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Stick pen to tape to rewind?
Yep, that’s exactly what came to my mind at the first glance. I used to do that so I could listen to another tape.
And I’d say him who promises 100 internets is not that old ^^
I think you all missed the point.. When you listened to a cassette and the tape fell out of the cassette, you had to rewind/forward it to roll it back into the casette
cassette*
That’s exactly what I thought of.
Took about 1.3 seconds.
I WIN THE 100 INTERNETS!
I always just used my little finger….
I wouldn’t have got it, and I still use cassetts. I used the rewind button, or my finger. I think at one point I owned a “portable rewinder”.
Man this tech is dated.
Whoa, yeah your right, but I remember.
so did I. We got so much in common. Oh no, just one. Still!!
LOL, That’s what I used to do all the time. xD
took around 0.1 second to figure out =)
I didn’t get it either because I always used my pinkie finger or nail!
Same here, I always just used my pinky.
That the answer?
Thats no link, thats an adventure game logical pathway
Manual rewind? Crazy talk.
Take tape out of tape deck.
Flip over.
Insert.
Press play and listen to other side.
Ah, but have you ever borrowed a book on tape from the library? This action is sometimes essential if your tape deck has an auto-off feature.
I swear, for some people standard tape handling procedure included eating a jelly sandwich.
but a damn good jelly samich it was
Noob. Noone would flip and play to rewind. Them you’d have to listen to the B side. Eighter ReWind or manual work. What if you wanted to listen to the same song again?
+1
Pencil+tape = re-spool it
rewind = play the other side
you could also fix the cassette if the tape got stuck in the player or if you had to splice it back together
not sure if trolling…
Ahh, but if the tape is pulled OUT of the cassette, that’s the reason to use the pencil, you can’t just insert it flipped over back into the cassette player.
Ummm…. no. Sometimes the tape would unravel out of the cassette, and you’d have to wind it back in with a pencil. You’ve never actually used a cassette tape, have you?
Not really you would flip it over to listen to the other side and that would rewind side 1. Tho someones the tape would be pulled out of the cassaste so you would use your finger or something like a pencil to pull in back in by turning the wheels (guess that is what their called)
Of course! I used to be able to get the tape on just so, so that I could twirl it around on the pencil like some kind of New Year’s Eve noisemaker. It was awesome – right up until the moment it went flying off and nailed somebody (probably me) in the head. But still!
Using the pencil to wind the tape.
Wait, we don’t just play the tape in reverse to rewind?
When the tape gets pulled out and is all over the place? good luck with that.
Challenge accepted.
Because old portable tape players are eat a bunch of electricity to power motor for rewinding, and batteries weren’t cheap where I live.
Sometimes I was bored, so to keep my hands busy I just rewound the tape with the pencil to kill time.
I just masturbated.
win
Yeah my 1987 Sony walkman drained the power so rapidly from the batteries if used to FF ore REW, so I always took the tape out and do it manualy. And by that time, Alkaline batteries weren´t available, and the standard AA batteries weren´t cheap either.
Alkaline batteries *are* “standard AA batteries”.
Clearly he meant the old-school lead-acid AA batteries.
No they’re not. “standard AA batteries” are Zinc-Carbon not alkaline which are MUCH higher powered and hold their charge much longer especially when not being used. Zinc-Carbon tend to go flat over time even if not used. That’s like saying the all current mobile phone batteries are Nickel-Cadmium when virtually all are now Lithium based.
And yeah, the pencil trick was great for respooling tape and occasionally tapes might require a complete wind from one end to the other to retension the tape so it would work properly.
They weren’t then
AA is a battery size, the one most commonly used by walkmans. Not alkaline or w/e.
god you’re dumb.
wind =/= rewind
Everyone fails together, it was really for when your tape deck ate it and you had to get 9001 ft of tape back into the case.
-Striker, Age 22
That is correct.
I think the point being made was that OUR (ppl of our age) kids wouldn’t understand.
Wolfy, Age 23
I used to play with them when I was little
(I’m probably gonna be the last to remember these O.o)
Ricks, Age 16
I’m 15 and I know what they did. It doesn’t make it worth getting something for it, it just means they are never exposed to it, which isn’t their fault.
lol i am 12 adn wut is ths???
I’m 16 and I got what the pencil was for in like 1 sec. I used to have a cassette player when I was like 4 or 5
My mother who was born in 1964 didn’t even get this…
hipster mom–tapes are too mainstream–still plays vinyl.
Vinyl has nothing to do with hipsters….
If anything, hipsters are rocking 8-track.
I did this a lot, where’s the cut off age?
Age 18
I got it on first glance. My country was slower in terms of tech and etc. So during the later 90s, we still played NES.
Age 15
Oh, Germany, you so silly…
I think the G. is for Grammar, during the 90s you could get the SNES even in east Germany
Germany was re-unified 1989/90, so in the 90s is wasn’t east-germany AKA GDR any longer
All hail the Autoreverse decks!
Oh god, you people are going to reproduce? Have fun with all the sex and stupid kids, I’ll be listening to my noise cassettes(you probably never of it it)
Mister Happy, age 24
I uh…. I thought of both….
Ben, 17
Thank you striker
-zf, age 59
I’ve studied audio and video production, tape cassettes and reel-to-reels for the first things I learned. Cassettes only hold 423 feet worth of tape >.>
It’s called referencing a meme.
Fail.
