Those were the days

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• DaGeek247@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Dude's got a chair handle in his pants.

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  • Album@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Contextually I’m saying it’s a diaper. This is a guy who doesn’t love getting out of his chair.

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    • eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My first reaction was that he was packing heat like an elephant, but yeah, incontinence guard is far more likely.

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• RustyShackleford@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Damn… I can remember doing this and just finding it easier to buy a ringtone when they were cheap.

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s funny how important ringtones were back in the day. I don’t want to hear my phone unless it’s through headphones!

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• Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Actually you just had to “play” it and lots of Nokias had a custom ringtone composer you could actually write ringtones with yourself.

  So you’d just reserve an hour of computer time from the library, browse some guides on how to compose Axel F on a 3210, write them down/have it printed and then input them into your phone.

  Here’s that composer in action: youtu.be/ymjV1IwReU4

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  • olutukko@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I used to compose ringtone tunes with it still in 2013. everyone else was playing with their smarphone. nokia 3310 was the best, so simple

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• Damage@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What in the freaking pixel fog am I looking at

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  • photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All I can make out is the dude and his massive honker

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    • Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Image

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    • olutukko@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      lmao I was thinkin the same

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Peak Male Life Style. You wouldn’t get it.

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• UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t get it. Don’t we do that now as well? Putting .mp3 files up as our ringtones?

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  • ThePyroPython@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    (back creaks) In the old days, some phones had a specific audio format for ringtones that wasn’t .mp3 to save storage space.

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    • UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Are we talking about the button phones? Did they have different audio formats cuz their speakers were crappy or something (hence, no use playing high resolution audio)? Did the custom ringtones then sound bad as well?

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    • BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I still have some 3gp/3gpp videos recorded on my old slide. What a pain. And I think depending on whether your phone was gsm/CDMA would affect whether it recorded to .3gp or .3g2.

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  • GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh my sweet summer child. Ringtones were in a different audio format than mp3s. Plus, getting the ringtone onto the phone required additional fuckery.

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    • gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      additional fuckery

      Oh, wow, that phrase is doing a lot of heavy lifting here…

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    • UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oof. May I ask which audio format it was? Or was it different for different phones?

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  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well first of all who actually has their ringer on anymore

    And secondly it was WAY more of a pain in the ass back then

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• Gingerlegs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is there any context to this picture? I’d love to read it lol

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  • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    how did this guy get into my bedroom, why are the colors backward, and who replaced my desktop with a fax machine?

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• Toes@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It was a pain in the ass back then.

  Had to convert it to a amr file, use a weird proprietary cable.

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  • stoicmaverick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ya, but you could save a whole 99¢ doing it.

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• MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Btw, is there still “call 01223344 to get that awesome ringtone!” telemarketing nowadays? It still was a few years ago, where i wondered why my mom would voluntarily see telemarketing.

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• Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We used to pay for tiny samples to use as a ringtone, now you can just set a song on your drive as a ringtone

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My very first cell phone ever was a Danger Hiptop/Sidekick in 2002. It didn’t need conversion. It just straight up used mp3s. 😎

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And that spin-flip when you needed to send a long message was just sooo satisfying.

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• Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah way easier now am I right? Maybe you should post instructions for the the old people who don’t know how

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  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    On Android:

    Download song as .MP3

    Go to the sounds settings

    Choose ringtone

    Choose “browse files” or whatever similar title your version uses (on pixels it’s a + symbol)

    Find downloaded MP3 file, select

    If you want to edit it down first then use either an app or Audacity on your PC

    You can also use a file stored to Google Drive if you wanted to

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• Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What is all that stuff around him? Just random crap?

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• UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Remember ringback tones. Everyone should hear my shitty music

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• vox_shit_alt@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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• Maultasche@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Unfortunately, my phone could only handle .midi

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