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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.
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.
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.
I feel like a dinosaur for even remembering Blockbuster lol
My kids: "like.. sellotape?"
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 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.
"She has chosen... poorly."
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.
People still say they filmed something
I mean... People still say "movie" which was short form for "moving pictures"
We also dial the phone and roll down the windows. I guess some phrases transcend time.
I mean, I put down a deposit recently for a new car that will have roll down windows.
It would be cool to have power windows that are activated by a hand crank. You would just rock it one direction or the other, but maybe bonus points if you have to continue rotating it to keep the window moving.
Cool? Yes. But the whole point of crank windows is mechanical simplicity. This is anything but that.
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.
We turn the volume up despite it probably being a button, too.
