r/nostalgiai • u/MoonSoul379 • 2d ago

Vintage Tech ☎️📻📠📟📷 :)

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u/Handy_Crap 2d ago

Don't Forget The Yellow Walkman

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u/SmolishPPman 2d ago

I had this exact one in 95. Walked home from middle school listening to Ace of Base

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u/Dynako 2d ago

Huh?? The power glove was released in the 80s and it was for the NES not a computer..

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u/nunyabidnez76 2d ago

And it was garbage.

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u/Mr_Silicon 2d ago

Cool as fuck tho!

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u/Dragon_Pattern_1108 2d ago

It looked cool as hell, but as a controller, it sucked.

You gotta take a look at Zeke's apartment in Sliver though; there's a Power Glove there.

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u/mrbishopjackson 1d ago

I didn't get one until 2002, second-hand, and it was cool as shit then for what it was. Still have it. If the glove part hasn't fallen apart by now, I might pull it out and see what I can do with it with a computer nowadays.

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u/MisterHole123 2d ago

Now we feel like we live with worst of both the future and the past. 

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u/yami_no_ko 2d ago edited 2d ago

It all comes down to choices. People actively chose our modern tech oligarchy by adopting intrusive products, neglecting tech literacy, and embracing a consumer-mindset. We can still choose differently.

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u/zyriuz 2d ago

Using past tech actually feels better than the hurdles of modern tech, because you don't need the internet, an account or an app to use the thing. The simplicity is what makes it nice. Put the thing in press play and it plays back. Modern experience is more like buy the thing put the stuff in press play, it boots up firmware update please connect to internet. So you do that --> sign up for a "brand name account" and sell your soul to connect to internet. It updates... We have renewed the terms and conditions please read and confirm... Ok then it plays your stuff... And I absolutely hate it.

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u/SamOfXanadu 2d ago

I actually HAD a talkboy. It worked once and then something happened to the magnetic thing inside it and it couldn't record anything but weird frequencies.

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u/Career_Cultivator 2d ago

Top left. I had those. I had a bunch of those.

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u/therealscooke 2d ago

I had a purple one!

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u/Suspicious-Bid9424 2d ago

Bring back colored transparent plastics for electronics!

Atomic purple , nuclear green, fire orange, ice blue!

These are the best colors we have lost to time

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u/Treveli 2d ago

We beta tested the future. But only the good parts that were dropped because they wouldn't bring enough value to the shareholders.

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u/Samewrai 2d ago

I had a spaceball similar to the one in the bottom right image. They were used for 3d modeling programs. I never got good with it and just went back to keyboard. Theres a similar modern one called a spacemouse that some people like.

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u/fuckfeardrinkbeer 2d ago

I had that recorder thing Kevin has. I miss that thing and wish I knew what happened to it.

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u/Lig3r0XIII 2d ago

Can we bring back the transparent colors for things again

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u/rturnerX 2d ago

The original iMac still looks cool, even 28 years later

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u/-Laffi- 2d ago

Friend had a record player, and used it pretty often. My favorite clip was when my friend had recorded his dad in the shower, singing and he went like "and we wash a little bit here and there..."

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u/KannaCharm 2d ago

ahh, 90s tech was such a vibe! it's wild to think we thought those gadgets were the future 😂.

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u/Kdizzle689 2d ago

I loved the different colored macs.

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u/terminal_nervoso 2d ago

That TalkBoy thing was so dumb. I knew one kid that actually had one, and he was all about it for like a week and then never talked about it again.

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u/Megaman_90 1d ago

Now we live in a timeline where advanced tech feels boring, and it doesn't feel like we have a future.

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u/thesteelreserve 1d ago

talkboys were SO fuckin fun.

I remember recording, saying dumb shit, then my buddy randomly burped super loud and I started laughing my ass off.

that in slow motion? priceless.

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u/mightyDblock 1d ago

Power glove was from 80s

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u/Even_Strike_3711 21h ago

If only we would have known the negatives tech would be bringing into our lives !!!