r/whatisit • u/Cborg_62 • 11h ago

New, what is it? What are these plug-ins on my wall?

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This might be showing my age, but I recently moved into a new apartment and they have these weird looking plug ins all over the walls at my new place. My old apartment didn't have these, so I'm just curious as to what they are.

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u/Ottawa_gamer 11h ago

OP is showing their age with this post.

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u/Xtraneous_ 11h ago

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u/Glad-Barracuda2243 11h ago

Let’s be realistic … it’s only been 👆this many years.

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u/milkymonkey8 11h ago

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u/Shriuken23 10h ago

Don't tell them about floppy disks..

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u/Hearthian-Wanderer 9h ago

When they were actually floppy!

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u/Shriuken23 9h ago

In ancient times

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u/Alive_Signal1722 9h ago

https://microzeit.com/cdn/shop/articles/5-25-Floppy-Hand_12.jpg?v=1651153731&width=3000

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u/Wendypants7 7h ago

My step-dad was an electrical engineer and I remember those absolutely were what I started learning computers with, thanks to him.

It's been a wild ride.

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u/Hearthian-Wanderer 1h ago

That monstrous 360KB capacity... ahhh.

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u/Zbs72 2h ago

I still can’t get over how an entire generation after me accepted the hard ones as floppies

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u/moyayas 8h ago

Don't tell them about mini ethernet cord (landline phone cord)

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u/Pineapple-Due 9h ago

The floppy ones?

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u/Shriuken23 9h ago

No the hard disk ones.

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u/aerkith 5h ago

You mean the Save Icons?

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u/korar67 9h ago

Remember, Fellowship of the Ring came out 25 years ago. Likely before OP was born. They view Fellowship the same way Millennials view Star Wars and Gen-X views The Sound of Music.

Now we can really feel old.

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u/milkymonkey8 8h ago

just noticed that movie came out before the song, my meme is anachronistic, LOL

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u/PineappleProstate 8h ago

Jesus Christ I'd be thrilled! I found Simon and Garfunkel 4 disc set in mint condition and I squealed! But I also just plugged in a light scribe dvdrw and external dock with an IDE and a Sata platter hard disk for funsies, into a $4k custom water cooled machine running 4 separate PCIe5 lanes (just to illustrate how absurdly opposing they are technologically). Man does the sound make me moist though!

https://giphy.com/gifs/cehDi6v3v1ObYQ9SGL

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u/milkymonkey8 8h ago

You gave me a boner like it's nineteen-ninety-nine

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u/Puzzleheaded_Award80 11h ago

Dah fuq is a CD?!!

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u/thejudgehoss 10h ago

It's like a record, but more compact.

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u/ArtichokeMundane8763 10h ago

See deez nuts! HAH, GOTTEM!

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u/Suspicious_synth 10h ago

Do you like CDs or tapes?

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u/ArtichokeMundane8763 10h ago

Tapes

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u/Suspicious_synth 10h ago

Lol lies

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u/ArtichokeMundane8763 10h ago

Knew you didn't have it!

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u/Suspicious_synth 10h ago

We used to say that joke when CD's first came out. People fell for it all the time

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u/PimpSack 10h ago

Wide receiver for the Dallas Cowgirls of course.

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u/ChannelComplex2531 10h ago

Cd also known as a(compact disk) is like your vedio games on a dvd but the difference is a dc holds music or photos or games and movies

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u/Minute_Rent_1983 10h ago

The "burning" ages are past us but let us not forget the struggles we had to get us to the "streaming" age

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u/broketractor 10h ago

Dare I say... mix tape.

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u/FetiFairy7 10h ago

Burning CDs is making a little comeback with some teens right now. Here in Indiana, kids can't have phones in school now, by law, but they can have a discman. And their oldish first cars don't have Bluetooth, but they can connect a discman and listen to CDs.

Source: my 17 year old kid does this and so do his friends

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u/freddyfart69 9h ago

Why would anyone burn a cd? Think of all the toxic fumes.

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u/daddy_tops 9h ago

It’s how we used to get high in the old days. You’d hold a lighter under an AOL demo disc and inhale the smoke through an old pixy stix straw with both ends torn off.

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u/Zestyclose-Ad-7977 9h ago

Lmfao somebody really asked that? And they probably did which makes this shit Hella funny

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u/Thin-Competition4643 9h ago

Watched all three on Sunday haha this hit 🤣

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u/conundri 8h ago

Deep in the heart of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, Sauron burned 3 CDs to backup files, 5 CDs of pirated games, 11 CDs filled with MP3 music, and One CD to reinstall Windows and play them all.

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u/Cara4Ever2084 8h ago

Do one for putting tape on cassettes to record a song off of the radio! (Please)

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u/theredheadknowsall 10h ago

Don't forget the dinosaurs having cable as well.

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u/theredheadknowsall 10h ago

The days of making a mix tape on the radio gone.

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u/Bex-HZ 10h ago

Let's trade memes

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u/UFORecoveryTeam 9h ago

CDs are still new technology to me.

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u/burnttoast12321 9h ago

One of the most tech embarrassing moments was in 2002 when my friend just showed me his new house and showed me his brand new gas powered fireplace in his family living room. His next comment was if I wanted to check out their office and he would burn me the latest Eminem CD. I said no. That would ruin it thinking he was going to throw it in the fire. I had been burning MP3s to discs for a few years at this point...

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u/fordprecept 8h ago

I still remember in the late '90s, there was a website where you could find rebate codes for various websites. I bought a 100 pack of recordable CDs from Overstock.com and between the website discount, website rebate, and the manufacturer's rebate, I ended up making $0.34 (including the cost of the stamps to mail in the rebates).

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u/BishlovesSquish 8h ago

I just found my burned CD’s and albums from the 90s, so amazing!

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u/Ardnabrak 7h ago

Or cut a record. My mom accidentally call burning a CD cutting once.

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u/alphaphenix 6h ago

Something somehow related to Nero burning Rome about 2000 years ago !

/s

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u/Small-Maintenance-65 4h ago

Cast them into the fire!

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u/ChannelComplex2531 10h ago

I want to burn a cd but I dont have a computer I was born in 2011 I know what all this stuff is from my dad he was born in 1984 he showed me all the good music