But… It’s over 9.000 !!!
winding side A = rewinding side B
rewinding side A = winding side B
wind = rewind
-trollface-
For the last time on this thread, NO! THAT PLAYS THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TAPE! WHAT DO PEOPLE NOT UNDERSTAND ABOUT TWO SIDED TAPES? I’M 14 AND I KNOW THIS. Some people are either idiots on a universal scale or the worst trolls the world has ever seen. I don’t want to dedicate my life to finding that out.
FIRST
Fail.
oh god i remember !
CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I BET NOW YOU CAN DIE HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Used for turning back time, songs or even games in prehistoric computers.
Where’s my 100 internets and what do I do with them?
Use some of them to buy my latest book:
WHAT TO DO WITH 69 INTERNETS!
And yes, I will want those internets in the package they arrived in.
Pencil is to rewind the tape.
Uhh, nope.
Oh Brandon you troll
Uhh, yes, actually.
Stick the pencil in through the empty reel and then spin the whole cassette around it until the tape is rewound.
Best solution we had for getting the tape back in when it got pulled out.
When it got pulled out. NOT when it needed rewinding.
So you’re saying that “rewind” isn’t an appropriate term for winding up a tape that needs a second winding, as it were?
as ‘rewind’ is the common function of most machines for moving the tape back upon itself for the re-play/re-set to the beginning, while re-spooling involves returning the tape to the cassette after a malfunction it i sno stretch to differentiate between the two functions, especially as ‘rewind’ has a button on the machine — and can even be applied to Discs (upon which nothing is wound in the first place) clarifying between rewind and re-spool is valid
^this
Pencil? Feck, why did I never think of that? I just stuck my finger in there
Ditto.
LOL people stopped doing that after try 1 when we realized it hurt
I’d do that too if there wasn’t a pencil handy, but I found it hurt your finger after awhile.
Yeah, you put it in. Take it and put it inside. And then you kinda move it around. I used to think it was so fun. But it’s not as satisfying if the pencil isn’t big enough…………….hehe….
That’s what she said.
ah ha ;D
^win
be kind, rewind
Rewinding the cassettes using the pencil. I did that to save battery in walkman. Now I feel old.
used to do that too to save battery, but you are not old, you are mature!
Are those some old 3D glasses?
3D glasses? What are you? A six year old?
Come on! If you’ve made it this far in the comments, you know he knows what it’s for just from reading other comments. Way to get trolled.
Way to answer to someone who was trolled. How do you know he read them?
Not sure if sarcastic… or just waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too young
Not sure if troll, stupid or really young
Dude, I’m 12 and I still knew what the heck it was talking about. I used to play with tapes and I was more careful with them when I was 6 then most people I’ve seen with a tape like that.
Come on guys, that funny!
Please don’t awaken an army of Captain Obvious..
Well, I’m 20 so a bit young to have used them, but it took me 4 second to understand the thing.
Lets wait another decade to see a good effect.
dude i’m 14 (yeah) and i knew this magic.
I’m 17 and as soon as I saw the pencil as I was scrolling down I was laughing.
Or, you know, ask someone who’s ten right now…
I’m 20, but had a technologically backwards family, so I was using casettes until I was 8.
i’m only 15 and i got it. but i just used my little finger…
too late
We have seen the enemy, and they are stating the obvious without irony.
First and i know the answer
Its called rewind on todays electrical devices
It’s for:
Winding the tape.
Label the cassette.
(DUH)
+10
wow you sure know how to make a lady feel old
Referring to yourself as a “lady” probably makes you feel plenty old already, grandma.
milf much ?
I will make sure they DO
pfft whatever, I just have to point out to those that don’t get it, you use the pencil to rewind the tape. It’s obvious
Nope. The pencil is wind (not rewind) the tape, when it unravels, which it likes to do frequently. Hence why, you’d always see unraveled tape on the side of roads-people would just get pissed off and throw it out the window.
*to wind
Remember when your 8-track came would unwind, and you yank one side and the tape would all get sucked up again. Awesome!
If the tape has been unraveled, it is no longer wound up. Therefore, you use the pencil to REwind the tape.
pfft whatever, I just have to point out to those that don’t get it, you use the pencil to rewind the tape. It’s obvious…
You use the pencil to write the songs in the tape, obviously.
Finally, an amusing comment. The internets should be awarded to you (have +1 from me
I can see that, but they have also become out of date due to technology.
The pencil is to rewind the tape if you can’t rewind it in a tape player.
I’m 13. Ha.
XD
Tapes were double sided dumb ass, no need to rewind, just turn it over. Try not to fail so much next time.
Thats nice if you don’t care what you are listening too, but if you want to hear the same side again, you WILL have to rewind it, you moron
(you’re dumber than a 13 year old…omg)
All cassette players had fast forward, but not all had rewind. You could fast forward after turning the tape over and then rewind…..but I can tell you’ve never seen one as you are too young.
Pretty easy to act all tough to a username on the internet, eh?
You’re only saying that ’cause is your *rse is out of kicking distance, loser!
PS Just kidding, really, you’re a winner and you know it!
PPS Just kidding. Loser!
You can’t rewind the tape in the player after the player has eaten the tape, dumbass. If you were lucky enough to get your tape out of the player intact, the tape inside the cassette would be spilled out like eviscerated intestines. You would use the pencil to wind the tape back into the cassette, the whole time praying that Duran Duran was still playable.
Your Duran Duran comment is pure win.
