Old media
03/04/07 22:06 Filed in: Technology
When I headed downtown to Rhyner's Record Store, I was sure I was buying music on those vinyl records. Now we know that we were buying media and that media has become old.
Clearing out my office in preparation for some construction work, I took another look at the rows of old magazines and albums that lined the shelves and realised that there was no way I would be opening any of those periodicals or listening to any of those albums, at least under a turntable's needle ever again.
There are still some albums on a shelf, old hard to find Soca, Santana and Jimi Hendrix discs that I may, one day, find the time to encode using one of those fancy turntables you can jack into a computer, but the truth is that the magazines, now in databases on the Internet and the music, on CD or in iTunes, have moved on from the media that once held them and what I had been keeping in on my shelves were their rotting carcasses.
Everyone says you should hold on to old records because "someone" wants them and go through the magazines for articles I might want to keep.
But no. It's time to say goodbye.
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