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The one thing younger generations will never experience is the satisfaction of slamming the receiver into the cradle of one of those old-timey phones. And they'd HEAR (and feel) it too!
😂😂😂 So true, done that alot!
lol!!! the angry phone beep! lol.
Or doing telephone jokes.
"Hello. This is the department of water and power. We've been having problems in your neighborhood and we're just checking to see if your refrigerator is running."
"Yes, it's running fine."
"Well, you'd better hurry up and catch it or it'll get away. Bwahaha."
"You kids are idiots."
"Oh. Sorry ma'am... ... Aaaahahaha."
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@@LA_HA There were a lot of those! Calling a store and asking if they have Prince Albert in a can. (it's pipe tobacco for those who don't know.)
Store: Yes
Kid: Well, you better let him out before he suffocates. bwa-ha-ha-ha
@@Raggmopp-xl7yf Hahaha.
I've heard of that. I know it annoyed adults, but when it comes to just the silliness of it, it's pretty funny
Paper maps will prove life saving to those who know how to navigate using a map and compass if the grid goes down.
I learned to read a map and atlas long ago. I use the maps on our work phone the same way I zoom in and search myself because no matter which one we use it's wrong
I have a degree in cartography... I'm probably good. :)
Or your phone dies/loses bars. I'm 56 and have only had a cell for a couple months. I trust maps more than computers that can get the wrong Elm Street or show me a smaller picture of the area I want to look at.
Learned long ago in the Scouts. When I'm hiking I always have a compass and terrain map on me.
I live in mountains, we still have maps. Cell service is lost in these mountains.
too many modern devices shown here
agreed, I was born 98 and I was aware of them all and first hand experience in pretty much all of them expet few things, like Pager, PDA and netflix (that dvd service I am sure did not exsits in Finland or had no marketing at least in our rual area)
Remember microfiche (microfish?) at the library, sheets of "blue negatives" which you viewed on a big screen with a hood to block out the lights so you could zoom in and search for a newspaper article etc
They still exist in libraries historical sites especially copies of newspapers.
About 20 years ago, they stopped including Floppy drives on computers. I've got couple of dozen old 3.5 inch Floppy's.
In the U.S. that "key" would be found in the "Legend."
We didn't call them keys in Nova Scotia Canada but just a can of milk opener or bottle top opener
It's interesting to me that many English names are derived from brands..
Rolodex - for business card organizer
Philips head screwdriver - for x-headed screw driver
Tupperware - for plastic containers
Didn't care for encyclopedias. Every set just had that old smell.
They smelled like feet, or cheesey body odor.
We didnt have a computer in our schools able to do any type of "real" work until like 2004, before then I never once seen a kid or a teacher ever use an encyclopedia.
My uncle used to work at Philips in Eindhoven NL, at a testing department. He had at home one of the first dvd players, for games.
I thought it was called a DCC player, a early variant of the Playstation. It failed. But that was my first time seeing CD disc's for games.
She is wrong about what you are called if you still have a pager. If you have a pager now they just call you "Doctor" since a lot of hospitals still use them.
Started using netflix back in 2001. Those were such awesome days. Aside from 2 years in Japan i used the dvd service until they finally shut down for good last year. Still have my last 3 envelopes unopened on my tv stand. They are basically decorative now lol. Stayed with the service because there were a lot of movies and tv shows from the 80s and 90s that aren't available on stream or that arent paid rental streaming. A lot never went from dvd to stream because music copyright. Like Northern Exposure didnt make it to streaming until a few months back because all the different songs they used on the show. Believe they still had to replace some of the songs.
They should have showed an 8 Track cassette. The first time you could play your own music in a car. And if you were lucky, your favorite song would be divided by tracks.
That PDA thing looks like my current phone. It has a qwerty keyboard but mine is slightly bigger because it has extra buttons on it.
Oh I hated having to look up what was on tv in a guide
did you know....to bypass rotary phone dial locks you could dial a number by rapidly tapping the handset rests (once for a 1 to 10 for a 0, and pause a half second between each number). I remember fax machines first being launched and thought they were really clever lol (PS still have an unused box of 5 1/4 inch floppies in the attic with my BBC model B computer....)
16:17 did the office books forget that they're supposed to be talking and reminiscing about these things and asking Jenny if he knows what they are? I mean we didn't talk at all during the card catalog didn't even mention the Dewey decimal system and now silence for the CD and DVD, binders... hello are you guys there?
