I have to make a slight correction here. On the 3.5 floppy disks you did not have to slide that metal piece over by hands. When you slid it into the desk drive, it would automatically push the metal piece over. In the video you said that you would have to move it by hand.which you absolutely did not. Otherwise, pretty damn cool thanks for posting.
3.5 inch was not the common size. 5 1/4 was the common size. The 1.2 MB would not come out till the late 80s. The 360k 5 1/4 was the common size I also worked with the 8,10 and 12 inch floppy disks My first SCSI hard drive weighed 80 pounds and was 30 inches by 24 by 24 inches and was 9 GB The first 10 MB drive was 6 inches by 6 inches by 14 inches and weighed about 25 pounds The Mac was the first 3 1/2 and the IBM ps/2 They were 720 kb I remember I had an LS120, a zip 250, a 3.2 GB SCSI tape drive The first CDRW was a single speed SCSI The IDE CDRW was 2x and that was awesome. I remember when I bought the 400 dollar HP digital camera that had a 10 MB CF card and serial 9 pin cable to transfer the photos That was 95 In 2005 I bought a 12 MP 1 GB Sony digital camera for 99 dollars The First camcorder I had was 5000 dollars. It was a camera, a VCR, Battery pack and an interface unit. I wore the 3 bags and the cables ran from the battery to the VCR, the interface box and the interface box has a cable to the camera and the camera had the red white and yellow cables to the VCR. It was 1981. Technology really has come so far so fast
Not only did you not have to slide it, you weren't supposed to touch the disk surface at all hence why the slide was there. These "remember when" type channels make so many mistakes that are obvious to someone who was actually alive in the 80s that I'm starting to suspect the narrators are probably 20 somethings reading from a script with minimal research done.
The point with the metal slide were to protect floppies from dust and should never be opened manually. I never heard of anyone who slide the metal before inserting a floppy as it's done automatically when inserting it as you say. Clearly a stupid thing to mention in this video.
Yes. It were a dust cover and should never be opened. There is more factual errors in this video than that. Welcome to UA-cam "fact" videos, where you get mis-informed.
I want to go back to the 80s. Life was better without social media. Video stores were a great place to meet people. Roads weren't so dangerous. The world was nicer.
I road the city bus by myself when I was 8 years old and onwards back then. I got so good at memorizing streets that some people called me the human map and nowadays the human GPS.😂
The ULTIMATE thing you can't do today that you could in the 80's is get away from being contacted just by leaving your house. No Cell phones, no pagers, just land lines. The boss had no way to call you and ask if you can cover for your drunken co-worker on a Saturday Night!
@@johnp139 Sure, well since I am on call 24/7 if something goes wrong at the University and my boss can't get ahold of me I will be fired the next day unless I was near death in the Hospital.
08:21 he rewinds an audio casette with a Sharpie, but in reality a BIC crystal pen would do it far better and faster. This is how we did it. Sometimes I would keep an old BIC pen just for that purpose.
This video brought back so many memories! The excitement of picking a VHS tape at the video store or the thrill of creating a mixtape for friends - it’s amazing how these small things made such a big impact on our lives. Thank you for this nostalgic trip!
The only other thing I would’ve added to your list is Saturday morning cartoons. Millions of children woke up Saturday morning to catch cartoons like thundar the barbarian or the Littles or the Wuzzles. You wake up early get your big bowl of cereal sit down in front of the TV and there you stay till about noon when all the cartoons would go off. And then your mom would make you get out and go outside lol
How people views on cigarette smoking have evolved is one of the few things that give me hope. Back in the day it seemed like it did not mater how deadly smoking was and how deadly second hand was people were never going to stop. Today even most smokers agree that its good restaurants dont alow it. Just 20 years ago there were fights just over making the none smoking sections. Unfortunately vapers have now set things back we had almost entirely stoped childhood smoking and indoor smoking. Now children are vaping almost as bad as peak cigarette times. And people are blowing vape smoke in your face in lots of buildings.
@@SkiBumMSP we live so far out the country there was no close malls. It was watch Saturday morning, cartoons and go outside to play or let bed play in your bedroom or something. That’s why you had tons of toys lol and anything could be to us.
@@comancheviperrrr At the time, I also lived out in the boonies of northwestern PA. More often than not, us trying to go to the mall to play video games was often denied, so it was just like you said - play in the bedroom or something. However, it would work sometimes as it was a way for our parents to just get us out of the house (I had four brothers). I had quite the collection of Lego sets. though, so often play with that. If Dad did not monopolize the one TV we had (all of three channels we got), then we may get to bust out the Atari. We also had an IBM PC computer (the original IBM PC, with dual 360K floppies, 640K RAM, and CGA graphics), and I would often play on that as I loved to write programs (funny how I am now a senior software engineer), and wrote a few games in BASIC on that thing. Do remember spending hours playing Ultima III on that thing as well.
I still use Floppy Disks today. Mostly for transferring small files to my old computer, but I still use them. In fact I have a bunch of disks over 35 years old and they still work just fine.
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 Yep that's true. They were very well manufactured and expensive. But by the late 80's they started making them cheaper, and the reliability suffered. By the late 90's early 2000's they were total junk.
A big 80s thing that was left out was arcades. Spent a lot of time at the arcade playing games like Xevious or Mortal Kombat. At home it was the Atari 800XL with 16K of RAM and Jump Man Junior.
The disk shown at 7:23 (Star Wars) was not a laser disc - it was a CED disc. A CED disc is not read with a laser, it is read with a stylus similar to a phonograph.
I watched Star Wars a lot on that format as a kid. There were scenes that "skipped" so I had no idea what the dialogue was until I saw it on VHS years later.
my first laserdisc , wow moment, was when the audio store i bought my surround sound system from, had a demo room..... the old klipsch floorstanding speakers, massive sub, pioneer laserdisc , showcasing Terminator 2.... the floor rumbled. empty shells falling it seems on the ground in front of you, . happy days.
I never knew (or don't remember) that CED discs even existed. I guess I was out of the loop. I also never owned an 8-track. My father was a radioman during WWII (Pacific theatre) and went to school in Chicago to become a TV repairman after the war, but we were about the last family in the neighborhood to even have cable. Our tv had rabbit ears and my dad maintained a large, clunky antenna on the roof. He was a drunk and I think all the alcohol affected his judgement. He eventually relented and bought cable and declared Ted Turner a genius.
@brucenator I don't recall the CED disks being that ubiquitous in the '80s. I think they came put in the late 70s and were quickly overshadowed by the VHS format. So, the CEDs probably had the same shelf-life as the Betamax format or the HD-DVD. They were fun. You slid the entire sleeve into the system, and the machine would pull the disk and play it. About halfway through the movie, you'd have to manually reinsert the sleeve, pull it out, flip it, then load the second side. Sometimes, a movie would be multiple disks. To this day, I remember when watching the original Star Wars, the time to flip the disk was right after the destruction of Alderaan. I'm reminded of this when I watch the blu ray, and the next scene is the Millennium Falcom in hyperspace. Forgive me if this is a bit rambling. I just had surgery, and the pain pills are making me feel a little loopy.
