Notices by VWestlife (vwestlife@mastodon.social)

A song from 1914:

A hi-fi recording from 1932. RCA's then-new ribbon microphones had excellent frequency response on the master recordings, but unfortunately they had to tone it down for consumer release because during the Great Depression, many people were still using crude acoustic phonographs, which had trouble tracking those high frequencies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9d_NsAGyA0

How many damn version numbers does this program have!?

New Wave on old VHS, found at the thrift store today.

MotorWeek was on team Betacam:

Did you know that the first-gen Kodak digital photo printing kiosks ran on a Sun UltraSPARC system? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTkx8CamFbI

@georgetakei *After* Elon went crazy? He's always been crazy!

Remember these Samsung ads from the mid-'90s? Their models were a lot more attractive than their products at the time...

An unexpected bonus use for a record player with 16 RPM speed...

If you use Office 365, beware of this trick Microsoft is pulling to try to force Copilot AI on you and make you pay extra for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYVPThx7yss

More inopportune placement of subject against background.

More broadcasting-related oddware: An ISA card to download data from one of those big satellite dishes to your PC, in 1996.

If you ever wondered why old product ads often had unnecessary quotation marks around their name or slogan, you're not alone: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/161676/have-unnecessary-quotation-marks-evolved

Found at the thrift store today: a Hayes SmartModem power supply with that weird three-pin connector. @themaritimegirl

Of course, a TV station on channel 69 has to use the slogan "it all comes together": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jChR4NKFEE

Several big YouTube channels have covered this recently, but the original self-made documentary is far superior, especially with its space-age lounge music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clgl63CWOkM

Swindon was swingin' in the Sixties.

Remember "headphone hair"?

I agree!

@SNerd That has to be AI-generated. Real Cybertrucks don't have crumple zones.