Too much "new" stuff in this video.
And even as an older millennial I never heard of a church key.
My Brother-in-law and his Brother-in-law started Ritz Videos, in Walworth Rd, that changed to Block Busters!
Thos delivery driver, what car did he have that he opened the "TRUNK"?
born in 86, still remember the coal man arriving but we were lucky you leave back gate open he bring it through the alleyway and straight in to coal bunker, way to school you smelt the coal fires but never minded that. my uncle still has a coal fire just down the road from my mums and far more effective and cheaper than electric heating he swears he never get rid of his coal fire and i agree. who ever he passes the house on to i hope they never get rid coal fire too. even when you run out money you never freeze to death as you always find something to burn. back in the day i remember when local steam railways upgrading the tracks to concrete sleepers, once a year me my brother and mum and uncle would spend a few days chopping and loading up old rail sleepers and they were great, soaked in years of oil they burned well and for ages. one a year half the garden would be a big tall pile of old railway sleepers and that do for the year. never forget days with no double glazing , one my fish tank frozen on the top water and quite a few times break the ice to use the toilet , double glazing windows came way before the coal fire went, only last 15 year prob less than that prob closer to 10 years or less central heating and gas line in to the house. so do not have to go far back to see coal fires and with me go visit my uncle , and when go photograph the old steam railway when i visit my mums the coal smell brings back good memory's. do love old coal fire, i hope one day i get a house with one and if so id never get rid of it , you cannot beat a real fire
Rolodex was th we brand and it was usually just in offices. At home you just had a little phone book (black book) you wrote names, number and addresses in.
Rolodexes were everywhere. We had a rolodex by the phone at home. I don't know when they first got it, but it was still there when I moved out in the mid 90s.
7:10 Max is so over it. Cringe laughing that dies right away. 😂
The digital maps are the same as the paper maps, just with more features, and less folding.
Yap many 3rd and 2nd world countries and the American backwoods. Still don't have access to any but dial-up.
I fix tvs all day. I no longer need an expensive test pattern generator or to wait for night time. I can pull up 100 test patterns on UA-cam
31:15 In USA, there are still vast swaths of rural areas where broadband internet is only available via satellite-based providers, and often these are too expensive (or latency-ridden) to be of much practical use. In these areas, it isn't uncommon for dialup access to be the only means of getting online. Now that 4G- and 5G-based broadband is becoming more and more common, though, dialup is being steadily replaced. But in places where there is spotty or no wireless reception, dialup is still the only viable option. And it will probably remain this way for some years to come, as there are such vast areas of nearly uninhabited land, especially in the western half of the continental US (as well as most of Alaska) that installing wireless tower networks across these areas is extremely cost-prohibitive for provider companies. It would cost them many millions of dollars to provide comprehensive coverage in most of these areas and there simply are so few potential customers that it would take the companies decades or more to recoup even the initial installation costs, let alone ongoing system maintenance over such a period of time.
Ok. I was born and raised in the US and I have never heard of a bottle opener being called a "church key". I am also a Gen X.
I just got Fiber internet this spring 😮😊🎉🎉🎉. Up until then it was either dial-up or 10GB of Satellite internet/month. 😢😵💫😱😖😣
Cheers Max !😊😊😊
I only wish fax machines were history. The medical industry refuses to let them go.
14:28 audio cassette tapes did not need to be around you could just turn them over and play the other side.
And 8-tracks never needed to be ruined because they were just a continuous loop. Video cassette tapes and data cassette tapes, had to be rewound.
The pattern test still exists and is used. Only now it doesn't have that annoying sound.
It was fun installing a game by switching through 30 installation disks.
3 is better than 2 😂😂
07:53 no CD-s time ..was cassetes rental
This channel needs to grow bigger, even tho I do miss Dave
8 track's, CB's Walkie-talkie ? 🤔🤷🏼😉
This list kind of sucks. Thay should have used older items.
Yeah. Like a finial. Or a darner. Or a stoker. Things that nobody ever sees anymore.
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As an 80s female teen, there was nothing more flattering than getting a cassette with all of your favorite songs from your boyfriend.
We spent so much time trying to record songs from the radio, but the DJ always talked through the intro of the song!
As a black teen with an exaggerated swagger I agree
Yeah, I think they did that on purpose! I remember there were certain times (like late at night) where you could get a bunch of songs without the DJ yapping through them. But yes - the struggle was real! lol
A mix tape…aww! That was the best to get from your boyfriend. Couldn’t wait to hear what songs they put on it! Memories.
