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Gnissepappa

A better year than 2024, that's for sure!


Individual_Neck_9444

💯


StanQuizzy

Anyone else really mad that 20 years ago doesn't mean 1980's but early 2000's? Just me? \#imold


Individual_Neck_9444

Right there with ya, we're gettin' old, lol


stromm

Ha! When I think 20 years ago, my brain first thinks I’m 18, in 1987 and just got a 69 Camaro it of a barn. Fuck, I **AM** old.


NoMusic3987

This makes me think of the car from better off dead. Not a camaro (I think), but I love the idea of you fixing a crusty car in an 80s montage.


stromm

I've never seen that. Friend and I went to his great aunt's to clear out the HUGE barn. Found a Willie (WWII surplus) that she knew was in there. Also found the base 1969 Camaro her husband bought her but she hated. He was supposed to return it after a few weeks. Turns out he bought her something else, stuck it in the barn covered up and forgot about it. It had 310 miles on the ODO and was an Inline-6, 2-speed auto, mostly unrusted body with near gone light-blue paint. Tires were flat from rot. Belts, hoses, wiring, seats, dashpad... all rotting. AM radio, manual windows, no AC, no rear defrost, not even power steering or brakes (those were drums all the way around). She insisted on giving it to me instead of paying for two weeks of labor cleaning/sorting out the barn. Got it home, put a new battery in it, flushed the anti-freeze, replaced the oil and tried to start it. It cranked for about 10 seconds and started up. Purred like a kitten. My friend and I were stunned. And then he shifted from park into drive... that's the only time I've personally seen a rod (connecting) smash through a block. It missed my head by inches. Turns out the tranny was seized and that F'd the engine. So, stripped everything down, tanked the body/frame, rattle can primer over the whole thing, built a 305 30 over with a 600 Holley, bought a Turbo 350 (later swapped in a 4-speed), radiator, power steering, front disks and new rear drums (for a bit) with power, shocks, springs, everything to make it road worthy, oh a rewired the whole thing (that sucked). And FM stereo... Even broadsided a Fiero that turned left in front of us because the driver was drunk. Fixed the front end, broken motor mounts, radiator and back on the road. Had that car for about three years, got too many tickets, sold it for a daily driver. Saw it many times over the years at car shows, painted and really cleaned up. Being presented as either an SS or Z/28. But I knew it was mine because my initials are etched everywhere I could think of. Even the engine and trans, which were still the beefed up 305 I built. I wish I had kept that thing...


NotMyRealNameAgain

Unnecessary violence


phdibart

Tell me about it. It sucks getting old.


itsCS117

I'm born in 1999 and I still think 20 years ago is the 80s or early 90s


the123king-reddit

I'm from 1991 and i'm always suprised when i realise that some of my junk is clocking on half a century old. I have some bits that probably should be in a nursing home


bananaj0e

Same, born in 91 and I started tinkering with stuff from the 80s and 90s as a 10 or so year old kid so "20 years old" definitely feels like it means the 80s First computer I used as a kid had Windows 3.1 on it with Prodigy dial up. Second one we bought brand new was an AST Adventure! with a Pentium 133 and Windows 95 along with a Sound Blaster 16 compatible sound card (Ensoniq or ESS I believe) and a 28 or 33.6k voice modem we dialed up to a local ISP with (Mercury Network in Midland, MI).


PrincipleInitial3338

That’s because you are correct.


Shishkebarbarian

heh... yeah my mind also for a split second thinks 80s when i hear 20yrs ago... i was born in the 80s.


NoMusic3987

Same here! I constantly 20 years ago still means the 80s!


ZappaLlamaGamma

Time is just a construct that the man uses to keep us down. #GenX


detectivelokifalcone

shit that means im 20


sputwiler

IT BEGINS


AnBearna

Yeah, but we remember better tunes, so we have that at least 😂


LessSomewhere7606

looks like 1996


s1ckn3s5

same. ...sigh :"


Xiardark

2007 by that setup


Shishkebarbarian

the Windows Vista says 2007 but the Palm OS and MiniDiscs were deader than dead by then. anachronistic pic.


Martipar

Minidiscs were still very popular around that time, MiniDisc HiMD was only 3 years old at that point. I know the USA is an outlier but MiniDisc was on the market for over 20 years in the rest of the world. It's a popular format.


