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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I see your slide projector and raise you an overhead projector.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I see your overhead projector and raise you a zip drive and a mini disc. I blow my NES cartridge to bid adieu to you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I bet a zip drive could blow their minds. The mini disc and nes cartridge wouldn’t even phase them. Stuff like that are too iconic.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I bet a zip drive could blow their minds.

Show the Blue Yeti streaming generation the old boom mics we had. The ones that looked like refueling probes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Lol I remember my dad being so excited when he got one of these for our windows 95 PC that he had us record something for it and told us all about how advanced it was.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

It's crazy how ubiquitous those were. Anyone with a mic for their PC had that exact mic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Back when all that existed for online voicecomms was ventrilo, i took one of those boom mics and taped it to one of the ear muffs of an analog headset meant for cd players, as I could not actually afford a mic+headset combo.

Worked for years rofl.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

taped it to one of the ear muffs of an analog headset

MacGuyver would be proud.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I barely knew that minidiscs were a thing when they were contemporary.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Spelling it this way is just a phase.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I always thought zip drives were another term for flash drives because so many people just used the terms interchangably.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of how everyone is now misusing the term "ROM" to mean "Storage" when it actually means "Read-Only Memory". Drives me nuts every time I see it in advertising.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It's funny to me that things like EEPROM are considered ROM. Like, ok, I can write to it? Read only, huh?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They are still considered essential in German schools.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Germany still uses faxes, it's not surprising at all.

Tho tbf they're common in Italy too even in the better universities

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Hell, I'm a millennial and I had a professor at college maybe five years ago who used an overhead because he refused to figure out how to use PowerPoint with the computer projector.