#microfiche

[slack-wise]

Computer Output Microfiche

[foone]

Come on! This is too easy. You're making these up just so you can make jokes.

[monty-cantsin]

i don't know why i get online but ive been compelled since i was young. im always clawing for friendship in real life but ive lied so much that my identity sometimes feels sort of splintered between 20 different people.

it doesn't really make it better perse to use the Internet to connect these threads but it becomes easier to build a life outside of the shatters i guess.

plus , to be less self serious, it is fun to chat on my computer !!

(im the mirror at my favorite gas station)

cyan or sid or casp or wttvr // 20 // he she

i don't know.

it gets really hard to define yourself especially when the name of the game is to define yourself. it gets really hard to scream in my room when ive spent so long screaming into my phone. i would really like to hear from the outside world i think. reach out to this spaceman hovering the earth if you so dare

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previous screen/usernames

usernames:

hypnagogic-cigarette

hypnagogic-phase

screen name :

god's hotspot

[no-reception-in-possum-springs]

I've gathered screenshots of all the newspaper articles from the microfiche reader in the library. There is some intresesting lore in the articles and they are really fun to read!

Also significant is the STRANGE BUT TRUE: A TALE OF TEETH!

[trans-humanoid-automaton]

Look at her isn't she gorgeous

[hackedkitten]

ok unpopular opinion

stuff needs to come on microfilm/fiche again.

like lets say u got an appliance right, like a washing machine. aint nobody know if manualslib or the company that makes the damn thing is A) still around B) if the manual is archived somewhere.

and like chances are the original manual that came with the appliance (owners manual or service manual if that even came with the damn thing) has been thrown out or degraded to such a degree that its unreadable or got wet or whatever environmental hazards got to it. and this makes it a right ol pain in the ass when ya need to use or fix the damn thing, especially if the thing has been through multiple owners.

and i get that companies dont want to print an absolute TOME for everything they produce. its a lotta paper, and ppl usually dont read it anyway (top tip! read ur manuals people!) and you dont know where to put it etc etc.

now introducing: the humble microfilm.

any dumbass (including yours truly) can read this thing with a light source and a bit of glass. theres not that much that can go wrong there. the microfiche sheet is also like a6 size, so tiny and can fit literally inside an appliance, and its plastic so its water resistant, fairly tearproof, and can fit like 60 a4 sheets onto one microfiche, and basically has all the advantages of paper with none of the disadvantages. and its better than digital records for archival purposes (and casual repair! if its included in the appliance, bc then you only have to take out the microfiche and put it in the reader, instead of hunting for manuals and software or whatever that may aswell just be vaporware.) and its rock simple to view.

anyways rant over lol

what do yall think

[latte-lesbian]

As a librarian I was so so excited when edwin and niko got microfiche in the library in episode 3. I know that it's not that special for most people but it made me really happy to see it

[ysengrm]

Forgotten mascots from local newspaper microfiche (c. 1975)