Those were something, weren’t they? I thought it was the coolest thing ever as a kid, just the absolute peak of technology.

And in hindsight… Yeah, it was a pretty comfortable way to play videos and music, wasn’t it? And the click wheel iPods even had a surprisingly decent selection of games.

While I’m here, whatever happened to those Kindle e-readers with the physical page turn buttons and keyboard? I kinda feel like they stopped selling those, but I feel like that was kind of preferable to a touch screen, too.

I guess just in general I don’t like touch screens and it’ll be a good day when they stop being integrated into things that don’t actually need them. I’m out here thinking that flip phones beat smartphones still

  • DerRedMax [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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    Still have mine. Still clicks. For a while I was using it as a FireWire drive. Then I threw it in the “white cords and apple stickers box.”

    I was cleaning out stuff this summer and kinda just set it aside because I could think of a reason to throw it away.

    That is why I am bad at declittering.