r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TheAeroplaneBear2906 • Jul 16 '26

Unskippable ad Clear Backpacks + Pay to Keep Your Phone

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My freinds school is now requiring these items, and is also using AI to promote this đŸ« 

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u/UsedDragon Jul 16 '26

I remember how jazzed we were about the no-skip on the CD walkman....could shake it for eight or nine seconds and it would keep on playing your Nine Inch Nails

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u/HogmanDaIntrudr Jul 16 '26

Grade A nostalgia right here

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u/PrincessTitan Jul 16 '26

I am now actually lol-ing at the fact CD’s used to skip if you bumped them a bit too enthusiastically

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u/OculusArcana Jul 16 '26

Oh, it was much worse than that. My family's first portable CD player had no skip protection whatsoever. If you moved or tilted it, it would skip. Basically, you had to treat it like you were holding a 101% full bowl of soup. Its purpose was to be able to sit down anywhere and listen to music, not to do it as you travelled.

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u/gaulstone Jul 16 '26

I can still hear “Eraser” blasting through my foam headphones when I think of this.

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u/toyification_girl Jul 16 '26

I still thumb over my massive CD case thinking of such times.....

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u/headrush46n2 Jul 16 '26

when civilization collapses you'll be a king. Get a cd player and a solar charger.

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u/hic_sunt_leones_ Jul 16 '26

Your no-skip actually worked?

I remember how excited I was because I would carry my walkman and wear headphones while riding my bike (wildly unsafe, I know, but it was the 90s so whatever), but that thing still skipped like nobodies business when I hit a bump lmfao

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u/UsedDragon Jul 16 '26

It was the Discman, that came with that godawful shoulder strap and big clunker of a case it was supposed to be stored in

Those were the days.

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u/HalobenderFWT Jul 16 '26

My friend had one of the first consumer grade discman available. It was large and clunky, but you could toss that thing across the room and it wouldn’t skip.

Then things got really bad until they started going with the anti-skip buffering.

Consumer conspiracist me thinks that they intentionally dumbed down the tech in order to sell more units because of incremental obsolescence.

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u/NicolleL Jul 16 '26

I think I had the tape version of that!

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u/United_Gift3028 Jul 16 '26

I had a fluffy sweater I bought 2nd hand, just to sit on my passenger seat a cushion my portable CD player. It had a cable to a tape cassette that plugged into my car sound system.

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u/I_wet_my_plants Jul 16 '26

Damn this took me right back to that moment when we did basically exactly this. NIN and all, lol.

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u/Significant-Bee5101 Jul 16 '26

Yeah unfortunately it wasn't perfect... I tested it with burned CDs and I could definitely make it skip lol

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u/DisposableSaviour Jul 16 '26

The lower your burn speed, the higher quality the burn , so there’s less skipping. Which was fine if you had 4 hours to burn a single cd

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u/funkbruthab Jul 16 '26

Worked great listening to Korn - Follow the leader, or Offspring - Smash while mowing my parents 5 acre lawn in the country

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u/Roach_Coach_Bangbus Jul 16 '26

Reminds me of Gary Gulman's bit about the Discman, enjoy.

https://youtu.be/kJDyB7pcgEY?si=prrcq2tsyH3C9jjX

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u/WW-Sckitzo Jul 16 '26

Mine was this godawful brick, metal, and took like 6 or 8 double A. But it survived so there is that.

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u/BoredAlwys Jul 16 '26

My Adidas hoodie could fit the discman just right. Those were the crappie headphones though for sure

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u/Educational_Agency48 Jul 16 '26

Yeah I could finally play it through my tape deck in my car without skipping. That was life-changing