I’m 40, so ’80s teenager. Ah, good times..
But… But… I always used my fingers to rewind it!
It’s not just to rewind the tape. The pencil was a necessary tool for those inevitable times when the tape player would catch the tape and pull it loose from the cassette. You would carefully disengage the tape from the mechanism, then use the pencil to rewind it all back into the cassette. If the tape broke, you could still salvage it if you had steady hands and a small piece of scotch tape, but it would always have a slight skip in the music.
Best answer so far! (And least douchey.)
^ Worst answer so far. and most douchey. -100 internets for Rachel
yup thats what i was gunna say-I played that wham tape to death
It says OUR CHILDREN, not KIDS TODAY
Hey, for some people, their children ARE the kids today. Sad, eh?
u mad?
This!
dat ^
a little bit of monica by my side
a little bit of sandra in the sun
a little bit of mary all night long
a little bit of jessica here I am
The combination of words pertaining to the sequence of the posts has been terminated.
This!
In Layman’s terms:
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!!
C-C-C-C-C-C-COMBO MEAL!
whatididthere,youshouldseeit
Do you want fries with that? Wait, what? They’re already included? Awesome. Do I get a toy?
What, what?
In the butt butt
Whats the connection between Tape and nail polisher
Use the pencil to wind the tape past the clear part to start recording at where the actual tape begins.
THIS is the correct answer. I still have a bunch of my mix tapes. I no longer have a cassette player, but I have the tapes. They were a lot of work!
Batteries were never so expensive that you would actually rewind by hand, unless you were stupid and bought one of those tiny sets that used the watch batteries.
My pinky always worked best.
What? When did the topic suddenly change to butt-plugs? Maybe it was the free toy with the combo meal?
Shhh!!! don’t tell my secret. 1000 COMBO MEALS!
The pencil is not use to “REWIND” the tape youngans….
The pencil was used to wind the tape when the ribbon overspooled or got caught. Rewinding a tape with a pencil…..ha
-100 internets for the lot of you!
i have this old super mario brothers tape from random house, and i had to do that a couple times. not fun.
Oh, you CAN rewind but I would only recommend that if you have too much spare time and absolutely nothing else to do.
wrong.. pencil is used to fix the tape when the player chews it out of the box.. like this
http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/photohome/photohome0606/photohome060600004/432673-a-cassette-player-with-chewed-tape.jpg
the graphite is to wipe the tape
I’m 17 and I know the link…
It’s also pretty obvious.
It’s easy .. tap was REWRITABLE medium .. I found that on wikipedia ..
No, try again.
Someone didn’t get the irony?
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-no.
you must be a child of the blu-ray age.
I think he’s more of a child of the irony age. And one of us apparently never heard of it.
That’s funny. Anyone who doesn’t get it is a dummy…
I remember:
The pencil was used for drawing some comics while waiting on the f**king radio to finally play the song you were waiting all day for so that you can record it.
The pencil was also used to bite on so you wouldn’t rage-kill the DJ for talking over the end of the song you had waited three hours to hear.
The pencil was also useful to bite on to control your rage at the DJ who talked over the song you had waited three hours to hear.
This.
trickster is tricky
^this. And then the stupid DJ always talked over the intro and ruined it anyway. Jerk.
Easiest Internetz I ever won.
rewind? i did that with my player. but the tape got pulled out of the plastic case by one of those cheap players, a pencil was my weapon of choice to repair it. and i also used a pencil to break out the little plastic bits that enabled rewriting the tape, whenever i felt that the tape i just made was THE S**T.
Umm, duh. The tape is to record the conversation leading up to you putting the pencil inside of your government representative to be later used as blackmail.
Do kids these days know nothing?
win
I actually thought the pencil was for writing stuff on the white strip at the top of the cassette tape
They will never know what is a 3,5″ floppy….
You’re actually going with new tech for the 3.5″, what about the 8″ or the 5.25 floppy.
8″ floppy?! Owwww…
Like some people will never know why the standard computer drive names start at C:\
A:\ and B:\ are too obscure nowadays, especially B:\.
^ This a few times.
There are two letters of the alphabet before ‘C’ which can be assigned to drives in a Windows environment. You’ve probably never heard of them.
I think you just proved his point.
Back before Windows, there was DOS. A: and B: were drive letters for the floppy drives, because back before hard drives, there was no “Drive C:”
I think you just proved nothing. A and B are still usable under Windows.
Yeah, that wasn’t the point. He’s not saying they cannot be assigned A: and B:, just that they default to C:, and most people don’t understand why.
Unless you’re trolling, in which case, Successful Troll is successful.
Must…think of…dirty…joke…
8″ fap?
Audience?
I just used my pinkie. Sure it hurt a little, but it worked.
Is that because back then the only readily available lube was vaseline, and it always made you walk a bit funny afterwards if you used it? I’m sure you’ve graduated to a much more moment-enhancing prostate stimulator now that water-based lubes are dominating the marketplace for that sort of thing.
You’re all wrong, pencil is to retract the tape back into the case when it inevitably makes a bid for freedom
It’s ever so obviously to make sexualy innuendos
Taping over the ‘anti copy’ parts of the cassette to copy an old game. . wait you need the manual to complete the anti piracy questions? curse you 1980′s
Two things; use the pencil to write ON the tape, as most tape players can rewind them. Or at least, the tape player we used to have when I was a kid could rewind it.
