I turned 20 years old in '71 so that I still remember all those new inventions, I will always cherish the memories, that same young man will remain intact within me till I'm gone.
@@starmnsixty1209 I worked in an large Indie video rental store for 23 years in North Miami fl. If the power went out we did everything manually. We had a generator so only the main computer worked. It was a pain but it kept t h e business going especially during the hurricane season.
In 1982, I worked at Sears. My friend’s father was often in the store, and one day, he was telling me about what he was working on at the local phone company. He said they were setting up the cellular network, and someday “ we would all be walking around with phones in our pockets.” I thought it was an incredible and amazing concept, but never thought it would be as commonplace as it is today.
Yup, went to school, worked in the early IT industry starting in 1974, and I remember it all! Hard drives as big as small washing machines, and a whopping 60 MB too. 🤣😊. BIG floppy disks. Cold rooms that took up a whole floor, and rows and rows of data entry stations. We've come a long way. My smart phone has more processing power and storage than those systems I worked with then. Love the channel and thanks for the wonderful memories! God bless you and yours and thanks again for all you do!!
When I got my first personal computer in 1990, it didn’t even come with a hard drive. I had to purchase that separately. $300 for a 30 meg hard drive. Remember disc swapping?
In 1979 I had an after school job at a Jr. College cafeteria, and there were some Asian students there that hung out and 1 brought in a Walkman and he let me listen to it, and I was shocked at the sound coming from it. Prior to that there were only transistor radios to listen to music that were that small and portable. Time sure does fly!
Pre-Post Its, we had squares of paper, with adhesive on one edge. You would wet the adhesive, and it would stick (permanently) to the page you stuck it on. Post Its are FAR superior. They don't damage the page, they can be removed, they can be moved ... better in _every_ way, me thinks.
I remember Walkmans and their clones in the 80's, and they came in endless models and price ranges. You could get a basic, no-frills model that only had a fast-forward button (no rewind) for around $15, all the way up to models costing almost $200 (and that's in 1980's money!). I remember one Sony model that was super-small, had all-metal construction, Dolby, etc
I hand an Aki model with DBX noise reduction and necessitated the purchase of DBX encoded cassettes for that feature. What I find amazing is that younger generations seem to think that "tech" was invented in the 1990's or turn of the 21st Century. Well, goes to show how our system of education has failed us - again.
@@justsumguy2u Way back, actually my little Akai "walkman" was probably towards the end of that companies best years. DBX noise reduction at the end of the day was a total flopper.
The story of barcodes is very interesting. Guys at the beach, thinking about Morse Code ... then dragging their fingers in the sand to change the dots-dashes-spaces into vertical "jail bars." ... The Bar Code. Basically the same idea as Morse Code: thicks, thins, spaces, just "tall" as a bar, rather than a dot or a dash.
I still have my huge floppy disk from 1982. I remember I was filling out Christmas cards with my Mom back in the 70's and she said "if they can have a roll of tape that sticks on anything why can't they do the same to stamps. We used a small bowl of water and a sponge to put the stamps on back in those days. My brother had one of those huge phones back in the day.
The US issued one self-adhesive stamp, late in 1974. But it took a long time for them to catch on in this country. But a couple of other countries in the world were doing it in the 60s. That was a great invention.
As a subscriber, I watch everything you put out, but especially enjoyed this one because (a) I was a teen and 20-something in the 70's, and (2) I love to nerd out on technology. Thanks for this personal-to-me video! It stirred up all sorts of good memories of my own.
It's funny, when you see an 8" floppy disc, they are just HUGE. Everybody thinks the 5-¼" floppies are big (and they are, compared to the 3-/2" floppies), but the 8-inchers are really big. I saved ONE of them, and when I show people, they can't believe it. And it only held 64K.
I remember all of these. Loved my Sony Walkman, and certainly cut my bare foot once or twice on a discarded pull tab!I I remember when the can design changed.
I bought my first computer, Apple 2e, when I was in college in 1991. As you were typing a document you had to constantly save your work, because at any time the hard drive would crash. The Apple computers in college constantly crashed too. It was very common. Years later, I bought an iMac when they came out. I got it home and...... the hard drive crashed...permanently.
