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negativenull
piefed.world
negativenull@piefed.worldJoined: 2025-06-12 |
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username_1
programming.dev
username_1@programming.dev Joined: 2026-02-27 |
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mushroommunk
lemmy.today
mushroommunk@lemmy.today Joined: 2025-08-18 |
This isn't one of those old Kodak cameras where the picture instantly printed out? |
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agentTeiko
piefed.social
agentTeiko@piefed.social Joined: 2026-01-29 |
That's a console TV on top of the dresser |
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SpontaneousCombustion
lemmy.world
SpontaneousCombustion@lemmy.world Joined: 2025-04-27 |
The first prototype GameBoy, with drawers below the screen to hold the cartridges. |
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TrackinDaKraken
lemmy.world
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.worldJoined: 2025-02-26 |
Prototype Sony WatchMan |
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Onno (VK6FLAB)
lemmy.radio
vk6flab@lemmy.radioJoined: 2024-03-04 |
It's the dolls house version of the HP 8920A RF Communications Test Set. |
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Taleya
aussie.zone
Taleya@aussie.zone Joined: 2023-06-21 |
Early smartphone |
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LastYearsIrritant
sopuli.xyz
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz Joined: 2025-02-20 |
When TVs were first invented, nobody could afford one. Small towns all over the US installed large cabinets outside of every town hall with the biggest CRT screens they could afford in them, which was only about 9" at the time. People would crowd around them to watch the news every night. Sometimes they'd do movie nights where they would put up giant curved mirrors to make the picture much bigger, and they'd put up big loudspeakers for the audio. Only problem is that everything would be backwards, so they couldn't watch movies with subtitles. Eventually TVs became cheap enough to get in the home, but this was pretty inexpensive entertainment for people, especially during the Great Depression. People would even try to earn a few $ by selling homemade treats during the movie nights. |
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Smuuthbrane
sh.itjust.works
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.worksJoined: 2023-06-13 |
Pan-dimensional periscope. |
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seraphine
lemmy.blahaj.zone
seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zoneJoined: 2025-08-01 |
its one of those drawers you can loot in arc raiders |
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MurrayL
lemmy.world
MurrayL@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-07-01 |
That’s the oft-overlooked TRS-66 Micro Computer System. One of the first home computers to feature coloured blinky lights; prior to that, home computers were limited to using standard E26 bulbs. |
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CIA_chatbot
lemmy.world
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-06-19 |
R2/D2s father |
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Rentlar
lemmy.ca
Rentlar@lemmy.ca Joined: 2023-03-14 |
A Dalek with an office job. |
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Tolookah
discuss.tchncs.de
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de Joined: 2023-06-12 |
That's the first costume/makeup pass for Brent Spiner. |
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Sunforged
lemmy.ml
Sunforged@lemmy.ml Joined: 2023-10-18 |
This is one of the old analog dresser cabinets. We take the technology for granted now but it was revolutionary for its time. A camera from the top drawer is connected to the screen above, so that you can monitor your unmentionables and make sure no one is actively getting into your underwear. |
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queerlilhayseed
piefed.blahaj.zone
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zoneJoined: 2025-09-27 |
Before we had digital filesystems our ancestors had to use analog filesystems. This one has an analog "browser" called a CRT built into the top of the cabinet, so users could browse their files on the go. It may seem quaint now but it was all the rage back when it came out. |
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okwhateverdude
lemmy.world
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-08-01 |
It's a Comscanner from The Orville |
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Pirasp
lemmy.world
Pirasp@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-08-09 |
This is a vintage prototype for a two bay airfryer |
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queerlilhayseed
piefed.blahaj.zone
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zoneJoined: 2025-09-27 |
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I think it's a TOS tricorder. |
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pulsewidth
lemmy.world
pulsewidth@lemmy.world Joined: 2025-01-29 |
That's an old iphone from the 80s. |
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queerlilhayseed
piefed.blahaj.zone
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zoneJoined: 2025-09-27 |
This is one of the old analog dresser cabinets. We take the technology for granted now but it was revolutionary for its time. A camera from the top drawer is connected to the screen above, so that you can monitor your unmentionables and make sure no one is actively getting into your underwear.
Back before we had camera phones we had to take nudes with the dresser cam and send them via courier urchin. |
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Fedegenerate
fedinsfw.app
Fedegenerate@fedinsfw.app Joined: 2026-02-22 |
It's the machine that goes "BING" |
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queerlilhayseed
piefed.blahaj.zone
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zoneJoined: 2025-09-27 |
When TVs were first invented, nobody could afford one. Small towns all over the US installed large cabinets outside of every town hall with the biggest CRT screens they could afford in them, which was only about 9" at the time. People would crowd around them to watch the news every night. Sometimes they'd do movie nights where they would put up giant curved mirrors to make the picture much bigg...
