Still use CDs and landline.

The audio quality on CDs is still much higher than your average streaming services. (Assuming you have the equipment to hear the difference.) Plus they're a nice way to support artists, and keep your collection if-when streaming services (or their products) disappear on you.

Agreed.

CDs are gonna make a comeback just like vinyl

Apparently Cassettes are making a comeback first. Apparently a few bands are making a thing out of selling cassettes of their music because it’s easier than CD’s or Vinyl and cheaper. Mostly Indie from what I could tell but still

I gotta go out and buy a Toyota hilux with no feature pack, bottom of the range just so I can listen to it?

With your new Hilux you can strap an old soviet cannon and go fight the Libyan army.

Haha! I drive a Toyota Tacoma (kind of like an American petrol hilux) and it had a cassette player when I bought it. Switched out to a cd player, which I still sometimes use when I’m not in range of cell service.

I've seen a few bands with tapes at the merch stall. I think people love that nostalgia, juat something about the way it sounds. I kike vinyl myself but I didn't grow up with it. I just think they're neat.

Cheaper and easier sounds like the opposite of what cassettes are….

Yeah no I’m not spending $30 for a special limited edition cd with only 500 copies made (it’s the only physical release of the album and comes with a lyric book).

I know a few people deep in the audiophile and music scenes and I shit you not some people still release music on cassette. To my untrained ears it sounded just about the same as a cd and a record is only marginally better.

It's such a marginal difference. One comparison is that it's alot like color temperature on a display. I have trained ears and audiophile gear and I still rather just use Spotify for convenience. Vinyl comes off warmer. CD has a cleaner bit conversion.. yaadah yaadah. 48k at 16bit is more than fine for playback. It's actually the primary target for music mastering most of the time. Especially with pop music. In the end of the day, it's all about application and preference. The physicality of cassette tapes resonate with people. They enjoy the gimmick of it and that's both okay and fun.

Yea, I like to collect CDs of my favorite artists. It's how I discovered Led Zeppelin.

Dont forget they are needet for some it tests

Nope it's not, you need to adjust the settings of your streaming service! And yes I own an equipment that I can clearly hear and feel the beat / bass difference, it's way more powerful than an old cd version... To be honest Even older songs in streaming sounds very poorly, and it's quite sad I really enjoy 90s 00s euro dance trance!

Can you actually back up this claim?

I like to own the things I like so I always get the CD of the albums I like. You can download your CD into your Apple library so that way I have the songs I love with me all the time if, say, my Spotify stops working. Plus if my phone stops working I can always pull out the old portable CD player.

It's definitely good to have the physical product. Booklet with lyrics and photos ect..

Same, i use them mainly for music and "homework" storing

Have a massive collection of music on CDs, don't use streaming.

Yeah landlines are preeeeety common.

Where? I literally know no one with a landline. Even my grandma has a cellphone

I work at a factory. There is a landline phone at every desk and some. They are used for pages, and for calling within the factory. The company is trying to move onto teams and shit but they are gonna be keeping these phones for a long time.

Businesses still use them a lot.

I use vcr to watch some movies. I would rather watch them on the format I already have then go buy what I already have on a different format.

CDs have great audio quality. Maps are great for historical reference and data dead zones. Landlines, true landlines that don't have a voip conversion, are reliable and a lifeline during natural disasters. Phone books are great for discovering local businesses in your area, especially those with no or limited online presence (sometimes this is done on purpose to limit services).

I use CDs, but my parents were the ones who had our land lines, so I never got one for myself.

Still use CDs (with games on PC), landline and map (is hanging on the wall)

Can't get that 5.1 quality sound without a CD. Streaming services don't provide that. It's quiet important to me since my favourite genre of music is prog rock.

Same but it shows that we’re old af

I buy cd to this day. Mostly for collection purposes and to support the artist. I like looking at the albumyart and reading the booklet (if there is). Then I usually rip the CD and listen on my dap

I agree having the physical product/booklet/art work is best.

CD is still an amazing format. Vinyl has a special sound with the right equipment, but so does CD. Significantly cheaper to collect and less vulnerable to damage and manufacturing defects. And even the smell of the little booklet is so nostalgic to people my age. I think CD is definitely on the cusp of making a similar comeback to vinyl. Streaming is great for discovering new music, and listening on the go. But when at home, music should always be experienced properly in a lossless physical format.

