Just got rid of my Bass Bazooka when we moved last year—mostly because I couldn’t install it in my Ram. But also I got tired of carrying it every move.
The Crutchfield magazine was a highlight in my house for years. I was always excited to see what new head units were coming out. I kinda miss that customization, but also appreciate the fact that now my car just offloads it all to my phone and I never have to replace a head unit again.
Agreed 100%. I just replaced my wife's car stereo with a stereo I bought from Crutchfield. I found my account was still active, and they had all of my orders going back to 1998!
The installation on a newer car was WAY more difficult than it used to be. I called support several times, and they were still knowledgeable and awesome to work with.
I've used Crutchfield as a deciding factor for which car to buy, it was cheaper to buy a lower spec'd model and upgrade the head unit to one with the options I wanted instead of the more expensive one.
Phoenix Gold up to and including the silver ZX series. Although, I prefer the white ZX amps.
Infinity or Alpine for speakers old skool speakers and square Solobarics for subs.
I used to be good at that stuff, too. When pimp my ride came out, we made all kinds of modifications on cars little stuff nothing like them, of course.
I had a couple of those old S-10 Chevy blazers, and we cut speakers in the inside of the tailgate .
That shit was pretty cool back then!
Nah, because the common denominator is that we know how to figure shit out. That type of talent translates to all kinds of facets of life. We are the last of the 'Renaissance People'.
Try looking up your webpage on [The Wayback Machine ](https://archive.org/web/)
My geocities page from 1998 is archived on there, so yours might be too
I’ve gone searching in the past with no luck. It was all built off of hyperlinking (I thought I was being cool by doing so), but I may go searching for it again, but I don’t have high hopes of getting lucky.
Why am I the only one that can set the clock on the office microwave?!!?!?!!???
It isn’t difficult. Press “clock”, enter the time, then press “clock” again.
T9, {*S drop*, manual transmissions, smoothing out a dollar for a vending machine, hacking jukeboxes, bar photo searches, blowing on NES cartridges, napter and limewire searching, using 1-800-COLLECT to leave messages to each other via payphones, recording CD/radio on tape to make perfect mixtapes, burning CDs, curating minidiscs, folding notes, and slamming POGs.
I worked at an adult video store.
"Sure, Grandpa, people would come in with a roll of dimes and leave with plastic box of porn tape, right?"
"And they'd look me dead in the eyes when they returned it an hour later."
They were previously selling Selectavision machines in the early 80's, which were surprisingly adaptable to Amish communities wanting to have movie nights.
It being an analog disc system, they could operate it via hand crank and run the output through a candle to lens transmission based on the grooves in the discs.
The only downside was having to turn the candle upside down for side two would force them to play the movie at double speed or risk having to change candles mid feature a second time.
They were also surprisingly good at repairing LP's. One of the reasons the Amish are still around today is their ability to safely manufacture technolgy free analog hardware such as slipmats, record needles, direct drive belts, etc.
[- Drake, you ever watch any Bruce Lee movies?
- I got every one of them on laser-disc.
Well, come in, come in.](https://movie-sounds.org/comedy-movie-sounds/quotes-with-sound-clips-from-black-sheep-1996/drake-you-ever-watch-any-bruce-lee-movies-i-got-every-one-of-them-on-laser-disc-well-come-in-come-in)
I clearly remember thr time my husband tried to apply his car stereo installation skills...to a 2011 Honda crosstour. The last time he installed a car stereo was on his mid-90s Ford ranger.
The experience was slightly different this time around. It took almost a week with flood lights in the backyard, after work in the evenings, to change out the stereo and add a back up camera.
When it was all done and it worked, he finally conceded that it was way harder than anticipated and he would never be doing that again because modern cars have way too many wires. Lololol
Well, it's generally cheaper to buy a prebuilt nowadays, and when graphics cards are in tight supply it's often the main way you can get those cards.
Also laptops are hella powerful compared to how they used to be, and desktops are less popular overall.
I had 4 years if typing classes in school, cause they didn't know what else to do with the just built computer lab. 1 semester of typing out of a typewriter book. It had an article about how a computer could never replace a typewriter
I relearned cursive this last summer after feeling a bit of shame that my penpal was writing letters in cursive and I wasn't.