Back in the old days all subtitles were actually written by humans. TV studios would have huge rooms full of transcriptionists who typed all the subtitles in real time, for every show, on big mechanical keyboards. It's kind of remarkable they could hear anything over how loud those keyboards were. Eventually Big Stenography started snapping up all the transcriptionist talent so the networks switched to AI transcription, which is why today's subtitles don't have the same warmth or depth that classic subtitles have. |
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klu9
piefed.social
klu9@piefed.socialJoined: 2025-06-04 |
The Crushinator |
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ummthatguy
Moderator
ummthatguy@lemmy.worldJoined: 2023-06-22 |
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kbal
fedia.io
kbal@fedia.ioJoined: 2023-11-03 |
A vintage oscilloscope in its original wrought iron casing. The drawers are for storing solder, probes, and electrolyte syringes. |
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negativenull
Moderator
negativenull@piefed.worldJoined: 2025-06-12 |
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EnsignWashout
startrek.website
EnsignWashout@startrek.website Joined: 2023-08-22 |
The Crushinator
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Thebeardedsinglemalt
lemmy.world
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world Joined: 2024-07-17 |
Is it an espresso machine? |
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Send Pics of Sandwiches
sh.itjust.works
Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.worksJoined: 2023-06-20 |
The green cumulon |
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starman2112
sh.itjust.works
starman2112@sh.itjust.worksJoined: 2023-08-10 |
That's a premium piece of tech. A Simmons TCR signal isolator, with mechanical switches. Been decades since I saw one. The new SDRs are technically more efficient, but you could dial this baby in so much better than the autoisolators we work with now. Of course external signal gates are a thing so focusing isn't really an issue anymore, but damn do I miss spending half an hour hunting for that perfect shade of orange. I miss the VXJunkies subreddit. Is there an equivalent here? |
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Onomatopoeia
lemmy.cafe
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe Joined: 2025-01-02 |
I just love the awful tan fabric speaker cover. Couldn't go with a metal grate, which would've been more hi-tech? |
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then_three_more
lemmy.world
then_three_more@lemmy.world Joined: 2024-02-17 |
Jeffrey Combs |
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SCmSTR
lemmy.blahaj.zone
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone Joined: 2023-07-24 |
Ye olde Spank Deposit. They keep these in hospital rooms and some obscure roadsides for when people need to be walked through moving jizzsm from your body to a drawer for safe keeping and later consumption. |
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marlowe221
lemmy.world
marlowe221@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-06-13 |
Prototype Sony WatchMan
You beat me to it. Take my upvote! |
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Lemming421
lemmy.world
Lemming421@lemmy.worldJoined: 2024-02-16 |
It's the machine that goes "BING"
Also downloads comics from the future and can boil an egg at thirty paces. You need to stay away from chickens… it’s not pretty when they blow |
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Valmond
lemmy.dbzer0.com
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.comJoined: 2025-11-13 |
It's a trash can from 1984. |
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teft
piefed.social
teft@piefed.socialJoined: 2025-07-22 |
Original Model Janet from the Beta version of The Good Place.
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queerlilhayseed
piefed.blahaj.zone
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zoneJoined: 2025-09-27 |
It's the machine that goes "BING"
Steve Ballmer uploaded his consciousness to a filing cabinet? |
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meta4
retrolemmy.com
meta4@retrolemmy.com Joined: 2025-07-28 |
PipMan |
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SkaBunkel
lemmy.world
SkaBunkel@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-06-22 |
This is a old filing cabinet with a screen for indexing. |
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f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4
sopuli.xyz
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz Joined: 2024-03-25 |
Grandma keeps the Atari in the drawers. |
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CapuccinoCoretto
lemmy.world
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.worldJoined: 2026-03-24 |
You're all wrong! Fools! Everyone knows it's a Kirk era tricorder. |
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m4xie
lemmy.ca
m4xie@lemmy.ca Joined: 2023-09-30 |
It's the machine that goes "PING!" From the maternity ward scene in the Monty Python movie Meaning of Life. |
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Echo Dot
feddit.uk
echodot@feddit.uk Joined: 2023-07-26 |
It's the tricorder before the one in TOS |
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moopet
sh.itjust.works
moopet@sh.itjust.worksJoined: 2025-02-08 |
It's the chest of drawers from a dolls' house. Someone's put a TV on it presumably so they can watch in bed. |
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mrmaplebar
fedia.io
mrmaplebar@fedia.ioJoined: 2025-09-27 |
1980s hotel minibar |
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