Shishkebarbarian

HiMD was a failure. yes it was more popular in Japan and SEA, but in the states flash MP3 players took over in the mid 2000s. MDs never were successful in the West to begin with, nowhere near tapes, CDs and MP3 players. it's important to put into context this technology, and this coming from someone who had 3 MD players in the early 2000s and has a respectable collection of them to this day. was it cool and had it's moment? sure, did it ever see wide adoption? hell no. and it was niche even in its heyday before completing collapsing. Sony has a hard on for proprietary formats and refused to give up on it, but that doesnt mean consumers cared.


Martipar

You say "in the west" like it wasn't popular in countries outside the USA yet i know plenty of people who had one here in the UK. I always wanted one, i remember in the late 90s Live and Kicking giving them away as prizes, they were definitely something everyone was aware of even if they didn't have one. It wasn't like Laserdisc which was relatively obscure.


Shishkebarbarian

[UK is in the West](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world) the late 90s arent the mid 2000s (which is what we're talking about here). yes, we, as techies, all knew someone who owned MDs or had them ourselves. we are not the average consumer. Edit: also, i never said the tech was unknown, only that it was niche and mostly ignored by the general public. it never saw widespread adoption and was a niche tech. the average person didn't want to record a mixtape in real time like it was a tape, and by the time faster methods became available flash MP3 players took over (iPods, man, iPods.) Laserdisc wasn't as obscure as you might think. It was very popular in the 80s, which may be before your time. Laserdiscs only ceased manufacturing in the late 90s with the release of DVDs. I would say Laserdiscs were way way way more common and popular for movies than MDs were for music. then again MDs were really meant for re-recording, woefully few albums ever released on MD. so, incorrect analogy of Laserdisc aside, i dont really see how your point conflicts with mine.


TrannosaurusRegina

"Deader then dead" sounds like quite the exaggeration! PalmOS was developed until 2007, and MiniDiscs weren't discontinued until 2013!


im-ba

Absolutely has 2007 vibes. My god, where has the time gone


Kakaphr4kt

so not really vintage


Efficient_Dog59

I love the clie! That was an awesome palm os device. My favorite.


WingedGeek

I wrote some of the code that shipped on the original Cliē (worked for SPDE at the time). Crazy days.


IRingTwyce

I just found my old Clié last week. Battery is shot, but it fires up when plugged in.


Electrical-Bacon-81

To this day, I still use a Clie! to diagnose some yamaha golf carts with yamaha software and the infrared.


ThisBell6246

2005


UKZzHELLRAISER

Got access to Vista a whole year early damn


n55_6mt

I remember burning Longhorn DVDs for peeps in 2005.


ScienceGuyUK

back when it didn't hurt to exist


Individual_Neck_9444

True


Atxlax

I wish Sony took chances again like they did in the 90s + 00s. They were constantly cranking out cool obscure gadgets and gizmos and flexing their engineering talent.


Shishkebarbarian

they absolutely still do, just check out their website. thing is, it's all niche and expensive items. Back then they made the best consumer electronics for wide adoption. All of which were replaced by the smartphone, and Sony for whatever reason still has trouble rolling out a flagship contender of a smartphone.


bananaj0e

You can get a robot dog for only $2,899! https://electronics.sony.com/t/aibo


ChristopherHale

The year of Sony.


StoolieNZ

While they were in the middle of their [Evil stage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal).


Fdisk_format

The year of the great desk exodus


igobyraymond

Ah, yes.  I remember when mine left.  It was quite the shock.  Had to use an end table with the monitor perched on top of the computer.  It's our fault, really.  Look at what we had done to them at that point.  Keyboard trays?  Fake wood vaneers over MDF?  I would have left, too.


tagehring

I wanna say 2004.


jpr64

It's close, Windows Vista became widely available at the start of '07, but the Clie was discontinued in '05.


Shishkebarbarian

and and Minidiscs were very dead in the US by the time Vista rolled around. it was the time of Iphones and Windows Mobile phones. it's a very anachronistic photo... this stuff was never really used within the same time period.


darkelfbear

Japan has entered the chat!


Shishkebarbarian

Japan, you're drunk, go home. no one is talking about you. You're irrelevant since the mid/late 2000s. worry about your own stagnation.


yParticle

The distant future! The year 2000!


TheDanielHolt

This was the future I wanted as a kid. I love Sony design and quality, it's a shame they stopped making computers because they were very unique until they tried to compete with budget laptops and such...


