Joe's Barber Shop

Some barber shops seem to be the center of town. Joe's is actually much newer than many of the barber shops I see in small towns. But this is very fitting for the feel that I was trying to get.
The red, white, and blue barber pole on the outside, the red leather chairs on the inside, old bottles of elixirs and what not set up on the shelf. This is my kind of place.
https://pixels.com/featured/joes-barber-shop-bill-gallagher.html
#JoesBarberShop #BillGallagherPhotography #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Nostalgia #Vacaville

I miss these visuals so much. You probably feel it for your respective system of choice. This is what they took from us.

#nostalgia #atari800 #atari
#retrocomputing #retrohardware

Did anyone have a CD audio player back in the day that featured CD+G video output?

I got my first CD player in 1985, a Pioneer PD-5010 which had CD+G output, but I never had the cable and didn't have the tech sense to search for it beyond just the local Circuit City.

I never saw the visuals.

https://bytecellar.com/2015/09/15/recalling-my-first-cd-player-stereo-system/

CDs.

When Madonna released “The Immaculate Conception”, her first collection of greatest hits, it was wonderful. The CD sounded beautifully, the addition of QSound added sonic depth to the music, and the remixes were brilliantly crafted. When played on CD it sounds wonderful.

When “Celebration”, another greatest hits album, was released in 2009, I first heard it via download. The music sounded red-lined to me, as if remixed to flatten the levels throughout the entire track, all cranked up to nearly a 10.

I knew this flattening of levels to basically a wall of a sound was a growing trend. Pop music lost its nuances in many ways years ago. The streaming services have just reinforced these poor decisions.

Something else I’m noticing with the streaming services: they’re starting to replace classic tracks with re-recordings but not indicating it’s re-recorded on the listing. A popular dance song from 1989, “Ride On Time” by Black Box, has been replaced in all the streaming services with different vocals. Another track, “Love Takes Time” by Orleans, has a different lead vocal.

I stumbled upon this video a couple of days ago. A bit of a nostalgic trip, it talks about why CDs are back in 2025. If anything, they’re a testament to the original tracks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOa1x0emZYA

In the light of #amigapril, here's level 5 of our 1992 #Amiga game Hoi. Having a #demoscene background, we wanted to create a crazy level with psychedelic demo-like effects.

Later, the level turned out to form a stress test for emulators and video compression.

We had fun stumbling into some vintage television sets over the weekend. #Nostalgia #Vintage #television

Vintage Screen Time https://warnercrocker.com/2025/04/07/vintage-screen-time/

Self Promo Sunday #4

It's Self Promo Sunday, Y'all! Share your Small Web site in the comments and/or let us know what you've been working on lately!

@indieweb @smallweb @neocities ##indieweb ##neocities ##nostalgia ##oldweb ##smallweb ##webdesign ##webdev ##webrevival #Nekoweb

https://smallweb.thecozy.cat/blog/%f0%9f%92%97-self-promo-sunday-4-%f0%9f%92%97/

Hey, remember iPod Classic?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Classic

Listening to music, Gangsta's Paradise came on, and I recalled that, in the 90s, I thought, for a while that the lyrics were:

"We've been spending most our lives giving in to gangsters paradigms"

I mean, I was a weird teenager, but it kind of works, doesn't it?

Don't give in to gangster paradigms.

Going down the #Nostalgia highway today whilst I work on a small personal #Project to help me at my day job.

Making a #Tool that can make #Reports when I take a call from clients and co-workers to help me be more #Organized
Basically a glorified #Form collector that will save each file to my #NextCloud drive for easy sync and backups.

The nostalgia today will be brought by the band #Creed and their music from their 1997 album #MyOwnPrison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IooIZbqcBs