I'd stopped writing cursive nearly 30 years ago in 7th grade, when my teachers warned me that the couldn't tell the difference between my r and s.
I originally learned D'Nealian, and picked up a Zaner-Blosser practice book for 5th graders to see if learning a slightly different way would help.
So now I write as much as I can in cursive. I'm doing my part to keep that torch going!
It seems many older people have abandoned all sense of formatting, and the younger generation seems like they have never even seen a physical letter. In emails, both "Karen" and "Jayden" are using the subject line as a text message, leaving the body of the message blank.
I took a class in college on business writing.
How about memo writing? There are days that I wish folks would write their emails like memos instead of wannabe novels...
When you can’t afford to pay someone to do something, you got to figure it out yourself. It was harder to look up how to do things before google and youtube were to prevalent and full of info. But the bonus to that is you get better at figuring things out on your own and all those things you learned in the past can sometimes help figure out the next thing.
I think we all have an engineering degree through osmosis after all the shit we had to work out.
The fact that Nothing Fucking Worked is why we know how to fix shit.
Kids today (I just puked in my mouth typing that) can't fix anything because everything has always just worked.
My wife and I *still* use "143" to each other.
And while I could still do it if pressed, I've just moved on to buying cars with good stereos so I don't have to mess around with it! lol
We're the peak of humanities analog technologies. Everything peaked analog and went digital during our childhoods, we needed to learn the analog ways and the in-between analog/digital ways.
Now almost every media and communication system is digital and soon to be AI assisted.
I just adapted with times so now my skillset has become home theater installation, changing the settings on my multi region Blu-Ray player and computer maintenance.
I was so pissed when those T9 phones started getting phased out. I could text perfectly from memory. Now I make so many fat fingered mistakes on my iphone, and I’m neither fat nor do I have fat fingers.
It was in general, but I do have a little sympathy for people who struggled with that because those VCR users interfaces were crap and wildly inconsistent between brands
Man car audio was such a huge thing in high school in my area. “What system you bumping?” Was one of the most important things ever. Best Buy had a whole god damn corner of the store just for car audio
Not *really*. You need to look at other manufacturers than what you or I remember.
I've been watching videos from [Williston Audio Labs](https://www.youtube.com/@wal) recently. He reviews old skool and new car audio. Down 4 Sound seems to be one of the new "best bang for the buck" amp brands you can buy.
everything is a screen these days. the climate controls, backup camera, configuring if the horn goes off when you lock the doors, all of that goes through the stupid screen.
id like to believe its possible to replace that with something aftermarket and keep all the functionality but when i looked into it for my last car it seemed basically impossible to do without losing a lot of functions
There's a box you can get called Maestro which sits between your head unit screen and your car's wiring which helps translate most of these functions. It's infinitely more complex as you have to first connect it to your computer to set up the config properly, but it works like magic when done right. Steering wheel controls can be customized to do whatever, etc.
VCR programming was big. Blew my parents mind when I showed them there was another way to record their shows other then pushing the record button while the show was on. They never bothered to learn though and I still had to program everything for them. I used that to get back at them if they pissed me off. *Oops, sorry mom. I forgot to program Days*
Getting the magnetic tape back inside the cassette
Remember when you would randomly see cassette tape tangled up and blowing around outside like a tumbleweed?
I was weirdly giddy recently when I saw what I thought was cassette tape blowing on the road. It was just a communication cable on the ground, and my environmentally-despicable giddiness was dashed.
That brought back some memories! I remember about 24 years ago I was visiting my boyfriends parents house and I fixed every clock in their house that was flashing 12:00. They looked at me like I just did black magic
Seeing as I installed a new stereo in my boat two seasons ago and a new stereo in my son's car so he could have hands free Bluetooth to comy with our states "no cell phone in your hands while driving" law, I don't see that as useless....
Yeah.
In the late 90s early 2000 I was pretty good at putting a new stereo amplifiers etc.
I wouldn’t try to open the dashboard of my newer car though.
No way.
I was also good at connecting several televisions together to watch some thing at somebody’s house .
Like everybody’s watching the same game I could hook unlimited TVs up or video game systems.
Really good it’s setting up surroundsound and speakers and all of that foolishness now it’s all Bluetooth!
In the late 90s I was in college taking some tv/film production classes & they were still teaching us how to splice tape.
And you can’t fuck with my white out tape skillz.
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