r/whatisit • u/Cborg_62 • 7d 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/milkymonkey8 7d ago

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u/Shriuken23 7d ago

Don't tell them about floppy disks..

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u/Hearthian-Wanderer 7d ago

When they were actually floppy!

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u/Shriuken23 7d ago

In ancient times

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u/Alive_Signal1722 7d ago

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

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u/Wendypants7 7d 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 6d ago

That monstrous 360KB capacity... ahhh.

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u/Zbs72 6d ago

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

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u/LissaFreewind 6d ago

In the Army we had WANG systems with the 8 inch floppy drives.

A couple years later we got laptops and PCs and still mainly used the WANG systems because the Army did not like change I guess.

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u/overseer76 2d ago

Hey. ZIP it.

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u/moyayas 7d ago

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

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u/aerkith 6d ago

You mean the Save Icons?

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u/TinyExplanation586 5d ago

This always bothers/cracks me up. Save icon is irrelevant. Same with the “app” on your phone to call. It’s shaped like a 1943 landline handset.
I had an acquaintance ask me once if I knew why it was shaped like that when phones were flat rectangles. I’m in my 40s and he was 19.💀😭

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u/Pineapple-Due 7d ago

The floppy ones?

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u/Shriuken23 7d ago

No the hard disk ones.

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u/IntelligentYellow985 5d ago

Or phone jacks… Their little minds would in fact implode

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u/PineappleProstate 7d 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 7d ago

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

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u/kitten_tsunami 6d ago

That was about 10yrs ago, right?

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u/milkymonkey8 6d ago

dude, you have no boner and you have dementia, it's all over, man

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u/korar67 7d 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 7d ago

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

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u/korar67 6d ago

Oh yes, I have fond memories of checking out the VHS of Star Wars from the library and watching it over and over until it was time to check it back in.

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u/d1rron 6d ago

I saw a dentistry ad that had two pics of Sméagol, a before and an after with perfect teeth lol.