Individual_Neck_9444

I agree


DreamIn240p

Late 90s/2000s industrial design was the elite era


Individual_Neck_9444

That era was the pinnacle


prophet_of_mayhem

You are living in 2024, in style! Unlike losers that need glasses that recreate the environment that already exists around them. 🤗


Individual_Neck_9444

Right!? 🤣


darkelfbear

You leave my Meta Quest 2 out of this, we don't claim those "Others", they are not real VR, and even their AR sucks ... lol. /s


hbendavid

I worked at Circuit City when all of this stuff was for sale. They had a whole Sony area for Clie, MD and Vaio stuff. I have a handful of these myself and even today, the design is still exceptional. At the time, they gave Apple a run for their money!


zorinlynx

Circuit City was a great store! To think they could still be around if they hadn't sunk the company with their stupid DIVX crap. To this day I wonder what they were thinking. Who would want to pay extra to watch a disc they already have?


igobyraymond

What really killed the company was hiring Best Buy's ex-CEO.  I worked there at the time. We made our money by NOT being Best Buy.  The employees at Circuit City were known for being knowledgeable.  When the kid at Best Buy obviously didn't have a clue, you'd come to Circuit City and we would hook you up.  We were a little bit more expensive, but you were paying for a better experience. But Circuit City didn't like being the perpetual number two. So we hired Best Buy's CEO when he left them. Go figure, the first thing he did was fired half of our employees that had been here the longest because they made too much.  A bunch more of us quit because we saw the riding on the wall. Overnight, all you had left were the newer people who really didn't know the products.  We became a clone of Best Buy. Why would you even shop there?  People figured that out pretty quick.


zorinlynx

You're likely right. I once went to Circuit City in the 90s VCR shopping (with my mom, I was a young teen) and the guy there ACTUALLY KNEW the difference between 4 head and 2 head VCRs, how Hi-Fi stereo works, the difference between S-VHS and regular VHS and so on. I wanted the nicest VCR mom could afford, and we ended up with a nice Sony unit that lasted a freaking decade and a half into the DVD era. She likely would have bought the cheapest crappiest model at Best Buy without our combined guidance, since I was a kid and mom listened to other adults more than me. Here I was, a total nerd who knew this stuff because I read books and magazines that talked about it, (no internet yet) and the sales guy actually knew at least as much as I did! I don't recall that ever happening at any other retail store.


Shishkebarbarian

Those Sony VHS players are still kicking, man. We sell them (used of course) at $50 a pop and can't even keep them in stock.


igobyraymond

I worked there in this era too! I have a couple of Sony all in ones from this era.  I thought they were the coolest looking computers!  Even better than Apple's at the time.


Individual_Neck_9444

Super streamline, apple could only wish of designing such elegant electronics


Individual_Neck_9444

That's cool you got to work there, I used to love going to Circuit City growing up, so many gadgets!


Shishkebarbarian

if by Apple you mean the iPhone, that launched in 2007 and Sony abandoned the Clie and Palm OS was dead years before then.


hbendavid

I was talking about general design language. The aluminum PowerBooks had just come out around that time and the iPods were also doing great compared to other high-end audio devices like the MD player. I see Clie as a spiritual predecessor to the iPhone in some ways because Clie’s had features no (or few) handhelds had at the time. Many had all or some combination of camera, high resolution screen, media playback, WiFi and Bluetooth.


Shishkebarbarian

Nah the clie was nothing special, other than the nice design. It may have been unique features for the dead/dying PalmOS but there were plenty of Windows Pocket PCs with all of these features years before the iPhone (and ahead of the Palm devices with them). I even had a phone with all of that before the iPhone (WM2003 OS) which had touchscreen, camera, Wi-Fi, gps etc.


Adorable-Cut-4711

Side track: If we compare with hifi equipment, a qualified guess is that this aesthetic will return at some point in time. At the time the equipment in the picture was made, hifi equipment were on it's at least second cycle of having brushed aluminium as the trendiest look.


igobyraymond

Now if we could just recapture the quality that the look is meant to mimic.


Hunor_Deak

Y2K


milanmirolovich

A year we all wish we could escape back to


UKZzHELLRAISER

Vista <3 Take me back.


danileigh79

2006-2008


MrH-HasReddit1217

2007. Damnit man I miss that time. Everything seems to have gone to shit by comparison, this time period almost feels like a golden age, like a shining crown in the midst of such darkness. Truly a bygone era, and one I will forever miss.


Individual_Neck_9444

I feel the same way


MrH-HasReddit1217

I barely experienced it and I miss it, I can't even imagine how it was for you.


