Gen Zer learns about the limitations of technology in the 90s

[Elim Garak]

Mid 30s it’s just something I didn’t really do

I'm very disappointed in you.

 

[Elim Garak]

Man it took work back then to find your songs. Even downloading music, you were risking viruses and that56k modem. It’ll take like 20 minutes to download a song. Before mp3 players you had to burn cds. I remember md players were popular at one point but you had to play the entire song to record it. And if you didn’t have cable tv, the only other place I saw music videos were public access tv channels.

I remember when my friend got a computer and started using Napster in like 97 or 98 lol. shyt was a game changer. I didn't have home internet access until like 2000 or 2001.

 

[Canada Goose]

Millennial here but I never waited on the radio to record shyt onto a cassette tape

I'm an millennial as well. BET and random mixtapes was how I kept up with the most popular songs at a given time. In NYC you used to be able to buy Hot 97 mixtapes.




I didn't have cable during my high school years and kinda fell out of touch on the most poppin songs at any given time. This is probably why I didn't become a huge Lil Wayne stan like most of my peers back then The songs I did listen to were on Youtube.





However I do remember recording some episodes of the Steve Harvey Show on WB network on VCR though.

 

[Chrishaune]

Millennial here but I never waited on the radio to record shyt onto a cassette tape

It depends on what time period. As a young pre-teen and young teenager I would sit around watching music videos. As the Internet advanced in the late 90s/early 2000s people started burning CDs and selling them at school.

 

[DJ Paul's Arm]

That's why millennials are the GOAT. We got the best of both worlds, from putting coins in pay phones at the bus stop to all the shyt we got now

Calling collect to get a ride.

“This is a call from…..hey ma pick me up!”

 

[Hater Eraser]

Wait until they find out how to bus their tracks down to a two-mix on a four track to get their demos out.



No monitors so the mix wasn't properly EQ'd.

 

[The War Report]

This fukking idiot asking if there were music videos back then. These kids don't even bother to know the history of the world before them. It never occurs to them ask how did it get to this point?

 

[Hater Eraser]

Calling collect to get a ride.

“This is a call from…..hey ma pick me up!”

I used to be on punishment and still pop up at the function ..

 

[Dont@Me]

Man it took work back then to find your songs. Even downloading music, you were risking viruses and that56k modem. It’ll take like 20 minutes to download a song. Before mp3 players you had to burn cds. I remember md players were popular at one point but you had to play the entire song to record it. And if you didn’t have cable tv, the only other place I saw music videos were public access tv channels.

When you were recording a song onto your blank CD's live and your brother upstairs jumped up and made the record skip, so now that skip is forever etched into that one part of the song on your CD which gave it a unique characteristic

 

[Dont@Me]

This fukking idiot asking if there were music videos back then. These kids don't even bother to know the history of the world before them. It never occurs to them ask how did it get to this point?

I think this is exactly him learning the history breh

 

[Hater Eraser]

You were not pressing play and record you were unpausing the pause button after play and record were pressed hours ago.

Had to time that shyt perfectly right after DJ stops yapping ...

 

[The War Report]

I think this is exactly him learning the history breh

There's some shyt you just should know.

 

[Chrishaune]

There's some shyt you just should know.

Gotta stall these YNs out.

They are teaching them to choose their gender in school instead of history.

They need real teachers outside of school.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Mace you appreciate music more. Now the songs are littering your pockets 24/7 and now people don’t care as much

 

[85 East]

It was a big thing when new videos came out. You'd have to record that shyt if you had a vcr to watch it back. Recording songs off of late night College Radio mix shows. Dj'ing my boys 10th bday party with 2 boom boxes, headphones to cue up the next track on, and fade that shyt in with the volume knobs...