A rectangular CD and "»The best« e-mails »for all cases«"
And someone thought Leetspeak was old stuff! We're checking out this very much not circular CD from a book called "»The best« e-mails »for all cases«" and uncover what someone back then thought was worth teaching as the netiquette of writing e-mails and, yes, SMS.
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Timestamps
0:00 Discord discussion, intro to the book
0:55 The rectangular CD
2:02 Exploring the CD contents
References in this video
Book "»Die besten« E-Mails »für alle Fälle«" by Ralf-Carl Langhals (ISBN: 9783896046574, Weltbild)
Video "Globe Handyphone - It's all in your hands (1996)" uploaded by globeph • Globe Handyphone - It's all in your hands ...
Music in this video
Mining by Moonlight Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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[WIP track yet to be released] (sped up)
BAD COMEDY ( Dramedy music, Comdey music, Film Score ) by Artur Arividi https://pixabay.com/music/hinterhalti...
Before We Knew (This Is Comedies) by Alex Grohl https://pixabay.com/music/komodie-bef...
When the Circus Comes to Town (Accordian) by faespencer (AI generated) https://pixabay.com/music/freizeitpar...
Fun Comedy by Yevhen Onoychenko https://pixabay.com/music/karikaturen...
Software used for this video
Olive Editor (for editing and rendering final video) https://olivevideoeditor.org
OBS (for recording of screen capture + accompanying voiceover with noise removal) https://obsproject.com
FL Studio (for recording and processing voiceovers) https://www.image-line.com/fl-studio/
Stereo Tool (for processing voiceovers) https://www.thimeo.com/stereo-tool/
GIMP 2.x (for video thumbnail) https://gimp.org
Discord (chat screenshots): https://discord.com
Spectacle (chat screenshots): https://apps.kde.org/spectacle/
Firefox (for browsing the CD pages) https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/
Arch Linux (btw) https://archlinux.org
Hardware used for this video
Microphone (voiceover at beginning): RODE NT-USB
Camera (all videos of the book, photos): Google Pixel 7 Pro
The laptop I put the CD in and imaged the copy I actually browsed on: Lenovo ThinkPad W541 (Intel i7-4810MQ, NVIDIA Quadro K1100M, 32 GB RAM)
Audio recording (voiceover at beginning), video editing hardware: Custom-built PC (AMD Ryzen 9 7950X, AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX, 64 GB RAM)
Screen recording, audio recording/microphone (screen recording), video editing hardware: Framework 16 (AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS, AMD Radeon RX 7700S, 64 GB RAM)