tapes are still alive in some genres

Anonymous 2015-11-14 14:02:32 ID: 3e2d8e No.17915

Vinyls. Especially the blues and punk rock. Also there used to the be these best of 19** vinyls that were released and given to stations to play as like to 40 kind of things, and I fuarrrking love those things.

Anonymous 2015-11-15 02:35:04 ID: 8a6b8f No.17980

>>17908
noise/punk/lo-fi have been releasing on cassette from the start and never really stopped. that said, tapes have made even more of a comeback over the past say 4-5 years much like vinyl. the hard thing now is finding quality players and cleaning equipment.

Anonymous 2015-11-15 05:42:57 ID: e59556 No.17989

With proprietary firmware in the micro controllers of hard drives, and all the known and unfixable vulns in thumbdrives, I actually use floppy disks to keep my keys on.
* GPG
* SSH
* Twister-dat
* Electrum wallet file and seed in a .txt file
* key to my Tomb file

It's all on a single floppy disk. They are literally too simple to have any exploits in.

Anonymous 2015-11-15 05:56:15 ID: bfa214 No.17990

>>17989
If you use a compatibility USB cable for your floppy disk it'd have the vulnerabilities of USB wouldn't it? Did you somehow build a PC with a floppy drive?

Anonymous 2015-11-15 17:06:11 ID: dc6225 No.18011

>>17980
I know, just wanted to say that noise on floppies is the shit, man.

Anonymous 2015-11-15 23:34:07 ID: f12636 No.18047

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>>17887
TFW the reels auto slowdown when rewinding or fastforwarding near the end of tape, then with much click and clunk shuffles back and forth to find the exact 0 point.

N.b. on full speed FF the reel edge can cut through a shirt button!

Anonymous 2015-11-16 17:48:37 ID: f12636 No.18073

>>18011
Floppy noises...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-rmRmm3bgY

Anonymous 2015-11-25 09:37:59 ID: 5cdd22 No.18390

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Vinyl records for me.

Anonymous 2015-11-25 13:11:04 ID: 0fa8c8 No.18394

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>>17888
>>17891
Physical books are nice and all, but your criticisms of ereaders don't apply in every case.

You can get a sony PRS off ebay for under $20, the difference with a more "modern" ereader is negligible and there's no walled garden.

Anonymous 2015-11-25 13:25:57 ID: 0fa8c8 No.18395

>>17989
Watch out for floppy bitrot.
You don't want to lose all those precious files.

Anonymous 2015-11-25 15:59:44 ID: 819450 No.18398

>>18394
PRS 300 is fuarrrking GOAT

Anonymous 2015-11-26 18:05:17 ID: b2fef1 No.18417

>>17887

I have a thing for cassettes

Anonymous 2015-11-26 19:29:15 ID: d842aa No.18418

It has to be cassettes. They are cheap as fuarrrk for an analog audio medium. The type ones take a digital source and give it a warm sound so occasionally I record some vaporwave albums to cassette.

The type twos are good for converting vinyl to cassette.

One appeal for cassette for me is that I know its secure. Where as all computer operating systems, even Linux now could have backdoors and such.

Anonymous 2015-11-27 10:35:38 ID: 616848 No.18439

>>18418

Cassettes also had the whole mixtape/pirate culture surrounding it, which is way cool. In a way it's a bit of a precursor to the open source culture we have now.

Anonymous 2015-11-27 13:00:55 ID: 768d30 No.18442

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>>18439
TFW we once apon a time copied software with tape to tape machines!

OP 2015-11-27 21:15:21 ID: 8601ef No.18468

>>17888
I can't even learn stuff if I don't have it printed.
If I have it printed, I scribble around - either on the book/print with pencil if it's not that important or on the side.

Anonymous 2015-11-27 21:16:02 ID: 8601ef No.18469

>>18468
Shit, gotta learn to de-OP myself. Sorry.

Anonymous 2015-11-27 23:35:16 ID: b2fef1 No.18479

>>18418

I feel like with the controversy over increased surveillance with digital technologies, some return to more analog tech might actually be helpful towards protecting our individual freedom.

Anonymous 2015-11-29 11:17:29 ID: dbb873 No.18562

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>tfw I have a library of ~600 VHS

Anonymous 2015-11-29 13:11:43 ID: d63f66 No.18570

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>>17887
Film projectors are fun because they are intricate yet you can see how they function rather clearly.

They also prove to be superior to may new forms of media. For example, IMAX HD is much better than Digital IMAX in terms of picture quality. Additionally, most high profile television shows are shot with film.

Anonymous 2015-11-29 15:22:40 ID: 8af453 No.18573

Vinyl records, of course.
There's nothing like playing a set on all vinyl.

Anonymous 2015-11-29 19:34:54 ID: d842aa No.18583

I already have a cassette deck. But I would like something more portable. What cassette players are versatile enough I can still get replacement parts to repair.