A lot of these you can absolutely still do. Just because we have better options doesn't mean you can't watch laserdisk movies, listen to music on a Walkman, use paper maps on a road trip, or even program in BASIC on a home computer (and by extension, use floppy disks for storage)
Being a kid was way easier and more fun back in the "free range" days! Being able to play, go to and from school, or take yourself miles from home on your bike or public transport was routine in the days before "helicopter or bulldozer parents!" Every kid had a huge amount of personal autonomy and as long as you were home before the streetlights came on parents had no need to worry! Imagine that happening today!
I was born in 1969, my teens almost perfectly spanned the 80's. On the one hand everything we lost was replaced with something better or more convenient. Movies and music, you can stream or download any content you want, often for free. Music videos, you can watch them all on UA-cam on demand. Mixtapes, we now have playlists. Floppies, we now have USB, larger hard drives, etc. We no longer have to wait 2 weeks for our pictures to be developed. I could go on, but fact is nothing has been lost, just made better. Just the same, we lost something. Because everything is so plentiful today, we don't have the same connection with it today as we did yesterday. In the 80's, you had a few albums and you played the crap outta them. If you took the time to rent a movie, you watched it. You scheduled your life around when the next episode of your favorite show was airing... now we just binge in a day or so and it is forgotten.
Fully agree. Everything is better now, but experiencing those things was what brought us excitement. I used to be excited when the photos I took with my parents’ film camera were developed and printed. Of course most of them were blurry and out of focus but I was still happy. Waiting for a newly released song to play on the radio was frustrating but exciting. Being alive when the transitions you mentioned were happening just made us appreciate technology even more. I am grateful to have experienced the 80s and 90s.
You don't really own anything tangible today. Everything is owned by the streaming company. It's weird. I miss those days. Kids don't have anything to really "do" now. Now get off my lawn! 👵🏽😂
@@brownenerdygurl I never fell for Netflix, I don't stream. I have been a pirate for 30 years. 7,000 movies, 1,700 TV series, complete game rom sets for all my fav consoles, all my fav music, etc. I may not technically own, but I have possession. As a policy, I won't use software or get into games I can't install and play without the Internet. With how connected people are to their screens today, if we ever lost power or the Internet for a prolonged period, I think some people would seriously go ape.
I was born 1970 and the best years of my life was in the 80’s BMX took off in the UK big time and the music has never been surpassed I remember getting my first computer a ZX Spectrum and playing manic miner
You wouldn't slide the cover on a floppy disc to use it. The drive itself did that when you put it in. Also, at 1:57 that's a Zip 250 drive, not a floppy drive. Also, 7:23 is the RCA Capacitive Electronic Disc; an inferior format to Laserdisc that used a stylus.
@@bcgibson22 Yup, zip drives were an effort at high-capacity portable magnetic media that never caught on because the drives were at least 5× as expensive as floppy drives, so schools, offices, libraries, etc. never really adopted them. And by the early 2000s they just plain vanished in favor of USB flash "thumb" drives, since flash drives were getting more and more capacity every year, and USB ports had been a common fixture on desktop PCs since like 1997.
I was wondering if anyone else noticed the video was showing a Zip Drive when he was talking about floppy disks. Now if it had been an LS120 drive you might have been able to pass it off... except LS120 drives didn't exist in the 80's.
Got news for you -- He-Man and the Masters od the Universe is still around. Mattel brought it hack a few years ago and it's readily available at Walmart and Target. :)
What do you mean you HAD TO slide the metal piece of the floppy disks?! BS. I assume you never used one. You also make it sound like the 80's was the last time we used these items. They were still available well into the 90's.
12:38 in the eighties they had electric typewriters with functions like auto correct and spell check. 13:00 How come all these photos are from long before the eighties? 13:49 Well, we don’t use basic anymore but many people still program, plus spread sheets still require a certain level of programming. 15:49 by the eighties classrooms had VHS tapes and big tube television sets.
Same, I can go and rent a dvd here, it's great cheaper than paying online, I pay 2 dollars versus 4.50 online. It's done differently but still the same. .
In the 70s/80s The video shop we had in our town was very small, have a half a dozen people, and it was full, lol it was an old townhouse converted into a shop and also had to go upstairs for more video selection
Everybody else has already commented on sliding the metal shutter on 3.5" discs, so I'm not going to. It ought to be noted, though, that 3.5" discs came about in the 1980s. They were new and exciting! Before, we used 5.25" discs, and before that, cassette tapes. You think that floppies are slow? Try loading a simple game from cassette. It would take minutes; about the same amount of time it now takes to download a multi-GB game. It's depressing that I've done all of these things, with the exception of: * Aerobics, because I'm not a woman * Watching LaserDiscs, because they were too expensive * Playing with action figures, because I was already too old at the time (and I never liked them anyway) There's a lot of nostalgia for the 1980s, so let me, as somebody who grew up then, list some of the defining aspects: * Far less medical progress than there is today * People could and would smoke anywhere, including in restaurants, bars, and at work * While computers finally became affordable, they were very primitive and slow to use * A pretty bad economic recession * Massive mortgage interest rates (over 10%) * The constant threat of nuclear war, as evidenced by the many, many songs about them * Half of Europe was inaccessible, because of the Iron Curtain (I've seen a German-Czechoslovakian border crossing back then, and it looked like a high-security prison) * For the first half, there were only lo-fi vinyl and cassettes So, was it all bad? No, not at all. From a technology point of view, it was transformative: * Computers became commonplace * CDs meant that we finally had crystal-clear sound (whoever claims that vinyl is better is talking rubbish) More generally, technology became more personalised. Before the 1980s, music and television were fixed devices. Portable music devices existed, but they were large and awkward to use. From the 1980s onwards, you can see that music, computing, telephony, internet access, broadband internet access, and personal video, first became generally available, and the decade after that, it became portable. And this democratisation of technology meant that hierarchical structures changed as well. Your parents would decide what TV channel everybody would watch. Nowadays, everybody has their own TV in their pocket. This all started in the 1980s.
All of these have been replaced with the pocket-sized smart phone except for Smoking, He-Man toys, and driving without seat-belts. Someone told me that most of Radio Shack's catalog of merchandise was also now in your pocket. We have moved along way from 80's tech. Kinda sad and yet exciting. Also, who had to slide the metal cover over on a floppy disc to use it? Someone did NOT do their research. Where in the ads does it show someone doing this as they slid the disc into the drive. Get your history right or don't do it.
There absolutely WAS backspace on electric typewriters. The older mechanical ones did not have it, but the electric ones did. For the mechanical that is what white out was for.
