you might be forgiven for mistaking all this 90s multimedia stuff for cheap garbage that doesn't work since that's all we have today with internet-of-shit ai everything cheap garbage that never works but trust me when i say the past i remember was cheap garbage that most absolutely did work for very limited specific purposes and boy howdy we thrived on it
@mavica_again '90s multimedia stuff was so cool, whole ass encyclopedia on the computer for $30 when all your parents ever got were the teaser A-AW volumes
@mavica_again rejecting Adobe Premiere and returning to LEGO Studios Movie Maker
@mavica_again i completely agree. i've picked up some cheap peripherals off ebay from the 1990s-early 2000s. minus the plastics in some cracking and/or breaking slightly, the overall quality is much better than the shit we have nowadays.
case in point: usb webcams. the camera quality itself is awful, but the old ones don't feel flimsy.