Write on the cassette that is, not the actual tape, for all you trolls
What about Laserdisc, they wouldn’t know what it is.
i do. im 14 and we still have our old Laserdisc player and some Laserdisc movies.
p.s. you use the pencil to rewinde the cassette when the tape comes out.
Yes, You rewind the Tape with the Pencil, If you can’t use the tape deck.
Ha ha, my teacher used a few Laserdiscs last year, and I was likely the only kid that knew what the f**K that was.
They are both made of carbon, duh!
graphite != ferric oxide. come to think of it, neither are made of carbon. and you should trust me, i’m a geologist
either used to rewind the tape or competly f**k someones favorite cassett up
Magnets right?
which part of a pencil contains magnets, captain mormon?
Duh! The whole thing is a magnet. I can prove it: using the magnetic field of the Earth, attempt to discharge pencil object from the field with violent force (use a rubber band to fling it if too lazy to throw it up) and watch as its magnetic force draws the entire planet towards it until they stick together. This also proves that everything, even babies, are magnets as well, not just pencils. Here endeth todays lesson.
Maybe he refer to the magnetic tape inside the cassette. By the way how do they works?
I’m sad now :C
When I was small I wondered why the hexagonal pencils fit so well, as if they were designed to be used that way.
It’s actually the other way round. Pencils were designed long before the portable cassette tape, so they simply designed the spools to be the same or similar size for convenience when they realised just how easily tape players would attempt to eat the ribbon.
If the tape unravels, you use a pencil to wind it back up. Too bad you can’t do that with VHS tapes
You can just pop the top (little button on the side releases it) and wind the tape with your fingers….
That is what a finger is for.
You can, there was a button on the back you could depress with-you guessed it- a pencil, and then manually reel it in using your fingers on the reel.
I always used a biro.
And for all those dissing the cassette, when it went wrong we had a good chance of fixing it. Not like a CD, nor MP3.
Fortunately, I can make perfect backups of CDs and MP3s which don’t degrade over time or with additional copies.
never needed a pencil
always used my fingers
exactly.
I did this too. I couldn’t afford a pencil!
come on, obviously the pencil doesnt have magnets! the magnets inside the tape and by winding one of the wheels you can change the polarity which somehow powers your dinosaur chasing machine!
I don’t recall mentioning magnets!
Spooky thing this time-travel business where you come back to now and realise that in another dimension you must have said something completely different. That’s magnets for you, they’ll erase anything.
-Place dirty joke that includes fingers here-
I thought we used the pencil to write my own music on the tape?
Ba-dum-ba-bum!
I don’t know what the middle one is.
Thank you for the 100 internets… and the feeling of being superb old
^this. even though i’m 19.
^this. same, sux doesn’t it
I understand it. You use both to record data!
To rewind the tape AND to clean the tape heads.
You want some OLD tech? First IBM terminal controller I had to work with needed a PAPER TAPE READER in order to reload the firmware!
So wrong….some pencils were too thin, whereas BIC Biros were exactly the right size.
High speed dub anyone? Can’t do that with MP3′s….oh wait, never mind.
no, you had to have the hexagonal pencils. round ones wouldn’t work.
They would if the pencil was big enough. Or if you angled it the right way. It was usually just easier to bend a paperclip.
We would use the pencil to wind the tape! OMG I LOVE THE INTERNETS.
the pencil is used to rewind the tape
… GASP, I’M OLD.
The good old and simpler times..
Yeah, back when your storage medium constantly threatened you with coming undone and temporarily unusable (possibly permanently, if you were too rough with it) leaving you with only degraded copies, had you thought to previously make them. Now, when a program crashes, we have to quit it and double-click on the file again to get our tunes back. Damn you, technology!
I feel like I should lose internets for getting this.
I feel like I should lose internets for NOT getting this. And I did it ALL THE TIME with my tapes. lol
I’m not sure my son will even know what an audio cassette is, much less how to fix it.
Aughh. I remember trying to rewind or wind those things with my finger..
I bought a cassette today! Good old ‘Riki Sorsa’ is never gonna let me down!
And I get internetz even when I’m not THAT old *bad poker face*
what the fish is a pencil?
It’s what constipated mathematicians use to work it out.
For music class, I am releasing a ‘Djent’ prog. EP, and just to piss everyone off, including the teacher… guess what the release format will be?
If you really want to give them a hard time, put it on vinyl. Let’s see them find something to play THAT on.
Actually, I frequently see USB pluggable record players for sale in heaps of different places. Ebay for a start, even Aldis had one for sale not long ago. They are also the preferred standard choice for just about every DJ… so, I guess you really are the victim after all.
Guess who will never be heard of by anyone, ever?
the sad thing is, i didn’t start officially using a usb drive until i got to highschool; and im 19 right now
, i actually brought a floppy disk to school cuz i needed to get a paper from it but non of the comps at the library had a slot for the floppies; lucky my english teacher did but man…..i felt really stupid and old fashioned
At least it wasn’t a 100 HOURS FREE AOL trial floppy you taped over the copy-protect on…….
and i’ve always used my pinky to wind the tape as a little boy… >.<
And thank you for making feel old…..
That’s because nobody uses video tapes any more, you bloody hipster.
You mean people actually were able to record VIDEO on these things, when everyone I knew only used them for AUDIO. You bloody genius! I’m off to copy all my VHS movies onto these portable little beauties! Oh dang, guess I’ll also have to plug my walkman into the beta before I can view it on the tube-set. I know, I’ll run it through the movie projector and watch them on the cleanest stained sheet I can find. The bonus? Something to clean up on when I’m, ahem, done.
