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the 45rpm record adapter was made so that you could use old records from Jukeboxes, basically. and they would be sold at a discount. there was also another type of them, use to bulk-out the 3.5 inch CD Single, too
what hurts me more isn't that kids might not know most all things on this list, but just the amount of time that has passed since when these things were more commonly used and today.
Honorable mention: Going to an Arcade. But seriously, kids today don't even know what the arcade is like in the 1980's and the 1990's. There are some classic games such as Galaga, Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter II, multiple Neo Geo games, racing titles such as the Cruis'n series, rail shooters such as The House of the Dead, etc. Sure some arcades still exists in some parts of the U.S. today with the likes of Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield, Illinois (near Chicago) and Funspot in Laconia, New Hampshire.
Man, that takes me back. Used to visit a place with all sorts of games in the mall and had a ball playing everything from mortal Kombat to so many racing games. XD
It's all a matter of perspective. When I was born in the late 70s, I was in the dying days of slide projectors, mimeograph machines, the original vinyl records, 8 tracks, CB radios, rolodexes, film reel projectors, and more. I wouldn't have recognized 1920s radios, operator dialing (like PEnnsylvania 6-5000), Brylcreem, phonograph cylinders, clackers (those metal balls with string), bicycle registration, skates you lock onto your shoes, things like that.
I was born in the 80s in a then communist country and I had those roller skates you put on your shoes. Their advantage was you could adjust the size so you could use them for most of your childhood. I also had double bladed ice skates, that we also put on shoes. XD Funnily enough 80s were also the last decade of the scooter for it to reappear decades later.
When I started in my current career, we had a microfiche machine at our office. Included with it was a bunch of manuals for equipment that we used to maintain in the '70s and '80s. We had a customer call with just such a piece of equipment. The customer wanted one of our techs instead of a third-party company, and it didn't appear to be getting any power when it was powered up. The customer had really valuable data on the machine. I knew it had a microfiche at the office, so I went to see if I could find the wiring diagram. I found it, which helped me locate a blown resistor. De-soldered and replaced it (thank you RadioShack!) and success! Did I have to? Nope (I could have just upsold them). Was it worth it to give old tech new life, and make a customer happy for a 5 cent repair! Definitely!
Fun fact: the number placement on rotary pulse dial phones were the reason why emergency service numbers are assigned: several countries used the farthest number from the stop three times. The UK used 999, NZ used 111 and Australia used 000. The US' FCC chose 911 in 1967 because it was unique and easy to dial and it was not in use by any telephone company at the time.
VHS tapes and VCRs. Playing cards. Manual transmissions (in most cases). Flights pre-9/11 and the TSA. Being able to bring peanuts to school. Unsupervised outdoor childhood playtime until dinner time or when the street lights came on. There's probably more but that's just off the top of my head
I remember starting to watch "Friends" in the 2010's, and being confused at half of the dated 90's references, namely Pagers. It still holds up, regardless.
It would be even more interesting to give a physical map to a child unfolded, and then ask them to fold it. I doubt they would be able to fold it correctly since they may not follow the preexisting creases on it.
As a 57 yo it blows my mind that we’ve moved on so far in the past 30 years or so, although they where almost obsolete when I was growing up I still remember 8 track players and cartridges, when I was a teenager I actually seeked one out for old times sake, nowadays I’m listening to all my music on my phone, I love technology from all eras
Had an old Zenith TV that not only had a hidden spot to place the remote, but channels 1-14 had individual tuning dials. Had more channels than that though. And the VCR and NES had different tunings, both on channel 3.
You forgot clock radios. I used to love sitting there watching as #:59 turned to #:00. There was something so satisfying in seeing each number flip over at the same time. My 2011 Hyundai Accent has hand cranks 😂. I have a huge fear of getting trapped under water in my car so it's something I love! You're right, there's nothing as satisfying as slamming the phone down in anger on someone. Pushing a button just doesn't cut it 😂. And btw...I'm officially old...I remember everything on this list...even the belt...though I didn't use it, my adult female members did.
I had one of those record players that came in a little suit case. and it had a little part in the middle that you could spin and it would rise so it could play the different size records. It was so fancy!
it's a real mindfuck to think that people almost never actually hear a dial tone anymore because smartphones don't open the line until you've already entered the number and hit "call"
As a GenXer seeing all of them brought back memories. Particularly the cassette tapes, Walkman and floppy disks. Speaking of floppy disks, I still have about 20 or so of those stuffs thr 3.5 ones, courtesy of my college days. Will never know if my project feasibility study is in one of those. Brought some when I took up a vocational course in Computer Technology. My classmate (all gen z), were laughing at it.
Not being able to pause TV and hoping you make it back before the adverts finish or getting home in time to watch a specific show 😆 also I have to say as a Brit, TV Guides are still very popular 😀
We used to schedule our college classes around certain shows. At one college I went to, everyone who didn't have a TV in their room all piled into the common area to watch show together. It was crazy.
Thank you for the update, WatchMojo..!! Pagers. Rich kids back in the early 90s owned a pager with alphabet characters showing. I used to have a pager that only had the numbers showing instead. I remembered codes like 0000 for 'call home', 0001 for 'call someplace', etc.. Then I used payphones to call such places as soon as possible. Speaking of payphones, the malls don't have them anymore. I learned that about 10 years ago, when I had to call home without carrying a cellphone. The mall's help desk confirmed they don't have payphones anymore, so they let me use their help desk phone instead.
The larger holes in the 7" singles was to accommodate the mechanism of a jukebox. Many 45s came with a small hole in the middle and a perforated circle around it, which you could punch out to put it on a jukebox.
Typewriter - when my kids were about 6 & 7 we went to a museum with an old typewriter they could try out. They did okay with the typing once they realized they had to press hard and go one letter at a time. The confusion came when it was time to take the paper out. The question was "how do I print it out?" and I showed them how to release the paper. Car windows - my sister's early 2000s car has no electronic locks or windows. It made it a lot cheaper so she was fine with it, lol. Church key - there's one on my fridge and the (now) teens know how to use it. Mostly it gets used for cans of coconut milk or broth. Wired game controllers - we're good. We have a few old systems still around and the controllers my eldest and I use for the computer are still wired. Cheaper and no battery issues. Phone book - this one is funny as we just emptied out an old box and found a phone book only from 2018 in it. I think it had been left when we bought our house, lol.
In the blind community, we use something similar to typewriters, it’s called a Perkins rail, writer, it’s the same concept, but it only has nine Keys.all it has is the six keys necessary to type any braille letter, the space key, the line advance key, and the backspace key. thoughwe have started to transition into the digital age with braille displays. I still prefer the old method of pounding out every word though. My grandmother’s car still has a crank handle on it to this day.
You know, there are still physical phones in the world. While not common in most households, most businesses and schools still have wired phones. And Netflix does not still mail DVDs. They closed down that part of the company in September 2023.
