Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy: I still buy songs on the iTunes Store - ThreadSky

shoshana.bsky.social • 275 days ago

Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy:

I still buy songs on the iTunes Store

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deerlady83.bsky.social•275 days ago

Same

ranylt.bsky.social•250 days ago

Yep.

In fact, most of my purchases are for (*creaking old limbs*) whole albums!

I have an old laptop that has a way older OS so I still have the old store and can ignore the new Spotify-ish way of things there.

bafairbend.bsky.social•275 days ago

Watched Kimba the white lion and Speed racer after school on a UHF channel

drugaddictedloser.bsky.social•275 days ago

My parents wouldn't let me stay up to watch the president announce his resignation on TV. It was past my bed time.

mcmlxi.org•274 days ago

Not exactly vague for those who remember counting this way, but soon to be three score and three!

jenclodius.bsky.social•275 days ago

Party line phones (Honest and true! Don't even have a land line now, never mind a shared one)

kst.bsky.social•275 days ago

I’d never heard of party line phones until I moved to Wyoming in 1993. My boss lived out on a ranch & they had a party line shared with 2-3 other ranches.

michelesharik.bsky.social•275 days ago

My family had one. We got a private line after dad had his 1st heart attack. I was 11 & needed to call the ambulance & 2 girls were on the line & wouldn’t get off. Dad had to get on the phone to tell them to get off so I could call.

Haven’t thought about that in years! 😳

kevinkohler.bsky.social•275 days ago

My high school classmates were envious of my family's IBM Selectric II typewriter.

rockinbones.bsky.social•275 days ago

I have records and 3 turntables.

theotherjim.bsky.social•275 days ago

I saw The Doors open for Simon and Garfunkel at the Singer Bowl.

deadmanwalks53.bsky.social•275 days ago

The local Librarian was our search engine.

shoshana.bsky.social•275 days ago

I tried to use a "card catalogue" as an example and students stared at me like I was an alien

deadmanwalks53.bsky.social•275 days ago

Lol!

pewtergod.bsky.social•275 days ago

I've ordered tools from the Sears & Roebuck catalogue.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/before-folding-30-years-ago-the-sears-catalog-sold-some-surprising-products-180981504/

josiebrenda.bsky.social•275 days ago

Ah yes the holiday Wish Book was required reading.

pewtergod.bsky.social•275 days ago

It was the paper version of Amazon.
Life was much slower back then.

michelesharik.bsky.social•275 days ago

I know someone who grew up on a Sears catalogue house!

deadmanwalks53.bsky.social•274 days ago

In 1977 my dear wifey and I ordered a mattress from the Sears catalogue. We were living in Dawson Creek, BC at the time.

michelesharik.bsky.social•274 days ago

*in! LOL 😂

vegetablegremlin.bsky.social•272 days ago

thats just good sense. once its downloaded no streaming service can take it from you

wiredog.bsky.social•275 days ago

I have mp3 files that I ripped from 45s.

allengarvin.bsky.social•275 days ago

I have a lot ripped from cassette, but they're bootlegs and concerts.

I do have several hundred 45s, which I've not listened to in over 30 years, in storage at my mom's. But no desire to rip: I assume there are better rips than I can ever make on youtube.

willkeats.bsky.social•274 days ago

same 💖

jonaoithan.bsky.social•275 days ago

I do too, but I'm detecting that I may be in a minority there with my cohort.

gmpug.bsky.social•266 days ago

egall.bsky.social•275 days ago

also, I still call it the "iTunes Store" too!

shoshana.bsky.social•275 days ago

Apple still calls it the iTunes Store even though it's within the Apple Music app

egall.bsky.social•275 days ago

well, I still call the app "iTunes", then, even if it's now the "Apple Music" app!

bennettelder.net•275 days ago

itunes store itself offers the icq uh oh sound for a chime for your text messages, in case you want to be one of the silly millennial nerds making dead pop culture references like I am.

https://bsky.app/profile/bennettelder.net/post/3jwm5fppwhd2u

sagafood.bsky.social•275 days ago

I've got an Android, but that's been my text alert for years. Sometimes people think it's a funny sound, but they almost never get the reference.

handle.invalid•275 days ago

Never understood the distinction

shoshana.bsky.social•275 days ago

Apple just renamed iTunes to "Music" on macOS to match the "Music" name used on iOS. It's not really a distinction so much as a re-branding.

leojallenjr.bsky.social•274 days ago

I use correct punctuation and still own several 45s.

ozmaracc.bsky.social•275 days ago

I remember being jealous of my younger sibling riding on dad's shoulders as we left the cinema after Toy Story

bellypurpledgerbil.bsky.social•274 days ago

I remember when soda cans were 25 cents

kozmikkylekelly.bsky.social•275 days ago

That fuckin' rules, I love having files of songs/albums too.

pamportland.org•275 days ago

Me, too. I recently purchased a Kenny Loggins song from the 80s.

