90s were so creative | TheaterFire

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fromthedarqwaves@reddit

I’ve daydreamed about working with acrylic, seems challenging.

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CrazyAnchovy@reddit

Oh it's really soft. I have a little bandsww that slices it easily. I've baked it before to a real low temp to bend it.

At the end of covid my job had a whole bunch of those dividers to put on our desks between us and clients and I was allowed to take all of them!

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fromthedarqwaves@reddit

It was my favorite cassette that I could easily buy from Target. My older siblings had a bunch of clear neon green ones that I loved but couldn’t find them new.

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I still love transparent/translucent electronics. I’ve started a small collection. I have a clear Handspring Visor Deluxe PDA, TI-83, headphones, external disk drive, box of diskettes, guitar tuner, numerous controllers and all of the original iMac keyboards.

There’s a few more things but here’s the guitar tuner in all its iMac-ian glory. I love it so much.

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DgingaNinga@reddit

Going to need you to follow-up on r/coolcollections with all the pics, when you've got a minute.

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fromthedarqwaves@reddit

I need to gather it all together

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Moxie_Stardust@reddit

My drum machine 😎

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fromthedarqwaves@reddit

It’s beautiful!

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frecklemimus79@reddit

Got to explain the finer points of taping EP, SP, and SLP to my kiddo. Plus chronic low grade trauma of the tape cutting off the last song.

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zombie_overlord@reddit

Swatches are going viral currently.

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beepbooponyournose@reddit

They should do a collab with Apple Watch. I’d buy one so fast

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DgingaNinga@reddit

Have you seen the prices of Swatches recently? That is going to be an expensive collaboration.

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Insomniac_80@reddit

Recently on Long Island there was a riot over one!

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MartialBob@reddit

I love near one of the malls that had to shut down because of this. I've seen that Swatch Store and it's rarely busy. Hearing about this collab that blew up is wild.

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TC-DN38416@reddit

but… but what about the resale value? or, um, the fact that adding color will eat into the shareholder profits?

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

those were my fav tapes👏 i miss the translucent phsse

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Equal_Imagination300@reddit

The last time we had Complete Transparency!!

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Chance-Travel4825@reddit

Forgot all about those but loved them!

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Bean_Johnson@reddit

I'm pretty sure I still have my translucent purple gaemboe somewhere!

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waywardandweird@reddit

I had that pager! And the phone lol. I thought that stuff was the coolest.

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Senor-fixit@reddit

I had that beeper in red 😂

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YVRkeeper@reddit

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peloquindmidian@reddit

They still have all this in prison

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Backpack78@reddit

Would be a sick iPhone style.

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space-to-bakersfield@reddit

I had one of those clear phones. I don't know what happened to it during a move that it got a bunch of sugar poured into it. That thing never stopped shedding the odd sugar crystal now and again. I called it my sugar phone.

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JohnnyKnifefight@reddit

Pepsi was clear too briefly

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LooseAlbatross@reddit

And gravy

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JohnnyKnifefight@reddit

Crystal Gravy

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SalukiKnightX@reddit

Yeah, I see this and I think how electronics in prisons are see through to check on hidden contraband. It’s a horrible thought but thinking about it, my brief time as a CO basically killed a lot of enthusiasm for things whimsical like transparent electronics, shoe laces and Jolly Ranchers.

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keysandtreesforme@reddit

What don’t I know about jolly ranchers??

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PezCandyAndy@reddit

My guess is that a handful of Jolly Ranchers could be warmed up likely through just body heat, softened enough to be molded together into one piece, and then to a point to become a delicious candy shiv.

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Asleep_Onion@reddit

MY mind went a different direction and I was thinking Jolly Rancher toilet wine

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fromthedarqwaves@reddit

I was thinking butt stuff. Guess I haven’t spent enough time in prison.

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theBillions@reddit

Just like an Astro Pop

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bakedinsandiego@reddit

When i was a pastry chef at a catering company in SD, we had to make 1000 jolly rancher candy shivs for OITNB at comic con. It was awful. Had to unwrap each candy individually, melt it to soft ball and stretch it. The burns 😭

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Fast_Soil1376@reddit

I was surprised a couple of years ago when I learned a fair share of new music is still released on cassettes specifically bc certain cassette designs are the only music format allowed in prison.

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Low-Instruction8353@reddit

Many people collect cassettes. There is even modern versions of the walkmen.The issue is only a handful of companies make the parts for making cassette players so the music quality has gone down. I watched a whole docu video on it and it was rather fascinating.

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PurpleCatBlues@reddit

Theodore Gray's book "How Things Work" has an entire section dedicated to clear electronics/macines! The whole book is fascinating and has incredible photography, but the clear things section was definitely one of my favorites.

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OllieFromCairo@reddit

This is probably why I love skeleton watches now.

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A_the_Buttercup@reddit

Ha, look what's in the drawer next to me! I found this at a bus stop, probably around 2001 or so, maybe earlier.

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fromthedarqwaves@reddit

I had that one! Actually lost it around the same time. Bay Area?

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A_the_Buttercup@reddit

Sorry, western Washington!

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fromthedarqwaves@reddit

I moved to Seattle in 2002. Hmmm

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minor3929@reddit (OP)

Awesome!

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ballsackface_@reddit

Pepsi clear

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everythinghappensto@reddit

It was Tab Clear vs Crystal Pepsi.

(Today it's close tabs vs clear cache)

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aspbergerinparadise@reddit

I think I had that exact beeper.

I could probably count the number of messages I received on it using both hands. I was nowhere near popular enough to need a beeper.

Looked cool clipped to my pants though

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BrattyTwilis@reddit

I had a transparent purple GameBoy Color. That thing rocked

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

🩷👏💜

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

Correct.

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VunterSlaush765@reddit

My parents bought me this very pager at age 13 so I figured it was time grow up and sell some drugs.

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plasma_smurf@reddit

gif

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AbbreviationsGlad833@reddit

Forgot the mac computers

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Suspicious-Bid9424@reddit

I modify a lot of my stuff to have this aesthetic. My switch is Atomic Purple and my Nintendo Wii is transparent black with matching accessories

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Nola_Nativ@reddit

Agreeeee!!

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Low-Instruction8353@reddit

I had that pager in a maroon color.

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elliemff@reddit

I had that phone, those tapes, and the pager in lime green. I was so fly.

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ConcreteKeys@reddit

I never did get the coveted Tommy Rugrats watch from Burger King.

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Jayman44Spc@reddit

I had all of those except the watch lol

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PengwinPears@reddit

My First Sony Walkman. This got a lot of use from me as a kid. I still have it for nostalgic reasons and it still works!

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Ace_Robots@reddit

I remember when my best friends mom got out of prison. She came home with the COOLEST transparent body TV. Didn’t realize as a child it was so that a convicted manslaughterer couldn’t hide contraband. I think that this trend may have come from prison tech.

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