There was indeed a toy video camera that used an audio cassette as the storage medium. Picture quality and recording were what you would expect.
The 100 internets are mine >:D
It’s funny. Being only 13, I still got this on my first guess
If they’re recorded properly, they actually sound pretty well…
Oh dear. I may be feeding a troll here, but…
*good
I WIN THE INTERNETS !!
Actually I still use tapes in my friend’s car when we’re taking a ride (a pretty old car I must confess). I tape the CDs I own with them.
I’ll make damn sure my children know what cassettes are. Records too. 8I
Duh, how else would we not only rewind the tape, but sync it the song we wanted to hear most!
… This makes me feel old. D:
I’m 16 and I got it straight away.
It doesn’t really matter if you get it if you never try it! LOL!!
Both made out of Graphite…
Can’t tell if trolling or just stupid
In college you can record a lecture to listen to later and write down if the teacher talks too fast
I’m 18, used that a lot of times <3
I would just use my thumb and forefinger to rewind it. We never had tape to put on a pencil so it wouldn’t slip out (insert sex joke).
I’ll never buy another auto-reverse walkman again. That shiz never worked.
Your ingenuity at work, most , meaning at around 2 billion people, have left this in their pockets and swore never to use that particular part of the brain again. LOL
nice one man and so true
The pencil is used to record the computer program name and the magazine you found it in after you manually entered the program code into your commodore computer and saved it to the cassette tape. Also to tighten the tape on the reel if it is too loose to run smoothly enough to play the program back into the computer memory.
Im 16 and i know what this is… this isnt that retro. used to do it all the time when i was little
Yeah, the old #2 pencil was primarily a repair device. You HAD to have it to wind the tape back in unless you had the kind of fingertip control that keeps you from ever being single. I also had a lot of tapes break from constant use. You can take the shell apart, remove the spools, and at the point it broke, mount the tape on an empty spool and save whatever was left. It also hels if you drop a tape in the sink. I unspooled the whole thing, set it on a fan, dried it, cleaned it, and re-spooled it with the pencil. I also tried mounting one in a drill to see if it sped things up. It just destroyed my Green Day tape.
My brother was actually very advanced in his day, he had a proper splicing kit which was a very expensive way of cutting the damaged bit of tape out and sticky-taping them back together, but it worked very well (assuming you didn’t mind the missing bit and a brief moments silence).
!’m 18 and I had a cassestte for my first mp3 player. Sad, but at least i know what the connection is. I’ve won my first internetz.
And you lost it again for calling it an MP3 player…
Duh.. 9gag.com
post something new already
Golly Gee, I realised conection between these two immediately, Im old.
I’m a fifteen year old girl, is it weird that i knew exactly what it was and remember having to rewind cassettes all the time?
No
Sigh…you all fail. You use the back of the pencil to clean the ear wax out of your ears so you can hear the tape better. You use the BACK of the pencil because you get better suction…
Ah, tapes. Heh. Dad has a drawer full of those, and nothing to play them with. Still has his record collection, too, although he has a record player for them. How many here still use vinyl records?
Hipsters do. You’ll find them on bebo, all the other social networking sites are too mainstream…
I’m not sure I understand. Did some people use the pencil to fix the tape? I never did that, but that’s my guess.
neither will they even know what a tape is
That tape is dying. I know him,he’s a friend of mine. Making fun of that tape is like making fun of disabled children, its WRONG. Leave the tape alone, he suffers enough
Im 17 and I still know how to link em
A rubber band. It’s so obvious.
I always felt like I was hurting the tape when I did that…
There sure are a lot of old people on this thread. I’m one of them. Hell, I remember when my 8-track player ate tapes. I hated that. I had a certain pencil that I used when my cassette tapes got eaten.
But one thing I haven’t figured out is this: Where are all of my cases that my cassette tapes came in?
Those were the days… when I didn’t feel so dang old!
Dude, I’m 16 and I know what the connection is. It saved battery if you rewound it using a pen or your finger. Trust me, you haven’t reached the clueless generation yet, not completely.
im only 16 but i never owned a cd till i was about 7. before that it was all tapes. i used tapes up until last year when i got an ipod.
I still shake my head at the cluelessness of ANYONE who felt they had to rewind for any more than just one song. Fair enough, some tapes were pretty long, but usually the best ones simply had the B-side on the B-side, and you would listen to that as well, and then the tape was automatically rewound ready to go when you flipped it over. I can’t imagine anyone was so stupid as to waste valuable time and energy rewinding a tape manually, EXCEPT for when it got chewed up from dirty heads.
what isn’t great about the pencil shown is its not the trademark ticonderoga #2 pencil that worked the best when the tape needed any sort of winding, re or otherwise.
Clueless generations will always be clueless.
Good ‘ol days manual rewinding… XD
tools for analogous recording
Oh god, nostalgia is striking. Good thing is I still have plenty tapes and a walkman!
Not just to rewind but also the tape was loose or slack on many occasions and the pencil/ pen was great for tightening the tape up so it wouldn’t get chewed up
BATTERIES DONT COST S**T. BOOR PITCHES!!
Sweet memories.. This is back when artists and musicians gained more profit before people switch to collecting zips and degraded audio from uploading sites.
