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[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 72 points 5 months ago

Zoomers don't realize we grew up when bullying was acceptable.

[-] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 37 points 5 months ago

It still is acceptable. It's just that today they call it management and human resources.

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago
[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Those also existed back then, in addition to actual IRL bullying well into adulthood. You either learned how to fight, and got into a few, or you were subjected to relentless bullying throughout your life.

[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago

Their bullying is way more intrusive and emotionally damaging. We never SWATted each other or to use an app to anonymously and constantly message each other to kill yourself

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

It's odd, they do seem generally more inclusive and less cliquey, but humans are humans, and that means bullying still happens. The really intense stuff has been empowered by internet anonymity (or short of that, a lack of physical presence and the accompanying repercussions), perfect for your prototypical emotionally damaged coward of a bully.

For those who don't go nuclear, it seems like the main thing is exclusion, but it can be hard to decide when that moves from them simply associating with the people they want, to passive aggressive bullying. I'm sure the number of people cruelly left off the "new" group text for some bullshit reason is pretty large though.

[-] Pips@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 months ago

From what I can tell talking to teachers, the public bullying among Gen Z has ebbed (excluding anything gang-related) but the private stuff is way worse. My guess is it's related, given how performative social media is and how much of an influence it has on Gen Z. Not saying Millenials are immune, but we came up in a society that actively cautioned against putting too much of yourself online whereas Gen Z grew up in a post-Facebook society that encouraged it.

Also, behaviors generally across the board are worse post-pandemic. It's apparently like no one knows how to be nice to each other anymore.

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 6 points 5 months ago

I'd rather get anonymously told to kill myself than bashed on the way home from school every day.

[-] Cooljimy84@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago
[-] spirinolas@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

"Boys will be boys"

"Just ignore them..."

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago

Us millennials invented cyberbullying someone into suicide. Imagine killing someone using nothing but AOL Instant Messenger.

[-] TIN@feddit.uk 55 points 5 months ago

Trying to tape a song off the radio without getting too much of the DJ's voice...

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

Then you listen to your recording enough that the D.J.'s voice at the end becomes a part of the song in your mind and it feels incomplete when you hear it without.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago

I still remember when my brother called our radio station to see if they had the new Megadeth album that hadn't been released yet. On our tape, we got the DJ saying "And here's some new Megadeth for you off their new album Cryptic Writings. We're not even supposed to be playing this yet!"

In my mind, that's just part of the song now.

[-] edwardbear@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

or, a live recording and then even the studio recorded version sounds off. It has to be that specific live performance

[-] Agrivar@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

That still happens to me all the time, as a big fan of jam bands like Phish and the 'Dead there are quite a few songs where a specific concert rendition is 'the correct one' and the album version sounds wrong.

[-] dogsnest@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Jerking off while downloading a song became an initiation to piracy.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

On a cassette tape thank you very much.

[-] TIN@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago

"high speed dubbing" and other lost technologies

[-] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Fast walking home from school to catch Total Request Live on MTv at 3:30, hoping your favorite song didn't drop in the ranking today because that means it will play earlier and you will not get to hear it today (and that song is Objects in the Rear View Mirror by Meatloaf).

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 44 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Sears Catalogs? What sort of sick shit is this?

National Geographics is what you were supposed to jerk off to. All those naked ladies in tropical countries...

And it was okay, because it was educational!

[-] edwardbear@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

To this day, seeing women from the Himba tribe gets me going

[-] spirinolas@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Ah, I too am a man of culture.

[-] 3ntranced@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Look at Mr.Moneybags over here with the NatGeo subscription

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 35 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

35 minutes? That's child's play. I used to queue up 2-3 songs in the morning on ~~Limewire~~ Napster and hope they'd be finished downloading by the time I got home from work. Half the time there was still a couple hours left for the last song.

[-] storcholus@feddit.de 6 points 5 months ago

When I first used Napster I installed it on the school computer and used the audio out to record it on my Minidisc player. It was quite fast at the time, got like two or three songs per lesson

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

That's some serious early 2000's hacking that you had going on there.

[-] Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You win

Ps. Not for the speed, but recording via audio jack is brilliant

[-] Breezy@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Man im old but i remember as a preteen i used limewire and morpheus to download songs much faster then you depict.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

Even over dial-up it was a matter of minutes. Like y'all were downloading mp3s and not WAVs, right?

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[-] Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm not old enough to have used Limewire myself, but my dad used eMule to download some songs and movies that we liked in the early 2000s.

Still, at 24 I'm basically middle-aged in internet years.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

The only thing I've ever downloaded was opera performances. That was 2023 and took hours.

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[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
[-] CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago

Hell, that’s amazingly high quality compared to my channel

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Once when some friends and I had a hotel room to ourselves while their dad and his GF had a different room, I discovered that if you switched to the ppv channel and quickly started toggling the volume either up or down and continued doing this for 15-30 seconds, the channel would not scramble for about 5 minutes. You could then switch away and back and do the volume thing again.

[-] edwardbear@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

Ehh why would I continue watching it for 4 more minutes

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

I learned in my late teens that the channels were scrambled by a little filter in the cable line at the main connector box on the street. So I removed mine, and then charged other people to unblock their cable. I subsidized my beer money for a while by going to people's houses, breaking into their cable boxes, and removing their filters. In my early 20's I managed to get my hands on some of the tags that the cable companies put on your cable line when it's supposed to be connected, and some black boxes, and then I charged people to hook up their free cable. It was a pretty rad gig for a while.

[-] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

God bless that old basement TV.

[-] teamevil@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

Oh that Christmas Sears catalog....so many pages

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Sticky pages.

[-] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 5 months ago
[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Having to wait for the porn, one row at a time.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

"Come on... I can almost see the nipple..."

Ah, memories...

But never to the end.

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

This is why progressive jpg was superior.

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[-] olutukko@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

I'm not that old. I'm just old enough to send song trough bluetooth from friend to friend and it took ages. also good luck trying to watch porn since only device capable of that is the family computer

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Why is the browser history always empty?

- ur mom

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Haha, my dad used the computer for porn one time. He was completely tech illiterate and didn’t know it kept a record. Silly stuff like “titfucking.com” and “bigboobybikerchicks.com”. He just .com’d whatever crossed his mind.

He told my mom he only got on there to play space cadet pinball. He was seriously gonna let me and my brother take the fall. I don’t blame him though. My mom can be batshit crazy and porn to her would be no different than cheating.

My brother and I would have been nagged at and grounded. He had to go stay at my grandma’s for a month. Haha

God I was so mad that he tried to blame us. Like, yeah, I was looking at porn. I covered my damn tracks and don’t give a shit about big booby biker chicks.

[-] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

The stigma against watching porn while married among older generations is an interesting one. I'm not gonna say it was wrong, but I find it hard to make myself care. If my fiance finds something nice, I'd just prefer that he share it with me lol

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 months ago

Damn, that struck home hard.

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