As per every year, the girls sleeping to 1989 completely pulls my stats out of wack.
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Translation for those of us not down with the kids?
Or just post normally.
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Of course. I’ve always thought that it’s a rather redundant phrase given that the author has made their point and can already be assumed not to be lying.
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Or just Google it
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I was thinking Internet Relay Chat. I thought perhaps it was a misplaced extra I.
IRC - the good old days.
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Does it really still exist… I might take a look.
I was a child (a very nerdy one) when I last used IRC. It must have been late 90s.
I fear we’ve gone off topic though… and I’m not one to break community guidelines. 
Newsgroups! Are those still around?
I think we need a Tech Nostalgia thread. 
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I can’t remember seeing NGL around that time and I’ve been on the Internet (capital ‘I’ originally) almost from the start, having been involved in bringing it to UK universities and the general public.
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Yes, and I still have an account on a news server. In fact I used to run a (text-only) news server in the olden days (UUCP over modem) and then later with NNTP over the internet.
As Damien Echols wrote - ‘Nostalgia is the only friend that stays with you forever.’
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Ah, so it was you who registered hotmale.me!
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I think I remember them. Alice Practice? Heavy heavy heavy!
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Erm, that might be where I heard them 
Only when you said it …
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Curious and wondered if someone here knows.
How do these wrapped/reviews manage the month of December?
Many post theirs at the beginning of the month, which means 1/12th of all their music isn’t counted. Does it take December from the previous year? What if you did another wrapped at the end of December would it update with the month’s music?
It’s always bugged me. I listen to a ton of different music in December and it never shows in my wraps/reviews.
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I think Spotify treats December like it doesn’t exist, as you’ll see people talking about it being the month to binge your guilty pleasures as it won’t appear on your wrapped.
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I hate this too.
YouTube music does quarterly updates, so the next one will show December to February, if it’s the same as last year.
The yearly one seems to go from Jan to December based on me analysing my minutes tally, but it could be December to December and they stack the stats from the quarterlies to save on compute which could give inaccurate results in top songs for example.
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I just find it wild that we dismiss 8-9% of music completely because it’s in December.
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I forgot, I got my YouTube one on 20th November, so over 10%.
I guess most people don’t care about the data and just want something to post on social media so then bosses are forced to release around the same time so a service doesn’t look like it’s lacking.
On YouTube premium there’s a section where it tells you how many hours of ad free video and hours of music you’ve listened to since subscribing so you could write that down on January 1st and go from there, that’s what I did before YouTube started doing recaps, but I want more than just the minutes.
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It looks like Spotify is finally getting better audio quality…
It is planning to introduce a premium tier later this year, offering higher quality audio, as well as tools to mix songs together and access to concert tickets…Spotify’s forthcoming offering would cost up to an additional £4.75.
I’m intrigued but most likely staying with AM.