0:38 I just love how something as simple as renting VHS tapes is framed as a weekend ritual "for many families," as if it weren't a ritual for individuals or couples. No, apparently it was only a ritual for families. I guess my girlfriend, later wife and I didn't rent movies together on weekends. Not to mention that the ritual of renting DVDs, which didn't come out until the late 90's, is also a thing of the past, since virtually all video rental stores are also gone. Replaced by streaming. I never bought into Blu-ray, but I have to admit I didn't stop buying DVDs until 2010. Anyone remember late fees and VHS rewind fees? "Be kind, rewind." I never once paid a rewind fee, but had to pay late fees on a number of occasions. I no longer own a DVD player, let alone a VHS player, but I just recently bought a $20 external drive for my laptop, just in case I ever want to watch any of my outdated DVDs, which I kept. VLC media player still works like a charm in 2024. I'm still in possession of at least 200 DVDs, many in storage, some actually on display in a bookshelf. They came in handy as a backup when my internet service was interrupted for several days. Last DVD I actually pulled off the shelf and watched, instead of just streaming, was The Others with Nicole Kidman. Because, why not? I love that movie. It's one of those movies that never gets old. I remember thinking DVDs were virtually indestructible, which they were in comparison to VHS tapes, which inevitably got eaten by ye olde VHS player.
THAT'S RIGHT 👍 . I remember an episode of Party Of five where Charlotte ( the youngest ) ended up at the end getting a pager 📟 from her oldest brother because of a fight about her asking for a mobile phone 📱 . ♑✍️🇳🇴🇦🇺
The whole "metal shutter" thing on 3.5 inch floppies has already been beaten to death here, so no point adding to that. However, from my experience, 5.25 inch floppies were more common during the 80's. The 3.5 inch floppies did not really come into the mainstream use until the late 80 into the early 90s, with many machines having both 5.25 and 3.5 inch floppy drives (I still have such a machine here at the house). Along those same lines, about programming in BASIC, I will also have to add spending many an hour typing in programs from magazines or books, and then playing around with them, changing the code. Done that plenty of times (funny now, here I am, a senior software engineer). Love that somebody mentioned watching Saturday morning cartoons. Yeah, I can recall doing that quite a bit, and then being sent outside to play. If the weather was crap, my brothers and I would beg to go to the mall so we can go and play games at the arcade.
Well I quickly started to learn assembler. Used less space, and thought me the different part of a computer. The knowledge helped me a lot in my programmer career. The only memory I have left from BASIC was that I had a book that had a chess programmin BASIC. When I swapped later to a newer computer (MS Windows), MS BASIC would not work. Was it a bug in BASIC, or the program code itself, back then I never figured out what the issue was.
You're right about pagers being a 90s thing. I used one then as a sales representative. But I had a doctor uncle during the early 80s, and he had a pager. It was different to 90s ones in that it was an internal hospital based one that didn't work too far from the hospital, but it was still a pager
VHS tapeas and cassette tapes are also still possible to use if you have the player. Seems many videos like this make it seem stuff completely vanish the instant the next decade startes.
I used to love making mixtapes, it became somewhat of a hobby when I got my first stereo with a record feature on it, my first stereo was an old record player that had AM/FM stereo that I got from the garbage of a neighbor, but there was nothing wrong with it at all, everything worked speakers and all and it was mine, I kind of wish I still had it.
There was always that one person who would hang their floppy disc on their fridge using a fridge magnet and be perplexed when the info on the disc was no longer accessible.
I've seen pagers still in use by hospital staff and floppy disk is still kicking about thanks to retro computing enthusiasm growing a lot. Kind of like vinyl coming back strong. It's a fun time to be alive (for me anyway), seeing the tech from my 90s childhood coming back into fashion to co-exist with the modern tech.
Even analog photography has come back. Some people go as far in the photography hobby to develop their own film both black and white and color. These days you get a better selection of film meter online or smaller companies that cater to film photography.
I love cassette tapes I remember having my own Walkman growing up I would carry all of my cassettes with me I still love making cassette tapes I have a bunch of blankets that types to this day which are fabulous. what a wonderful thing to make your own mixtapes it was a great time to be alive.
Actually, Masters of the Universe figures in that original '80s format (but with modern articulation) made a comeback a few years ago, so that's one thing from this list we can still do today! :D
1. We can still rent VHS videos at our local library. And I have 2 VCRs in my house. 2. I have a 3.5 floppy disk 4 ft from me. And you didn't slide the metal shutter, you just inserted it. 4. We never had a photomat around us. We got ours developed at the pharmacy. 9. I still have some of my mix tapes. Programming in BASIC: 10 Print "I love you" 20 Go to 10 Run I STILL shop from catalogs. I get 5-6 catalogs a week in the mail.
I still install Floppy Drives into every computer I build. Also a DVD Drive and multiple USB ports. As for pagers Hezzbolla recently went back to those and look what happened. Pager beeps, owner looks at message and it says You Are About To Become A Martyr and BOOM!
In the past month I've watched a laserdisc, wrote on my typewriter, ordered from a catalog and found a floppy disc. I also do have several film cameras alongside my dslrs.
mix tapes lasted well into the 21st century. I'd say the last time I saw a mixtape on a road trip was around 2010. My 98 Altima had a cassette player and I drove it until 2017. In 2016 I bought a new car, it has cassette player and cd player under the passenger seat, the rest is one of BT touch screen jobs.
Some of these things you technically can still do. (Eg. Playing with He-Man toys or using a Walkman.) It's mostly those things that rely upon outside suppliers or sources that you can't do. There's also watching analog TV off-air. It's all digital now.
during my childhood. me and my mom used to travel inside the mall while we wait for the photos to be developed. it took 30mins - 1 hr. never realized that in earlier times it took days damn
I was making my own casette tapes in the 1970s. I used to copy some VHS movies, and built a good collection. Some were eventually copy-protected. "Film Strips"? We had slides, using slide projectors. Catalog shopping by mail is still a thing.
I'm surprised so many people are still alive considering seat belts weren't required and nobody batted an eye if trucks had people packed in the back or just hanging on to it.
@amyhoard1222, and yet we survived. 72 year old boomer here. Do you think it possible that just perhaps those practices WEREN'T as dangerous as today's fearful, utterly risk averse crybabies believe?
@billmullins6833 sir, people back then knew it was dangerous yall just didn't care and still don't care until you are personally affected. You can't really say think like drinking while driving, leaded gas, and leaded paint are safer than we "cyberbabies" think. Sure a seat belt most days doesn't do anything, but if you get into a car accident, specially back then where cars had no other safety features, it could save your life. Don't forget that back then you didn't have all the other things we have today which can influence your view and make those small things seem safer when you add in all the other things we have today. Like how many baby boomers idolize the economic glory of the 1950s and forget about all the other horrible things that existed back then just because they didn't face them.
@@witchy90210 Nobody ever said drinking and driving was okay. It was the other things your uber fearful generation obsesses over that I was referring to.
@@billmullins6833 I had an uncle that was an Ambulance driver and later a paramedic. He spoke often about how many teens that they bagged up (well over 100) after they flew out of the back of pickups in the 60s 70s and early 80s. Population topped out around 3,500 people in the county during his 23 years. He was on one of four crews.
so if you invested in any company that replaced these things: iPhone (Apple), movies at home (Netflix, Apple iTunes, UA-cam Google), photos (Apple iPhone, Google Android), songs (Apple iPhone, iPod, Android, UA-cam), Typewriters (Dell, Apple Mac), pager (Apple iPhone), photo sharing (Facebook), catalog shopping (Amazon), you'd be rich or retired
I can still play music on my walkman. And yes, one with cassette tapes. A lot of these things you can still do. Not many people do, but don't state we CAN'T!
