#Techmoan

[eightiesfan]

Sony FH-7 Mini (mid 80's) via Techmoan video

[allothesis]

I feel that YouTube is trying to turn me straight with their abundance of average looking men talking at length about their special interests. I like them so much.

[gaykarstaagforever]

Jesus Christ, Techmoan.

Dude is like 10 years older than me and he looks like he's aged 30 years in a month.

Must've been one hell of a flu.

I'd leave a comment on the video but ALL the comments on the video are people saying this, and I'm sure he doesn't need any more of that right now.

He's already talked about how his eyesight, hearing and sense of taste and smell are going.

Goddamn.

[leotuesday]

techmoan! found out I love using the crayon brush!! >:33

[numbersareimaginary]

I have a lot of opinions about youtube nostalgia bait videos that are still marinating but the trend of "prison tech" videos that just spinelessly gape about how cool the clear plastic is without like....... any discussion or acknowledgement of how actually fucked mass incarceration is really gets to me.

[oldmanyaoi-jpeg]

What's your favourite kind of physical storage media?

If we're talking practical it's hard to beat a dvd or flash drive imo

if we're talking overall? any floppy disk from 8" to 3.25" to the format war at the end of the floppy's life with the superdisk and iomegas zip and clik!/pocketzip disks. I look at them and go fuck YES now that's some physical fucking media.

Historically, it's gotta be the competitors in the flash storage wars. That's the most interesting format war IMO because so much random shit came out. Literally:

Secure Digital cards, the winner. You probably know this one.

Sandisk's Compact Flash, the close second that saw use in professional photography until SD could get enough capacity.

Sony's Memory Stick, notably NOT usb flash drives- even though Memory Stick lost so hard that's all you'll find when you google it.

Sandisk and Siemens' MultiMediaCard, notably not SD despite the visual similarities.

Toshiba's Smart Media.

AMD, Fujitsu, and Sharp's Miniature Card.

Olympus, Fujifilm, and Kodak's xD-Picture Card.

Sandisk, Sony, and Nikon's XQD card.

Then on top of having 8 separate, competing formats, each format had subformats. Like CFast and Mini/MicroSD.

And if you want proprietary it's a tie between GBA cartidges and PSP disks. They're the most satisfying game formats IMO.

[mikshroomthesilly]

I love this song with all of my heart ahhhh </3

[gobusto]

why did they name it that.

[marioclash]

OH WAIT THAT MIDDLE ONE IS CLEAR TECH

they make electronics like cd players and stuff for inmates

[foone]

Mx. Foone, in a recent video of mine I cited you as the person who "has probably every storage medium ever made" and I'd like to know how accurate that statement is, furthermore because I mention you having that weird big tape that's proprietary for a specific manufacturer's model of TV. So, are there any that you're missing?

It's surprisingly accurate for how huge a field that is!

But my collection isn't super complete for things like analog audio storage: there's a bunch of weird audio formats I don't have any of (Techmoan has me beat there). And since the pandemic ended my plans of a third exhibit (after my first two of floppy storage and optical storage), my collection of flash-based memory isn't complete, because the remaining ones I don't have any of are kinda expensive, because they're designed for high-end video storage.

Anyway, probably the "biggest" (in terms of popularity, not size!) storage that I don't have is LD-ROMs and LV-ROMs. These laserdisc variants were used with the BBC Domesday Project and the Pioneer LaserActive console, but they're rare and expensive enough that I don't have any.

I'm also missing out on most of the mainframe harddrive formats. Mainframes have never been my focus, and those are similarly rare and expensive, so I've never really bothered trying to collect them.

Also I'll have to check out that video!

[objectum-culture-is]

objectum culture is figuring out you want to kiss computers due to your special interest being old technology. michael mjd, lgr, bringus studios, and techmoan made me realize i was into computers. it cannot get funnier than that

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[its-a-me-dre]

Tech youtube is my favorite kind of background noise. Why? Well, here's how it goes, you put a video on as background noise, and what happens next can be divided in the following phases:

1) *Not listening* "Uh uh, tell me more"

2) *Something catches your interest, like a raccoon that's just seen a shiny™️, your eyes snap towards the screen* "UH UH, TELL ME MORE!"

And if you aren't already on eBay looking for whatever it is the youtuber is talking about, then congratulations! You've just finished watching a two hour video on video CD's stumbling first steps on the western market.

I LOVE this kind of content. After so many years of tech and gaming youtube regurgitating only the most basic of trivia tidbits, which, to add insult to injury, were often incorrect or biased, we finally have people who are passionate and interested enough to make deep dives into devices (Like the oh-so overkill Japanese cell phones) and formats the Average Joe has probably never even heard about, incredibly thought out video essays on games that span the length of multiple feature films, multi-part series on computer features nobody ever used (The Quick Start series, also by Cathode Ray Dude!), joy of joys!

Since you've made it this far, here are some channel recommendations:

Technology Connections has made videos spanning so many topics that you'd think he pulls them out of a hat, he busts myths and dives deep into everyday tech and appliances that is way more interesting under the hood than you'd ever fathom. Anything from Christmas lights to microwaves, camera flashes to window awnings, electric heaters, he even bought a freeze dryer

Cathode Ray Dude does videos on electronics you'd find in homes and businesses: computers and related peripherals, phones, specialty tech built for incredibly specific use-cases (like an HD VHS player) and the above mentioned Video CD, great guy and a total vibe.

I'm cheating a bit with this one as it's not strictly a tech channel but you gotta love DankPods, he's a drummer and audio nut that injects humor into his videos in a way that is going to make you crack up or at the very least endear you to him. He digs up the jankiest pieces of audio stuff you'll ever see, from a rubber duck-shaped ipod dock to the worst MP3 players you ever will see. Great fun, and somehow, in recent weeks, he just so happened to drop a video just when I was having a miserable day and needed a pick-me-up. Crazy.

He also has a car channel

f4mi, a fellow european, does high quality and in-depth videos about early 2000s tech and gaming, besides being fantastically edited they go over topics that are usually mentioned in videos about other subjects but rarely recieve coverage in and of themselves: like the incredible cell phones produced in Japan in the early 2000s, or PC peripherals that have long gone the way of the dodos.

EDIT: I almost forgot the OG, Techmoan! He goes way back, and his videos are incredibly relaxing. It's always cool to see him cover stuff like appliances and stuff: a digital pinball table, a fancy japanese toaster, the world's smallest dishwasher, a smart mug, a desk buddy robot, and more!

And since I "cheated" a bit with DankPods, I'll include Lazy Game Reviews as well! He covers games, of course, but also a myriad of computer related oddities (most recent being a BEASTLY mini PC) and software like the iconic aquarium screensaver. His videos are well edited and feature an irresistible smooth jazz soundtrack.

He also streams from the camera facing the birdfeeder in his garden. It's oddly enthralling.

[kornwulf]

One of my favorite things is old science fiction stories completely neglecting the mundane technologies in their world. For example, photographic film and microfiche is all over the place in classic era science fiction

However, the most absurd example I can think of is a novel I read when I was young that used a *magnetic wire recording* as it's McGuffin (I want to say it was Heinlein? But honestly it could have been anyone). That recording technology was dead and in the ground by 1954, and I distinctly remember being confused for *years* as to what they were talking about. It took randomly running across a techmoan video to figure it out.