I still use my husband’s old discman for audiobooks. I brought it out at work once and my gen z coworkers had the laugh of their lives. I still love my CDs.
@@susannpatton2893 Netflix never had DVD vending machines. It was strictly mail order. You're thinking of Redbox, which is a completely different company and is somehow still in business.
I remember that my Dad had a truck to where he had to rotate the thing to roll the window down, I do remember when Netflix mailed DVDs, no idea they still did that, and most of all, I do remember the dial-up internet VERY well. I also remember wired game controllers, because I had an N64, Nintendo GameCube, and a PS2 growing up. I also know what a typewriter is, because my Grandmother introduced me and my sister to one, and we know what rotary wheel phones were. My parents also had a phone book back in the 2000s. I remember it, it was a big yellow book with a mountain on the cover of it.
About the car window thing, though. There are still some pretty modern cars with them. Mostly fleet vehicles, though. The cars we used at my old job were newer than 2020 and still had manual windows
The hole in 45 rpm singels were big because some pick up's had a stacking function. The stacking rod was thick and had a pin that retracted when the stylus had gone back to the starting position. When the pin retracted, the next single was dropped on top of the just finished single and the stylus would automatically start playing the next single. You could stack up to 8 or 10 singles. It made your player in to a jukebox. That's why you need the adapter if you wanted to play only one single. Sometimes players had a puck like adapter placed in a dedicated hole in de players incasement. Thanks for this video.
I know some people still buy the Christmas edition of the tv guide (or Radio Times as it’s called in the UK). It used to be a big part of the run up to Christmas as a kid, getting excited looking through it and circling what you wanted to see.
Gen X-er here and I remember getting on a plane in less than 20 minutes. That's parking, getting inside, tickets, baggage checked, security check and being seated on the mofo plane . Also you could bring nail clippers, soda, regular size shampoos, and even let your 8 year old fly solo.
There are a few of these things that I remember from my early childhood. Casette-tapes, diskman, CD and DVD binders, wired controllers. I also remember my parents used to have a book of maps which they used to follow when we drove on vacation to south Europe. It was always a struggle finding the right place to go. These days, with a GPS, there are still challenges, but at least my parents don't argue with each other which way is the right one anymore. Some of these old things are definitely nostalgic to me.
An overhead projector is something kids should recognize. My early elementary school teachers used them for math lessons, and how they work fascinates me. With an overhead projector, “a focusing lens projects light from an illuminated slide onto a projection screen where a real image is formed.” That info comes from Wikipedia.
I remember when I was young I dismantled my dads desktop trying to look for the famous silver ball that comes in the pinball game, on doing that, I discovered the cathode ray tube, and I also saw the floppy disks compartment in the CPU station, since it was his work pc. Let me say, though what I did was wrong, I can tell you it was fun to be in that era, and I would love to make some honourable mentions which @WatchMojo did not include in the list Windows7, WindowsXP, Windows98 the original Blackberry phones. Most kids today don't know what they looked like. As the famous musician Freddie Mercury in his song "Radio Gaga" said "You made them laugh, you made them cry, you made us feel, like we could fly." God Bless the old times
As a woman in her mid-thirties, I remember using/playing with/being around most of the things listed here. The records and players from my parents, grandparents, and aunts and uncles. The discman was more mine, and its anti-skip feature was a must to let the cd play. The rolodex and pager were necessities for my dad for work, then came the cell phone, then the flip phone, and always, always the memo pad and pen in his breast pocket. The portable classroom projector, floppy discs, computers that were only able to hold under 100megabytes of data with dialup internet only, that was the 90's/early 00's. I have fond memories of those days and am glad I got to live them.
“Wouldn’t be surprised if they stop making wired game controllers.”, I guess I shouldn’t expect them to know Pro controllers will likely always have a wired options to reduce input lag during competition.
Why go wireless? I prefer not to have to charge, not having the battery run out without warning, not having the connection crap out at random and obvious lag on many of them.
me too, it's a key sound of my late teenage years, looking back now I feel it actually focused my brain into "you're online for a short time only, not forever make the most of however long you have" type mode - since you knew it would disconnect itself repeatedly after a while
i lived through all these technologies... its fun to witness the creation of Discman, the MP3 player, from floppy disk to Zip disk then USB drive, and lived in the era of mono color PC, track ball mouse.... back then we rely on library to get information.... kids nowadays jut google.
@@Scottie_S I was one of those kids that used to carry a CD player and a thing full of CDs on trips. You know what's funny about this , I still have those to this day. I'm talking about bands like the monkeys for example, kiss as well.
It's funny because I was helping my mother clean out the basement a few years ago and I found a box that had 3 cassette tapes (Whitney Houston, The Temptations and a BB King album), a Richard Pryor comedy record, a floppy disk, my old Bug Bunny Nintendo Gameboy cartridge and the controller to my old Nintendo 64. 😂😂😂 Talk about nostalgic.
What's interesting about computers today, they don't come with a floppy disk drive, yet computers still reserve the "A" drive designation for a physical drive that doesn't come standard with many computers and few people have little use for.
lol regarding the slide projector, I still remember in school we had overhead projectors and we had the notes (printed or otherwise) on the material similar to cels sanitary belts are literal girdles for pay phones, one telephone company had the ingenuity to slide a type of card (not sure if pre-paid) before calling we had a telephone directory that was basically a lengthwise rolodex that doesn't roll over the Yellow Pages logo was actually a motif in Mina's "Answer the Phone" MV when we had cable, we had a monthly schedule mailed
Just a little history for the 45 rpm records. Originally the hole was smaller than 78's and 33's and were used within the record industry at radio stations. But they found the wear and tear on the hole was greater, especially when the radio DJs were spinning some of them 2 to 4 times an hour, for the newest hit songs. Then the fact you needed a specialized turntable to play them. So, when they started selling them to the public, they cut the hole bigger which cut down on the wear and tear of the hole and sold adapters, so that the general public didn't have to invest in another new proprietary turntable just to play them.
I'm 32 and have a church key on a magnetic hanger in my kitchen that I use almost every day for random stuff along with the occasional bottle opening. I didn't know they weren't common place 😅
do you use the spike end? Because that seems to be the only difference between that & a bottle opener... + Wine Bottle opener basic has that function too.
@@HarryWessex I use the spike end for various things but the bottle opener end is what we use the most. I wouldn't say it's a kitchen staple, but it's handy. I just thought most people had them in their houses, lol.
As an 80s born kid who grew up in the 90s/00s I do remember a lot of this stuff growing up. I remember when we got internet I think it was in 1996-97 and it was like the most alien thing ever. Now it’s something I can’t ever imagine living without. Just a special mention, but going into a bank to withdraw/deposit money. It’s still possible to do that, but with ATMs/online banking I doubt it’s something many people do now. I always used to go with my mother to the bank whenever she needed to withdraw/deposit money. Nowadays all you need is an app on your phone and it takes a few seconds.
