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What in the boomer shit is this caption?
It’s just gatekeeping for Muppets.
Lol, how old do you think this is? Only people under 30 likely won’t get it.
…there are dozens of us!
I’m late 20s and I get it. It’s not that old knowledge
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
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 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.
Philips designed the compact cassette specifically to be wound by a Bic pen.
Japanese pencils are slightly bigger in diameter than American ones, they fit perfectly into the cassette sprocket while American ones leave enough room for the pencil to spin without spooling the tape.
You forget your audience
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!
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.
“Doctor, will I ever be able to play the piano again?”
No, you’re missing a finger on each hand.
But doctor, those are my eyes.
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.
That’s meant to be a joke, right?
Do you realistically think someone commenting on the Fediverse about media would seriously consider audio cassettes, one of the most popular media formats of the twentieth century, to be an obscure format?
I mean, I’ve seen dumber. So, yes?
If I actually thought they were obscure it seems unlikely I would have known the name of the format.
Just having a goof out here but, yes, it is possible to know the name of obscure things.
Possible but not probable in this context.
Oh god…
ouch, my back
Tell me you are 60+yo without telling me your age.
Yeah, no…
Casettes were still well in use into the ‘90s. CDs were expensive, and unless you bought a new car or had an aftermarket CD player installed, CD players were not likely in your car. I didn’t have a factory cd player installed in a car until 2004. Before that it was a portable player with a cassette adapter.
So a 40yo would have a good shot at getting this joke. A 50yo should have no excuse.
I think this comment is purposely trying to get people to violate opsec