I graduated in 1983...long live Heavy Metal
Back in the 80s and early 90s, I used to have a double cassette player/recorder where I borrow album tapes from my friends and copied the songs I wanted.
Gen-Z: "What's that?"
Gen-X: "That's a Walkman?"
Gen-Z: "What does it do?"
Gen-X: "It plays cassette tapes."
Gen-Z: "What's a cassette tape?"
Gen-X: "It was the thing before CDs."
Gen-Z: "What's a CD?"
Gen-X: "They were an older version of MP3 players."
Gen-Z: "What's an MP3 player?"
ok ok ok I have to defend younger Gen Z's here, you see my friend, Iwas born 98, which makes me GenZ and I carantee upto people born in 2004 I garantee they know of those, Gen apha in other hand...... yeah there really is no hope.
What about mini discs ?
How bout Laser Disk? Or even earlier, the 8-Track?
Remember when there were only a few channels and they went off the air at midnight?!! If you fell asleep in front of the TV, you'd wake up to the test pattern!!
And they actually played the National Anthem. 3:15
@@CheleBoxy the test pattern didn't last very long where i lived, maybe 30 minutes before it turned into static, see the movie Poltergeist.
The real question on gas station maps - Can you fold it back to way it was.
YES! This! Even if you fold it back correctly it never lays as flat as when brand new.
It’s a lost skill. 😂
I still can
😂🙋🏻♀️part of the fun/challenge!
@@Dusk1962 yeh... I can as well..
you just have to be careful to do it right every time.
if you F it up even once... it's gone
The "Key" on a map is called the"Legend".
That's odd because I thought the leg-end is called a foot.
I'm old enough to have used records, 8-tracks, cassettes and cds.
Hole punchers
Carbon paper
Microfiche (they covered card catalog, but not this)
Calling home collect (and when prompted to "state your name" you'd just say "Pick me up at school")
Slide rulers
I have a mini desktop multiple music unit, it has a CD player, cassette player and an AM/FM radio.
@@marydavis5234 My parents (late 80s now) didn't get rid of their Zenith 25" full console/bureau television until 2009 when television stations stopped broadcasting over the airwaves. They'd purchased it in the early 1970s.
Electronics are not designed to last that long these days, that's for sure.
I guess I’m old at 18 lol
I had picked up a reel to reel tape machine that had vacuum tubes in it at a garage sale. WIsh I still had it, might belong in a museum. It weighed like 40 pounds.
I remember my mother keeping a pencil next to the rotary phone so she could use it to dial the number without breaking a fingernail.
I kinda miss that skshh-shk-sck-sck sound if the dial unwinding.
I remember party lines. 😅
In United States we just called church keys a bottle opener. Never heard it called a church key. They still sell them.
Same here.
I’ve heard bottle opener called “church key” as far back as I can remember… I always thought it was like ironic symbolism, as in “I’m gonna drink = I’m gonna pray”
yea we just call it a bottle opener never heard of church key
Interesting. I'm a 61-year-old American who grew up in southern California, and bottle openers were also called church keys where I lived. I wonder if it's a regional (or family) thing?
It must be a regional thing. I have used this device a lot in my life, but I only ever heard it called a bottle opener.
30:27 You know you’re from the 90s if you remember the dial up Internet connection sound😂 boo weeeoo shhhhh wahh wahh doooo bomp bomp chhhhhhh
I remember that god awful screeching 😂
Great transcribing there mate :) '88 here.
And don´t forget the sounds from ICQ, when you logged in (the horn sound from a big ship) or got a message (oh-ooooh) 😆
@Frostnase I know right?! Chat rooms a/s/l 😂😂❤
I had an argument the other day at work with a Gen z coworker. He refused to believe me when I told him that the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. He kept insisting that it ended around 2000. Fool, I was there for it lol.
well it depends on perspective if one wants to connect Balcans wars to cold war, then again I dont think many of us Gen Z's know of whole conflict as Kosovo war ended year after my birth and I know about it only because I am A. European and B. intrested in military history.
The Berlin Wall coming down. Remember that xxxx
@@cheriesmith4087 I was there both for the fall and the Pink Floyd concert :) (Dutch Xenial)
FAX is still used in the US quite a lot in my experience. Especially in the medical field.