nichhills.bsky.social•275 days ago

The first spill I paid attention to was McMahon rolling 'Jolly' John Gorton.

swblather.bsky.social•275 days ago

I used to pity the people with only 300 baud modems since mine was 1200 baud.

cathysays24.bsky.social•275 days ago

My last resume before becoming a stay-at-home mom includes the boast that I am proficient on Lotus 1-2-3.

karisky.bsky.social•275 days ago

I don’t miss Lotus Notes.

cathysays24.bsky.social•275 days ago

Ugh. Same.

michelesharik.bsky.social•275 days ago

Aka Bloated Goats

cathysays24.bsky.social•274 days ago

😂

michelesharik.bsky.social•275 days ago

I learned how to program in its collaborative software when I worked in the DocuMerge dept at Progressive Insurance. Our team mostly programmed in COBOL.

cathysays24.bsky.social•274 days ago

I’m not well-versed in programming or coding but I DO know that COBOL refuses to die. Only because my son codes and he happened to bring it up. Go figure.

elgrb.bsky.social•275 days ago

Dime pay phone calls

radiofreetom.bsky.social•275 days ago

I thought the Tim Conway/Harvey Korman dentist sketch was hilarious the night it aired

ryancasey.dev•275 days ago

"the night it aired" is the key cuz I mean, come on, who has seen that sketch and not died laughing

suegoganian.bsky.social•275 days ago

Ditto the Scarlett sketch

holyshitimfucked.com•275 days ago

Carol Burnette/Mary Tyler Moore/Newhart was the original must see TV.

oddevan.com•275 days ago

Same! But mostly because my listening style leans more towards “a few songs on continuous repeat” rather than “lots of songs”

joefiz.bsky.social•275 days ago

My bathing suit has holes in the elbows

snoffle.bsky.social•275 days ago

I had to watch Neil Armstrong on our neighbor's blurry black/white TV because we didn't have one

feliskathryn.bsky.social•275 days ago

ok but that’s legit cool that you saw it live

hoonofthe.day•275 days ago

Hell yeah, I want to be able to listen to stuff without it getting yanked by a streaming service, with poor connectivity in the middle of nowhere and/or on planes with no wifi. Relying only on streams completely baffles me. (Also, I hope the artist gets more $ from a download vs. streaming.)

iwillrememberu.bsky.social•275 days ago

I feel less alone now.

juliendavis.bsky.social•274 days ago

I sent aerograms

ashokhotnik.bsky.social•275 days ago

I am 3 TV channels old

ranylt.bsky.social•250 days ago

Feeling represented.

ashokhotnik.bsky.social•249 days ago

😊

callys.bsky.social•275 days ago

I got an area rug cleaned at "HUdson 3-2700!"

dem0n1.bsky.social•275 days ago

My dad yelling at me to quit dancing around in front of the TV when The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan.

elgrb.bsky.social•275 days ago

waiting for your hair to “get good in the back…”

ron.pds.walloftext.ca•274 days ago

Our first phone was this big box on the wall with a crank. You spun the crank to ring the operator and told her who you wanted to talk to. If she knew that the person was out visiting elsewhere, that's where she'd put the call through to.

finderoffail.bsky.social•275 days ago

Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy:

I rewind my tapes with a pencil when required

crucialwax.com•275 days ago

I also do this. It’s the right thing.

bobooten.bsky.social•275 days ago

I saw JFK on the day he was shot when I was 10 years old.

judytomsovic.bsky.social•275 days ago

I remember asking my dad on the day of JFK’s funeral why there was a horse with no rider (on TV - we were in Hawai’i).

telstarman.bsky.social•275 days ago

My first CD burner needed you to manually set the levels for each song and you couldn't stop burning a disc once you started.

shoshana.bsky.social•275 days ago

Manually set the levels?

telstarman.bsky.social•275 days ago

If you wanted your finished CD to have the same volume, bass and treble for each track you had to turn a dial to set how the master disc's song was going to be burned to the copy. When I got better gear, I stopped having to do that and it was great.

My last big CD-R project was 48 discs long.

senatorivy.com•275 days ago

I guess like it didnt normalize the audio? I never used audio normalization myself. Also I'm not remembering burners that could stop midway but it's been forever

feartomorrow.bsky.social•275 days ago

Tascam? :v

telstarman.bsky.social•275 days ago

I don't even remember, but I think it was a Magnavox. It was eventually replaced by a CD duplicator from Discmakers, and that was eventually replaced by a PC tower that could burn discs and iTunes playlists rather than copying songs from individual CDs to create a master.

feartomorrow.bsky.social•275 days ago

Nice 7-drive duplicator came in to the recycler my brother works at, he didn’t grab it :C
Used to sell the TEACs ‘in the days

telstarman.bsky.social•275 days ago

Other features of that first CD burner: It only went at 1x speed; sometimes it wouldn't put a break between tracks so you'd get an accidental medley; if you took a break while burning a CD (which usually took about two hours if you had multiple tracks) more than about 90 seconds the CD-R failed.