Maps - there was a guy named (I think) David Hall who wrote Sniglets for a show called 'Not Necessarily the News'. A sniglet was a word that does not exist but should. He came up with accordionated - the ability to fold a map while driving
Mix tapes came way before cassettes. My grandfather was making 8 track mix tapes in the early 70s.. There's over 100 of them in a box in his attic. Even some mix tapes that say 4 track. He said most of the music came from the radio.
You can still buy 3.5" floppy drives that connect to modern computers via USB. I bought one on Amazon last year for $25. It works with Windows 11 but I used a hardware adaptor so it can read Commodore Amiga floppies. 🙂 My wife only upgraded from a Sony Walkman to a Song Discman about 5 years ago! LOL!
I did many of these things in the 90s and even early 2000s. I used paper map for road trip because I didnt have GPS nav in my car. We didnt have google maps, and although mapquest was available, we had to print the map and direction at home before leaving for the trip. Paper maps were still sold everywhere and was more convenient than mapquest. Good old days.
I used a book map of the city of Austin and its environs in the mid 2000s. It lived under my front seat. Along with a copy of the yellow pages so I could search for businesses and call them from my flip phone. 😂
You could say just about anything about flying. walking up to your terminal without passing the secret service. Being able to send off or receive a family member. Booking a flight literally at the last moment. Not needing any form of ID whatsoever. Getting on a flight without a checklist of things you can't have. Running through an airport to make it to your connecting flight without being shot. Taking more time to drive to the airport than how much time you spent IN the airport.
2:01 - "You had to slide the metal shutter". Obviously the author never used a floppy drive.
i just bought a new drive about 6 months ago... i still use floppies....
I was just thinking that. Or cutting a notch in a 5 1/4 floppy so you can use both sides. lol
@@Butchcub75 disc only spins for the bottom....
@@Butchcub75 yup! i did that with my atari 800xl system.
@@10percent4DaBigGuy 🤣 you turn the disk over. duh!
I have to make a slight correction here. On the 3.5 floppy disks you did not have to slide that metal piece over by hands. When you slid it into the desk drive, it would automatically push the metal piece over. In the video you said that you would have to move it by hand.which you absolutely did not. Otherwise, pretty damn cool thanks for posting.
I came here to say the same.
3.5 inch was not the common size.
5 1/4 was the common size.
The 1.2 MB would not come out till the late 80s.
The 360k 5 1/4 was the common size
I also worked with the 8,10 and 12 inch floppy disks
My first SCSI hard drive weighed 80 pounds and was 30 inches by 24 by 24 inches and was 9 GB
The first 10 MB drive was 6 inches by 6 inches by 14 inches and weighed about 25 pounds
The Mac was the first 3 1/2 and the IBM ps/2
They were 720 kb
I remember I had an LS120, a zip 250, a 3.2 GB SCSI tape drive
The first CDRW was a single speed SCSI
The IDE CDRW was 2x and that was awesome.
I remember when I bought the 400 dollar HP digital camera that had a 10 MB CF card and serial 9 pin cable to transfer the photos
That was 95
In 2005 I bought a 12 MP 1 GB Sony digital camera for 99 dollars
The First camcorder I had was 5000 dollars.
It was a camera, a VCR, Battery pack and an interface unit.
I wore the 3 bags and the cables ran from the battery to the VCR, the interface box and the interface box has a cable to the camera and the camera had the red white and yellow cables to the VCR.
It was 1981.
Technology really has come so far so fast
Not only did you not have to slide it, you weren't supposed to touch the disk surface at all hence why the slide was there. These "remember when" type channels make so many mistakes that are obvious to someone who was actually alive in the 80s that I'm starting to suspect the narrators are probably 20 somethings reading from a script with minimal research done.
The point with the metal slide were to protect floppies from dust and should never be opened manually.
I never heard of anyone who slide the metal before inserting a floppy as it's done automatically when inserting it as you say.
Clearly a stupid thing to mention in this video.
@@ocsrc yes, 3.5" was common in the 90's not 80's
As much as this video is a fun trip down memory lane, I can't help but feel the creator of this has never ever actually used any of these.....
Yeah, it plays like a historian talking about his knowledge rather than his experiences. He may as well be telling us about the Roman empire.
I got the same impression.
You didn't have to slide the metal cover on a floppy, in fact you were advised not to touch it.....
Yeah, so as not to bend it.
Yes. It were a dust cover and should never be opened. There is more factual errors in this video than that.
Welcome to UA-cam "fact" videos, where you get mis-informed.
Omg I was about to post this. Obviously someone that never used a floppy disk before.
Exactly!!!😂
I literally said this out loud when I heard it!
I want to go back to the 80s. Life was better without social media. Video stores were a great place to meet people. Roads weren't so dangerous. The world was nicer.
30s for me
The mall was also the place to meet people.
True.😅🎉
Now I just use my Sony Digital Walkman n play my 80s jams ALL DAY, EVERYDAY 🕺 🎧 🎶 🪩
Roads were *more* dangerous. Look up traffic fatality data over the last 30 years.
Live a free and happy life is what we can't do anymore like we did in the 80's.
That is true! I felt safe then. I walked to school when jiwas in 1st grade! We played outside never wondering if we would be taken
I road the city bus by myself when I was 8 years old and onwards back then. I got so good at memorizing streets that some people called me the human map and nowadays the human GPS.😂
I still do that, much better now then it was in the 80s - Sounds like you are crying about your bad choices not a difference in time
I don't need a two face prick like you telling me what is right and wrong. You aren't from my part of the world so keep your ignorance to yourself.
@@tomr3422 No, no it's not.
The ULTIMATE thing you can't do today that you could in the 80's is get away from being contacted just by leaving your house. No Cell phones, no pagers, just land lines. The boss had no way to call you and ask if you can cover for your drunken co-worker on a Saturday Night!
How about leaving your phone at home or turning it off?!?
@@johnp139 Sure, well since I am on call 24/7 if something goes wrong at the University and my boss can't get ahold of me I will be fired the next day unless I was near death in the Hospital.
I leave my phone in the drawer every weekend.... it is MY TIME. Balls to people !!
08:21 he rewinds an audio casette with a Sharpie, but in reality a BIC crystal pen would do it far better and faster. This is how we did it. Sometimes I would keep an old BIC pen just for that purpose.
Or a pencil - the hexagonal shaped ones.
Pencil was best
@@ronbon321able Yep your good ol required #2 for the scantron tests were perfect for audio cassettes.
and spin it in the air like one of those new years party favors.
@@dinkul903 yes! We did the fast rewind and fast forward exactly this way!
The 1980s! What a good time to be a teenager. ☺
Yes it sure was!
