So I was hunting all over my house for my casset player only to discover it being used as a doorstop. WTfuck. Why? It works perfectly fine and it plays my super nifty cassettes! Some of those artists never made it to CDs! :O I was intensely irritated.

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1. Old technology. Love/Hate?

I love old technology. The only problem about it these days is that not only is it completely and utterly misused and disrespected; no one even tries to progress old technology's well being! Like, you'd have to go to really old book stores and music places to even find ONE cassette tape! Now it's all CD's and soon even a CD will be considered "Old technology!"

I hate tapes and videos!

I occasionally watch a video and fastforwarding/rewinding hurts!
I miss the chapters DVD's have when watching videos.

Luckily, I don't know any artists that are still on video.
There's no way you could get the mp3's?

I love old technology too. I LOOVE vinyl, and I have some vinly records(Michael Jacksons's Off The Wall AND Thriller, Elvis, and Cyndi Lauper.), only it's really hard to find record players in my little city..:(

not really old stuff, but like ventage stuff that you could still use cause it wasn't ever mattified but Hell yeah I have cassets like The black crows, Meat Loaf...ect

I still have Grateful Dead and The Cure cassettes. The static is fun sometimes, but I still enjoy the plethora of music available on an ipod at just the flick of a finger.
Siouxie Sioux was a good one on cassette too. I drive a volkswagen beetle and the cd changer is in the trunk (had it converted to play the ipod) but there's a cassette player up front that I have a tape in.
I haven't really tuned into it yet.

At least they don't skip and scratch like a CD. ;)

Oh my gosh, you've picked one of my favorite topics. See I'm always the last to get new technology, I didn't get a CD player until about 5 years after they came out, same with mp3 player, still don't have/don't want an ipod, still don't have a cell phone, etc. I like the way the older things were, I had a really nice walkman and a bunch of cassettes until someone stepped on the walkman and made confetti!! D: I love 'old' technology to a fault. My car still has a cassette player as well, (97 Altima, not in it's best years right now either), I still recorded tapes, and now I don't know where to find another one! I loved my walkman T-T.. One of these days I shall find another! And re-find my old cassettes!!!

I love cassettes. Still can't record off of the radio with anything except for one of those; I can't, anyway. Plus you can always get songs off of the radio that you have to download an entire album for off of iTunes... ;)

But, yeah. I still have a ton of old cassette tapes; they're great. I'm really glad that they'd never do that at my house.... Most older technology I don't care as much about--VHS tapes versus DVDs, and that sort of thing. And I'll admit that CDs tend to sound better after longer periods of time--plus I adore being able to mix it together more easily. (MP3 players and iPods. Yum.) But cassette tapes are still fun to play with. It's just a shame that they're becoming so outdated.

As far as older technology in general goes... I have a thing for typewriters. =3 I remember impressing kids in my class back in around 8th grade; they'd never even seen one. :O

I admit that I do love some of the new stuff, but I still love the cassettes and CDs (which are soon turning old :( ) we have a system in our home that plays the radio or a cassette all through the house (it even has a little intercom system) and I use it all the time, I mean if I already have the song on a casstte, why buy it again?

I love old stuff. It's just..cool! I remember being so excited when I got to try out an old typewriter my neighbor lent me. XD

I remember when I was 5 and in kindergarten, my teacher had a cassette player to teach us how to read books. We'd put on headphones and listen to the tapes during reading time. I wonder if its still being used today... I doubt it, probably been replaced with CDs by now. =(

I hate cassettes and VHSes. So bulky and ugly. But I can sympathize.

I'm a fan of old video games. I love playing my SNES and N64. But it's nearly impossible to get -or get rid of- those games anymore. Only certain game stores sell them anymore.
I also do like vinyl. My record player is shit, of course. The quality is horrible, I can barely get it very loud at all, and it constantly skips. But I like the look of vinyl.

And I'm very much hating the impending obsoletion of CDs in favor of purely digital music.
CD artwork and the liner notes and such are a big part of music for me. Not having that in physical form is just... the music doesn't sound as good. Because you don't physically own it. Drop your iPod in water, or get a power surge to your computer, and it's all gone. But you never really even had it in the first place.
I like to HAVE my music.

And are you SURE that the artists you like haven't gone to CD?
Of course, I'm sure they'd be impossible to find at more mainstream stores, like Best Buy, but surely online you could find them?

I don't mind older technology. I have some records and 8tracks that I would still use if I had the equipment to play them on. I can usually get a hold of the mp3s through Soulseek or something if I can't find the cd anywhere.

I'm with those of you who like having the cd artwork. That's part of the enjoyment of having the physical product. You have the beautiful artwork to go along with it (I love the artwork for Nightwish's Dark Passion Play) and they'll give you a long life of listening if you care for them properly.

When I finally release my own music I'll have an mp3 option and a cd option though, and I'll probably sell cd artwork for a reasonable price for those who go for the mp3 option. No sense wasting time on fancy artwork when the people who buy it can't see it.

Originally Posted by Shelbyrockin

I love old stuff. It's just..cool! I remember being so excited when I got to try out an old typewriter my neighbor lent me. XD

omg I love the old typewriters they were so cool, my old teacher had one and I would always get yelled at when I would try to use it

Rainbow: ...I learned how to type on an old typewriter. My house had two, an electric and a.. manual, I guess you'd call it? Anyway, the electric one was for Mom's work so I wasn't allowed to use it, but she or Grandma would set me up on the manual and let me bang away!

Technically (no pun intended) I knew how to type before I knew how to read or write. :lol: When I did learn to read and write, I ended up having a 'paper allowance' because I'd always want to use the typewriter to write stories.

And now I'm tempted to go out and buy a manual typewriter. I miss how it sounded and felt when I was typing up something.

I like the old and new stuff.

Older stuff is sometimes lasts longer but the newer stuff is way better. Theres more to it anyways.

I don't know...There are kind of two sides to it. On one hand, old technology was built pretty sturdy and reliable, whereas new technology (i.e. ipods and CDs) seem to have been built to be disposable. Yeah, that's right, disposable ipods. I've had to replace mine a couple of times.
They release new technology too quickly for it to really be refined or smooth.

Instead, you buy something, and then a month later, you can't use it because the technology is obsolete. Got your new CD player? Well, can't use it because we now have special mini-discs and ipods! No more CDs for you!

Tapes were always a bit messy though...

I would kill! My old cassette player broke and now I have tons of great cassettes and no way to play them. You can't find a cassette player anymore! As far as old technology goes, some I love and some I hate. Cassette players and VCR's are on the top of my love list just because I still have favorites on both. I have the first 10th kingdom movie (completely unedited!) on tape and you can not get that version any other way. I would die if I couldn't watch it anymore...


The top of my hate list is definitely electric stove tops. They're not that new, but I wish they had never been created. Gas is ever so much better.

Old technology is like history and should be treated nicely. We can keep them to show people how old technology progressed into new...but people don't care about it because they are so caught up with the technology that they have today they think old stuff is useless junk...=/

personally I hatw DVD's, they get lost and scratch to hell, I have only like 5 of them and over 100 movies on my VHS that I love and have had for years that I still watch all the time

I like old technology a lot.My grandma has tons of Vynil[is that what you call it]and she had a type writer.It was really fun to use when she let me borrow it.The clicking noise was really amusing.I like cassets too.I still have my player to listen to them and have really old ones.Its not all about CD`s.And CD`s can get scratched up easily.

I am annoyed how cassettes after awhile go bad because of the film. Dx I don't like the old so much in terms of technology. The computers, oh dear god...