I was born in 1992. I recognize some of these things. I personally have never used a fax machine, a floppy disk, a typewriter, a CD-ROM or an iPod. The USB stick is also becoming obsolete. I watched movies on the VHS as a child and now I only use a smart TV to watch movies, by streaming. I have never sent a postcard. Video rental stores are gone now too. I can't believe that there were kids recognizing the VHS here. Even the iPod is no longer used, and the smartphone is about to be replaced by holograms. I don't use a landline phone anymore. The decade of the 2000s still had phone books, video rental stores, the VHS used until the middle of the decade and CDs. It's been so long since I last heard of a disk used in a computer, as I didn't hear about it in the past decade anymore. Technology has advanced so much in just two decades and it will advance even more in the future. Soon there won't be search engines anymore, unlike the 2000s decade, because of AI. And kids will soon ask how to drive a car, because of autonomous cars coming soon.
Well that’s a blast from the past. I grew up with most of these. And libraries mostly still use the Dewey Decimal System, only the card catalogs aren’t analog anymore, but digital.
The Snapchat short of the adult asking the kid what things were. Like maybe a landline was one??!! I love seeing what kids do when given the opportunity to use something we used as a kid!
13:13 I actually am legitimately surprised this made the list. Yes I know it's more common to have your video game controllers be wireless. Both the pro controllers I have for my switch are wireless and if I don't want to deal with putting batteries into those controllers I can still take my Joy-Con off the switch and use those, but I actually have a GameCube controller on my switch that I actually plug into the switch dock. When my switch is docked it's actually the controller I primarily used because it is plugged in so that I don't have to worry about the battery life of said controller. I am legitimately surprised that wired controllers would be on the list because I thought people still use them
The Record adaptor for45 singles was because Juke box used singles so they had big holes in the middle to fit the Jukebox and you could buy them so you needed to play them on your Record Player
8:38 Putting MapQuest in the same conversation as map apps like Apple Maps and Google Maps as something kids would know about is wild to me. I'm 20 and I remember using MapQuest maybe a couple of times when I was maybe six or seven, but yeah by that point, gps systems and then smart phones pushed MapQuest into irrelevancy just with paper maps, though MQ and a paper map aren't all that dissimilar to begin with.
As the years progress, you look back at media released decades prior and you can tell that they were 2000s or 90s media. The nice thing about not having mail order Netflix is I no longer have to deal with short or long weights when renting a movie. I enjoyed it while I could. I may recognize some pieces of technology while I don’t recognize others, like a Rolodex.
Hey, I never realized the origins of Netflix, and I'm a fine example of economy-killin' millennial who knows almost all the stuff mentioned here apart PDAs or pagers (they weren't popular here in Poland except among businesspeople who could afford them), church keys and rolodexes. I have a Selectric typewriter, a Walkman and a Discman, and our old rotary phone we had when I was a kid. No landline though. Also, not mentioned here, a Commodore 64, a tabletop calculator (and a handheld with a vacuum fluorescent display too) and a slide rule. I learned lots and lots of stuff as a kid by reading encyclopedias. I was quite a bookworm. All too familiar with sine wave tones. I'm an electronics engineer after all - and I tinker a lot with vacuum tube tech, build amps and restore vintage equipment. I got to learn lots and lots of great '70s/'80s music through cassettes dubbed from CDs by my older brother (I still have his collection) - and he recorded my favorite Looney Tunes on VHS for me back when I was a kid in the '90s. Makes me want to make a "Top 30 Things Modern Electrical Engineers Don't Recognize" video, LOL. Analog oscilloscopes and meters would probably be some of those things - along with grid dip oscillators, single-function lab meters, resistance decade boxes, vacuum tube testers, curve tracers, electromechanical components, CMOS/TTL chips and other quaint old things.
I still remember a temp job in the 90’s - 4 hours of sending a few hundred pages via fax to Thailand- imagine a company today getting a temp just to send One Email 😂
Ah yes, I remember my dad telling my younger 8 year old brother to "turn the channel" on the TV. The confused look and the conversation there after sent me. Back in the day one had to physically turn the dial on the tv to change the channel, kids now will never know what it's like to be the actual remote for their parents. And honestly technology doesn't even have to be that old for kids to not know how to use it. Just last week I was baby sitting one of my young neighbors, another 8 year old, I have her the remote and told her she can change the channel if she wants to what ever she liked. mind you I have a smart tv with all the bell and whistles but also have DirecTV. The girl says that "we don't have this tv at home, can you put something on for me?". So I go to put on the guide to search for something for her to watch. I name some of the shows and channels that were on and I asked "what do you like to watch?" he response was "I usually just watch something on Netflix or UA-cam". In the end there was a marathon of SpongeBob that she ended up watching the whole time.
TV guides are still in use by many people. And while they are a little different, fireman have a pager (pager for EMS only). When it goes, it shows text telling the fireman what they have to do and with which priority.
I’m a 92 model, I can remember a former manager asking me if I knew what a CD player was. I was both insulted and flattered that she thought I was young enough not to know that
The annoying thing with walkmans was when the battery attested to go flat. Listening to your favourite song street to slow down and realising you have no spares was the end of the world! My siblings and I still joke about my dad always telling us "that's $1 everything's you take a photo" 😂
The only time i think of a Rolodex is when i am listening to Gabriel Inglesias back when he started to become famous as a standup comedian and tells the story of when he got pulled over and ended up playing the theme song to the show ‘Cops’ his friend at the time Filipe Esparza yells at the cop “hey officer! Thank god you got a computer! Last week we got pulled over in Mexico! That fool had a Rolodex!” 😂
as soon as "phone books" came up, that scene from Helluva Boss where Stolas goes "Oh, your memory's so great, what's HIS phone number?" and motions towards Moxxie, Blitz glares at him and says "F*ck you". 😂Adam and Jamie ripping pages out was funny. no body makes phone books anymore, nor do people use them. I remember a kid like 7 years old in the theater asking him mom in front of me what the thing was the guy in the movie was holding. it was a pager and the movie was Transformers Rise of the Beasts.
When I was a kid, my family had a reel-to-reel tape recorder. You had to thread the tape manually past all the rollers and hook it onto the takeup reel. Editing the tape was done with scissors and Scotch tape. I doubt many kids today would know how to work all that.
I remember wanting to watch a VHS tape when I was kid but when I went to watch it, I would have to rewind it to the beginning. Ohhhh how far we have come.
I actually have floppy drives for my Commodore 64 and 128. They are the 1541, 1571, and 1581. Back in the days before the Internet, I used a modem to call bulletin board systems (BBS) and download and upload software. There was even areas where you could post just about anything.
I still have a shoebox full of 3.5" floppies with backups I made back in the 90's and early 2000's. The only problem is that I haven't had a floppy drive for about fifteen years.