Why they handling the Rolodex like it's an ancient artifact? 😂
The best "side effect" of looking up things in a phone book or encyclopedia : one got well trained in using the alpabeth as well as spelling! 😂
Test pattern was just your station going off air for the night.
Preceded by the playing of the national anthem (at least in the US.)
At midnight, and you had to physically get up and turn the tv off, because the remote wasn't invented yet.
Before the Test Pattern, we had zero. Just 'snow' and a hiss for Audio. 😂😂
@@markh.7650And in UK. The test pattern was so called because engineers used the pattern to help them fix the telly if it was on the blink - the lines and colours had to line up properly and be the correct colour and brightness.
There was an announcement on TV every night that would say, "It's 10 o'clock. Do you know where your children are?"
My husband realizing that the young'ins think the 90s is so long ago was funny.
well... person born 98 is closer to 50 than than their birth.... have fun with that.
I agree..
To be fair, it has been about thirty years 😆
because it was a long time ago. its been quarter of a century. Sure in my mind 2009 ended like last week, corona started and ended over this weekend. No. 2009 was 15 years ago. in merica those people soon will drive cars. corona started 2019, thats 5 years ago. Soon kids will go to school who have only heard of corona virus.
At least hundreds of thousands of Americans in _rural_ locations still use dial-up internet because it's all that is available to them. A broadband internet company isn't going to spend millions to bring high speed internet fiber to a couple dozen people in some secluded corner of America. If they _really_ need higher speed access, they pay for satellite internet access.
DSL runs through the same copper wiring as your telephone landline. However, DSL is not to be confused with dial-up. DSL service is “always on” and lets you surf the web while using your landline phone, while dial-up requires you to not use the phone line while using your modem.
My mothers farm is a bit out in the sticks (6.5 kilometers or 4 US miles) from the nearest fiber connection, while she got DSL quite early, 800Kb/160Kb is a horrendous speed for an early FB addict.
@@torgrimhanssen5100 but you can’t get DSL if you’re too far from the DSLAM. Every network technology’s bandwidth degrades with distance and I believe DSL’s limit was around 5miles.
@@torgrimhanssen5100 Many rural areas don't even have working landlines phone lines anymore. They were abandoned a decade ago. We had no dsl. We only had satellite internet up until 3 months ago, when we finally got fiber internet in my area. And satellite internet is extremely expensive with low usage limits, and doesn't work when it's cloudy or raining.
Yes, our rural county (and considered a poverty county) got a grant for fiber optic cable to be used in all of the county. Most of it was complete before Covid. So it's still slowly phasing out dial up.
I’m a GenX American (56yo) and had no idea it was called a church key. We’ve always just called them a bottle opener.
Because the one they showed wasn't one. The one that was called that looks very different. A smaller version of what was called a church key is sometimes still on canned corned beef.
I saw a video today where a kid was given a cassette tape and a Walkman, with the cassette in the case still. The kid tried to shove the entire case into the Walkman. The. entire. case.
Still got my walkman
My first Walkman was a cassette walkman
I saw a video where the kid didn't know how to open the case.
Mike naming pornos is something I thought I would never hear lol 😂
It was just a guess Joshua 😂😂
Library cards aka the Dewey decimal system. It was easy.
What, do libraries not use the dewey decimal system anymore?? How do they know what section different subjects go in??
1) Dialing home from a rotary phone when I was a kid in the '70s took a while because my number had 2 sevens and 3 nines.
2) Here in the U.S., there still might be some doctors' and government offices which use fax machines.
3) The original video didn't mention that when you needed to download a large (for the time) software file, you started it before going to bed and hoped it was done by morning.
4) I thought of one device from the days before cable TV. I remember getting yelled at by my father and grandfather because I loved playing with the "rotator control box" for the large aerial TV antenna on the roof. If you had a motor for turning the antenna, this box inside the house controlled the motor. When trying to tune a far-away station, it might be necessary to point the antenna in its direction. For those whose antennae lacked a motor, they had to climb up on the roof to turn it. Many people were injured or worse by falls or lightning strikes.
Many smaller doctors offices still use fax machines…
My number had a 7, 9 and two zeros.
i dont know anyone who actually bought a real TV Guide, everyone just bought a local Sunday newspaper which had a weekly tv guide
Depends on the country I guess. Here in The Netherlands everyone was subscribed to a public Broadcasting companies TV guide. Being a subscriber to a certain company showed your support to them and the way you leaned politically.