1980 I turned 12
This video brought back so many memories! The excitement of picking a VHS tape at the video store or the thrill of creating a mixtape for friends - it’s amazing how these small things made such a big impact on our lives. Thank you for this nostalgic trip!
I miss these times and am glad that I grew up in the 80s...
The only other thing I would’ve added to your list is Saturday morning cartoons. Millions of children woke up Saturday morning to catch cartoons like thundar the barbarian or the Littles or the Wuzzles. You wake up early get your big bowl of cereal sit down in front of the TV and there you stay till about noon when all the cartoons would go off. And then your mom would make you get out and go outside lol
How people views on cigarette smoking have evolved is one of the few things that give me hope.
Back in the day it seemed like it did not mater how deadly smoking was and how deadly second hand was people were never going to stop. Today even most smokers agree that its good restaurants dont alow it. Just 20 years ago there were fights just over making the none smoking sections.
Unfortunately vapers have now set things back we had almost entirely stoped childhood smoking and indoor smoking. Now children are vaping almost as bad as peak cigarette times. And people are blowing vape smoke in your face in lots of buildings.
Do remember that. Also remember that if the weather was crap outside, would beg to take us to the mall so we can play games at the arcade.
@@SkiBumMSP we live so far out the country there was no close malls. It was watch Saturday morning, cartoons and go outside to play or let bed play in your bedroom or something. That’s why you had tons of toys lol and anything could be to us.
@@comancheviperrrr At the time, I also lived out in the boonies of northwestern PA. More often than not, us trying to go to the mall to play video games was often denied, so it was just like you said - play in the bedroom or something. However, it would work sometimes as it was a way for our parents to just get us out of the house (I had four brothers). I had quite the collection of Lego sets. though, so often play with that. If Dad did not monopolize the one TV we had (all of three channels we got), then we may get to bust out the Atari. We also had an IBM PC computer (the original IBM PC, with dual 360K floppies, 640K RAM, and CGA graphics), and I would often play on that as I loved to write programs (funny how I am now a senior software engineer), and wrote a few games in BASIC on that thing. Do remember spending hours playing Ultima III on that thing as well.
Man, I loved Saturday morning cartoons
untangling a phone cord. party lines, saturday morning cartoons, playing outside on metal jungle gyms...
No helmets bike riding. You took the lump on your head like a champ.
I still use Floppy Disks today. Mostly for transferring small files to my old computer, but I still use them. In fact I have a bunch of disks over 35 years old and they still work just fine.
Even data DVD is going obsolete. It's getting more difficult to track down recordable DVDs in stores. Although the drives are really cheap.
Yep, I still have some Dyson disks that have never been opened. Lol
those older batches were well manufactured. However the later productions (post 2002 and more recent) all fail like crazy :(
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 Yep that's true. They were very well manufactured and expensive. But by the late 80's they started making them cheaper, and the reliability suffered. By the late 90's early 2000's they were total junk.
A big 80s thing that was left out was arcades. Spent a lot of time at the arcade playing games like Xevious or Mortal Kombat. At home it was the Atari 800XL with 16K of RAM and Jump Man Junior.
The disk shown at 7:23 (Star Wars) was not a laser disc - it was a CED disc. A CED disc is not read with a laser, it is read with a stylus similar to a phonograph.
I watched Star Wars a lot on that format as a kid. There were scenes that "skipped" so I had no idea what the dialogue was until I saw it on VHS years later.
my first laserdisc , wow moment, was when the audio store i bought my surround sound system from, had a demo room..... the old klipsch floorstanding speakers, massive sub, pioneer laserdisc , showcasing Terminator 2.... the floor rumbled. empty shells falling it seems on the ground in front of you, . happy days.
I never knew (or don't remember) that CED discs even existed. I guess I was out of the loop. I also never owned an 8-track. My father was a radioman during WWII (Pacific theatre) and went to school in Chicago to become a TV repairman after the war, but we were about the last family in the neighborhood to even have cable. Our tv had rabbit ears and my dad maintained a large, clunky antenna on the roof. He was a drunk and I think all the alcohol affected his judgement. He eventually relented and bought cable and declared Ted Turner a genius.
@brucenator I don't recall the CED disks being that ubiquitous in the '80s. I think they came put in the late 70s and were quickly overshadowed by the VHS format. So, the CEDs probably had the same shelf-life as the Betamax format or the HD-DVD.
They were fun. You slid the entire sleeve into the system, and the machine would pull the disk and play it. About halfway through the movie, you'd have to manually reinsert the sleeve, pull it out, flip it, then load the second side. Sometimes, a movie would be multiple disks.
To this day, I remember when watching the original Star Wars, the time to flip the disk was right after the destruction of Alderaan. I'm reminded of this when I watch the blu ray, and the next scene is the Millennium Falcom in hyperspace.
Forgive me if this is a bit rambling. I just had surgery, and the pain pills are making me feel a little loopy.
You can’t just buy a plane ticket and fly like you did back in the 80s. Now there’s a whole lot of security you have to go through.
Most airports, you had to go through security.... Staffed by the airline, or joint hired by several.
A lot of these you can absolutely still do.
Just because we have better options doesn't mean you can't watch laserdisk movies, listen to music on a Walkman, use paper maps on a road trip, or even program in BASIC on a home computer (and by extension, use floppy disks for storage)
Love how you show the absolute scariest 5.25 floppy drive ever made. The commodore always sounded like it was grinding right through the disk.
Being a kid was way easier and more fun back in the "free range" days!
Being able to play, go to and from school, or take yourself miles from home on your bike or public transport was routine in the days before "helicopter or bulldozer parents!"
Every kid had a huge amount of personal autonomy and as long as you were home before the streetlights came on parents had no need to worry!
Imagine that happening today!
I was born in 1969, my teens almost perfectly spanned the 80's. On the one hand everything we lost was replaced with something better or more convenient. Movies and music, you can stream or download any content you want, often for free. Music videos, you can watch them all on UA-cam on demand. Mixtapes, we now have playlists. Floppies, we now have USB, larger hard drives, etc. We no longer have to wait 2 weeks for our pictures to be developed. I could go on, but fact is nothing has been lost, just made better. Just the same, we lost something. Because everything is so plentiful today, we don't have the same connection with it today as we did yesterday. In the 80's, you had a few albums and you played the crap outta them. If you took the time to rent a movie, you watched it. You scheduled your life around when the next episode of your favorite show was airing... now we just binge in a day or so and it is forgotten.
Fully agree. Everything is better now, but experiencing those things was what brought us excitement. I used to be excited when the photos I took with my parents’ film camera were developed and printed. Of course most of them were blurry and out of focus but I was still happy. Waiting for a newly released song to play on the radio was frustrating but exciting. Being alive when the transitions you mentioned were happening just made us appreciate technology even more. I am grateful to have experienced the 80s and 90s.