When recording a cassette, had to be quiet. And at normal speed, took a long time. Boom boxes Library - dewey decimal system outdated Tv rabbit ears antenna + aluminum foil, tv stations go off the air at night Phone party lines Gas station full service, leaded gas Hand crank field telephone Compression start a manual transmission car with a dead battery Car manual choke When 5¼ floppy disks first came out, had a square notch on one side to record/program on it. Tape it over to make it semi permanent. Use a manual hole punch to make a notch on the other side to make it double sided. Reel to reel movies (had to rewind after) Manual time cards for work Pay money for public bathroom stall Travel disposable camera, Polaroid The list goes on and on ...
It was quite windy after it rained as I came home from high school when I found an envelope in a puddle, not far from the local post office. While quite cold that day, I brought it home with me and my Dad saw their name through the envelope on the check inside and found their number in the phone book, that we still have today, to let them know we found and would mail their power bill for them. It hasn't even been a decade yet since then.
Kids have it so good! A lot of this was a part of my childhood up to my teenage years. I didn’t have a real smart phone until I was 20 cause they just didn’t really exist. For the longest time, I had a neon green LG Rumor that had a sliding keyboard. Before that was the flip phone, and before that was the landline. My parents still had a Rotary Phone when I was growing up. It’s why I know how to use one.
My first computer was a 286. I think I got it in ‘88 or ‘89. My brother had an Amiga. We’d fight over the phone line because I’d pick it up and disconnect his modem. I had a pager in ‘92, ‘93. Then I got my first cell phone from Powertel in ‘93, I think. I then got a Motorola flip phone. I had substitute power source for the car - remove the battery and slide this thing on in its place. Plugged into the cigarette lighter. I got my first phone with internet access in 2003. It was so hard to use, because you still had to type letters using the number pad. But at the time, it was super neat! Lol I remember getting a digital copy of the yellow pages on cd for my computer. I thought it was so cool! Lol
the churchkey item is what i use to open jars. like jam or pickles. I had no idea people used to for soda and since i dont drink glass bottles were never a thing. the name of the tool is odd but it is still a very useful item to have.
I may not have lived with some of the things on this list- however I’m aware and knowledgeable on all of them, I find it so strange that kids these days have 0 knowledge on a lot of stuff that existed even when they were young. Like I had a conversation with my coworker who was only 16 that didn’t know cell phones weren’t always around and are a relatively new thing. Literally had no idea and I’m only 10 years older like what it’s so wild to me
I'd add the likes of the Speccy & C64 loading games from a tape as something that would melt their little minds "You have to wait how long to play?" "Why does it make that noise?"
I used to use road maps, and generally had the sense of a pigeon for which way was north. Modern smartphone maps still have major issues, I know of one instance in the US where someone I know was instructed to turn right off the side of a bridge, thankfully they ignored it.
I know people who use them to prop up broken furniture, eg a chair missing a broken leg or something, you stack a few to the same height and glue them together
@@matthewwolfson7204 they're heavy and solid, better to find alternate uses for them - you can't donate sets of encyclopedias to charitable book sales unless they're specialty topic type ones so what else can you do with them really
With LPs, cassettes, CDs and miniDiscs I listened to them from beginning to end. Now I can't listen to even one song without switching to the next one...and sometimes just skipping through the titles without even listening to one for one second.
I still cant believe i actually used floppy disks in computer-class back in middle school! I remember working on some word-file, and saving it onto one of those small floppies.
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There was a mistake in the video….
Netflix stopped offering DVD rentals in 2023. It was very sad….
The dial up with the numbers attached
1st text messages from the dial up phone
You were wrong
the 45rpm record adapter was made so that you could use old records from Jukeboxes, basically. and they would be sold at a discount. there was also another type of them, use to bulk-out the 3.5 inch CD Single, too
Honorable mentions:
Video Cassette Recorders
Betamax
Yeah I'm 17 and most the things you say on the video I know about and used
what hurts me more isn't that kids might not know most all things on this list, but just the amount of time that has passed since when these things were more commonly used and today.
Honorable mention:
Going to an Arcade.
But seriously, kids today don't even know what the arcade is like in the 1980's and the 1990's. There are some classic games such as Galaga, Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter II, multiple Neo Geo games, racing titles such as the Cruis'n series, rail shooters such as The House of the Dead, etc. Sure some arcades still exists in some parts of the U.S. today with the likes of Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield, Illinois (near Chicago) and Funspot in Laconia, New Hampshire.
Not to mention having tokens n getting tickets cuz damn im pretty sure I spent half my tokens on those coin pushers n flingers
Don’t forget SF rush
Carnevil was almost everywhere I went when I was tween
Man, that takes me back. Used to visit a place with all sorts of games in the mall and had a ball playing everything from mortal Kombat to so many racing games. XD
They're making a slight return.. many hotels have small arcades set up.. I enjoyed the hell out of Hydro Thunder a few weeks ago
i wonder what'll be unrecognizable 30 years from now for those kids' kids
The Physical media
Leaving the house to do anything instead of using VR and having ALL actions online.
@@starscreamthecruel8026 the almost extinction of video game consoles
Same tbh, phones maybe
it'll def be physical media and actually owning media you purchase. Maybe standard slate style smartphone too probably!
It's all a matter of perspective. When I was born in the late 70s, I was in the dying days of slide projectors, mimeograph machines, the original vinyl records, 8 tracks, CB radios, rolodexes, film reel projectors, and more. I wouldn't have recognized 1920s radios, operator dialing (like PEnnsylvania 6-5000), Brylcreem, phonograph cylinders, clackers (those metal balls with string), bicycle registration, skates you lock onto your shoes, things like that.
I was born in the 80s in a then communist country and I had those roller skates you put on your shoes. Their advantage was you could adjust the size so you could use them for most of your childhood. I also had double bladed ice skates, that we also put on shoes. XD Funnily enough 80s were also the last decade of the scooter for it to reappear decades later.
I rember those skates you put on your shoes they had metal wheels ....
I'm proud to say that I lived through ALL of these! This is where all us Gen X-ers are truly blessed. This is my new favourite Watch Mojo now!!!
When I started in my current career, we had a microfiche machine at our office. Included with it was a bunch of manuals for equipment that we used to maintain in the '70s and '80s.
We had a customer call with just such a piece of equipment. The customer wanted one of our techs instead of a third-party company, and it didn't appear to be getting any power when it was powered up. The customer had really valuable data on the machine. I knew it had a microfiche at the office, so I went to see if I could find the wiring diagram.
I found it, which helped me locate a blown resistor. De-soldered and replaced it (thank you RadioShack!) and success! Did I have to? Nope (I could have just upsold them). Was it worth it to give old tech new life, and make a customer happy for a 5 cent repair! Definitely!
Fun fact: the number placement on rotary pulse dial phones were the reason why emergency service numbers are assigned: several countries used the farthest number from the stop three times. The UK used 999, NZ used 111 and Australia used 000. The US' FCC chose 911 in 1967 because it was unique and easy to dial and it was not in use by any telephone company at the time.