I still have a Word Processor and some Floppy Disks... There was a young kid who sold my daughter a Walkman for $5.00 The kids mom came looking for the radio which had cost her some money. In the long run, she told my daughter it wasn't her fault and to keep it 😄
I posted this comment on another video about things in the 70’s. For a short time after the pull tabs on beverage cans, they came up with the two hole punch lid. One hole was smaller then the other. You would punch both ones inward and drink for that. However a lot of women were complaining about breaking nails. This is when they came up with what we have today. The two hole punch idea was only around for a short time
As a teen in the '80s I had a walkman (don't remember the brand) that had a 3 band eq and a digital tuner for AM and FM. It cost alot in those days, and it was the nicest one I could find. I still like having nice things, built well from quality materials and with quality features. I just can't always afford them.
Well done on pluralizing Walkman as "Walkmans" as it's a product, Hear so many people get it wrong. Also people who pluralize a computer mouse as "mice" instead of "mouses".
The only problem is that one day, all this tech is gonna kill us all. I mean really, 5G phones that emit harmful microwave radiation, lithium batteries that explode sometimes, self-driving cars and trucks, and airborne energy based weapons...just to name a few.
I went to a small Christian school, starting in 6th grade. When I was in high school they installed something I had never seen before- whiteboards with erasable markers. I'm guessing this was sometime between 1978 and 1980. That digital camera you mentioned was really interesting. In 1998 my father bought a Sony digital camera that used a floppy disk as memory. We still have it today, and it still works. It takes 640 X 480 pixel pictures. My earliest PCs had floppy drives. I wish I still had a floppy drive in my PC, then I would continue to use that camera, since I like old technology.
Out of the 12 schools I went to, I can only remember one that used whiteboards. More specifically, it was whitewalls as the entire wall in every classroom was designed to be used for writing on.
0:35 It's hard to overstate how popular WordStar was as a word processor in the early days of computing. And, having processed many thousands of those files, the way WS set the 8th bit at the end of each word required "fixing" every single word before we could use that text. You'd have to be old to remember when "8-bit clean" was a thing.
In 1974, my mother began working for a law office, within a year the office had purchased a Wang and my mother always talked about how easy it made her work.
@@jpbaley2016 Wang was another groundbreaking system in its day. As a very young man, I worked taking files from Wang systems to Atex typesetting systems-all things that no longer exist. And, those of a certain age will remember the joke "Eve was the first Computer Expert ... an Apple in one hand, a Wang in the other." Nobody young would get _that_ joke.
I think email was invented back in the 1960's, but was only used first by its inventors to message eachother across their universities. Shortly after the military used it. I think the military wanted to keep it for themselves, but the idea and technology of email is not so hard visualise and make. So it was a matter of if we don't put it out, soon someone else will and so they made it available to the public. And yes, remember the Sony Walkman very well, it was all the rage then. Popular with commuters in trains and buses as they could listen to their music, rather then look at strangers!
There was no network control protocol until the early '70's, Cerf and Kahn developed TCP in 1973 and released it in '74. That's not to say DARPANET could not communicate between nodes, just that abc@Xdomain (the concept of email) didn't.
I am a new subscriber. All of these are great, but they are way too short. Get more content and make them longer. For those of us that were alive at the time this was all happening in the normal, we would like to just see more. Thank you for what you do!
I bought that Sony Walkman, in black and gold, at Kai-Tak airport in Hong Kong coming back from a five-year stay in Papua New Guinea... must have been around 1982. I remember it cost $105USD. Super nice, almost all-steel and great sound if you tossed the included headphones and got some better ones. I still use cassettes... lol I'm old. Thanks again, nice job.
Mr Shiva Ayyadurai did definitely not "invent" email... Attributing it to him would be like pretending Microsoft was the first to use a windowed UI. Also; floppies shrunk between the 8-incher from ibm, and the utilization of the 5,25 inch floppy from the apple II second also; the digital camera made by the kodak engineer, is a famous case of inventing something that has no logical implementation in our current existence yet... And is one of the things that the higher-ups at kodak failed to understand, even though it literally would become a painful sidenote in history; as the "digital" camera, kind of caused kodak to have a long, long and terrible decline in popularity; spanning the following 3 decades, until the market bounced back. And in the category of unmentioned stuff; XEROX PARC developing a GUI, and having Steve Jobs run away with it; and the invention of the greatest cpu that literally paved the way for the widescale adoption of home computers ^.^ the MOS technologies 6502. Without the 6502, that was literally priced at bargain prices, compared to the Motorola 6800: there would be no Atari 2600, no Apple 2, no NES; to name just a few
The first "mobile" telephone I ever saw was owned by a doctor friend of mine. It cost around 10k bucks, and had a huge unit in the trunk of his car. You could only talk 30 seconds at a time.