For instance Katholics would be subsribed to the KRO while socialists and labor union supporters would subscribe to the VARA
My mom (77) is still subscribed to one and uses it to check what she wants to watch...
😅
we used to get one at Christmas
Here in US we had tv guide subscriptions.
@@Dusk1962 Same with Canada. We used to get one through the mail, I believe once a month.
I taught myself to read in the 70s by looking through my aunt's TV Guide. I was about 4 years old.
We had stone knives , bear skins and DOS 2.1
What's more fun than reading a map is seeing if somebody can refold the map.
Nothing better than reading a map that was folded up to be a paper fan.
I have never been able to refold it.
Nightmare on Elm Street 5 shows the reality of watching someone try to fold a map correctly lol 😂
I still can refold them correctly
@@Dusk1962 When the internet infrastructure crashes after a minor apocalyptic event, you will need to be designated Secretary of Maps. Because you, are the chosen one with the given skill set to refold.
I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s and I have never called that bottle opener a "church key" Always called it a bottle opener. One thing is funny to see a young person try to make a telephone call on a rotary telephone with the dial on it and they always JUMP when they hear the phone ring with the ringer being an actual CLANGING BELL! LOL
Have they never watched a movie before?
It was a common nickname in my part of Canada.
Working at a liquor store in New England, I heard guys born prior to WW2 and maybe some older Baby Boomers say "church key."
@@JPMadden Interesting..
I grew up in the 80s and 90s and heard it called that in Oklahoma and Texas
Librarian here in the US. We use our fax machine almost daily. Patrons are always coming in to fax things to either State offices or doctors offices multiple times a day.
That's the one thing I miss the most when I finally got rid of my landline. The only thing I used it for was faxes. I live in a part of the country that actually still has people who write checks for purchases. Faxes are really important here.
Lots of places have a fax number. Just look at their info page and there's usually a fax number on it
@@Raggmopp-xl7yf Best kind of comments - adding your own experiences that bring different perspectives with real substance. Good ones, Raggmopp and Mary!
My siblings and I grew up in 1980s Yamhill County. I remember that we and our neighbors shared a single phone line. It never seemed like a problem, we'd just wait five minutes and see if the line was free. We should have all invested in fax machines!
@@joelirish Wow! You had a party line! I didn't think those lasted into the 80s. This is fascinating to me! The only time I knew of a party line was my mom explaining it to me b/c of an I Love Lucy episode (from the 50s). And she knew about them but never had one either. We grew up in California and I guess they were never a thing there.
Fax machines are used ENDLESSLY in the medical field, real-estate, renting an apartment, applying for jobs, and countless other things.
Walkman with cassettes were awesome. Then they got replaced by CDs.
The original "Floppy Diskette" was 8" in size. The 5.25" diskette was formally a "Mini Floppy Diskette", and the 3.5" diskette was a "Micro Floppy Diskette". 8" disks stopped being used on home computers (largely) at the end of the 1970s. You'd start seeing 5.25" disks being used on the big three computer manufacturers Apple/Radio Shack/Commodore. You would still see 8" disks used on the RS TRS models II (I think)/12/16. From the Commodore PET through all the 8-bit line you saw 5.25" disks (well, at the end they had a 3.5" disk). Apple computers until the Mac computers. Atari computers until the ST line. The TI line of computers until the company stopped making computers used 5.25" floppies. RS TRS-80 CoCo computers used 5.25" disks. Early PCs used 5.25" disks, however as the 90s rolled around and machines started having 386 processors or greater, most machines switched to 3.5" floppies. Although machines were getting CD burners in the 90s, people needed less permanent storage for normal activities. When I mention it to my students - the capacity of one floppy maxing out (normally) at 1.44Mb - I also point out that one MP3 wouldn't fit on a floppy. In fact, you'd be hard pressed to get your average selfie to fit on a floppy. Today's floppy is usually a USB thumb drive on a laptop/desktop computer, or an SD card on a phone. Cloud space is HDD/SDD/NvME storage - on someone else's computer. If it fails and there are no backups - you lose your stuff.
Most people are quite technologically illiterate. They just don't know how anything works and this has always been the case. It also will always be the case in the future.
I had to giggle when a younger coworker asked me to help her a few years ago. We had to go into the storage building, where she asked me to show her how to use the "typewriter" (electric) to make an amendment to a document that was not accessible digitally for editing. I was laughing too much😆😆 She had no clue 🤣
Had cameras that used 35mm and that 110 film as well as the Polaroid. Anyone remember the cameras that had flash cubes you had to replace?