Unique, easy, and quick.
VHS tapes and VCRs. Playing cards. Manual transmissions (in most cases). Flights pre-9/11 and the TSA. Being able to bring peanuts to school. Unsupervised outdoor childhood playtime until dinner time or when the street lights came on. There's probably more but that's just off the top of my head
I remember starting to watch "Friends" in the 2010's, and being confused at half of the dated 90's references, namely Pagers. It still holds up, regardless.
god that makes me feel old, if you didn't know what pagers are 💀
What is up with you Americans and your broken grammar and vocabulary?
What about chandlers brick laptop 😅
@@nardiamcphee5239 not funny
It would be even more interesting to give a physical map to a child unfolded, and then ask them to fold it. I doubt they would be able to fold it correctly since they may not follow the preexisting creases on it.
This was a journey with nostalgia. I'm glad I clicked -- and that I could!
As a 57 yo it blows my mind that we’ve moved on so far in the past 30 years or so, although they where almost obsolete when I was growing up I still remember 8 track players and cartridges, when I was a teenager I actually seeked one out for old times sake, nowadays I’m listening to all my music on my phone, I love technology from all eras
*were
Had an old Zenith TV that not only had a hidden spot to place the remote, but channels 1-14 had individual tuning dials. Had more channels than that though. And the VCR and NES had different tunings, both on channel 3.
You forgot clock radios. I used to love sitting there watching as #:59 turned to #:00. There was something so satisfying in seeing each number flip over at the same time.
My 2011 Hyundai Accent has hand cranks 😂. I have a huge fear of getting trapped under water in my car so it's something I love!
You're right, there's nothing as satisfying as slamming the phone down in anger on someone. Pushing a button just doesn't cut it 😂.
And btw...I'm officially old...I remember everything on this list...even the belt...though I didn't use it, my adult female members did.
My grandkids are going to love this one.
Ever heard of Joseph schumpeter?
I had one of those record players that came in a little suit case. and it had a little part in the middle that you could spin and it would rise so it could play the different size records. It was so fancy!
Rotary phones are the reason we have the verb "dial" (as in "to call someone") and the term "dial tone", because in that era it was quite literal.
it's a real mindfuck to think that people almost never actually hear a dial tone anymore because smartphones don't open the line until you've already entered the number and hit "call"
Same for "hang/hanging up" the phone, since we hung the receiver on the metal arm to finish the call
@@P.M_M That was in the video...
It's also why in the USA we have 911. The 9 to make sure it wasn't an accident, the 11 since it was quick.
As a GenXer seeing all of them brought back memories. Particularly the cassette tapes, Walkman and floppy disks.
Speaking of floppy disks, I still have about 20 or so of those stuffs thr 3.5 ones, courtesy of my college days. Will never know if my project feasibility study is in one of those. Brought some when I took up a vocational course in Computer Technology. My classmate (all gen z), were laughing at it.
Not being able to pause TV and hoping you make it back before the adverts finish or getting home in time to watch a specific show 😆 also I have to say as a Brit, TV Guides are still very popular 😀
Still popular here in Germany as well :D
We used to schedule our college classes around certain shows. At one college I went to, everyone who didn't have a TV in their room all piled into the common area to watch show together. It was crazy.
And if you missed it, you missed it
Don't have to do that anymore. I noticed my dad uses UA-cam a lot.
Also, a lot of people using VCRs would leave the show on record or use timer record and then cue the tape through the ad breaks.
Thank you for the update, WatchMojo..!! Pagers. Rich kids back in the early 90s owned a pager with alphabet characters showing. I used to have a pager that only had the numbers showing instead. I remembered codes like 0000 for 'call home', 0001 for 'call someplace', etc.. Then I used payphones to call such places as soon as possible. Speaking of payphones, the malls don't have them anymore. I learned that about 10 years ago, when I had to call home without carrying a cellphone. The mall's help desk confirmed they don't have payphones anymore, so they let me use their help desk phone instead.
The larger holes in the 7" singles was to accommodate the mechanism of a jukebox.
Many 45s came with a small hole in the middle and a perforated circle around it, which you could punch out to put it on a jukebox.
And you could buy a packet of ‘Middles’ for a few pennies!
Typewriter - when my kids were about 6 & 7 we went to a museum with an old typewriter they could try out. They did okay with the typing once they realized they had to press hard and go one letter at a time. The confusion came when it was time to take the paper out. The question was "how do I print it out?" and I showed them how to release the paper.
Car windows - my sister's early 2000s car has no electronic locks or windows. It made it a lot cheaper so she was fine with it, lol.
Church key - there's one on my fridge and the (now) teens know how to use it. Mostly it gets used for cans of coconut milk or broth.
Wired game controllers - we're good. We have a few old systems still around and the controllers my eldest and I use for the computer are still wired. Cheaper and no battery issues.
Phone book - this one is funny as we just emptied out an old box and found a phone book only from 2018 in it. I think it had been left when we bought our house, lol.
In the '90s PBS show Ghostwriter, they showed the kids going to library and using the card catalog. They had to ask a librarian for help
I remember that saga! It was entitled "Who Is Max Mouse?" They needed to collect information about computers in order to nail a hacker!
In the blind community, we use something similar to typewriters, it’s called a Perkins rail, writer, it’s the same concept, but it only has nine Keys.all it has is the six keys necessary to type any braille letter, the space key, the line advance key, and the backspace key. thoughwe have started to transition into the digital age with braille displays. I still prefer the old method of pounding out every word though. My grandmother’s car still has a crank handle on it to this day.
You know, there are still physical phones in the world. While not common in most households, most businesses and schools still have wired phones.
And Netflix does not still mail DVDs. They closed down that part of the company in September 2023.
yeah there are physical phones in some houses but how often does it ring? and do you get a fright when it does since its so infrequent
We still need land line phones. The sound quality is superior over cell phones and still operate when the power goes out.
I still use my husband’s old discman for audiobooks. I brought it out at work once and my gen z coworkers had the laugh of their lives. I still love my CDs.
I remember when Netflix was ONLY the DVD service...🤣🤣🤣
And had the 1st DVD vending machine too
I think I still have a couple!
@@susannpatton2893 Netflix never had DVD vending machines. It was strictly mail order. You're thinking of Redbox, which is a completely different company and is somehow still in business.
I woke up this morning feeling pretty good and then I watched this video. Now I feel so old. Thanks mojo for ruining my mojo 😂
I remember that my Dad had a truck to where he had to rotate the thing to roll the window down, I do remember when Netflix mailed DVDs, no idea they still did that, and most of all, I do remember the dial-up internet VERY well. I also remember wired game controllers, because I had an N64, Nintendo GameCube, and a PS2 growing up. I also know what a typewriter is, because my Grandmother introduced me and my sister to one, and we know what rotary wheel phones were. My parents also had a phone book back in the 2000s. I remember it, it was a big yellow book with a mountain on the cover of it.