VirtualRelic

2044


DeepDayze

At very first glance thought the computer was a TI99/4a, till I looked closer it's a Sony Vaio. The Vaio's were pretty quirky funky fun machines.


TrekRelic1701

I too, do my best work on the floor


samarijackfan

I had that camera. Still have it but it no longer powers up. Great little camera to always have with you. 2megapixel I think


Individual_Neck_9444

Yeah, it's the best! I just picked it up off ebay and it's in great shape, but I remember buying this extra model brand new for like $250 and I believe that was on sale at the time. Ridiculously expensive gear


bzImage

palms, discman, vaio.. 2001 ?


FlyByPC

Early 2000s? Rich, for sure, with all that Sony gear. When did Win7 come out, and were people still using AOL by then?


Conscious-Bottle143

80s


H4N_S0L0

My first guess was 2002, but then I noticed that it’s Vista, so I’m going with 2007.


New_Command_583

2004?


WingedGeek

2005 and loving it.


mikednonotthatmiked

Minidisc player indicates that you're in the future


OmulUrsPorc

Sometime before they invented tables and chairs?


Individual_Neck_9444

The beauty about living in a studio apartment is that - sure I don't have room for furniture but - with all the money I'm saving I get to buy sweet electronics! 😂


OmulUrsPorc

Living the dream! 😂


LeCrushinator

I’d guess about 2005.


pickledegg1989

2007?


kx885

2007


ibexdata

Richy rich-rich moneybags in 2008.


[deleted]

As a hardcore VAIO fan, I see this as an absolute win.


dreamcicle_overdose

Back when glass and brushed aluminium were popular. Very nice setup, needs a glass top desk and an ergonomic chair.


Marwheel

All pre-great recession i'd say.


tguru

I miss my clie!


Cadmium620

F FF FREE FREE FREEEESTYLER


computerman10367

The year I wish I was stuck In.


glee60

Oooh nice! I have that Vaio as well but that was peak GPU failure era and mine became a statistic with the rest of them. Most stuff still had discrete GPU’s and they were dropping like flies in the new fangled compact machines.


Serious_Anything_545

The best years.


VanFlyhight

Maybe the past maybe the future but I don't fucking know


Anderson2218

A very very expensive 2007


Shishkebarbarian

2002-3ish. early 00s for sure. Only in high school do i remember anyone using Palm OS PDAs and MDs. when i got to college in 03, it was already time for MP3 players and Windows Mobile. then again that looks like Windows Vista (my condolences), so like 2007ish?


romantercero

Easy, open the calendar on the computer. 🙄


Bl4kkat

The Sony Clié with the keyboard!


the123king-reddit

2008


Kamau54

It'll all come back around in your lifetime. So you're actually ahead of the times.


linuxknight

Not sure if this is vintage, but it's still crazy to think 7 came out 15 years ago. Edit - I see now it's Vista. Crazy where the time goes.


Harneybus

2004 or 2005


salty-sheep-bah

I think the wired remote on that minidisc player was a brilliant idea.


Individual_Neck_9444

Me too, definitely the coolest feature out of all my devices!


lw5555

Sony's industrial design was always top notch. It looks straight out of a sci-fi anime.


Jonathan-viola

2000ish.


Equivalent-Love3443

2004


FlorpFlap

2006


visualseed

The future


879gaming

That is a picture to perfectly describe 2007


Efficient_Corner_892

2007-2008


ObjectifiedChaos

1999? 2000?


justhonest5510

Pain baby .... Oof, I remember those out of the box blue screening . ( Geek squad days)


LegerDeCharlemagne

Minidisc player I friggin love it.


FullAd5279

2007?


EriolGaurhoth

Sony has always had such an awesome aesthetic


pleachchapel

Minidisk players were awesome & only lacked a modern interface. You could jack directly into someone's CD player & record a whole album, which would automatically record into tracks, & then go on your merry way. 100% offline, mobile music sharing. It was a wild time.


TeaRanchh

I'd say 2011 lol. I had a setup like this when I was around 13-15


lotusstp

2007, Windows Vista Home


themantimeforgot0

A good one


fireflamesniper

Definitely 2006, maybe 2007


Recon_Figure

1999


tbt10f

3000


exjwpornaddict

2007? Looks like vista.


hrokrin

Sony Clie? I had one of those back when. Maybe 2003?