Yes. Signing a contract with a record company that will reproduce your stuff and put it on the market, giving you a ridiculously small amount of money is great. Frigging internet where you can do that by yourself, skipping the corporation bollocks. Wake the frig up.
My worst fear was that my cats would get a hold of my stash and go nuts.
This is what happens when you are addicted to smoking cat-nip – which BTW, is a legal herb many people use to withdraw from smoking the proper, albeit illegal, herb.
i think this has a more sexual meaning…
I’m only 20 and now I’m made to feel old because I understand how to get the tape back in after the tape player eats it? That happened with VHS tapes all the time too, and VCRs are THAT long ago. I still demand my 100 internets, though.
i was born in 1996 and even i know this trick
100 hundred internets should be given to anyone who even uses a tape in the world of ipods.
Also… no one EVER rewound tapes with a pencil. Unless they were bored to death. This is about resolving the problem when the tape player tried to eat your cassette. You imbeciles.
write music ?
actually they’re used for if there is slack in the tape, to tighten it back up. Now the real test: Is there something similar for videocassettes?
Your finger.
And a pen to hold the little anti-pull tab.
I always used my finger to rewind both.
Of course I’m only 18 and my fingers were a lot smaller back then.
Writting down the words to the pokémon rap?
And since im curious to see what the mods will come up with:
pickle cheese pony damn woof cow airplane ass bagle ass running floated damn the of Ifeno’s butt semi-colon
- Se-Mi
there is. Its called your pinky finger
Our children will be unable to identify them and their purpose. Then when we explain them our children say something to make us feel REALLY old.
My 100 internets plz.
REWIND!!! REWIND!!! I did this so many times in the 90′s. and i’m only 19.
The cassette(Tape) is almost outdated so, My child will never see this..
about pencil they will surely use for various purpose as there will.
its graphite. they both have graphite.
Got it first glance.
-Sam age 14
But….any tape deck I’ve ever used had (has) a rewind button. Why not just use that?
BWAHAHAHAHAAAA!! XD
Aaah, memories of those afternoons grumbling to myself as I wound the messed up tape of my Aerosmith cassette. My cassette deck developed a hatred for me during my teenage years, you see.
same colour.
iClaim: 100 internets, and I don’t have any children!
Am I the only one that used to use the pencil to f**k up the tape?
To rewind the tape after it has been snagged in the cassette recoreder.
No one used a pencil. You use your ittlebitty pinky!
I’m eighteen but I remember having to wind up a tape with a pencil… we used those til I was like ten years old.
Whoever made this probably isn’t that old…
want 2 know more about this?
This reminds me of the Muppet Babies episode where they try to enter a songwriting contest and Gonzo messes up the tape!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2aLRsq3JRc&feature=player_detailpage#t=370s
It actually took me a while to work out what the thing on top was. I’m 22.
i used to use a bic pen,it had a better grip
nooo it is not a manual rewind, it is when (somehow) the tape gets pulled out and is all over the place (happened quite often somehow) and you use the pencil to wind the tape back into the cassette. Watch Wall-E and you see him do it with a video cassette
u need 2 rewind or fast forward the cassette..ur fingers r too large..jux fix the pencil into the hole n rotate…
Damn it, I used to use my finger to rewind.
So f-in what?
I have a set of head phones on at the mo, listening to my Sharpe audio books on my 1999 “Walkman” tape player!!! I know exactly what the connection is…still use it, to wind up the tape when it get eaten by my decrepit, aged “Walkman”…
The term you knuckleheads are looking for is ‘unspooled’. You used the pencil when the tape became UNspooled, and you used it to REspool the tape so you could play it again.
I don’t think I ever did this for myself when I listened to tapes, being like five, but I still thought when I saw this, “well the eraser of that pencil is exactly the size of the rewindy things, so… I guess you could rewind it manually…”
I don’t think this is worth any internets.
And when it didn’t work – and this is a true story – I pulled out all the tape and made a giant spiderweb on my bedroom wall! It was actually pretty cool. Heh heh.
I have looked for a month or so to find a portable radio with both a cassette deck and a cd deck. they are pretty hard to find here in the Netherlands.
When the cassette got old the slack/tension of the tape would get messed up and I’d use a pencil to tighten it back up. I only re-wound the tape in the device, it’s not like it used that much battery juice to do so.
Pencil rewinds the tape. Where are my internets?
They’re both white and black, because obviously 240 comments about rewinding thingies
This was for when the tape came out of the cassette, if you were lucky you had the pencil before the tape got tangled. Or you were young enough to use your pinky.
Off, 19
NAW GIVEZ ME INTERNETZ
Out of curiosity, I showed this to my oldest son (age 9). He read it, frowned, and pointed at the cassette tape and asked “What IS that, by the way?”
(I, on the other hand, was born in ’64 and can recall putting my fave tape on a pencil and spinning it around to rewind it, thus saving the batteries on my walkman. Cthulhu, I’m old.)
I used my pinky. Pencils were for math. Math was (and still is) bad.
This got way more comments than it deserved.
Both are recording instruments
Ah I remember this. *tape player eats tape* take pen go down to AV club. Poke nerd with pen. “Hey nerd! Fix this!”
Me: Whose children wouldn’t know this?
“Cool Kid” lol, what’s dat?
Me: O_o GTFO
If you were born like ’95 and before you should know this. Damn kids these days.
It’s used to rewind the tape.
