iPods now considered vintage tech– so of course sold out at Urban Outfitters
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Re: iPods now considered vintage tech– so of course sold out at Urban Outfitters
#2Aw, I wanted to flip through the product photos but UO and Retrospekt have taken them all down.
I loved my first generation iPod Nano. It was such a beautiful little thing.
Edit: this will have to do! https://web.archive.org/web/20060529192323/http://www.apple....
Re: iPods now considered vintage tech– so of course sold out at Urban Outfitters
#3My daughter started asking to use my old digital cameras about 3 or 4 years ago, the ones from the early 2000s.
"Why would you want to use those?" I asked her. "Your phone's camera is way better."
She said she liked "the look" (of the photos) and mentioned that some people she followed on Instagram used them. Turns out there's a universe of retro photo accounts using film, old digital cameras, and old video cameras.
There are also accounts featuring resurrected media from those eras. It looks mundane to me, but triggers some fond nostalgia (see https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/03/style/art-school-instagra...) even for people who didn't live through those eras.
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#4My daughter started asking to use my old digital cameras about 3 or 4 years ago, the ones from the early 2000s. "Why would you want to use those?" I asked her. "Your phone's camera is way better." She said she liked "the look" (of the photos) and mentioned that some people she followed on Instagram used them. Turns out there's a universe of retro photo accounts using film, old digital cameras, and old video cameras.…
It's weird to think that for people without clear memories of it, the 2000's might be imagined in the style of early digital photos the same way the 70's look like Super 8 footage or the early 20th century is sepia toned in my head.
Re: iPods now considered vintage tech– so of course sold out at Urban Outfitters
#5Still using my 2006 iPod. I've replaced the battery (easy, $8) and replaced the hard drive with an SDXC adapter which bumped the capacity from 80GB to 256GB.
Such a great device. My car knows how to control it so I mostly just leave it in the car. Also great on airplanes, with the card conversion it has many hours of battery life.
Amazing how every comparable device made today is so much worse.
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#6My daughter started asking to use my old digital cameras about 3 or 4 years ago, the ones from the early 2000s. "Why would you want to use those?" I asked her. "Your phone's camera is way better." She said she liked "the look" (of the photos) and mentioned that some people she followed on Instagram used them. Turns out there's a universe of retro photo accounts using film, old digital cameras, and old video cameras.…
It's weird to think that for people without clear memories of it, the 2000's might be imagined in the style of early digital photos the same way the 70's look like Super 8 footage or the early 20th century is sepia toned in my head.
Something that occurred to me the other day regarding my own "memories" of times before I was born:
From 1965–Present, the world is in color. The tone shifts a bit, but it's all in color.
1900–1964: Black and white. The world was actually black and white. Sometimes people moved around at a weird frame-rate :)
1800–1899: Color, but very much sepia toned. The whole world was slightly dirty and brownish, but the sky was still blue.
Big Bang–1799: Color, no sepia or nothing.
Of course this is all due to photography and movies. The general lack of both of those before the 20th Century (yeah, I know photography goes back further, but just barely. It wasn't widespread) means whatever images I get from that time period come from paintings and illustrations and written accounts. The sepia I perceive from the 1800s is basically thinking of them in terms of the railroads, westward expansion, etc.
So the result is that when I think about the Roman Empire—when was the last time you thought of that?—I see a richly-colored world like the one we have today. But when I think about WWII, it's all black and white. And the Civil War occurred in a vast, dusty, brownish field.
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#7My daughter started asking to use my old digital cameras about 3 or 4 years ago, the ones from the early 2000s. "Why would you want to use those?" I asked her. "Your phone's camera is way better." She said she liked "the look" (of the photos) and mentioned that some people she followed on Instagram used them. Turns out there's a universe of retro photo accounts using film, old digital cameras, and old video cameras.…
Reminds me of the 'lomography' fad of around 2009-2011, my younger self hankered after old cheap film cameras back then.
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#8The scrolling circle is to this day still the superior way to scroll. Beats the scrolling wheel and swiping by miles.
Re: iPods now considered vintage tech– so of course sold out at Urban Outfitters
#9Aw, I wanted to flip through the product photos but UO and Retrospekt have taken them all down. I loved my first generation iPod Nano. It was such a beautiful little thing. Edit: this will have to do! https://web.archive.org/web/20060529192323/http://www.apple....
Hardware design never got better than this, IMO. Fullscreen capacitive touch seems like an improvement in theory, but iPod controls sit right in the sweet spot between digital and analog.
Slap a DAC, BT5 connectivity with aptX, and 1TB+ SSD in one of those and I'd buy one.
Honestly, battery life on modern phones doesn't lend well to them playing a full-time second role as a music player. This is what you'd want on a camping trip. Maybe there's a nascent market here
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#10I still use the U2 iPod that my mother bought me. It came used and still works to this day!