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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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The recent events will probably be the first time that Gen Z and Gen alpha are hearing about 'Pagers'. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago by Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] JoShmoe@ani.social 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

I bet a zip drive could blow their minds.

Show the Blue Yeti streaming generation the old boom mics we had. The ones that looked like refueling probes.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days 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 5 points 5 days ago

It's crazy how ubiquitous those were. Anyone with a mic for their PC had that exact mic.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Back when all that existed for online voicecomms was ventrilo, i took one of 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 3 points 5 days ago

taped it to one of the ear muffs of an analog headset

MacGuyver would be proud.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

I barely knew that minidiscs were a thing when they were contemporary.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I always thought zip drives were another term for flash drives because so many people just used the terms interchangably.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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 points 4 days ago

It's funny to me that things like EEPROM are considered ROM. Like, ok, I can write to it? Read only, huh?