You don't really own anything tangible today. Everything is owned by the streaming company. It's weird. I miss those days. Kids don't have anything to really "do" now. Now get off my lawn! 👵🏽😂
@@brownenerdygurl I never fell for Netflix, I don't stream. I have been a pirate for 30 years. 7,000 movies, 1,700 TV series, complete game rom sets for all my fav consoles, all my fav music, etc. I may not technically own, but I have possession. As a policy, I won't use software or get into games I can't install and play without the Internet. With how connected people are to their screens today, if we ever lost power or the Internet for a prolonged period, I think some people would seriously go ape.
The technology of the times is associated with the memories you cherish and miss during your formative years
I was born 1970 and the best years of my life was in the 80’s BMX took off in the UK big time and the music has never been surpassed I remember getting my first computer a ZX Spectrum and playing manic miner
Generally, the teacher had to draft a few teens to run the “multimedia machines” because the teacher had no clue.
2:21 “carefully slide the metal shutter…”, you never really used one did you?
You wouldn't slide the cover on a floppy disc to use it. The drive itself did that when you put it in. Also, at 1:57 that's a Zip 250 drive, not a floppy drive.
Also, 7:23 is the RCA Capacitive Electronic Disc; an inferior format to Laserdisc that used a stylus.
Didn't zip drives come later?
@@bcgibson22 1994. Hence why that image was out of place.
@@bcgibson22 Yup, zip drives were an effort at high-capacity portable magnetic media that never caught on because the drives were at least 5× as expensive as floppy drives, so schools, offices, libraries, etc. never really adopted them. And by the early 2000s they just plain vanished in favor of USB flash "thumb" drives, since flash drives were getting more and more capacity every year, and USB ports had been a common fixture on desktop PCs since like 1997.
I was wondering if anyone else noticed the video was showing a Zip Drive when he was talking about floppy disks. Now if it had been an LS120 drive you might have been able to pass it off... except LS120 drives didn't exist in the 80's.
Just like pagers!@@Devo_gx
The walkman and the VCR gave me life 😍
Got news for you -- He-Man and the Masters od the Universe is still around. Mattel brought it hack a few years ago and it's readily available at Walmart and Target. :)
I'm sure that even if they weren't made anymore they can still be bought on Ebay.
Yes. Some got more articulation than the originals. It's a blast from the past.
maybe she-man also, these days?
Yup my boys have a bunch of them. More articulation than the originals as well. We even have a Castle Greyskull that was a new release as well.
@@dinkul903 Boo
A couple of out-of-place images: You talk of 3.5" floppy disks but show a Zip Drive. You talk of laserdisc but show a CED.
What do you mean you HAD TO slide the metal piece of the floppy disks?! BS. I assume you never used one. You also make it sound like the 80's was the last time we used these items. They were still available well into the 90's.
It's still something that we did in the 1980s, and that we no longer do today. So it's not wrong.
@@SeverityOne yes, but it comes across as the 80's was the "last" time we used them.
They only stopped making the disks and drives (for replacement parts or custom builds) around 2020.
i just bought a USB floppy disc drive for USB about 6 months ago
you can still buy new disc
@@10percent4DaBigGuy😮
12:38 in the eighties they had electric typewriters with functions like auto correct and spell check.
13:00 How come all these photos are from long before the eighties?
13:49 Well, we don’t use basic anymore but many people still program, plus spread sheets still require a certain level of programming.
15:49 by the eighties classrooms had VHS tapes and big tube television sets.
Actually, we had tvs and videos in classrooms in the 70s. we used to watch how we used to live for history lessons
Much of this video shows life in the 60s rather than the 80s.
That's the difference of my Mom being a school kid and me going to school...
Someone replied in another comment that people are using AI to write this stuff now so it's all gone to 💩
Word processors
My 80s teachers used both films projected onto the pull down screen AND TVs with videos. It definitely wasn’t one or the other at my school.
I am still living the 80's
Same, I can go and rent a dvd here, it's great cheaper than paying online, I pay 2 dollars versus 4.50 online. It's done differently but still the same. .
In the 70s/80s The video shop we had in our town was very small, have a half a dozen people, and it was full, lol it was an old townhouse converted into a shop and also had to go upstairs for more video selection
Everybody else has already commented on sliding the metal shutter on 3.5" discs, so I'm not going to. It ought to be noted, though, that 3.5" discs came about in the 1980s. They were new and exciting! Before, we used 5.25" discs, and before that, cassette tapes. You think that floppies are slow? Try loading a simple game from cassette. It would take minutes; about the same amount of time it now takes to download a multi-GB game.
It's depressing that I've done all of these things, with the exception of:
* Aerobics, because I'm not a woman
* Watching LaserDiscs, because they were too expensive
* Playing with action figures, because I was already too old at the time (and I never liked them anyway)
There's a lot of nostalgia for the 1980s, so let me, as somebody who grew up then, list some of the defining aspects:
* Far less medical progress than there is today
* People could and would smoke anywhere, including in restaurants, bars, and at work
* While computers finally became affordable, they were very primitive and slow to use
* A pretty bad economic recession
* Massive mortgage interest rates (over 10%)
* The constant threat of nuclear war, as evidenced by the many, many songs about them
* Half of Europe was inaccessible, because of the Iron Curtain (I've seen a German-Czechoslovakian border crossing back then, and it looked like a high-security prison)
* For the first half, there were only lo-fi vinyl and cassettes
So, was it all bad? No, not at all. From a technology point of view, it was transformative:
* Computers became commonplace
* CDs meant that we finally had crystal-clear sound (whoever claims that vinyl is better is talking rubbish)
More generally, technology became more personalised. Before the 1980s, music and television were fixed devices. Portable music devices existed, but they were large and awkward to use. From the 1980s onwards, you can see that music, computing, telephony, internet access, broadband internet access, and personal video, first became generally available, and the decade after that, it became portable.
And this democratisation of technology meant that hierarchical structures changed as well. Your parents would decide what TV channel everybody would watch. Nowadays, everybody has their own TV in their pocket.
This all started in the 1980s.
I miss the video store man! too many memories of it!
Same here. Great memories.
Yeah, dated many a cute Blockbuster women.
@@bobbituka123 that too
Aerobics classes should be brought back. America needs them 😂
Nah man. America NEEDS to get a control of their firearm situation and universal health care.
Spandex.... It's a privilege, not a right.😂
-hackers "cereal killer"
Jane fonda need I say more
Online shopping IS shopping from a catalogue. Amazon is Sears Roebuck in 1900.
All of these have been replaced with the pocket-sized smart phone except for Smoking, He-Man toys, and driving without seat-belts. Someone told me that most of Radio Shack's catalog of merchandise was also now in your pocket. We have moved along way from 80's tech. Kinda sad and yet exciting.
Also, who had to slide the metal cover over on a floppy disc to use it? Someone did NOT do their research. Where in the ads does it show someone doing this as they slid the disc into the drive. Get your history right or don't do it.
Last thing you'd want to do as it would let dust hit the disk surface.
There absolutely WAS backspace on electric typewriters. The older mechanical ones did not have it, but the electric ones did. For the mechanical that is what white out was for.
We still have mix tapes in 2024. They're just called Playlists now 😁
Nope, sorry
Giving your boy a hip-hop mixtape of new stuff or gf a real mix is a million times better.
