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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I suppose not everyone had the hardware to cut their own vinyl, so being able to stick the disky thingy in the bleep bloop machine and make your own diskies at home sounded kind of bizarre at first

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We had recordable tapes for quite a while beforehand though

[–] psud@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

We even called our MP3 CD compilations "mix tapes"

[–] xX_fnord_Xx@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

As a teenager musician in the 90s, I salivated over the hulking $1k device that could write CDs that lived at the back of the Guitar Center catalog.

Also, the $2.5k Akai MPC for sampling/sequencing.

Now I can do all of this with my phone, but I'm too busy taking a shit before I go to work to stock shelves.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah my mind went right to this. My dad had a few 45s but that had meant paying for a rehearsal space with recording. That was probably the last major medium the average user couldn't make their own

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It started with a Tori Amos lyric about someone burning CDs. I couldn’t imagine why you’d destroy valuable property lol. The term was used originally in industry and later adopted for home use.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The first commercially available CD-Rs were produced in 1988.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R

Tori Amos became popular in the 90s. The term burning a CD was in common parlance by 1993. I doubt that Tori is the origin of the phrase.

[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In 1993, computers were just starting to get CD-ROM drives and CD-Rs were pretty exotic technology. Being able to burn CD's really didn't really go mainstream until the very late 90's.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

The Sega MegaCD didn't have any copy protection because people couldn't burn their own CDs yet.