I still wish we had the roll down window plus the little extra window.
Honourary mention, MTV when it actually was a music channel
About the car window thing, though. There are still some pretty modern cars with them. Mostly fleet vehicles, though. The cars we used at my old job were newer than 2020 and still had manual windows
The hole in 45 rpm singels were big because some pick up's had a stacking function. The stacking rod was thick and had a pin that retracted when the stylus had gone back to the starting position. When the pin retracted, the next single was dropped on top of the just finished single and the stylus would automatically start playing the next single. You could stack up to 8 or 10 singles. It made your player in to a jukebox. That's why you need the adapter if you wanted to play only one single. Sometimes players had a puck like adapter placed in a dedicated hole in de players incasement. Thanks for this video.
I know some people still buy the Christmas edition of the tv guide (or Radio Times as it’s called in the UK). It used to be a big part of the run up to Christmas as a kid, getting excited looking through it and circling what you wanted to see.
Gen X-er here and I remember getting on a plane in less than 20 minutes. That's parking, getting inside, tickets, baggage checked, security check and being seated on the mofo plane . Also you could bring nail clippers, soda, regular size shampoos, and even let your 8 year old fly solo.
Not anymore thanks to 9/11.
Terabyte thumb drives, a tech way of expressing: "I may not stick out much, but I got girth." 😂
There are a few of these things that I remember from my early childhood. Casette-tapes, diskman, CD and DVD binders, wired controllers. I also remember my parents used to have a book of maps which they used to follow when we drove on vacation to south Europe. It was always a struggle finding the right place to go. These days, with a GPS, there are still challenges, but at least my parents don't argue with each other which way is the right one anymore. Some of these old things are definitely nostalgic to me.
An overhead projector is something kids should recognize. My early elementary school teachers used them for math lessons, and how they work fascinates me. With an overhead projector, “a focusing lens projects light from an illuminated slide onto a projection screen where a real image is formed.” That info comes from Wikipedia.
I think there are modern digital ones as well.
OHPs were dying out around 2004-2008ish (wouldn't class the slider thing they showed as OHPs really)
@@zachtwilightwindwaker596 indeed and artists are glad they are so portable and cheap and still can project at a good resolution.
I have a 2017 Versa and it was the only one on the lot that stood out to me. Manual roll up windows are still here. They are on economy cars.
Same and mines a 2014 one on the up side you can be a bit more precise on how much you want to crack open your window
My 2011 Hyundai Accent has them. I'm terrified about the thought of getting trapped under water in my car so it was a huge selling point for me.
Yeah, it's a typical WatchMojo video where they like to say things that just aren't true.
@quaxo1 in the next 10 years this video will become more relevant lyrics accurate.
When the battery gets disturbed nothing works!
I recognize most of these, especially the slide projector; My school used them regularly for classes. Good times. 🎉
Is it a digital one?
And the honoury mission of controlling the remote control every time to you hear the beep to change to the next slide
@@marcusfridh8489 Don't digital ones have that too?
I remember when I was young I dismantled my dads desktop trying to look for the famous silver ball that comes in the pinball game, on doing that, I discovered the cathode ray tube, and I also saw the floppy disks compartment in the CPU station, since it was his work pc. Let me say, though what I did was wrong, I can tell you it was fun to be in that era, and I would love to make some honourable mentions which @WatchMojo did not include in the list Windows7, WindowsXP, Windows98 the original Blackberry phones. Most kids today don't know what they looked like. As the famous musician Freddie Mercury in his song "Radio Gaga" said "You made them laugh, you made them cry, you made us feel, like we could fly." God Bless the old times
As a woman in her mid-thirties, I remember using/playing with/being around most of the things listed here. The records and players from my parents, grandparents, and aunts and uncles. The discman was more mine, and its anti-skip feature was a must to let the cd play. The rolodex and pager were necessities for my dad for work, then came the cell phone, then the flip phone, and always, always the memo pad and pen in his breast pocket. The portable classroom projector, floppy discs, computers that were only able to hold under 100megabytes of data with dialup internet only, that was the 90's/early 00's. I have fond memories of those days and am glad I got to live them.
Pushing the eject button when removing a floppy disk was so satisfying.
“Wouldn’t be surprised if they stop making wired game controllers.”, I guess I shouldn’t expect them to know Pro controllers will likely always have a wired options to reduce input lag during competition.
Why go wireless?
I prefer not to have to charge, not having the battery run out without warning, not having the connection crap out at random and obvious lag on many of them.
Bro, I don't think people realise that analogue is still a way to go for example in music industry for many instruments and headphones.
I remember those gosh darned I/O errors on floppy discs and losing so much schoolwork because of them!
This is probably gonna sound pretty weird, but I actually LIKE the sound of a dial-up modem connecting.
me too, it's a key sound of my late teenage years, looking back now I feel it actually focused my brain into "you're online for a short time only, not forever make the most of however long you have" type mode - since you knew it would disconnect itself repeatedly after a while
i lived through all these technologies... its fun to witness the creation of Discman, the MP3 player, from floppy disk to Zip disk then USB drive, and lived in the era of mono color PC, track ball mouse.... back then we rely on library to get information.... kids nowadays jut google.
I didn’t roll out until I found the perfect CD in that binder
I had a CD binder attached to the sun visor in my car. Always prepped for a day on the road! 😁
@@Scottie_S I was one of those kids that used to carry a CD player and a thing full of CDs on trips. You know what's funny about this , I still have those to this day. I'm talking about bands like the monkeys for example, kiss as well.
the very first night after i moved into my husband's house, my CD binder was stolen out of my car D: i had 20 years worth of CDs in that thing...
It's funny because I was helping my mother clean out the basement a few years ago and I found a box that had 3 cassette tapes (Whitney Houston, The Temptations and a BB King album), a Richard Pryor comedy record, a floppy disk, my old Bug Bunny Nintendo Gameboy cartridge and the controller to my old Nintendo 64. 😂😂😂 Talk about nostalgic.
20:39 he’s not really old enough to have a reason to not know what an encyclopedia is.
Mr. Rogers needs to be on that list no kid alive or even someone in there 20s knows who Mr. Rogers is.
…I’m in my 20s and watched Mr. Rogers as a kid…
*their not there
This is comical lol
I'm 29 and love Mr. Rogers
Man what? Everyone knows him where I live. Hell there's a monument to him.