Polaroid's "Zip" was maybe the most popular one with cubes. There were traditional cubes and Magic cubes that were mechanicly fired. For a short time Flip Flash was around but I never used them. Before that we used individual bulbs. There was at least two popular base sizes and a number of different powers.
As someone born in 1950 most of these were things my kids used. My generation had vinyl records, my Dad had records made of shellac. Audio cassettes were new technology that came out when I was an adult.
Dial up internet was annoying to a parent trying to phone home and repeatedly getting a busy signal because your teenagers were tying up the phone line by being on the internet.
Cassette cameras appeared when I was a teenager, before that they all used film on reels.
Paper maps can be an essential even today. If you’re caught somewhere unfamiliar and there is no phone signal then Google maps isn’t going to help you. I wouldn’t travel anywhere the least bit remote without a paper map as backup.
I use a stand alone GPS over my phone and just make sure its updated. But this does remind me I should probably update my North America road atlas in the near future, as I do still keep the physical one as a backup to even the stand alone GPS.
Phone books? How about the entire public phone itself. Gone! It's rare to even see one here in Texas anymore.
I blame the people, after like 2005 I never seen one not half ripped off the wall or with the.. phone missing. We cant have nice things for a reason.
I saw a mail box in parking lot the other day and had to look twice couldn't believe it.
My grandmother before she passed away years ago would marvel at how far civilization has come since she was a baby in the 1920s. The last 100 to 120 years have been supercharged in advancements.
I often think about my grandfather's time to mine. Or even my great great aunt, who I knew for a handful of years before she passed. He was born in 1914 and my great great aunt was born in 1892. I find it astonishing to think that I knew someone who was alive shortly after the civil war. I'm astonished when I think that my grandfather was born in a time when people didn't really have phones, televisions weren't a thing, refrigerators were a fancy cupboard that you stuck a huge block of ice in (that a guy delivered to you, that they cut out of a lake). Before people had cars. Before people were flying. Before rockets. Before the transistor. Long before penicillin. By the time my grandfather passed, he had witnessed man being able to fly, television, movies, telephones, cell phones, rockets, fighter jets, aircraft carriers, nuclear subs, space ships, moon landings, voyagers reaching far out into our solar system, and man peering into the edges of the universe. I wish he had lived only a few years longer, because as an engineer, chemist, and mathematician, it would have been incredible for him to have seen the ipad, self-landing re-usable rockets, private space flight, Elon musk's SpaceX, self-driving cars, AI, how far we can now see to nearly the edge of the universe, brain implants, drones, etc.
I can't even imagine what will come by the end of my life time. And to think that I'll have touched (in a way) as far back as 1892 through someone I personally knew all the way to the mid or (hopefully) late 2000's. All of that advancement in such a short period of time. It's a shame our lives are so damn brief. Imagine how amazing it would have been to see the world change from, say, 1850 to 2100. Or to see 1980 through the beginning of the 2200s.
Sometimes I think it would be awesome if you could be cryogenically frozen and them brought back, repeatedly. Imagine if you could just come back for like one week every century. You'd get to see the world evolve, to some respect, over half a million years. You'd go to sleep seeing man take first steps to fly and wake up again to see man reaching mars.
My grandfather (1913-2007) remembered hitching posts from when he was a kid and lived long enough to ask me what the Internet is, although he never used it. His mother (1888-1972), born 15 years before the first airplane flight, was convinced the moon landing was filmed in Hollywood (at least she had a good excuse).
Never got into mail order videos when there was a blockbuster down the street with vhs then dvds.
we did not have DVD delivery service in our country, had to go to corner shop to rent a VHS or DVD, not that I did as I was born 98, so by time I got car or even motor bike (you were able to get license to 50cc bikes at age of 15) I had alredy discovered online pirating and pirate streaming.
Dial up was so annoying listening to. It was like nails on chalkboard. Most younger generations don't know what chalkboards are either.
