It lets you hear a computer scream.
Wrong answers only - what is this?
Submitted 2 weeks ago by jobbies@lemmy.zip to [deleted]
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HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
jobbies@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I said WRONG answers
HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fine, a Millennial detector.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It was a scream of pleasure
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It’s a telemarketing prevention device. Hook it up to your phone line, and the number of telemarketing calls would drop instantly.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
They’d be interrupting the gifs loading constantly!
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
A CD/Blu-ray rewinder.
Not DVDs though, they were self rewinding
bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
DVD+R are self rewinding, the DVD-R are not.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
A picture
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I’m not sure if I should upvote or downvote.
This is supposed to be wrong answers but…
ultrahamster64@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s obviously wrong because it’s a post on lemmy
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not really what you’re looking for, but it immediately made me think of an intercom device.
riskable@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I recently stayed at a rental property that had this (actual photo):
Photo of a NuTone Intercom with a built-in CD player and FM tuner
I tried to get it working but none of the remote panels worked. They were all disconnected somehow (owner probably cut the wires to prevent shenanigans by guests cranking the volume then leaving it like that). The CD player worked (central panel only) but oddly, it couldn’t pick up any FM stations. It would tune to them (“scan” feature worked) but they only ever produced static. I suspect the capacitors used in the amplification circuit dried out or something got corroded after being in a “regular ocean salt spray” area (it was on a beach) for such a long time 🤷
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s pretty cool! Friend of mine rented a house that had a working home intercom system, and the radio actually worked and played through the house. I’ve never seen one with a CD Player built in tho!
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My home came with one of those. I ripped it out and replaced it with a touchscreen powered by a pi running custom html for a lcars interface for home security and music. I never got around to re wiring the intercom part. It’s on my list.
austinfloyd@ttrpg.network 2 weeks ago
It’s made by US Robotics, so it must be a positronic brain.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Failed download generator
GET OFF THE DAMN PHONE STACY, I WAS ALMOST DONE
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
This is one of the sickest synthesizers of the 1990s g-funk era. It produced the high-pitched portamento sound that provided iconic hooks for many of the tracks on Dr Dre’s 1993 album The Chronic.
human@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
plateee@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Really bad white noise machine.
fuzz00713@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Pregnancy test for a Cylon
DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Early 90s COVID-19 test.
riskable@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Wow! This brings back memories… It was a Soul Crusher: A primitive technology used to commune with the dead over long distances. I’ll explain…
These devices used the “Afterlife Toll” (AT) command set, invented by someone named “Hayes” which I believe was just a nickname or mistranslation of Hades. With the correct invocation, you could whisper into the great beyond. Here’s an example:
ATDT 6665551234Translated: “Afterlife Toll, Death Touch <helliphone number>”. After this invocation, the user would hear the pleasant sound of souls being crushed in order to make the afterlife connection.
Of course—due to the popularity of such devices—crushing souls over long distances could get expensive so a number of Incorporeal Service Providers (ISP) sprang up to make it cheaper and easier than ever to crush souls from anywhere.
Cool fact: This is where the term, “soul crushing machines” comes from! These days, soul crushing is fully automated and far beyond the measure of Beings Per Seance (BPS). Nearly every computer is shipped with an ethernet connection and practically everyone is walking around with devices that can commune over WIFI (Wailing Incorporeal Fidelity).
In fact, our Incorporeal Technology (IT) is so advanced, you can have a soul crushing experience from anywhere in the world at all hours of the day, every day!
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
That was the keyboard Belgian superband Technotronic used in the 1989 block buster hit Pump up the Jam.
stefenauris@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
CPAP machine
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
That’s an albino Atari from 1980.
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
An infinite box of nude pictures.
jobbies@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
This.
socsa@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
That’s violet08
then_three_more@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s a practical joke device. Using it pisses off your mum and makes her shout “get off that damn computer I want to call your aunt Judith”
bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Jokes on you my mom never called my aunt Judith
fubarx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Says so right on the box.
A U.S.-made Robot, designed to play sports.
db2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s a booster seat for squirrels
negativenull@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
White Noise Machine
missandry351@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
A vintage Covid test
thorhop@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
The first in a range of devices in Bill Gates private museum specifically designed to operate the permanently installed gonad stimulator built into his body.
The latest one is a keychain.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Two robots fucking, but you can only hear them.
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How I met your mother.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Binary Caller ID
fartographer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Answering machine
Bakkoda@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Phone call from Satan
Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Image