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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 125 points 1 week ago
[–] HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It lets you hear a computer scream.

[–] jobbies@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

Fine, a Millennial detector.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

It was a scream of pleasure

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The most nostalgic chiptune generator you'll ever hear.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

OP specifically said wrong answers though.

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a telemarketing prevention device. Hook it up to your phone line, and the number of telemarketing calls would drop instantly.

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[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 week ago

A CD/Blu-ray rewinder.

Not DVDs though, they were self rewinding

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m not sure if I should upvote or downvote.

This is supposed to be wrong answers but…

[–] ultrahamster64@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's obviously wrong because it's not a picture, it's the post on lemmy

Or is it a charge on a magnetic medium somewhere?

It's just all weird when you get down to the science.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not really what you’re looking for, but it immediately made me think of an intercom device.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I recently stayed at a rental property that had this (actual photo):

Photo of a NuTone Intercom with a built-in CD player and FM tuner

I tried to get it working but none of the remote panels worked. They were all disconnected somehow (owner probably cut the wires to prevent shenanigans by guests cranking the volume then leaving it like that). The CD player worked (central panel only) but oddly, it couldn't pick up any FM stations. It would tune to them ("scan" feature worked) but they only ever produced static. I suspect the capacitors used in the amplification circuit dried out or something got corroded after being in a "regular ocean salt spray" area (it was on a beach) for such a long time 🤷

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[–] austinfloyd@ttrpg.network 15 points 1 week ago

It's made by US Robotics, so it must be a positronic brain.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago

Failed download generator

GET OFF THE DAMN PHONE STACY, I WAS ALMOST DONE

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago

This is one of the sickest synthesizers of the 1990s g-funk era. It produced the high-pitched portamento sound that provided iconic hooks for many of the tracks on Dr Dre’s 1993 album The Chronic.

[–] human@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] db2@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fuck Rob Schneider though.

[–] human@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week ago
[–] plateee@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago

Really bad white noise machine.

[–] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

Early 90s COVID-19 test.

[–] fuzz00713@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Pregnancy test for a Cylon

[–] stefenauris@pawb.social 7 points 1 week ago

CPAP machine

[–] riskable@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago

Wow! This brings back memories... It was a Soul Crusher: A primitive technology used to commune with the dead over long distances. I'll explain...

These devices used the "Afterlife Toll" (AT) command set, invented by someone named "Hayes" which I believe was just a nickname or mistranslation of Hades. With the correct invocation, you could whisper into the great beyond. Here's an example:

ATDT 6665551234

Translated: "Afterlife Toll, Death Touch ". After this invocation, the user would hear the pleasant sound of souls being crushed in order to make the afterlife connection.

Of course—due to the popularity of such devices—crushing souls over long distances could get expensive so a number of Incorporeal Service Providers (ISP) sprang up to make it cheaper and easier than ever to crush souls from anywhere.

Cool fact: This is where the term, "soul crushing machines" comes from! These days, soul crushing is fully automated and far beyond the measure of Beings Per Seance (BPS). Nearly every computer is shipped with an ethernet connection and practically everyone is walking around with devices that can commune over WIFI (Wailing Incorporeal Fidelity).

In fact, our Incorporeal Technology (IT) is so advanced, you can have a soul crushing experience from anywhere in the world at all hours of the day, every day!

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

That was the keyboard Belgian superband Technotronic used in the 1989 block buster hit Pump up the Jam.

[–] horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

An infinite box of nude pictures.

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[–] negativenull@piefed.world 5 points 1 week ago

White Noise Machine

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

How I met your mother.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago

That's an albino Atari from 1980.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Answering machine

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Says so right on the box.

A U.S.-made Robot, designed to play sports.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

It's a booster seat for squirrels

[–] Janx@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

That is a Speak & Spell. You cast a spell, and it speaks about the impact.

You put weed in it and after activation it's a mobile hotboxing device.

[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

The first in a range of devices in Bill Gates private museum specifically designed to operate the permanently installed gonad stimulator built into his body.

The latest one is a keychain.

[–] missandry351@lemmings.world 4 points 1 week ago

A vintage Covid test

[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well it says sportster on it, so whatever it is, it must go really fast!

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[–] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I actually owned one of those!

It's a cable-tv descrambler.

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[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

ECU chip tuner for early CAN bus vehicles.

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[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Two robots fucking, but you can only hear them.

[–] TeddE@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

This box from Pandora once contained all the world's doomscrolling.

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

It's a practical joke device. Using it pisses off your mum and makes her shout "get off that damn computer I want to call your aunt Judith"

[–] socsa@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

That's violet08

[–] AmbientDread@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

A magic packet pulse perpetuator and upline / downline pyramid scheme facsimile facilitator aka MPPPUDPSFF

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Phone call from Satan

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Binary Caller ID

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It's an external MIDI board. It has built in speakers, but also stereo out RCA ports in the back so you could hook it to an amp.

TechMoan covered it a couple of years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rObG3GddYGk

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