Most of these things persisted well into the 90s.
Also, who bonded over learning to & reading maps? Nobody that I knew at least.
If my family was any example, husband and wife reading a map during a road trip often almost landed them in divorce court. There was no bonding.
@@johncasey5594 😂
0:38 I just love how something as simple as renting VHS tapes is framed as a weekend ritual "for many families," as if it weren't a ritual for individuals or couples. No, apparently it was only a ritual for families. I guess my girlfriend, later wife and I didn't rent movies together on weekends. Not to mention that the ritual of renting DVDs, which didn't come out until the late 90's, is also a thing of the past, since virtually all video rental stores are also gone. Replaced by streaming. I never bought into Blu-ray, but I have to admit I didn't stop buying DVDs until 2010. Anyone remember late fees and VHS rewind fees? "Be kind, rewind." I never once paid a rewind fee, but had to pay late fees on a number of occasions. I no longer own a DVD player, let alone a VHS player, but I just recently bought a $20 external drive for my laptop, just in case I ever want to watch any of my outdated DVDs, which I kept. VLC media player still works like a charm in 2024. I'm still in possession of at least 200 DVDs, many in storage, some actually on display in a bookshelf. They came in handy as a backup when my internet service was interrupted for several days. Last DVD I actually pulled off the shelf and watched, instead of just streaming, was The Others with Nicole Kidman. Because, why not? I love that movie. It's one of those movies that never gets old. I remember thinking DVDs were virtually indestructible, which they were in comparison to VHS tapes, which inevitably got eaten by ye olde VHS player.
Bruce , can I ask if on that bookshelf where you keep your DVDs , IF you ( also ) have an encyclopaedia ( Britannica ) volume ? 😉 ♑✍️🇳🇴🇦🇺
Great video! Brings back many memories. Beepers were common in the 90's (mid). I dont remeber anyone with a beeper in the 80's.
THAT'S RIGHT 👍 . I remember an episode of Party Of five where Charlotte ( the youngest ) ended up at the end getting a pager 📟 from her oldest brother because of a fight about her asking for a mobile phone 📱 .
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Your wrong drug dealers used them right thru the eighties
Thanks to this video, I feel much older than I actually am 🙂
Ha ha ha 😂 😂 😂 right!!!
The whole "metal shutter" thing on 3.5 inch floppies has already been beaten to death here, so no point adding to that. However, from my experience, 5.25 inch floppies were more common during the 80's. The 3.5 inch floppies did not really come into the mainstream use until the late 80 into the early 90s, with many machines having both 5.25 and 3.5 inch floppy drives (I still have such a machine here at the house). Along those same lines, about programming in BASIC, I will also have to add spending many an hour typing in programs from magazines or books, and then playing around with them, changing the code. Done that plenty of times (funny now, here I am, a senior software engineer). Love that somebody mentioned watching Saturday morning cartoons. Yeah, I can recall doing that quite a bit, and then being sent outside to play. If the weather was crap, my brothers and I would beg to go to the mall so we can go and play games at the arcade.
PCs often hat both drive types available. The rise of the 3.5" came with the Macintosh, Atari ST and Amiga, as their built-in drives.
Well I quickly started to learn assembler. Used less space, and thought me the different part of a computer. The knowledge helped me a lot in my programmer career. The only memory I have left from BASIC was that I had a book that had a chess programmin BASIC. When I swapped later to a newer computer (MS Windows), MS BASIC would not work. Was it a bug in BASIC, or the program code itself, back then I never figured out what the issue was.
I loved the video store experience. I miss renting tapes, buying a snack or two and then watching the movies with my sweetie.
Pagers, for people that weren't doctors or drug dealers ,was in the 90's not the 80"s.
You're right about pagers being a 90s thing. I used one then as a sales representative. But I had a doctor uncle during the early 80s, and he had a pager. It was different to 90s ones in that it was an internal hospital based one that didn't work too far from the hospital, but it was still a pager
same thought on that one here. those pagers looked way more like mid-90s tech, not mid-80s tech.
Pagers was already popular in Asia starting in the late 80s
I used pagers all the time when selling dope - stick mostly to burner phones these days
Typewriters, payphones and paper maps are still around and we could still use them.
VHS tapeas and cassette tapes are also still possible to use if you have the player. Seems many videos like this make it seem stuff completely vanish the instant the next decade startes.
Same with floppy disks.
Payphones are hard to find though. There's a lot fewer of them around than there use to be.
Homeless people have cell phones nowadays.
BUT WOULD U AND Y WOULD U
Thanks for this!...I love this because I know these times, I was there ❤
Also seeing Marlboro commercials. 🤠
All of the things listed have been reinvented and relocated to our phones. Movies, music, photos, files, and maps are all now in our back pockets.
I used to love making mixtapes, it became somewhat of a hobby when I got my first stereo with a record feature on it, my first stereo was an old record player that had AM/FM stereo that I got from the garbage of a neighbor, but there was nothing wrong with it at all, everything worked speakers and all and it was mine, I kind of wish I still had it.
I worked at a video store for a while.
It was fun.
I enjoyed it much.
This video is straight from the 80s. All that's missing are the track lines at the top of the image.
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"You had to slide the metal shutter" This guy has never used a floppy disk in his life
For the computer I built for myself, I used the floppy drive from the old HP I bought 25 years ago. Works just fine
There was nothing better than walking into class and seeing the movie projector and tape deck. Years later it was the giant tube TV and VCR.
Great effort. More 80a stuff!
god i miss those days,so simple and stress free life,unlike todays world it has gotten too complicated and full of electronics we all do not need
For most of the things on this list, this video should’ve been titled “Things from the 1980s you don’t need to do or use anymore.”
There was always that one person who would hang their floppy disc on their fridge using a fridge magnet and be perplexed when the info on the disc was no longer accessible.
I still have my old floppy disks. I still have a floppy drive somewhere, too.
I've seen pagers still in use by hospital staff and floppy disk is still kicking about thanks to retro computing enthusiasm growing a lot. Kind of like vinyl coming back strong. It's a fun time to be alive (for me anyway), seeing the tech from my 90s childhood coming back into fashion to co-exist with the modern tech.
Even rental stores are coming back with a mix of DVD/Bluray/VHS! :)
Even analog photography has come back. Some people go as far in the photography hobby to develop their own film both black and white and color. These days you get a better selection of film meter online or smaller companies that cater to film photography.
@@robertknight4672 Teenagers are getting into typewriters in 2024.
Fotomat was around in the 70's. I remember going to one with my dad. Getting our vacation pics developed
I love cassette tapes I remember having my own Walkman growing up I would carry all of my cassettes with me I still love making cassette tapes I have a bunch of blankets that types to this day which are fabulous. what a wonderful thing to make your own mixtapes it was a great time to be alive.
Born in 1964. Tapped out of the video in less than two minutes when he started talking about 3 1/2 inch floppy discs in the 1980s lol
Cigarette lighters in cars.
