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[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 47 points 10 months ago

Is this your kid nephew's "museum"?

"Old" is not 20 years and that is not a goddamn discman. Sorry, Ralphie. You can do better.

[-] danielbln@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Sorry to be the one breaking the bad news, but you might be old yourself if you think like that. Don't sweat it, happens to all of us.

[-] jpeps@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

I think you're missing the point. Museums collect this stuff not because it's old, but because it was significant to people at the time and they want to collect it for prosperity. Imagine if they waited until 2050 and then said "Shit! Wasn't there a cd player we all liked at some point? Does anyone have one?" They should have one, they're a museum! Many museums will be maintaining an iPhone collection for example.

Regardless, most people under 30 likely do not have access to a cd player, and I'd guess many never owned one. It's not strange for that to be in a museum even without what I've said above.

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I disagree with you. In the tech industry, 20 years is ancient. If you were born in 1985, 20 years prior that was 1965, and the tech of that decade was very different from the 80s tech.

Imagine someone living in a year where calculator watches were already a thing, and when in a museum displaying one of those radios in wooden cabinets and knobs with the style of the time they said "that's not old!!!!!!"

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