Joe GI found this on the trending tab. I believe this will be one of my new favorite hashtags to follow. It’s a lot of fun. The memories that it brings up. #explainvintagetechnology
@markstos Who remembers tell me, with not only the time and temperature, but games, and all kinds of updates. #explainvintagetechnology
DJ SaundersBack in the day, when you got the PC you wanted, you had the monitor and keyboard, and that was it.
For programs like WordPerfect, WordStar, or Lotus 1-2-3, you had to memorize tons of different keyboard combinations. Vendors had to include keyboard overlays for those specific programs (and then some) to make it a little easier for you.
If you wanted a mouse at all, you had to buy one. And there was once a separate driver for the mouse you got.
TerseusThe Clavecin Electrique is one of the earliest documented musical instruments to use electronic principles. Designed in 1759, the instrument had a keyboard connected by silk strings and wire to pairs of bells tuned in unison with a beater suspended between them. By holding down a key the beater was alternately attracted and rejected by each bell creating a sustained tone. That means this 18th century instrument could do electronic drone music... and it also shot sparks!
#ExplainVintageTechnology
#ExplainVintageTechnology
Fabio RomeoWhen I was in high school I couldn't print any papers at night because my dot matrix printer was ridiculously loud, screaming in pain at each line.
kjYou grab one of these and a friend, you press a couple of buttons, you behave in a silly way, and soon you have comedy gold … like this!
“Drama Involves Conflict ” by the group Belz / Jones from the album Jane’s Purse Road Tape (1990).
the_dave33 (OLD ACCOUNT)@Hotaru passt ja wunderbar zum auf mstdn.social trendenden Hashtag #ExplainVintageTechnology 😅
Fax: kind of email predecessor
Fax: kind of email predecessor
The Learning Curve PhotographyYou take the film to the store and then you have to WAIT to see the pictures 😲
SF Cable CarBack in the late 1800s Andrew Hallidie came up with a crazy idea of a loop of steel rope that ran under the streets of San Francisco. He figured out how to pull horseless cars up and down the hills by using a giant pair of pliers in the cars to grip the moving cable. Those ridiculous cable cars have been climbing halfway to the stars since 1873.
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#explainvintagetechnology
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