I had my modem set to quiet dial in for that reason. Using Hayes commands you could turn that noise of
First AT M0 to shut it up
Then AT &W to save that setting so it would be active on power up.
lol I’m 36 and I remember sitting on the phone book to be taller to the dinner table and also in the car. When I was a kid, I used to sit between my grandparents in the car on a phone book so I could be tall enough to buckle. My grandparents still have a rotary phone in their summer cabin. We all learned how to dial it, my kids just think of them as decor. 😂 I had both a cassette Walkman and the CD version. We had a Polaroid camera as well, and now those are coming back. (My daughter got one for Christmas and loves it)
Lots of photos of me as a child were taken with a Polaroid camera
I have never heard the term "church keys" for a bottle/can opener. Those openers were very common when I was growing up and pretty much everybody had one or more in their junk drawers. As kids we used those can opener ends for the large cans of Hi-C. You had to remember to punch a big hole on one end and a smaller hole on the exact opposite side to balance out the pouring so it didn't spill all over the place.
You probably remember Motor oil that came in metal cans and the push in "spout" you had if you were a "pro". Saved you from needing a funnel.
Good lad, Max. The Old Blokes come from the workhouses, before becoming coal johnnies, drinking a bowl of cold poison for their tea down t'pit and sleeping in a matchbox with their eleven brothers in the middle of the road. And look how they turned out.
This sounds straight out of the "The Four Yorkshiremen" sketch. "We used to get up in morning, at ha' past ten at night, half an hour before we'd gone t'bed."
"Back in the day" test patterns started in black and white.
It is very easy to get the film off of those Cam tapes
There are many devices you can use to capture the video, heck you might already have one that you use for UA-cam.
You need a type of Video Conversion device, this can even be a capture card something you might be using for UA-cam already. If you need to buy one they cost any where from $10 to $120. On the lowend you have RCA to Digital Converter they are simple USB stick devices, then the mid to high-end ones are called Video Conversion or VHS to DVD Conversions, as long as it turns video from analog to digital it will likely work.
Next is find out if you need a 8MM or VCR to capture the video.
Check the Cam for AVout...video out ports, likely it will have the old yellow, white, and red ports. If it does there's a chance you can plug a RCA cable into the Cam and then into the Video Conversion device which then plugs into your PC. If not you might be able to find a Video conversion device with the correct input, or a cable that will convert to the correct input,
If the Cam doesn't have video output then you will need the correct player.
If you are lucky and the tapes are VHS-C all you need is a VCR player and a vhs-c adapter for the tapes, which can be bought online for cheap.
If the tapes are not VHS-C then you will need the correct 8MM player to play the tapes.
My grandmothers old camcorder she got in the late 80s or early 90s was VHS-C. I bought a converter called VIDBOX from BestBuy and converter all of her tapes.
It does take a while to do it, because it has to play the whole tape to record it, this is why places might charge a lot to do it. If you have 20 hours of film to convert its going to take 20+ hours to do so. You can press play and walk away tho.
The CD Storage Binder for sure. When I was a kid, everyone knew somebody who had an older brother who accidentally left their CD collection in their car overnight and lost the equivalent of $200 worth of CDs over it. Now if your cellphone or tablet gets stolen you can change all your passwords, dekey it, or brick it remotely.
You should keep him as a 3rd.
I feel the original charm of the channel was having 3 different generations. He seems cool as well.
Thank you!
I'm a GenXer in the USA and never heard of "church keys." We always called them bottle openers. Perhaps it's regional? I also remember pull-tabs on soda cans, as opposed to the lift tabs used today. Back then, the opening edges were sharp, and you could cut your tongue on it if careless.
Working at a liquor store in New England, I heard guys born prior to WW2 and maybe some older Baby Boomers say "church key."
I believe regional, never heard the term until I moved to south Louisiana in the mid 70s.
Grew up in NC and PA and heard the term all my life.
I'm with the staff oldies here though - the video only went a short way back on one or two items. They didn't show punch cards, they didn't show much of anything from the 40's or 50's that no longer exists. Anything that existed in the mid-70s on were gonna be likely known because their parent had used them. Anything from the 90s would likely have actually been seen/used by Gen Z because some Gen X user didn't want to replace working things until they had to.
God, I'm old. Video games didn't exist when I was a kid, and our tape machines were are Reel to Reel.
The cable guide channel was around since the late 70's. I remember when TV Guide started adding cable TV channels, they had held off because they didn't consider it real TV.
They just announced a new area code for my state. It used to be 601 for Mississippi, then 662 for the northern half, now they're going to give people "452" for new numbers next year. When I was a kid, all you needed to dial was the last four digits of the person you wanted to call. A friend of mine lived in a very small town, when he was a kid, you just had to know the last two digits of the person you wanted to call in town. Then it went to the last 5 digits and now you have to include the area code to call anyone. The local automatic phone exchange was in a building about 12x20 feet. Before they had rotary phones, you had to have operators manually plug in the circuits to connect callers.
