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get to know the technology of your parents, discover what treasure people can pull from the boxes in their attic or the corner of their garage, something like a bag made to carry eight cassette tapes (!!!) or the very same word processor you learned how to type on. planned obsolescence be damned!!!! let your home be infested by e-waste bugs, they move slow and creak binary into your ears at night but they all die eventually.
Jan 28, 2024
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Over the last six or so months I have fully embraced the world of pre-digital technology. I communicate with friends and family over the world mainly via letters I type out on my Silver-Reed SR 180 DeLuxe and I currently yearn for a rotary phone. In the Information Age, there is something so intrinsically charming about using the innovations of yesterday that now mostly lie by the wayside. I am sure that in many ways my love of the analogue world is predominantly superficial but I think that is OK.
Feb 3, 2025
the princess diaries 2 soundtrack lived in my discman. our living room radio was for radio disney. the boxy glitchy little alarm clock/radio/tape player in my bedroom was for jazz. when cds lived outside of my discman, i could offer them a home in my blue and orange nickelodeon karaoke machine (just a small boom box w/ attached microphone lol, pictured here). & when i was 11 i got an ipod shuffle that i wore around my neck and filled with songs mostly by lemon demon and smoosh (smoosh had recently been profiled in american girl magazine).
Apr 13, 2024
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mp3 players, ipods, fishnet socks, cd slots in macbooks, clothes coming with thread for when a button falls off or you need to patch a hole, affordability. what happened? :(
Mar 2, 2024
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because listen, hear me out… one in the car one by your bed one at your desk one in your bag!!! i don’t have time for anything, let alone moving balm from place to place. i never have it when i need it, four lip balms at any given time are a must!
Jan 24, 2024
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i need a tape recorder in my back pocket. a cassette accustomed to my voice i’ll be quick on the draw and won’t have to worry anymore about my thoughts clumping together and becoming so heavy that they sink into oblivion
Jan 26, 2024
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because it doesn’t have to be good, because it’s symbiotic daydreaming, because the sound of fingers on keyboard reminds you of rain, because it’s fun and stupid and promotes literacy
Jan 24, 2024