I made an image macro based on this...
Just think, there was a time each of us wound up a tape cassette with a pen for the very last time, and none of us knew when it was.
I changed it a bit and made "each of us" into "some of us" but this post is better as a photo with a question.
I never did this, but I also know for a fact I'm not finished sticking pens through the holes in a ruler and swinging it around like a helicopter
not casette tapes specifically but yeah i rewound the titanic VHS (the second one specifically - I didn't care for the first half of the film) manually many times as a child with a goddamn highlighter specifically so I could pop that sucker back in the VCR to rewatch the ship going down (my favorite part as a kid don't ask me why idk but I loved it) since our VCR was shit and would get the tape spool stuck if you used the rewind function
I remember I had a pokemon tape with songs from the show. I used to be a kid before I became a shitposter.
I've got to be the one, the only one who can
Withstand the test and be the best and
Got to strive, keep up the drive
BE A MASTER
It takes a certain kind of skill
And I won't stop until
150 Pokémon are mine
I must define the art of capture (of all Pokémon)
:squirtle-jam:
TO BE A MASTER, POKEMON MASTER
:squirtle-jam:
I WILL BE WRITING A BRAND NEW CHAPTER
(i didn't have the cassette but I DID have the the 2.B.A Master and movie CDs - thank you for reminding me that I used to listen to them 24/7 and the lyrics to every song are burned in my memory - they still slap.........thank you 4kids?)
I always appreciated how "handheld" and rugged a cassette player was compared to a CD player. I stayed on my walkman up until the mid aughts, when I did finally upgrade to an mp3 player.
I suppose that's because a CD has to spin pretty fast and consumer electronic companies would never spend the money to somehow ruggerize them. Ruggerize isnt a word but I couldn't resist.
I never had a portable CD player but I assume if you dropped it just once - it could be toast.
I mean just bumping into or slightly repositioning your portable CD player would make the song skip
bro i'm still doin it. my car has a tape player and i'm gonna use it!
Yall didn't just wedge the tip of your pinky into it and spin the cassette?
I never liked cassette tapes. I had a couple toys growing up that used tapes and I hated them. Something about those damn things just sets me off, probably having to rewind them.
No, I used my finger because the pen was far from efficient.
Was still kinda old tech for me as a kid but I had a couple hand me downs from older siblings. Gotta give cassettes one thing over later media in that they are just so satisfying. Everything has a tactile spring and click, and the whir of the tape running or rewinding is soothing.
I really miss the tactical sense of the pre-digital world. But I don't miss the downsides like the crappy audio of cassettes.
I still use cassettes and videotapes now, but for the few times that the tape comes loose I just wind it with my finger. I suppose a pencil is faster but it doesn't come up that often
I never did, but I saw older family members do it. I was like 5 when cassettes in the cars we had swapped to CD players.