I wish I had a big pencil for when I rewound the VHS tapes
sad cassette would like you to stop poking it in eye
My pinky is too strong!
I didn’t get it and had to look at comments, then I realized I hadn’t got it because I always used a Bic pen to do it xD
There are 323 comments already. Do you have any more sets of internets left? I am sure I should get a set, because I used those exact tools last week in my car when my book on tape went squealy. I pulled it out, whapped it smartly against the dashboard and rewound it a little with my manual rewind tool, whapped it again. Played perfectly when I put it back into the player.
+101 Internets for still using cassettes!
the pencil is being used to rewind the tape.
I looked at them and realised they are both analog storage devices.
Cheap tape players would often catch the tape during eject & cause partial un-ravelling. It had to be re-tightened before the tape could be used again. The pencil was the defacto tool for this & every user of that technology way back then knew about it. Only a dope would use it to rewind a tape completely just for the purpose of listening to the same side again. All tape players had rewind functions.
carbon ofc.
Rule 34 NO EXCEPTIONS!
Here you go:
http://static3.depositphotos.com/1001025/229/i/450/dep_2298753-Rewind-of-vintage-cassette-with-pencil.jpg
I just used my fingers……….
Pencil rewind!
Sometimes when borrowing your mates cassettes you had to retension the tape by holding the one wheel and using the pencil to tighten the tape or it would get chewed and then you would use the pencil again to “rewind” the tape.
Have a good day
the first thing I thought was “communication” –or more specifically — ways to record language. Its a little scary to me that just about everyone here missed that. Which means that whoever wrote that is probably1. my age and 2. right.
No, no, no…The tape and the pencil were out dated by the computer…and kids will never know it be cause when you mention it…They say, “A What?”
Both are used to record words sounds ideas information and yes songs.
You need the pencil to rewind the tape sometimes
Used to pull tape back in. Flip it and FF to end of other side to rewind.
Last cassette I owned: Aqua…the album with Barbie Girl on it.
I’m only 16 and I knew this. XD
15
#winning
I weep for our youth.
I as well. It took me a few minutes, but I barely remember using the pencil to tighten the tape back before I started grade school…which was over a decade ago.
!!!!!YOU GUYS ARE ALL WRONG !!!!!
THE PENCIL IS TO WRITE THE NAME
OF THE CONTENTS OR ANY THING YOU WOULD
PERFER ON THE WHITE BLANK STRIP ON
THE TOP OF THE TAPE.
THE GAME
U LOST
Am I the only one that first saw “Our children will never know the link between the two” and thought of Harry and Voldemort..
Write the name of the artist on the label with the pencil.
Lol originally I thought it was that they were both black.
You stick the pencil in to rewind or fast foward.
I’m a teenager, and I still have a tape player. And tapes.
I’m 13, And I got it at first glance, Do i win?
I played video games from these things. Took like 30 minutes to load em. Atari 800 baby.
They keep putting tape decks in cars…
Rewinding? Nah. It’s for when the tape gets mangled!
The good old days eh… ?
Exactly! It’s for when your tape deck eats your cassette. Damn kids these days, don’t know about cassettes….
Pencil is used to write content detail of the cassette
the answer is superduper obvious. When the tape comes loose, one uses the tip of a pencil to roll it back up
I didn’t get it, because I used to do that with my fingers … but now I found out about this… damn all the time I could’ve spared ._.
The pencil writes with a ‘lead’ made of graphite.
The cassette’s plastic tape is coated with graphite.
The pencil and cassette tape both use graphite as a recording medium.
The gum eraser was also used to clean off electrical contacts in the player, particularly if the batteries were left in too long and there was corrosion. A pencil was an absolute necessity to have around a tape deck.
this brings back some serious memories. and your right i showed this to my kids and they did not get it at all lol
disc writing
LOLOLOL
All these noobs think the pencil is for rewinding LOL
Guess they will never know!!!!
TL;DR on the comment list, so don’t know if this was already said, but pencils were often too small to properly wind the tape. The preferred weapon of choice is a Bic Stic (now Classic Stic) pin. A Bic Grip Stic will work as well. Round Stic doesn’t work that well.
I have thousands of tapes, so this is something I’ve learned.
Everybody here is a hipster
they’re both black
Oh god, those things, have to rewind them, that’s why there are 2 sides… but u can use any thing to rewind, but if they get messed up…
Ahhh analog days… when you if your tape got damaged, you could open the case, fix/splice the tape, even put the spools in a different case… and stick it into the player and it would play with minimal loss… today, your digital media gets damaged, a company charges you $1000 bucks to recover you pirated software and music, but most of the time it’s gone for good.
I know I’m late but I’m proud to say I get it and I’m fairly young. Turn the reel with the pencil.
Nobody are using these two things now. Instead of using cassettes they are using flash drive, memory card,DVD or CD and Instead of using pencil they are using pen.
You need the pencil when the tape player eats your cassette. Kudos to a few of you!
I still have a few cassettes around noting to play them in though.
Pencil? Cassette? What are these mythical devices of which you all speak? Sticking one into another to cause a thing called “Tape” to rewind? Sounds like witchcraft and devilry to me!
Ha!
The Pencil allows you to write down your ideas. the Tape stores allows you to store them.
LOL- I love it! My 17 year old son actually does know the connection, as we are big 80′s fans here.