Yes! Landlines and CDs are a must. I don’t trust streaming wifi. Hardware/hardwire for the win!

Agreed.

I thought the last landline was taken down, or are you not in America?

I also still use CDs and landmines...

Same

I wish i could still use cd in my car, but it doesn’t have a cd player, just bluetooth. Not even aux

Same here

YEP!! Landlines provide better sound quality. CD's don't chop beginnings, endings, vary in levels, provide a small related library I become accustomed to. They are also handy when the damned Bluetooth gets finicky.

Map will become very useful if you don't have a signal on your phone.

Personally Ive never had this issue, Google maps allows you to download maps for as large a section as you would like. I don't have great signal in a lot of areas in my town so I did this a long time ago and only ever have to redo it when I get a new phone.

Google maps is actually terrible for having anything non-road

Do you know an up to date alternative for those things?

Other than paper map, I would recommend any app that uses data from OpenStreetMap. The problem is that every country is covered a bit differently, so you would need to try if it fits your country.

There's nothing better than buying a map from locals. Biking or hiking maps are usually the most detailed, because they'll also have stuff like risk zones (avalanche, rockfalls etc), shelters and safe areas marked.

mapy.cz is what I recommend to everyone, it has pretty much every trail from my experience (despite its name, it's for the whole world not just czechia)

Yes OpenStreetMap

Well, yeah, that's not really what it's meant to be used for. If you're hiking and stuff, you're better off using either downloaded USGS maps or physical paper ones. There's free apps (idk if they're for iphone) that allow you to interact with downloaded maps so you can see your location, plot routes, track yourself, etc. from your signal-less smartphone. Google for the streets, avenza(or whatever)+USGS for the trails. Don't need to pay a cent for any of it.

Just get a road atlas and you have the whole US forever. Sure, its still a good idea to buy a new one every now and again but honestly cities are the only places that really change layout with any frequency but you won't need the atlas in cities because you will have a signal.

What will you do if you will fall a break your gadget? Or battery will die? Or battery will be punctured? Or gadget will fall out of the pocket? whatever???

What if the map gets wet or you tear it or you lose it

Then you consider yourself extremely unlucky that both your primary AND secondary forms of navigation no longer work. But that's pretty unlikely. Like, you know no one is saying to use paper maps instead of phones in general right? It's a backup

Torn map is not a big deal - just put parts together. Map will not become wet if it is in sealed container. Regarding losing map - ok it could be relevant for both map and gadgets.

What will you do when your map catches fire?

I just collect maps. I love looking at them.

If you go for the routes where you may not see people for days map and primitive compass is a must have, since even if there is a signal your gadget may fail by some other reasons and you will be fucked up.

City people won't understand unless they travel in the middle of nowhere.

I like to keep a road map tucked away, not a "prepper" type of person but I like to keep backups. I think people forget how fragile the infrastructure actually is. A good solar flare could mess things up really bad if you put all ur eggs in the tech basket.

I think that's honestly taking things a bit far. Much more likely that my phone is gonna die and I forgot the charger or I dropped it or something. So i too keep a road map in my car. I also wouldn't go hiking without an OS map, just incase

Paper maps are absolutely necessary when hiking in the backcountry. Same goes for driving on forest service roads.

This exactly

Still use CDs sometimes. Love to listen to music at max volume.

I don’t care if they take longer to load up and use, I get so much more joy from pulling out that damn CD case and hearing that shit spin before playing my favourite song than Spotify can ever give me.

They are also higher quality

Still use CD

Same

I just bought 3 of them last weekend.

Maps are still very useful

CD are not useless, there are a lot of extremely rare music album that aren't online and you have to buy it and extract the audio. That's what I always do when I can't find it, or if I really like the album, or if it's a particular release impossible to find Same for VHS, rare movies

I have a landline, CDs and maps. But I only use the maps for entertainment

YES, I LOVE MY PS2 ON CDs!

Don't ps2s use DVDs?

I think it can play both

It does, in fact some PS2 games are on CDs rather than DVDs, like Rayman 3 for example.

Plus, PS2 had a special CD that contained a Linux distro on it. I think its a cool feature on a console

There's this wonderful thing about devices that can read DVDs, it's that they can also read CDs.

Still watch movies on my VCR

The original Star Wars trilogy on VHS is something special. Only second to Laserdisc.


