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The single CD amongst all that analog media seems so much like an anachronism that I had to look it up. The CD standard was published in 1980 and it was commercially available in the US in 1983 but it took until 1992 for CD sales to surpass cassette tape sales.
The Walkman and other tape players were so much superior to CD players for portability and convenience. Batteries lasted a lot longer for portable tape players than for CD players. Tapes could be remixed easily so you could bring a specific playlist (or 2 or 3) with you. Tapes were much more resilient than CDs. The superior audio quality of CDs didn’t matter as much when you were using 1980’s era headphones. Or, even if you were using a boombox, the spinning of a disc was still susceptible to bumps or movement causing skips, and the higher speed motor and more complex audio processing drained batteries much faster. And back then, rechargeable batteries weren’t really a thing, so people were just burning through regular single use alkaline batteries.
It wasn’t until the 90’s that decent skip protection, a few generations of miniaturization and improved battery life, and improved headphones made portable CDs competitive with portable tapes.
At the same time, cars started to get CD players, but a typical person doesn’t buy a new car every year, so it took a few years for the overall number of cars to start having a decent number of CD players.
Why can’t this he from 1983 then? Hell, even 1992 isn’t crazy.
I prefer the things on the picture. Look how many cool gadgets you could have, now you’re just computer user.
Baggy pants are back, baby!
Pretty sure I cannot fit 3 VHS tapes in my pocket. Pockets have not really gotten bigger
Pretty sure it’s a Betamax tape.
Missing:
- A game console
- All the maps in the world + compass
- Gigantic notepad
- Calendar
- Entire stack of catalogs
- Newspapers
- Thermostat
- A whole fucking supercomputer
- An entire building-sized stack of photo albums
- Flashlight
- An sycophant assistant who makes shit up just to keep you happy.
A software synthesizer and tracker.
The OP photo is missing an Amiga 1200.
A humongous calendar in fact. the one that fits a century
An sycophant assistant who makes shit up just to keep you happy.
Who says that man doesn’t carry out that function?
Don’t forget about fidget apps, so throw in some bubble wrap too.
And technically most of it would fit inside your butt. There just isn’t a market for butt phones.
They called prison phones
Enlightening
I dont have a human being inside my pocket.
Hello, I’m the human in your pocket.
You can make video phone calls with people.
You are my tiny dancer.
Ah yes I remember wearing 3 personal cassette players, and a disc man at the same fricking time.
Yes and we’re all the better for it!
Except for my lack of self awareness, which I wear dripping down my sleeve.
I’ve lived both, am fully addicted to my phone, and genuinely believe we were better off then.
I don’t where the dude fits.
I think he’s chatGPT?
Maybe. I’ve seen this image for a while now.
He goes in the old prison pocket
including the handses
TBF, the stereo speakers probably sound better and are certainly capable of being much louder than my phone speakers. But yeah, miles better in every other capacity.
You cannot fit three sets of headphones in your pocket without them fucking up your phone or your wallet.
You absolutely positively 100% cannot fit a VHS player inside your pocket.
And a boom box. Sure, phones can play music, but not at the same volume or quality as a dedicated stereo system (quality meaning the frequency response, phones just physically can’t get the low end without a separate speaker)
That’s a good thing. You don’t remember guys walking down the street, or getting on the subway, carrying a boom box on their shoulder, loudly blasting distorted music you don’t care to hear.
Now they just pump it directly into their ears. Let them destroy their own hearing, not everyone else’s. They make Bluetooth speakers if you need to broadcast your music to a group.
Ha, no, now they just get in the subways with big Bluetooth speakers and annoy people with that. Boom boxes phasing out didn’t stop people from being obnoxious if they want to
You could probably find a pocket sized bluetooth speaker today that outperforms that particular boombox. I’ve got one about the size of a hardback novel that puts out more volume and bass than my car does.
Which speaker is that? I’ve been sort of on the lookout for a good compact speaker for a while
I’m not exactly sure since I got it for $5 at a thrift store. It says AOMAIS on the front and has a built in carry handle so that might help you track it down.
VHS tapes got so small they turned into little bits