Yes, my high school years the town we were in only had to dial the last 4. And our house was also on a party line wo you had to be careful of what you said.
I had one of the last Sony Walkman players. It could automatically switch sides and it could do random play, but it had to fast forward or rewind for a few seconds to find the next song. Of course, repeating the same song 5 times was considered "random".
Bottle openers are called church keys because beer brewing was at one time done almost exclusively by monks. Monks live in churches. Ergo: church keys.
I much prefer "dealing with" wired controllers over the hassle of batteries that always seem to need recharged or replaced. Added bonus: wired controllers don't have the extra weight of batteries.
Netflix shuttered its DVD rental business last Sept.
I'm shocked it was even still around. I would have assumed they stopped that aspect of their business like 8 years ago.
I remember when road trips required you to read maps. Now GPS tells you where to go.
I always take a map on road-trips, in case the GPS stops working
Many of the rest stops in all of the states here have signs telling people to take one of their free maps because you wont always have cell service even teens have maps in their vehicles. You never know when Google is going to send you on a road that hasn't been there for decades, or is a road made by ATVs.
@@marydavis5234 or sends you in the wrong direction all together as happens
And I tell the GPS where to go.
Thank god as I’m neurodivergent and it makes navigation so much easier
The church key name is new to me as an American. Bottle opener is the term I always use.
After leaving the Army I applied for a civilian job in 2013.
One of the things my boss asked during the interview was to have me show him I could use an electric typewriter 😂.
They used it in making their owners manuals and obviously many ppl were at a loss.
But I am solid Gen X and even had one of those bad boys when I was in middle school ❤.
Needless to say, I got the job
😊
Have the kid address an envelope.
Today everyone walks around talking to themselves like schizophrenics.
Punch cards?
I have worked for two university libraries, in the acquisitions department. My job was to enter a new book into our records, make a catalogue card for it, and place the card in the correct, alphabetical order in the card catalogue. This was in the mid 60s and early 70s. I still miss the card catalogue, even though the computer system is easier to use. Libraries just don’t smell the same, without all those old cards filed in small trays.
Tv Guides died when weekend papers were allowed to publish their own and Radio Times/TV Times were allowed to show all channels rather thsn only BBC and ITV/CH4/CH5 respectively 🎩
Huh. I remember them dying when cable came along and the guide on the tv itself.
I am old enough to have to carry change for a pay phone in case of an emergency.
Portable record player and 45 rpm records.
My first apple computer had a grand total of 8 kilobytes. So much memory.😂
We still have phone books laying around. Companies that paid more got the bigger listing.
i would say in 2013 in the Appalachians where i live in the USA there were some people still on dial up i would say there would be almost no one in 2024 still doing it though. we were behind on tech here i used floppy discs until i graduated at my school
I still get ads for NetZero in the mail, Frontier no longer does DLS so they offloaded their business. The cable lines end maybe half a mile up the road from my house, so the people that live another 5 to 7 miles from there have to use phone lines for internet. Its like $30 a month for their "HiSpeed" dial up which is like 3-10MB down or they can pay a ton of money for satellite internet.
I remember the original floppy disks, the 10.5 inch floppys, and the external 56k tape drives, that you used a cassette tape with. All Hail the Tandy model 1 of the mid-70's and "Basic" programming language. Wasn't until the early 90's I got my first 128k baud cradle modem.
Model I basic. Any error was met with:
WHAT?
This video is very underwhelming. Most of these item are relatively new generally speaking, i guess because i was expecting a lot more 80's & 70's or even 60's things.
I immediately thought of cracking open a cold beer when I heard 'church key'. I assumed everyone knew that term for bottle opener. I am an old boomer, apparently. I keep forgetting! Haha!
18:59 - ROTARY PHONES - Even though these don't exist anymore, we still use the term 'dialling' when we talk about contacting someone by telephone, even though the 'dial' isn't there anymore. Here's something about UK telephony even UK residents may not know. Today, 1471 tells you the last number that called. However, back in the seventies, this was a telephone engineer 'test' number. After working on a telephone, the engineer would dial this number and then replace the receiver. If all was well, the telephone would get a 'ringback' call. We used this little-known 'test' to prank those of our friends who owned a telephone, which wasn't that many, to be honest.