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nostalgia noun nos·tal·gia nä-ˈstal-jə nə-, also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- 1: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia
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What in the boomer shit is this caption?
It's just gatekeeping for Muppets.
Back in the early 90ies I would sometimes find smashed cassettes on the ground with the tape floating in the wind, while coming back from school. I'd grab the tape and splice it into another cassette so that I could hear what was on it.
I've never found anything more than boring music but the act of "repairing" the tape made me feel like a spy.
Yeah it sounded like boring music if you played it forwards. You had to play it backwards to get the awesome messages from Satan.
Same, but for me, it wasn't in the early 90s.
Also, I discovered some totally amazing music this way that still haunts me to this day.
Lol, how old do you think this is? Only people under 30 likely won't get it.
...there are dozens of us!
Most of us are probably over 30.
There will be so many tiktok equivalents of this. Like 67 but haven’t made it to general public
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I'm late 20s and I get it. It's not that old knowledge
Lol chill, we millennials aren't that old.
Bic pens were better because their caps were shaped perfectly for the job.
I dont know which cap you had but it was the worst idea because my caps were round and unsuitable for that. I used the pen itself.
The part that protruded down from the cap along the side of the pen to form the "pocket clip" fit between the gear teeth and made turning easier & more reliable - you slid the cassette down the body of the pen until that part engaged the teeth. Later I came to prefer the style of pen below due to the flatter protrusion, but both worked pretty well.
IIRC, using two yielded the best results, as one wound while the second stabilized the other spool. 🤓
I was never careful enough with them to even have thought of that. I'd get the cassette on the pen as described, then whirl it around & around in the air like a noise maker to wind the tape.
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I'm so old I remember the music industry trying to ban the sale of blank cassettes because of copyright infringement. Oh how we laughed at them.
C30, C60, C90 GO!
My first acy of piracy, tho I did not know it at the time, was recording songs from the radio to blank cassettes.
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That cartoon has a glaring error: cassette tapes did not perform the pencil surgery on each other. Humans performed the pencil surgery on the cassette tapes.
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You forget your audience
I could do it with my finger, no pens/pencils needed.
The pens/pencils were more often used for manual rewinding to save battery life than getting the tape back into the cassette.
But doctor, those are my eyes.
"Doctor, will I ever be able to play the piano again?"
No, you're missing a finger on each hand.
For extreme emergencies..."Grab the Scotch Tape!".
I had a tape splicer at one time. So basically trauma surgery.
Cassette tapes were such an obscure format.
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