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Gonz posted:35 years ago today. How do you play snake on it?
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I miss my star tac
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Gonz posted:35 years ago today. Ah, a Peter Banning phone.
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Apr 26, 2024 20:29
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What are the odds there would have been a paranoid schizophrenic with the name Noid?
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Ah, a Peter Banning phone. Bangarang, motherfucker
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I had forgotten all about these things until just recently. They seemed pretty cool when I was a preschooler (mostly because you could make a lot of annoying noise with them): I read these books so many times 
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Foyer of the Barbican Centre, London, England, circa 1981.
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Gonz posted:Foyer of the Barbican Centre, London, England, circa 1981. Ten-Forward???
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Silly Burrito posted:Ten-Forward??? Ten-foyer
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Gonz posted:Foyer of the Barbican Centre, London, England, circa 1981. So many ashtrays!
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I was born in 82, but this still looks like the future to me. I am so old.
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Gonz posted:Foyer of the Barbican Centre, London, England, circa 1981. It's so appropriate that things have come full circle and the Barbican (exterior) is now used as a Star Wars location, because that pic right there needs only minimal changes to become a 1981 Star Wars film set.
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gileadexile posted:
Born in 83 and same. I hate the passage of time.
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It’s cassette futurism as hell, but without the electronic devices. Hi, I’m an ‘81.
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I like old architectural design from 30+ years ago so much better than same-y drab, boxy brutalism of today (born the year Orwell made infamous).
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Mad Hamish posted:So many ashtrays! I remember 1981 London, that's actually far too few ashtrays.
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Gonz posted:35 years ago today. Fun fact: if you removed the battery, you'd see the battery had 3 connectors but there were 4 connectors on the phone itself. A well-placed bit of tin-foil on that extra connector put the phone into test mode, and it was possible to listen to unencrypted cellular traffic. You could hear snippets of conversations easily, but not long conversations because (1) you could only hear whatever was going on in your local cell, and (2) I think the CDMA (?) was designed to switch channels every few seconds.
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Gonz posted:Foyer of the Barbican Centre, London, England, circa 1981.
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Hey 80s nerds, any of you listen to retro/nostalgia podcasts? I'm a fan of Dinosaur Dracula's Purple Stuff Podcast, the Retroist, and Gen-X Grownup, but are there any other good ones out there?
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minato posted:Fun fact: if you removed the battery, you'd see the battery had 3 connectors but there were 4 connectors on the phone itself. A well-placed bit of tin-foil on that extra connector put the phone into test mode, and it was possible to listen to unencrypted cellular traffic. You could hear snippets of conversations easily, but not long conversations because (1) you could only hear whatever was going on in your local cell, and (2) I think the CDMA (?) was designed to switch channels every few seconds. There was also a period where you could do that with police scanners, before a law required any scanner released in the US to block out parts of the 850 MHz region where analog cell phones resided (technically, it prevented FCC "Type Acceptance" of any device that could do that, but didn't prohibit the devices themselves). If you're in the US, you're thinking of AMPS, Advanced Mobile Phone System, which has some really interesting baggage in it if you read about it.
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"I was going to be busy all day. I had to drop off some thirty-eights at Jimmy's to match some silencers he had gotten. I had to pick up my brother at the hospital and drive him back to the house for dinner and then I had to pick up some new Pittsburgh stuff for Lois to fly down to some customers I had near Atlanta."
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Oh man, I was there when the last one closed in 2019.
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That whole 1920’s thing in 1972 or 1973 was weird. The movie The Sting had a lot to do with it I think Speaking of, a 70s and 80s thing was theme songs from movies being instant top 40 radio hits
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Cat Hassler posted:That whole 1920’s thing in 1972 or 1973 was weird. The movie The Sting had a lot to do with it I think It would be the equivalent of someone today harking back to the early 1980s, which we would never do.
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Cat Hassler posted:That whole 1920’s thing in 1972 or 1973 was weird. The movie The Sting had a lot to do with it I think To be fair, Ghostbusters is an absolute banger.
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Gromit posted:To be fair, Ghostbusters is an absolute banger.
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I mean, I'd accept Ghost Ride It.
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https://i.imgur.com/GIvE303.mp4 The 80’s peaked right here.
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If y'all have Netflix, check out their series The Toys That Made Us. It's mostly 80s toys and the episode on He-Man is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen.
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you will marvel as you learn the origins of Battle Cat.
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ultrafilter posted:If y'all have Netflix, check out their series The Toys That Made Us. It's mostly 80s toys and the episode on He-Man is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen. It’s an essential watch, as is the follow-up “The Movies That Made Us”. Everyone was bullshitting their way through pitch meetings and production in a way that will make anyone with imposter syndrome feel like overqualified gods at everything they do. It’s wonderful.
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uber_stoat posted:you will marvel as you learn the origins of Battle Cat. But... it'll be out of scale!
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