#analog technology

[scipunk]

Rotary Un-Smartphone

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Video Store & VHS

for @ashyslashyy

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[s3znl-gr3znl]

God i miss feeding technology little pancakes of information. Floppy disks, CDs, DVDs, etc. We fucked up by phasing that out so quickly. The machines are hungry and we've stolen their mouths in the name of progress

[manichewitz]

the masculine urge to send cryptic messages in morse code

[observer-of-the-world]

I'm developing a small series so I'm publicly asking if someone would like to be this kind of consultant for me?

We're still writing the script but it would be so cool to have someone who really Knows This Stuff

I am once again asking unfiction creators to consult with some retrotech people.

Please, just ask "hey could you do this on an N64?" and more importantly "would you do this on an N64?".

"Do CRTs look like this?" "How do VHS tapes work?" there's so many simple questions that'd make your work so much more authentic and we'd be happy to tell you all about how you can do that.

[glamourloser]

modern tv remotes are the result of unethical breeding, causing a stubby frame and the absence of traditional and useful features such as the number and menu buttons. this has caused most domestic remotes to experience poor quality of life and a much higher risk of being lost in the couch cushions. on the other hand, older remotes maintain their natural adaptations for usability and are too large to be properly lost inside of furniture. this means that classic remotes have a much longer lifespan and more fulfilling lives compared to modern examples of the breed.

[tweedlestrove]

this is a machine that was used to punch the cards for the jacquard looms circa the 1800s! Below, there's a demonstration of this technology in action:

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seeburg rhythm prince analog drum machine | source

[drafty-castle]

[eyeballs my electric bill]

I’ll take four!

[fuckableobjects]

Fuckable Object #14 Sony PVM-14L2

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[coolclipartfree]

Sorry about such a long hiatus, unfortunately it's unlikely that I'll ever consistently update this blog again. I'll still pop in every once in a while for things like this clipart I found out of a religious youth group clipart book. Bye for now though

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Vinyls & Fidget Spinners

for @drkiko17

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[avenusbeetle]

BUY A SCYTHE!

quiet✅

precise✅

easy cleanup ✅( just let the dead grass decompose in your lawn )

bring back reaping your grass when it gets too tall (like two feet or something idk)

i say this every time i have to mow a lawn but literally mowing lawn is the most wasteful miserable task human beings are expected to do on a regular basis for no pay except for i guess ones i dont know about or am forgetting

[gmanmedias]

stimboard with ice nine kills gifs, slashers, halloween treats, and VHS/analog horror for @dead-dog-dont-eat !

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[serpentface]

Retconned Wardi firearms- a basic handgun, a highly decorative ceremonial handgun (belonging to Faiza), and a lance-gun.

Gun tech has officially been nerfed down to hand cannons (press F) (this has been a long time coming but I'd been fallacy of sunk costs-ing myself out of retconning).

Handguns are held similarly to a shotgun, with the butt pressed into the user's shoulder, one hand gripping under the barrel, and the other free to ignite the gunpowder. These represent the most advanced firearms in contemporary usage, both in make and in their use of uniform iron projectiles built to match the gun's bore for greater range and efficiency. Lance-guns are the more basal form, usually larger and mounted with the pole held over the shoulder, and are most effectively used by two people (one to hold and aim, one to light the gunpowder).

The spread of firearms is currently mostly limited to the Eastern Inner Seaway peoples (with some additional distribution via overland trade), and actual manufacture of hand cannons and gunpowder at Significant scale is limited to the region's core powers.

The reason for this limited spread is partially due to specific elements of the technology's history. Gunpowder was first synthesized by Burri alchemists and considered to be the discovery of the legendary divine weapon + solar fire of the deity Inanariya, and its formula (along with techniques for ideally refining its components) remained a closely guarded state secret. It was used predominantly in priestly contexts to generate flame and explosive sounds (in conjunction with earlier practices of generating multicolored flames with use of other chemicals), then integrated into combustible weaponry in the forms of fire lances, which would eventually develop into early handcannons.

The treatment of gunpowder as a guarded sacred or semi-sacred substance continued with Wardi adoption, where knowledge of its making is considered a closed rite. It's name (inya tsatsul or just tsatsul, a derived adoption of the Burri iñazatsūya) still reflects a divine solar association (the Burri word means 'sun's thunder', the Wardi 'inya' invokes the sun, 'tsatsul' is an adapted loanword and has no meaning independent of the substance itself), though its priestly use is now predominantly associated with the firearm'ed Odonii (rather than priests of the solar Face Inyamache). The composition of gunpowder can no longer be regarded as a Secret by any means, though efforts to obscure the methods of its creation are still moderately successful and has kept knowledge of gunpowder manufacture more limited than the total sphere of firearm usage itself.

The actual strongest limiting factor of firearm usage is the rarity of natural saltpeter deposits necessary for making gunpowder. The practice of actively producing saltpeter via nitraries has not been developed anywhere in the setting, and all is instead obtained via natural sources. These sources are rare and limited within the current spread of firearm technology, and result in gunpowder being a limited and expensive substance to produce. The weapons themselves are also very expensive to manufacture (a good quality steel SWORD is far too material-cost prohibitive for most people to own), particularly high quality firearms designed for use with standardized ammunition.

These guns are also very basal, and logistical difficulties in their use (weight, very slow loading and firing speed, high visibility, Relatively low reach and accuracy) along with the restrictive cost of production has kept firearms far from rendering conventional weaponry, armor, and projectiles obsolete (even within the societies that have access to them). They are still, however, very devastating in use within their contemporary context, particularly in that high quality guns have a longer range than the best arrow-based projectiles, and utterly negate most contemporary forms of armor at close range.

[neondreams83]