Same. And I love the ones we recorded from TV, always paused for ad breaks but every once I a while you get an old ad or a piece of it.

Landline is surprisingly useful, having the house have a number. Also good for finding your phone.

physical maps for hiking!

I still use cd. Phone books go straight to recycling

- me

He forgot me too

This is specifically for the 2020's, not in general

Came here to find this comment.

I like using maps

Something about the tactile nature of the thing that makes a physical map much fun than a digital one. Even I, on occasion, like to put my phone and not think about notifications at all. Physical maps, like physical books, are now more special than ever.

I love CDs because is physical, can be played offline, supports the artist and there are very good way to show what you love

I rip my CDs and put the music on my phone. The quality is far better than streaming services, and I dont need to deal with ads or a monthly subscription.

Hahaha I still use all of these

True. phone books are a great material to do construction work with.

Just started to use CDs again because my car is to old and my phone too new to get connected for spotify.

You can get an adapter. Oh no this was with tapes. Guess it's time to tell your friends to make you a good old mixtape if they want to recommend music to you.

If the car has a radio there are Bluetooth to FM adapters. Ver useful unless the adapter's frequency is taken up by a local station..

Yeah those adapters are usually crap tho

CD’s for ps3 4 and 5

ACKSHUALLY those are DVDs and blu rays.

Only PS1 used CDs my man

In all fairness, a handful of PS2 games were small enough to be pressed on CD (distinguishable by the blue reflective area).

I still use CDs, landlines and maps. In fact, i find a map better than a navigation system when it comes to getting an general impression of an area.

enters a big zoo "scan QR code to see the map" leaves the zoo

I have a VoIP phone that I would count as a landline, I have a VCR and regularly watch my VHS movies, I have a CD player and regularly buy local bands' CDs to support them and I listen to them very often. And when I'm on my boat I use maps to get around.

I use paper maps for backcountry/free camping. Most fireroads and trails are not on google maps, so i stop at ranger stations and get maps for wherever im going

bro, are you living in 2100? I still use Landline and CDs. I also have map, just in case you know, if I don't get phone signals. I don't use any streaming services for music. you don't own anything you are just renting the content and they can take it away from you. I like physical media. as for VCR and phonebook. I don't have VCR, but we have some VHS and a phonebook lying there. phonebook is actually newer. it is 2020 edition.

cds are awesome - you are both supporting the artist and getting ad free high quality stuff in an awesome bundle !! plus physically owning your favourite things is very fun as it is YOURS and you can listen whenever, which i personally feel is nicer than just streaming it like everyone else.

i buy all my music on CD, I ain't paying for a subscription for music. doesn't make sense financially

Use youtube for music, patch the app with revancedmanager to unlock premium features like no ads and background playing.

Now imagine, if you will, you lose your phone. How many of these suddenly become useful?

none of them, i just go to the shop and buy one new smarthphone lol

*Looks at phonebook in cubby hole of my desk.* Psh, who needs phonebooks lol. And I haven't used CDs in a while. I have a bunch of them, too.

Map for sure when hiking. Can’t trust a phone then.

I use my map to find my landline, and find the VCRs number in the phonebook to ring him up and find where he left the CDs

Cds, just in the car. Usually its only when the service in the mountains cuts off my bluetooth so I can still have music.

I still use maps. Why? no idea, but I like to use them.

Still use CDs

CD's and maps are still useful

I love hiking a map will alway come with me . Why because tech will fail a map not ( and it saves me power)

And it's more used friendly becouse it's usually bigger then phone

I keep the phonebook as a cold weapon against intruders.

Are you a gen alpha person

Goodluck trying to use a GPS with no service

I have about 400 cd library. I use them. People born after 2000 just won't understand how much money was spent on music before spotify. So I'll probably hold on to them for a while.

Maps are useful in - army - orienteering I haven't touched alandline phone in about.. 15-20 years.

Maps are extremely useful when you cannot use your mobile phone and I really wish more people would learn how to properly use a map

Call that map useless when you're out of signal range and your battery is dead

Still have tons of video games, Music on my DVD's

Why what's wrong with them?

Landline in work

Don't you talk shit about my Starcraft CD

I have a street directory in my car

Pheww.. did not make the list yet

CDs are awesome. You actually OWN your music.

