Comment by sudo_shinespark@lemmy.world on I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun

Why did I just read an article about using an iPod that was clearly written by someone born in the early-mid 2000s? I know the original ipod was fun. I was there, gandalf

Yeah, there’s an interest in Y2K era tech amongst some gen-Z people. I think it’s cool, idk why you’re hating.

I’ve never understood it, but there’s a lot of gatekeeping when it comes to older products. Some people think they have more rights to enjoy a product they knew existed for longer and it’s really strange behaviour.

I see a lot of younger people wondering why so many people my age liked this or that and it helps to have it in context. Like “what’s so great about half life? Every shooter ever is like that!” Ah, but you see, my young friend, that’s now. Everything is like Half Life because Half Life changed the landscape. Not really gatekeeping, but you do lose a lot of what made a thing special if you’re only looking at it without the historical context.

Basically, the “Seinfeld is not funny” trope (insert TVTropes link and disclaimer)

To be fair, Seinfeld is not funny. Never watched it live, tried to watch it recently starting at season 1, horrible.

Cool story. What a fresh take that nobody has seen before lol

And season 1 sucks

It’s not gatekeeping, but a frustration about a new generation coming to an obvious conclusion, that they already had.

Why do people get frustrated about that? Someone is experiencing something for the first time, it’s the circle of life.

I’m in my mid 30s and my wife bought a record player during the revival of records last decade. Do you think older generations than me found that frustrating? Personally I think it’s fascinating to watch technology go full circle generation by generation

Interesting discussion to have witnessed as an outsider.

Is an article written for a a writers expression or a readers enjoyment. (Both?)

I dont think they where frustrated with the writers enjoyment but rather disappointed that the article was a first discovery opinion rather then a veterans rediscovery from a modern point of view which would have been more useful to reflect their own opinion and thus be more personally entertaining. The negativity goed inwards perceiving it as a waste of their time.

Great analysis, you’re got it spot on there. It’s frustration from learning nothing new from something they thought would be interesting. That probably all boils down to bad the title of the article not being descriptive enough.

Nintendo DS sales are crazy popular right now too. They like our tech like we liked our parents’ Ataris.

Parents?? That was my first console. How young is everyone here?

Intellivision was where it was at though, right?

Everything except that monstrosity of a controller.

Hell nah! We need to normalize controllers with replaceable faceplates that come with each and every game.

Only the rich kids had that. The baseball was awesome though.

My first console was an Atari 2600 clone in 1994!

Eastern block vibes

To be fair, the 2600 is 47 years old, you’d have to be 52 at a minimum to remember it launching and 42 to remember the NES. I just remember loving my Atari 2600 all the way in the 90s.

I’m 42. I always got systems later than other kids. The Atari was in the house ever since I could form memories, and I finally got an NES in 1990, when the SNES and Genesis/Mega drive were on the horizon.

Then the Atari was already very old by the time you started forming memories, so it would have been your parent’s generation. It was 4 years old when you were born.

Theres a reason retro consoles are a huge hit right now. Even emulation consoles like the Miyoo Mini Plus.

No micro transactions?

I don’t think it’s hating. More just questioning their own decision to read the article.

IDK why you interpreted their comment as hating.

Naw, no hate. iPods are fuckin rad. Younger generations should definitely get to enjoy older tech. But the author’s observations weren’t really anything I needed to invest my time in reading. I know old iTunes had a visualizer. I don’t know why I read the whole thing anyways

I’m not quite that young.

So we can laugh at the fact that they can’t find a simple 1394 to USB cable and instead rely on daisy chaining a hundred dollars worth of apple products to make it work…

Holy shit.

a hundred dollars worth of apple products

What’s that, like, one cable?

Hahaha - no, that’s just the little clippy bit at the end of the cable. The cable’s extra.

Right? Like this guy was a prophet. Uh, one of those prophets who appear, y’know, after all the stuff happens.

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Like this guy was a prophet.

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

I didn’t buy those adapters, I just used a computer that had a FireWire 400 port. I haven’t found any evidence of those direct USB cables working with old iPods.

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