After you “wound” the tape that pulled out, you would sometimes rewind it in the opposite direction to get the tension right. Couple years ago I used to play my iPod through the tape player in the car using a converter that looked like a tape with a cable connected. New car doesn’t support tapes anymore, but does have a usb cable and iPod link.
It’s a trap!
Both are used to record data.Fr
Both are used to record data.
Rewind the tape
the pen could enroll the tape to restore what we love .. anniversary of the adoption of the color of the pen that we carry
The pencil is used to put to one of the holes of the tape and as you turn the pencil you wind the tape back and forth. But be careful as you do that – because sometimes the string inside the tape comes out from the reader part of the tape as you roll the pencil, and if you do not take action it can get really messy.
Tape and pencil resembles hard copy. Writing and music turns digital (soft copy)
m agree wid dis..like n its rly true..
OMG I remember using a pencil to wind my tapes back up. I hated when they got stuck in the cassette player!
I use to use this method. Only one pencil can rewind 3 cassette at a time. LOL
And my friend have another idea….
A reporter use pencil to write down the news from an interview tape.
Are you associating the tape with the pencil tape winder?
reminds me of the connection between a VHS tape and a fork. :p
they are both keep RECORDs (recording devices)
When i was young… i never you pencil. I use my little finger to do the job on the cassette…:)
yeah me too!
I get it…
Why, in my day, we didn’t use a fancy rewind button. All of the cool kids could rewind and fast-forward using a pencil or pen.
Also to break the lock off so you can dub over your mums Christmas Carrol tapes.
I’m a fourteen year-old, you use the pencil to reel the tape.
Remember my mom and dad doing this when I was younger(good times). I’m 14 and miss it.
Pencil to rewind cassette
100 internets are mine!
Hahaha, I thought “Hey, pencil rewinds tape!” but then thought it was too obvious and figured I was wrong.
BUT I WAS RIGHT.
I got confused because I never actually rewound a tape with a pencil…I just used to poke them through the holes for fun when I was little.
Most cassette tape players have/had rewind/fast-forward functions, so the pencil is *not* for that.
The tape moves between the two spools and has to be taut.
The problem is that the as the tape gets moved between two spools, for various reasons one spool would not move fast enough and the tape would get slack. you would see the tape get pushed out the bottom, loose on the spools.
So you would need to pull out the cassette and tighten the tape, using one or two pencils to hold one spool in place while rotating the other to tigheten the loop.
A similar problem would be when you have a roll of paper/bedroll/yoga mat is too loose. Same idea – you hold one end tight while pulling/rotating to tighten up the spiral/roll.
a note to the next person who comments – I think everything’s been said
WRONG!!!
is this a troll for implying that the pencil goes thou the hole and i guess you all know what that means right
0-0
I’m 19 and i still own cassette tapes…
So I’ve had to rewind them on more than one occasion with a pencil…
or wind them back up after the player tried to eat them…
I didnt think I got it, because it was so stupid, but I did. Retarded.
Those were the easiest 100 internets I’ve ever won. Now what should I do with them…?
I’m 12 and I got it! You use the pencil to rewind the tape. I still do it!
WHAT THE F**K IS A CASSETTE?!
im 100% positive its to write the name of the band on the cassette.
OK kiddies, listen up cassette tapes would get loose you needed to tighten the tape to prevent the player from eating it, if you want to get to a certain song the RR and FF would be used to get close then the pencil was used to try to find the beginning.
Now let Cramps finish watching Mattock.
OK kiddies, listen up cassette tapes would get loose you needed to tighten the tape to prevent the player from eating it, if you want to get to a certain song the RR and FF would be used to get close then the pencil was used to try to find the beginning.
Now let Gram pa finish watching Matlock
Or if the take-up spool got stuck, the tape would all unwind inside the cassette, and you’d have to wind it all back up slowly and carefully on the feed spool so it wouldn’t rip apart or get hung up even worse.
If you had the high quality cassettes held together with screws you could take the whole thing apart to fix it!
sorry dub post Darned New fangel-ed Internet
Where do I pick up my 100 Internets?
who still uses tapes anyway
even i won smtnG
mah goodness, im only 17 and i feel old knowing how this goes XD
hahaha I would use my little finger to do it, didn’t even consider using a pencil…
The pencil was a valuable tool for short windings. To rewind an entire tape I would use a drill with a bit large enough to catch the sprocket. I one unwound a Led Zeppelin tape, turned it over a rewound it back into the case so that it would play backwards and I heard the devil. I’ve never been quite the same.
Today we’d use a cordless screwdriver to rewind. But no one would be listening anyway (except in my ’93 mazda with the working tape player).
Interesting…
Wow the only response this big are in the hall of fame or have to do with D-bags making fun of what others believe.
That’s funny because, I am a 14 year old girl who knows exactly what that is.
The number of comments is TOO DAMN HIGH
What’s funny is that I was listening to one of my old Men at Work cassettes last week when the player spazzed and the tape went everywhere. Then I had to search the house for 15 minutes just to find a non-mechanical pencil to respool it with.
I always rewound tapes with my fingers.
Honestly I don’t associate pencils and cassette tapes at all, unless you use the pencil to write the contents on the label.
put the pencil in one of the holes, can be used to either rewind or retract tape that has stretched out of the cassette.
well….does that include fourteen year olds…because i know tha link
tangled up tape?!?!
pencil to the rescueeeeee!
Its annoying that some people think that just cause we are teens we dont know about the “old” days. I know the frickin connection between a pencil and a tape!