I always thought zip drives were another term for flash drives because so many people just used the terms interchangably.
I see your overhead projector and raise you a zip drive and a mini disc. I blow my NES cartridge to bid adieu to you.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 month ago
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Reminds me of how everyone is now misusing the term “ROM” to mean “Storage” when it actually means “Read-Only Memory”. Drives me nuts every time I see it in advertising.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 month ago
It’s funny to me that things like EEPROM are considered ROM. Like, ok, I can write to it? Read only, huh?
JoShmoe@ani.social 1 month ago
I bet a zip drive could blow their minds. The mini disc and nes cartridge wouldn’t even phase them. Stuff like that are too iconic.
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Show Blue Yeti streaming generation the old boom mics we had. The ones that looked like refueling probes.
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peopleproblems@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Lol I remember my dad being so excited when he got one of these for our windows 95 PC that he had us record something for it and told us all about how advanced it was.
dalekcaan@lemm.ee 1 month ago
It’s crazy how ubiquitous those were. Anyone with a mic for their PC had that exact mic.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Back when all that existed for online voicecomms was ventrilo, i took one if those boom mics and taped it to one of the ear muffs of an analog headset meant for cd players, as I could not actually afford a mic+headset combo.
Worked for years rofl.
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
MacGuyver would be proud.
aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
faze, not phase
JoShmoe@ani.social 1 month ago
Spelling it this way is just a phase.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I barely knew that minidiscs were a thing when they were contemporary.