I remember then vary well and I'm a 90's kid and I miss the old days and bring them back please and man I miss being a kid
What's interesting about computers today, they don't come with a floppy disk drive, yet computers still reserve the "A" drive designation for a physical drive that doesn't come standard with many computers and few people have little use for.
lol regarding the slide projector, I still remember in school we had overhead projectors and we had the notes (printed or otherwise) on the material similar to cels
sanitary belts are literal girdles
for pay phones, one telephone company had the ingenuity to slide a type of card (not sure if pre-paid) before calling
we had a telephone directory that was basically a lengthwise rolodex that doesn't roll over
the Yellow Pages logo was actually a motif in Mina's "Answer the Phone" MV
when we had cable, we had a monthly schedule mailed
Just a little history for the 45 rpm records. Originally the hole was smaller than 78's and 33's and were used within the record industry at radio stations. But they found the wear and tear on the hole was greater, especially when the radio DJs were spinning some of them 2 to 4 times an hour, for the newest hit songs. Then the fact you needed a specialized turntable to play them. So, when they started selling them to the public, they cut the hole bigger which cut down on the wear and tear of the hole and sold adapters, so that the general public didn't have to invest in another new proprietary turntable just to play them.
I'm 32 and have a church key on a magnetic hanger in my kitchen that I use almost every day for random stuff along with the occasional bottle opening. I didn't know they weren't common place 😅
do you use the spike end? Because that seems to be the only difference between that & a bottle opener... + Wine Bottle opener basic has that function too.
@@HarryWessex I use the spike end for various things but the bottle opener end is what we use the most. I wouldn't say it's a kitchen staple, but it's handy. I just thought most people had them in their houses, lol.
"Why did someone 3d print a save icon?" 🤣🤣🤣
As an 80s born kid who grew up in the 90s/00s I do remember a lot of this stuff growing up. I remember when we got internet I think it was in 1996-97 and it was like the most alien thing ever. Now it’s something I can’t ever imagine living without.
Just a special mention, but going into a bank to withdraw/deposit money. It’s still possible to do that, but with ATMs/online banking I doubt it’s something many people do now.
I always used to go with my mother to the bank whenever she needed to withdraw/deposit money.
Nowadays all you need is an app on your phone and it takes a few seconds.
Amazingly, according to a study, in Germany 70 % of businesses still use a fax machine. 😳
The satisfaction of using a cassette tape is so close to unbeatable!!
I was born in 1992. I recognize some of these things. I personally have never used a fax machine, a floppy disk, a typewriter, a CD-ROM or an iPod. The USB stick is also becoming obsolete. I watched movies on the VHS as a child and now I only use a smart TV to watch movies, by streaming. I have never sent a postcard. Video rental stores are gone now too. I can't believe that there were kids recognizing the VHS here. Even the iPod is no longer used, and the smartphone is about to be replaced by holograms. I don't use a landline phone anymore. The decade of the 2000s still had phone books, video rental stores, the VHS used until the middle of the decade and CDs. It's been so long since I last heard of a disk used in a computer, as I didn't hear about it in the past decade anymore. Technology has advanced so much in just two decades and it will advance even more in the future. Soon there won't be search engines anymore, unlike the 2000s decade, because of AI. And kids will soon ask how to drive a car, because of autonomous cars coming soon.
Landline phones: can’t be hacked but your cell phone can.
I prefer car windows with a handle because when the car is off you can still wind the window down
Well that’s a blast from the past. I grew up with most of these. And libraries mostly still use the Dewey Decimal System, only the card catalogs aren’t analog anymore, but digital.
The Snapchat short of the adult asking the kid what things were. Like maybe a landline was one??!! I love seeing what kids do when given the opportunity to use something we used as a kid!
13:13 I actually am legitimately surprised this made the list. Yes I know it's more common to have your video game controllers be wireless. Both the pro controllers I have for my switch are wireless and if I don't want to deal with putting batteries into those controllers I can still take my Joy-Con off the switch and use those, but I actually have a GameCube controller on my switch that I actually plug into the switch dock. When my switch is docked it's actually the controller I primarily used because it is plugged in so that I don't have to worry about the battery life of said controller. I am legitimately surprised that wired controllers would be on the list because I thought people still use them
The Record adaptor for45 singles was because Juke box used singles so they had big holes in the middle to fit the Jukebox and you could buy them so you needed to play them on your Record Player
8:38 Putting MapQuest in the same conversation as map apps like Apple Maps and Google Maps as something kids would know about is wild to me. I'm 20 and I remember using MapQuest maybe a couple of times when I was maybe six or seven, but yeah by that point, gps systems and then smart phones pushed MapQuest into irrelevancy just with paper maps, though MQ and a paper map aren't all that dissimilar to begin with.
As the years progress, you look back at media released decades prior and you can tell that they were 2000s or 90s media. The nice thing about not having mail order Netflix is I no longer have to deal with short or long weights when renting a movie. I enjoyed it while I could. I may recognize some pieces of technology while I don’t recognize others, like a Rolodex.
Hey, I never realized the origins of Netflix, and I'm a fine example of economy-killin' millennial who knows almost all the stuff mentioned here apart PDAs or pagers (they weren't popular here in Poland except among businesspeople who could afford them), church keys and rolodexes.
I have a Selectric typewriter, a Walkman and a Discman, and our old rotary phone we had when I was a kid. No landline though. Also, not mentioned here, a Commodore 64, a tabletop calculator (and a handheld with a vacuum fluorescent display too) and a slide rule.
I learned lots and lots of stuff as a kid by reading encyclopedias. I was quite a bookworm.
All too familiar with sine wave tones. I'm an electronics engineer after all - and I tinker a lot with vacuum tube tech, build amps and restore vintage equipment. I got to learn lots and lots of great '70s/'80s music through cassettes dubbed from CDs by my older brother (I still have his collection) - and he recorded my favorite Looney Tunes on VHS for me back when I was a kid in the '90s.
Makes me want to make a "Top 30 Things Modern Electrical Engineers Don't Recognize" video, LOL. Analog oscilloscopes and meters would probably be some of those things - along with grid dip oscillators, single-function lab meters, resistance decade boxes, vacuum tube testers, curve tracers, electromechanical components, CMOS/TTL chips and other quaint old things.
i remember those days! I remember playing records and most of stuff on this list.
19:42 my dad got told by the local library , when wanting to give away some old books, that they don't won't books anymore
I still remember a temp job in the 90’s - 4 hours of sending a few hundred pages via fax to Thailand- imagine a company today getting a temp just to send One Email 😂
Ah yes, I remember my dad telling my younger 8 year old brother to "turn the channel" on the TV. The confused look and the conversation there after sent me. Back in the day one had to physically turn the dial on the tv to change the channel, kids now will never know what it's like to be the actual remote for their parents.
And honestly technology doesn't even have to be that old for kids to not know how to use it. Just last week I was baby sitting one of my young neighbors, another 8 year old, I have her the remote and told her she can change the channel if she wants to what ever she liked. mind you I have a smart tv with all the bell and whistles but also have DirecTV. The girl says that "we don't have this tv at home, can you put something on for me?". So I go to put on the guide to search for something for her to watch. I name some of the shows and channels that were on and I asked "what do you like to watch?" he response was "I usually just watch something on Netflix or UA-cam". In the end there was a marathon of SpongeBob that she ended up watching the whole time.
