• Brewchin@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Good lord, I had one of these. By SoundBlaster, IIRC (May still have it in a box somewhere).

    For the confused younger folk: They were a neat idea on paper, but awful in practice. Being all rigid plastic without padding on the base, they excelled at transmitting every bump/vibration of the desk, keyboard taps and (roller ball) mouse movement. 😬

    Before headsets with mics or decent noise cancellation were a thing, and before online gaming was much of a thing, so most gamers had powered speakers on their desks. Which the mic was also great at picking up…

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    19 days ago

    I had one back in the 90s and used it to record a fart and play it back, to the amusement of my friends.

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      18 days ago

      I still remember that “Wheat yets third beat pa.” is roughly “Happy birthday to you.”