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i still have my first ipod and my old phones, i have my dad’s walkman and my sister’s discman and my beloved portable dvd player <3 i also still have an original playstation, nintendo ds and an xbox with kinect…. idk i kinda keep everything 👩‍💻

@vampire

Oct 2, 2024

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@verygoodvalentina

ahh that's lovely! it's like a mini family tech museum! also, dvd players are soo underrated– solid entertainment sans wifi dependency >>>>>

Oct 2, 2024

@vampire

verygoodvalentina yes omg! i love my phone but i just enjoy how in the moment i am when i use my discman or walkman plus i’m too aware of solar flares and i’m constantly alert bc what if one day a significantly big flare affects us and knocks out the internet…. like at least in that scenario i have my movies and music 😭

Oct 2, 2024

@verygoodvalentina

vampire i think about this all the time!! i appreciate current tech and being able to stream things whenever you want, but we don't actually own any of it and that has never sat right with me. i am steadfast in my beliefs about owning physical media for literally the exact reasons you just mentioned and it's also nice to know you have access to those things without needing to pay for a membership that could remove precisely what your looking for without notice.

Oct 2, 2024

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And every day i regret getting rid of it. And no buying one wouldn’t be the same, I want MY old blue iPod! before that I had a portable tape player that came with a fabric multicolour case in the shape of a dragon that doubled as a bag, and had speakers, but I mostly used that for audiobooks on holiday or sleepovers at my grandparents as I listened to stuff to go to sleep. At home I had a little green cd and tape player that was very round and very cute. In my tweens/early teens I decided to be cool and weird and ditch new technology and replaced my iPod with a cd walkman, and my motoroler razor flip phone for an old Nokia brick. (Mostly because I was bad for losing things and I was scared of losing fancy phones).

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do every [sure to be painfully dated one day] thing that makes you feel alive

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).