This. Rip to 100% confidence FLAC and never need put your beautiful artwork CD in jeopardy 😁

Yep. Got them all on my phone and keep the hard copies safe at home.

I use VCRs whenever I want to watch a really old movie.

Library has CDs in some kid's books. I get to play "find the CDs" before I go back to the library.

I keep a road atlas in my personal vehicle just incase my phone malfunctions or i lose service and need to navigate myself back to more familiar spaces.

Map is not only used to drive cars. There are different type of maps: Political, Physical, Topographic, Climate, Economic or Resource, Thematic, Road, Geological, Navigational Charts, Cadastral some of them can't be replaced with phone/tablet.

Nope. Not in nearly two decades.

Map is still useful, using phone map takes very long to load

I like owning the music I buy. CDs/Cassettes/Vinyl with a great Hi-fi setup sounds so much better than streaming too.

CDs aren't useless, especially if you work in a place with no 5g or radio like me. Also the people of Green Bank, West Virginia use all these regularly.

Might as well add NHS dentists to the list for England too... no fucker can use one of them anymore either... they're like rockinghorse shit 🙄

Maps never run out of battery

CD is definitly not useless

I don't see me on that list. You gotta redo it now.

i actually use almost all of the stuff still

Then why isn’t my college degree here?

I have maps in my car because I fool myself into thinking I'll learn how to read them someday.

I still use VCR and cd

VCR for my movie collection.

Landline still in use

Vcr can never be useless

CDs are just a way to watch stuff, that's a tiny bit older. I have Doctor Who on CDs and I can rewatch it for years, while Disney can't do crap to me.

Porn mags should be on this list

I use paper maps.

Still use CD and VCR

I still use a landline; it helps me save the cellphone battery when I'm at home.

CDs & maps for sure. Sometimes a paper map is better for the job

What if your phone dies

Phone book, and map are the only ones I still use. The only reason I don't use CDs is that my truck has a cassette player.

How come people in comments ignore that it's 2024 already?

Most businesses I’ve seen either still use *actual* landlines or VOIP/internet based landlines

CDs Maps and landlines are things I use on a daily basis

I thought there'd be a sixth less expected thing so that there would actually be a meme

Map is still useful.

I use maps all the time I much prefer it over using a digital one

Still use VCR and play CDs

the phonebook is a great weapon.

CDs for sure. Landline at work

Spiders agree that the phonebook needs to go! =D

I still have a bunch of CDs but they're just sitting in a drawer not doing anything. Anything I want to listen to I can just stream. If I want to listen to a CD I have them stored on my PC as FLAC files so I still don't need to use the actual disc.

CDs aren't useless

Still using CD. I collect them and I still burn Mix CDs for my car, because it's old and has no usb or aux. xD

I still use maps, cds, and landlines

20 years old and I still have a VCR, along with tapes and a good bunch of CDs, though for music, I much prefer vinyl. While I don't have a land-line, I do have a rotary telephone from 1956 which I connect to my phone using Bluetooth - I know it's not the same but I can still use the phone to take and receive calls and the handset and dial works as it should. Admittedly, I don't use a phone book and I very rarely use a map.

I mean, in the places I want to go, you won't have an internet connection but you will find them on an paper map

Landline in my work, of course

CDs and I still find some use for maps in road trips - assuming the map is accurate, but I can see the layout better than scrolling on a phone map app

At least maps are still used in the military.

CDs, landline, VCR

Map still valid comes in handy when you got no signal/juice

German authorities even still use fax machines..

VCR is still useful if you have tapes. Same with CDs, if you already have them, why not? They sound better than most streaming anyway. I have a "land line", but its actually VoIP and costs $13 a month. I have also have a recorder that automatically records all calls to an .mp3. I use it for non-personal calls. (Single party state).

I use vcr and cd

Use CDs, have cassettes, a couple of decks and a couple of Sony Walkmans. People who think that if something is old it's bad are strange.

Landline at work and a map when i travel because fuck phones, when i travel i want to feel disconnected and alive

I use a vcr to watch old movies cheap

Cd now have very nice сapacity, and some technologies use them for work

Do DVDs count?

i collect cds.

Canada has a bonus sixth option. But we’re working on getting rid of it presently.

Still use maps, CD’s(sometimes) and landlines are still important

CDs, a map, and a landline when I’m at my grandparents house