Still have that.. I take care of my 80s and 90s cars
I have a cig lighter in my car
Actually, Masters of the Universe figures in that original '80s format (but with modern articulation) made a comeback a few years ago, so that's one thing from this list we can still do today! :D
I remember people not be able to figure out how to set the digital time display on vcr’s. They would just let them blink 12:00 continuously.
Half of the population is below average. Let that sink in.
Thanks for the Memories 😊🚂🚂🚂
good compilitian of things, I didn't thought of. Thank you.
I was so OCD when it came to my tape collection. I had a travel case for tapes to take in my car and one that I obsessively organized
1. We can still rent VHS videos at our local library. And I have 2 VCRs in my house. 2. I have a 3.5 floppy disk 4 ft from me. And you didn't slide the metal shutter, you just inserted it. 4. We never had a photomat around us. We got ours developed at the pharmacy. 9. I still have some of my mix tapes. Programming in BASIC: 10 Print "I love you" 20 Go to 10 Run I STILL shop from catalogs. I get 5-6 catalogs a week in the mail.
Clearly, the writer of this video never used a cassette. You never had to "slide" it open.
I still install Floppy Drives into every computer I build. Also a DVD Drive and multiple USB ports.
As for pagers Hezzbolla recently went back to those and look what happened. Pager beeps, owner looks at message and it says You Are About To Become A Martyr and BOOM!
Why are they showing clips and pictures from the 40’s 50’s and 60’s while talking about the 80’s????
In the past month I've watched a laserdisc, wrote on my typewriter, ordered from a catalog and found a floppy disc. I also do have several film cameras alongside my dslrs.
Pagers still exist... and are still used in niche places... (and same correction as everyone else about floppy disks, etc)
In the 80's things were a lot better than today.
mix tapes lasted well into the 21st century. I'd say the last time I saw a mixtape on a road trip was around 2010. My 98 Altima had a cassette player and I drove it until 2017. In 2016 I bought a new car, it has cassette player and cd player under the passenger seat, the rest is one of BT touch screen jobs.
Saturday morning cartoons and going to the arcade are major ones. I don't think teenagers "hang out" at the mall anymore either.
Some of these things you technically can still do. (Eg. Playing with He-Man toys or using a Walkman.) It's mostly those things that rely upon outside suppliers or sources that you can't do.
There's also watching analog TV off-air. It's all digital now.
during my childhood. me and my mom used to travel inside the mall while we wait for the photos to be developed. it took 30mins - 1 hr. never realized that in earlier times it took days damn
Great list...brought back memories.
I was making my own casette tapes in the 1970s.
I used to copy some VHS movies, and built a good collection. Some were eventually copy-protected.
"Film Strips"? We had slides, using slide projectors.
Catalog shopping by mail is still a thing.
"Any attempts to restrict drinking and driving here is seen as downright undemocratic" I am surprised so many people from back then are still alve.
I'm surprised so many people are still alive considering seat belts weren't required and nobody batted an eye if trucks had people packed in the back or just hanging on to it.
@amyhoard1222, and yet we survived. 72 year old boomer here. Do you think it possible that just perhaps those practices WEREN'T as dangerous as today's fearful, utterly risk averse crybabies believe?
@billmullins6833 sir, people back then knew it was dangerous yall just didn't care and still don't care until you are personally affected. You can't really say think like drinking while driving, leaded gas, and leaded paint are safer than we "cyberbabies" think. Sure a seat belt most days doesn't do anything, but if you get into a car accident, specially back then where cars had no other safety features, it could save your life. Don't forget that back then you didn't have all the other things we have today which can influence your view and make those small things seem safer when you add in all the other things we have today. Like how many baby boomers idolize the economic glory of the 1950s and forget about all the other horrible things that existed back then just because they didn't face them.
@@witchy90210 Nobody ever said drinking and driving was okay. It was the other things your uber fearful generation obsesses over that I was referring to.
@@billmullins6833 I had an uncle that was an Ambulance driver and later a paramedic. He spoke often about how many teens that they bagged up (well over 100) after they flew out of the back of pickups in the 60s 70s and early 80s. Population topped out around 3,500 people in the county during his 23 years. He was on one of four crews.
riding in the back of a truck bed
I did it many a time and "by some miracle" managed to live to the present. Today's whining, fearful, risk averse crybabies make me shake my head.
Letting your dogs ride in the pickup bed without being tied, crated or restrained! 🐕
Still have my three Walkman's they are banged up they still work perfect and still have cassettes that still play good. Wish they were bluetooh !! lol
so if you invested in any company that replaced these things: iPhone (Apple), movies at home (Netflix, Apple iTunes, UA-cam Google), photos (Apple iPhone, Google Android), songs (Apple iPhone, iPod, Android, UA-cam), Typewriters (Dell, Apple Mac), pager (Apple iPhone), photo sharing (Facebook), catalog shopping (Amazon), you'd be rich or retired
Dat satisfying feeling when sliding the metal cover on a floppy disk
😂😂
I can still play music on my walkman. And yes, one with cassette tapes. A lot of these things you can still do. Not many people do, but don't state we CAN'T!
Maps - there was a guy named (I think) David Hall who wrote Sniglets for a show called 'Not Necessarily the News'. A sniglet was a word that does not exist but should. He came up with accordionated - the ability to fold a map while driving
Mix tapes came way before cassettes. My grandfather was making 8 track mix tapes in the early 70s.. There's over 100 of them in a box in his attic. Even some mix tapes that say 4 track. He said most of the music came from the radio.
It was all over by the 80's. The 70's was the golden age of everything.
Fun fact about floppy disk: Japan still used them until last year officially as a media save or transfer data in the government!
You can still buy 3.5" floppy drives that connect to modern computers via USB. I bought one on Amazon last year for $25. It works with Windows 11 but I used a hardware adaptor so it can read Commodore Amiga floppies. 🙂 My wife only upgraded from a Sony Walkman to a Song Discman about 5 years ago! LOL!
I was still renting VHS tapes in the early 2000s.
Gotta thank Volvo for the seatbelts. Didn't even patent the idea so everyone could be safe without charge. Well played and very honorable 👏👏👏👏
I did many of these things in the 90s and even early 2000s. I used paper map for road trip because I didnt have GPS nav in my car. We didnt have google maps, and although mapquest was available, we had to print the map and direction at home before leaving for the trip. Paper maps were still sold everywhere and was more convenient than mapquest. Good old days.
I still use maps when hiking. Maps can be trusted, electronics can not
I used a book map of the city of Austin and its environs in the mid 2000s. It lived under my front seat. Along with a copy of the yellow pages so I could search for businesses and call them from my flip phone. 😂
You could say just about anything about flying.
walking up to your terminal without passing the secret service.
Being able to send off or receive a family member.
Booking a flight literally at the last moment.
Not needing any form of ID whatsoever.
Getting on a flight without a checklist of things you can't have.
Running through an airport to make it to your connecting flight without being shot.
Taking more time to drive to the airport than how much time you spent IN the airport.
A few things you can still do now... If you preserved it.
thanks, what a memory