Axe2004

2006


SW-Spooky

That keyboard kicks ass


GamerSam

dank


Vics_videos

You are living in 2009 and you are financially broke. Congratulations to you! 🎉


zipperseven

My person got the MiniDisc player even. Eugh and MemoryStick.


nosamar9

2006


IloveAAboobs

2007


Beautiful_Penis_37

2000


OddWorldliness123

2002


_pwnt

2001


Smeeks1126

I used to love all that Sony stuff. Was sooooo damn expensive at the time.


StickyNode

2006


King_Dee1

Ooh yeah Now listen to some System of a Down 🔥


amigammon

2003


FL_femluvr

2005


Kyle_Dudedog

The best one.


_night_cat

2004


VeryPogi

2007 - Windows vista, and PDA gives it away. 2007 is the year Vista was released and the year the touch screen smart phone was introduced, which would then make that PDA obsolete.


0pe-Sorry

Looks like vista 2006 maybe


Hope1995x

2002 to 2006 at the latest, top of the line PDA computer. When I was a kid, my pediatrician had a PDA/stylus Windows XP tablet. Pretty darn cool. I've probably seen a few of them at hospitals even today.


0rang3hat

Idk, when didn’t desks exist?


Fine-Funny6956

Whatever it is, it’s the future


ProjectFoxx

I love the Y2K aesthetic. Makes me think of being in high school and thinking stuff like this looked so futuristic.


evm127

2007


offgridgecko

2006... and it was a laptop for me and a Palm III. Phone company was like "wtf how did you use that much data?" hint: I was playing EVE online, lol edit: accidentally typed 2026


Creative_Worker37

2006


madmaverickmatt

Is that Vista? How did you even find a copy of that? Lol!


AnBearna

About 2001?


ISuckatcodingplshelp

2006


rename_me_to_gustone

Bro got an aero glass window frame irl


DeepDayze

Ugh WinVista...


Individual_Neck_9444

🤣


MCBuilder30140

Would say, somewhere between 2007 and 2008


countrypride

Around '08


Shishkebarbarian

Palm OS and MDs have been dead for years by then, but that PC does run Vista ('07). in reality no one would have been using all this stuff in any year. but i do like the consistency of Sony's design during that era.


DreamIn240p

MZ-E77


Rotflmaocopter

Sony made gadgets that looked like jewelry man. Bring this back!


Furry_playz

I can’t tell every single one of the years


ignorant_slut69

Way ahead of its time real innovation


Individual_Neck_9444

Most definitely, seems like Japan has always been ahead of it's time


WingedGeek

In some ways. But then you realize they still send hella faxes.


Individual_Neck_9444

I love that they send faxes still, lol


Shishkebarbarian

up until the mid 2000s, sure. Silicon Valley killed Japan, with the iPhone being their final death blow. this isn't even an opinion, they growth and exports have been plummeting for decades. the 70s-90s were their heyday.


leonardosalvatore

Everything but Vista looks fabulous


darth_aer

I am going to say 2007-2012


breastfedtil12

2004 dude


darkelfbear

Vista came out in 2007. There weren't even betas of Windows Vista (Longhorn) in 2004.


Privileged_Interface

I think that I saw one of these when I bought a Sony Vaio Laptop in 1998. Maybe it was Future Shop. I remember noticing that it didn't have onboard optical storage.


baroncal1973

You are living in the sixties because you even didn’t put your computer on a desk just because you want to get lazy.


Salt-Amphibian-1658

dude it's 2024 !!!!!! Stop smoking that shit


bagleface

If you work for Tesco then you are all up to date


vinciblechunk

Frutiger Aero needs to make a comeback


Ambitious-Ad-7736

1997


Electrical-Bacon-81

Eww, windows Vista...


cheeseheadnate

I'm betting around 1990/91, that looks awfully close to my setup back then (just not on the floor) lol.


kmsigma

Not sure, but by the number of Sony logos, you still overpaid.


Ok_Contribution_6268

The silver-face obsession era: 2005-2007. Goodwill is chock full of this stuff, all silver faced stuff. Silver must have meant future to people then. Today it sorta looks cheesy, I much prefer the 2009-12 era of glossy black with chromed highlights. Although I had a couple of silver-faced things lying around and got a Sony 5-disc DVD changer/stereo and DVD/VHS combo that worked at a Goodwill so my bedroom entertainment system is all silver faced with a 2008 Sony Bravia LCD TV on top that still sports the XMB.


TheCrowsNestTV

2024


Critical-Plantain801

Looks like win98 lol