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Do you know how these two items are related?

I'm feeling old.

Although the link I followed to get their suggested you would have to be over 40 to get the reference, I think it should be more like 30.

Interestingly, my sister, born 8 years after me, couldn't understand how the two were related. Just shows how fast technology changes.

BS...
I know how they are related and i'm 18.

biccat wrote:Do you know how these two items are related?

I'm feeling old.

Although the link I followed to get their suggested you would have to be over 40 to get the reference, I think it should be more like 30.

Or less, you could still get cassettes within the last decade easily so even those barely into their twenties should know what they are I think.

I'm not sad to see the last of cassettes. In my experience the cassette player was the first part to go in every hi-fi we ever owned as a family, good or poor quality regardless. My parents have been through a couple since I was young, both my sister and I had own own cheap ones. Probably more than half a dozen had the tape player pack up first while the rest lasted years. Then they would eat tapes, the one in the car was good for that, it didn't mind 60 minutes tapes, but often would eat 90 minutes tapes and you ended up having to pull the spaghetti like contents out of the dashboard.

Sure. You write your girlfriends name on her mixed tape and when you made it.

"Jenny, summer of 84" and so on.

Did I get it right?

No.

A hexagonal cross-section pencil is the best tool for hand winding a cassette where the tape has come loose.

*Throws Jenny, Summer of 84 cassette away*

You taught me nothing!

kronk wrote:*Throws Jenny, Summer of 84 cassette away*

You taught me nothing!

I'm sure Jenny was more trouble than she was worth.

The cool thing about tape players is that they usually had a record option. It took a while for writeable CDs (and more importantly, rewritable CDs) to become widespread.

Well according to the Killers Jenny was a friend of mine...

purplefood wrote:Well according to the Killers Jenny was a friend of mine...

But did you get her number?

biccat wrote:

purplefood wrote:Well according to the Killers Jenny was a friend of mine...

But did you get her number?

No she left for Sam's Town before i could ask...

purplefood wrote:BS...
I know how they are related and i'm 18.

purplefood wrote:

biccat wrote:

purplefood wrote:Well according to the Killers Jenny was a friend of mine...

But did you get her number?

No she left for Sam's Town before i could ask...

867-5309

Lol that takes my back.

Kilkrazy wrote:No.

A hexagonal cross-section pencil is the best tool for hand winding a cassette where the tape has come loose.

Exactly. Writing summer of X is incriminating and can be held against you by a court of Future GF/Wife.

Just write summer of X...you'll know...

I knew that one...though Im 27 which is pretty close to whoever said 30. I cant believe it said 40 though, holy gak really?

My old '93 Caravan had a tape player that only started to go just as I was about to let her go. I had quite the tape collection stocked in the tape compartment. Thats right, it had a compartment meant for tape storage. I miss some of those tapes.

My mud bogger had a factory original 8track player. How redneck is that? Goign nutsO in a mud pit, playing old 8tracks. I felt so awesome

You're probably 30 years old if you know the relation? More like 15. Seriously.

15? I dunno bout that, born in the LATE 90s where you practically couldnt find cassettes? Sides most 15 y/o kids I know are dense as hell

KingCracker wrote:My mud bogger had a factory original 8track player. How redneck is that? Goign nutsO in a mud pit, playing old 8tracks. I felt so awesome

Only if you were playing lynyrd skynyrd or led zeppelin while muddin'.

No joke, I had a Zepplin 8track in there, houses of the holy buddy

KingCracker wrote:15? I dunno bout that, born in the LATE 90s where you practically couldnt find cassettes? Sides most 15 y/o kids I know are dense as hell

I asked my cousin who has just turnd 16 a few days ago...
She knew what the relation was...

16 and got it straight away. I remember breaking them as a small child.

Kilkrazy wrote:No.

A hexagonal cross-section pencil is the best tool for hand winding a cassette where the tape has come loose.

Yes, got it right!

KingCracker wrote:15? I dunno bout that, born in the LATE 90s where you practically couldnt find cassettes? Sides most 15 y/o kids I know are dense as hell

I'm 16, and I used to listen to my Ricky Martin tapes on a rinky dink boombox and have to rewind the damned thing to "Livin la Vida Loca", as that is the only good Ricky Martin song.

I'm 26 and I got it instantly.

Da Boss wrote:I'm 26 and I got it instantly.

No Boss, it is a [fingerapoatraphes]cassette tape[/fingerapostraphes], not a pencil sharpener.


KC wins the thread with a Zep 8 track!

I'm 17 and I got it in about 3 seconds, because that was how long it took for my computer to load the second image.

Besides, date of birth doesn't necessarily dictate what technology you used when you were younger, I'm 17 and my first games console was a SEGA MegaDrive with Sonic The Hedgehog..

My first technology was sticks...

purplefood wrote:BS...
I know how they are related and i'm 18.

I'm 15 and I could relate them...


Oh god I'm old!