My first job in college was at one of the campus eateries where they had a Coke video jukebox. It was a bank of laser disc players controlled by a PC. We discovered if you could get your hand in, you could find the keyboard and press S (I think), and get free credits. I believe it was about 50 cents a video and you could pick. This was early-mid 1990s, so a lot of grunge and alt, though my favourite was David Bowie's Jump They Say. Periodically someone came out to put in new discs.
webwielder2 14 days ago [-]
I’m always fascinated by “vanished” history/technology. We think we have a general understanding of what happened up until now, but so much has come and gone without leaving an indelible footprint.
greggsy 14 days ago [-]
These are much like Vines, and I’m sure there will be a point where certain social media content services will be shutdown, only for the backups to be rediscovered and reinterpreted some time in the distant future.
tonguetrainer 13 days ago [-]
Google bought and shuttered Songza, which had playlists based on nuanced emotions, weather and nostalgia rather than musical genre. Like Vine, most people will never even know of it.
webwielder2 13 days ago [-]
Loved Songza. Best music discovery I’ve encountered.
drdec 13 days ago [-]
Weren't Vines only a few seconds?
This reminds me more of MTV, back when the letters stood for something.
teh_klev 13 days ago [-]
You might be interested in Techmoan's YouTube channel where he often covers obsoleted and long forgotten audio and video technologies:
Ah, the Mills Novelty Company, which put some of the most advanced electromechanical technology of the period into coin-operated entertainment devices. Their violin-playing machine was a coin-operated device for bars and clubs. They even figured out how to make it self-adjust its tuning.
This reminds me more of MTV, back when the letters stood for something.
https://www.youtube.com/c/Techmoan/videos
Imagine placing an art deco wood object in a public location like a bus stop and expecting it to survive for more than a day in 2022. Different times.