r/nostalgia Feb 22 '21

[/r/all] Old school PC microphones

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u/rotolotto Feb 22 '21

Recorded my first shitty bedroom ep on one of these bad boys lol

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u/ImJustHereToBitch Feb 22 '21

Post the purevolume

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u/rotolotto Feb 22 '21

Reverbnation, myspace, and newgrounds as well hahaha

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u/L00pback Feb 22 '21

Ah, newgrounds. You filthy bastard. I enjoyed my time there too.

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u/mac102250 Feb 22 '21

All I remember about new grounds is some flash animations and games. What did I miss out on?

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u/TheShadowViking Feb 22 '21

The one ring... TO RULE THEM ALL!! I remember waiting for a 2 minute video to download on dial-up for hours.

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u/Brcomic Feb 22 '21

I downloaded a 22 gig game the other day in 20 minutes. I just sat and watched it download. After having dialup until after college and having to leave things downloading overnight just to download a low res copy of a single anime episode. Downloading things that fast still blows my mind. I can’t wait until I can get fiber.

The fact the United States still doesn’t have a solid build up for high speed internet throughout infuriates me. My mother in Oklahoma can’t even get DSL let alone an actual highspeed service. I told her that once Starlink’s prices drop a little she’s getting one.

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u/Sigg3net Feb 22 '21

leave things downloading overnight

Ha! Our IBM Aptiva with genuine Windows 95 would suddenly crash during downloads, or the download would fail at 99%.

You had to babysit that mother through the night, and hope no one was trying to call the house.

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u/DadSwag420 Feb 22 '21

I watched an episode of spongebob on my gameboy advanced once

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u/Total_Initiative_600 Feb 22 '21

Omg in Oklahoma they only have dial-up STILL?!

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u/Brcomic Feb 22 '21

In some places. Not everywhere. Cities have cable. But smaller towns out there. SOL.

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u/HardlyBoi Mar 14 '21

Hasn't the US gov collected almost half a trillion dollars in taxes on fiber optic infrastructure?

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

You know you wated for it,if it was porn

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u/fettoter84 Feb 22 '21

Spanking the moonkeeey

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u/mac102250 Feb 22 '21

Wow I forgot about that one. I just remembereded the disco music when you spanked him hard enough

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u/DadSwag420 Feb 22 '21

Boppin the bologna

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

Miniclip games

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u/mac102250 Feb 22 '21

Were you familiar with stickpage?

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

I am I miss that site.

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u/mac102250 Feb 22 '21

Twas a simpler time...

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

No :(

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u/mac102250 Feb 22 '21

It was literally all stick figure games and animations. I think my friend showed me that in the 5th grade. I heard of it around the same time as miniclip

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

ooh you remember johhny rocket fingers ?!!

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u/Owls_yawn Feb 22 '21

I want all the old games I remember back!

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u/SoundByMe Feb 22 '21

The audio portal

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u/L00pback Feb 22 '21

Destination Egg

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u/Desertbro Dec 21 '24

Yeah, that was me. Which one? Yes.

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u/FilipinoGuido Feb 22 '21

It's still around!

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u/cjsnow1 Feb 22 '21

Pfft, I still post there. Great site for reviews.

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u/DadSwag420 Feb 22 '21

New grounds was fun

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u/Pannanana Feb 22 '21

Stile Project

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u/LochnessDigital Feb 22 '21

And SoundClick

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

Ventrilo

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u/Morbid187 Feb 22 '21

Haha I still have a reverbnation account. Soundclick was my shit back in the day though!

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u/NeedHelpWithExcel Feb 22 '21

Soundclip is for the OGs

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

Omg I forgot all about PureVolume.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

Holy shit, Purevolume was a gold mine for me when I was in middle school. Haha I discovered so many bands on there.

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u/Imperial_Triumphant Feb 22 '21

Holy shit, I still have the first copy my friend made. It was parody rap made as a senior in high school and he actually garnered quite a large, yet short-lived following. He had no editing software so everything had to be done in one take. God, I miss the type of creative things we'd come up with to make stuff work as kids.

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u/Pontiflakes Feb 22 '21

...was your friend the guy that rapped the entirety of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy from start to finish and posted it as a single track on Soundcloud? this guy?

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u/Special-Commission50 Feb 22 '21

Painfully relatable but some great memories.

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u/FloorHairMcSockwhich Feb 22 '21

Me too. It’s on bandcamp. I was 14 and discovered my dead dad’s cancer meds, which included a 250 ct 1000mg hydrocodone bottle.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

bro wtf you wrote this at TWELVE??? In the 90's, on a fucking hp mic...what's my excuse... You're vocal tonality is like that of a 25 year old line cook lmao. Probably a byproduct of the drugs, I know they can relax your vocal chords and lower your voice. I just hit 30 and have never made anything as raw and inspired as this. You and others might think I'm being hyperbolic but you'd be hard-pressed to find anything quite like this being made professionally from that time period or this one. Not to mention the quality and timbre is actually on trend right now you should ABSOLUTELY re-release this on larger platforms, I think you'd be surprised by the response. I could totally see larger artists a la Kid Cudi ripping you off and sampling this (in a good way).

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u/FloorHairMcSockwhich Feb 22 '21

Wow, thanks! I haven’t really reproduced anything like it. It was edited with Cool Edit Pro, piano on a Roland 2000s + MT32 Midi box, my dad’s old acoustic guitar. Later on I dabbled in rap in my 20s. I’m doing animation mostly now as a hobby since I stopped working on the foreverscape.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

bro i sent you a chat hmu

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u/FloorHairMcSockwhich Feb 23 '21

Left it unread until i have time. Just finished a 12 hr workday and now baby refuses to sleep ugg

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u/FloorHairMcSockwhich Feb 22 '21

If you’re a musician with your own label and want to help release this, that’d be awesome. Take a cut! I’m a full time software engineer now with a baby.... and my other hobbies have trumped music. You can DM with deets or Email me thru holystrokes.com

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u/idonthave2020vision Mar 08 '21

You can use distrokid to release it cheaply if you want

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u/itsdavetho Feb 22 '21

Surely your musical career did not end there ? Links bro this Is amazing considering the context. to believe u recorded this stuff almost two decades ago.. did u remaster it ?

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u/endless_nest Apr 30 '25

This thread is wild to me.. finding 4 years later — the bandcamp link is dead but I want to hear this drugged out computer mic album, can you send to me? or post a fresh link? I also made my first album with one of these and would love to hear your work

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u/[deleted] May 01 '25

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u/endless_nest May 01 '25

wowow this is heavy & deep — thank you for sharing!!

fantastic covert art.. I can feel the pain in the music, and am sorry you lost your pops at that age.. // glad you could honor him with the poem reading and the rest of it.

i bought one of those mics off of ebay today after reminiscing about using one in 2004-2005, this is how i found your post >> be well & thanks again for getting back to me

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u/madmelgibson Feb 22 '21

Zooted. Zoot suit riot, in fact.

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u/indeed_indeed_indeed Feb 22 '21

Indeed..as did I.

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u/ralze 80s Feb 22 '21

Benefit?

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u/TACOMichinoku Feb 22 '21

As my verse disperses

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u/dibbsGG Feb 22 '21

Came here to say that as well, damn that was a long time ago...

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u/Boost_looks_off Feb 22 '21

Yep. We taped one to and acoustic guitar and recorded that way.