TV guides are still in use by many people.
And while they are a little different, fireman have a pager (pager for EMS only). When it goes, it shows text telling the fireman what they have to do and with which priority.
I’m a 92 model, I can remember a former manager asking me if I knew what a CD player was. I was both insulted and flattered that she thought I was young enough not to know that
I've heard of a lot of these things especially the floppy disk and the dial up noise.
Clock radios, CD players in cars, disc drives in computers, etc.
The annoying thing with walkmans was when the battery attested to go flat. Listening to your favourite song street to slow down and realising you have no spares was the end of the world!
My siblings and I still joke about my dad always telling us "that's $1 everything's you take a photo" 😂
The only time i think of a Rolodex is when i am listening to Gabriel Inglesias back when he started to become famous as a standup comedian and tells the story of when he got pulled over and ended up playing the theme song to the show ‘Cops’ his friend at the time Filipe Esparza yells at the cop “hey officer! Thank god you got a computer! Last week we got pulled over in Mexico! That fool had a Rolodex!” 😂
3:55 , hey Watchmojo , what do you mean there is a payphone in a Sentai show
I get so happy every time there's a Mads Mikkelsen MatchMojo sighting
as soon as "phone books" came up, that scene from Helluva Boss where Stolas goes "Oh, your memory's so great, what's HIS phone number?" and motions towards Moxxie, Blitz glares at him and says "F*ck you". 😂Adam and Jamie ripping pages out was funny. no body makes phone books anymore, nor do people use them.
I remember a kid like 7 years old in the theater asking him mom in front of me what the thing was the guy in the movie was holding. it was a pager and the movie was Transformers Rise of the Beasts.
As much as I love our evolution I sometimes miss the good old easy days. Especially a time without social media
When I was a kid, my family had a reel-to-reel tape recorder. You had to thread the tape manually past all the rollers and hook it onto the takeup reel. Editing the tape was done with scissors and Scotch tape.
I doubt many kids today would know how to work all that.
Reading that reminded me of old school film projectors.
I remember wanting to watch a VHS tape when I was kid but when I went to watch it, I would have to rewind it to the beginning. Ohhhh how far we have come.
A lot of VCRs from the late '90s had high-speed rewind.
I actually have floppy drives for my Commodore 64 and 128. They are the 1541, 1571, and 1581. Back in the days before the Internet, I used a modem to call bulletin board systems (BBS) and download and upload software. There was even areas where you could post just about anything.
I still have a shoebox full of 3.5" floppies with backups I made back in the 90's and early 2000's. The only problem is that I haven't had a floppy drive for about fifteen years.
When recording a cassette, had to be quiet. And at normal speed, took a long time.
Boom boxes
Library - dewey decimal system outdated
Tv rabbit ears antenna + aluminum foil, tv stations go off the air at night
Phone party lines
Gas station full service, leaded gas
Hand crank field telephone
Compression start a manual transmission car with a dead battery
Car manual choke
When 5¼ floppy disks first came out, had a square notch on one side to record/program on it. Tape it over to make it semi permanent. Use a manual hole punch to make a notch on the other side to make it double sided.
Reel to reel movies (had to rewind after)
Manual time cards for work
Pay money for public bathroom stall
Travel disposable camera, Polaroid
The list goes on and on ...
It was quite windy after it rained as I came home from high school when I found an envelope in a puddle, not far from the local post office. While quite cold that day, I brought it home with me and my Dad saw their name through the envelope on the check inside and found their number in the phone book, that we still have today, to let them know we found and would mail their power bill for them. It hasn't even been a decade yet since then.
I had a record player that speeds 16, 33.5, 45 and 78.
yes, they made 16 rpm records mainly for use as audiobooks
Kids have it so good! A lot of this was a part of my childhood up to my teenage years. I didn’t have a real smart phone until I was 20 cause they just didn’t really exist. For the longest time, I had a neon green LG Rumor that had a sliding keyboard. Before that was the flip phone, and before that was the landline. My parents still had a Rotary Phone when I was growing up. It’s why I know how to use one.
My first computer was a 286. I think I got it in ‘88 or ‘89. My brother had an Amiga. We’d fight over the phone line because I’d pick it up and disconnect his modem.
I had a pager in ‘92, ‘93. Then I got my first cell phone from Powertel in ‘93, I think. I then got a Motorola flip phone. I had substitute power source for the car - remove the battery and slide this thing on in its place. Plugged into the cigarette lighter.
I got my first phone with internet access in 2003. It was so hard to use, because you still had to type letters using the number pad. But at the time, it was super neat! Lol
I remember getting a digital copy of the yellow pages on cd for my computer. I thought it was so cool! Lol
the churchkey item is what i use to open jars. like jam or pickles. I had no idea people used to for soda and since i dont drink glass bottles were never a thing. the name of the tool is odd but it is still a very useful item to have.
The church key is still around. I use it to open cans or bottles.
I may not have lived with some of the things on this list- however I’m aware and knowledgeable on all of them, I find it so strange that kids these days have 0 knowledge on a lot of stuff that existed even when they were young. Like I had a conversation with my coworker who was only 16 that didn’t know cell phones weren’t always around and are a relatively new thing. Literally had no idea and I’m only 10 years older like what it’s so wild to me
In their infancy they were called brick phones because they were that big and heavy.
Even though I'm from 1971, I feel very old right now because I know all the things in this video, so thanks for that, WatchMojo. 😂😂
I'd add the likes of the Speccy & C64 loading games from a tape as something that would melt their little minds "You have to wait how long to play?" "Why does it make that noise?"
My dad told me of going out to the kitchen or living room to enjoy a cup of tea or coffee in the time it took to load a C64 Datassette.
I used to use road maps, and generally had the sense of a pigeon for which way was north.
Modern smartphone maps still have major issues, I know of one instance in the US where
someone I know was instructed to turn right off the side of a bridge, thankfully they ignored it.
"Now that we have the internet I'd rather be on my computer than doing ANYTHING else!"
Oh, the regret...😂
I do often wonder what happened to all those encyclopedia Britannicas
I know people who use them to prop up broken furniture, eg a chair missing a broken leg or something, you stack a few to the same height and glue them together
@@jasonmetcalfe4695 😅 I suppose that's better than throwing them out.
@@matthewwolfson7204 they're heavy and solid, better to find alternate uses for them - you can't donate sets of encyclopedias to charitable book sales unless they're specialty topic type ones so what else can you do with them really
With LPs, cassettes, CDs and miniDiscs I listened to them from beginning to end. Now I can't listen to even one song without switching to the next one...and sometimes just skipping through the titles without even listening to one for one second.
I still cant believe i actually used floppy disks in computer-class back in middle school! I remember working on some word-file, and saving it onto one of those small floppies.
I have a 2008 Chevy Cobalt with crank windows and manual door locks. I have to say it's really easy to roll the window down exactly how I want it.