Our first one was the one that came in a ‘travel’ bag. It was large like the one he showed, but it had a cord that connected it to the bae. I don’t remember if it plugged into the car or not. That was mid-80s.
I’m a Gen X’r, and I found it hard at times to convince my Millennial friends and associates that a lot of things they thought came out in the 80’s came out in the 70’s.
Laser discs came out in the 70's. They were 12" and had to be flipped over in the middle of the movie. They didn't catch on because they were too expensive and while you can probably find a player somewhere, the discs were known to degrade over time. These, of course, were the precursor of the DVD. Home video game systems also started in the 70's starting with Pong. Trouble with Pong was TV's back then weren't prepared for them and if you played long enough it would burn images on your screen. The Atari 2600 was introduced in 1977. Also, prime time Super Bowls were started in 1978(1977 season). Before that they were played in the afternoon.
3:33 I was most surprised about the Rubik's cube being invented so early in the 70's. I thought they weren't even sold until the early 80's. 4:11 I actually remember soda tabs that looked like the one shown here. I'm surprised I remember, though, because I would have been pretty young. I have an excellent autobiographical memory, though.
I didn’t get my first Rubik’s cube until the early 80s also. I do remember pop tops! Jimmy Buffet uses that in Maragaritaville and has talked about his younger audiences not having a clue what that is!
Seems I once heard about the barcode readers, they were invented in the late 1950's but nobody cared. Then 20 years later, somebody from IBM saw the readers at a trade show like, "We've got to have THIS." and then he found out, IBM had already bought the patent 20 years earlier. Or I'm not sure about the details, but the story was something like this. Nobody wanted the readers when they first came out. That's how famous inventions usually go. Kodak turned down the office copy machine. The army didn't want the airplane. Western Union didn't want the telephone. The railroads didn't want air brakes. Record companies did not want digital recording.
When I was a teenager there were two types of people. People who could put Rubik's Cube together in less than a minute and people who thought it was stupid anyway. I was in that second group. Whenever I see floppy disks I think of my old Commodore 64 and my favorite game, Micro-League Baseball. I had the GM's version that let you create your own teams. Of course it took four disks and close to 10 minutes to load it up but once it was humming, it was play ball! I created whole leagues using stats from a baseball reference book. In my league, Babe Ruth could face off against Bob Gibson and Ty Cobb always won the batting title. Fun times indeed.
I worked for Kodak and they saw the digital Camera as a device that had no future and would ruin their main business of film and film processing. So they abandoned digital cameras.
I think some of the information in this video is incorrect. I was an 80's kid and I don't remember scanners until later. Also I remember when pop tabs were round and you pulled the whole thing off. I don't remember walkman's being a really hot item until I was like 6or7 and cassettes because before that they only had those great big case things you put in a great big square slot in your stereo to play music. I remember when my uncle had a great big car phone in the 80's but it couldn't be taken out of the car.I don't remember actual cellphones until the 90s and even then they weren't that popular until the late 90s and I had never seen a floppy disk until the mid 80's.
The "great big case thing you put in that great big square slot" was an eight-track tape. We had a stereo with played them, along with record player, and AM/FM radio for the house, of course. It was a good quality item that lasted for years. Those truly were the years. Some of other items probably simply appeared later in your region.
I miss the pull tabs. Mom and I had chains made from them. Wished I'd have kept them. Wish I still had my Walkman as well. I remember the 70s and they were far better days than what we have now. Yes I like some of the new things but life was better in the 70s over all. With just enough tech to make life fun but not overboard. I miss my landline phone too. Nicely done good info.
@@jillefeldme9452 I have a Walkman in storage. Needs a band. I wish we had a land-line but it's been a hard time finding a company that will install one. They all offer the kind that plugs into your internet. Basically a base cell phone. Garbage
I thought ‘mobile’ phones were around in the 1960’s (and it depends on your definition of mobile phone)….. and I mean ones installed in cars. I’ve seen a UA-cam video from the time put out by one of the phone companies and how they use towers etc.
There were phones in cars as early as 1960, but only businesses used them. And taxis and police cars used radio-telephones well before that, starting in the 1930s.
In the early eighties Sykes Datatronics developed a modem to connect your computer to the network. AT&T used this to provide network access to business and residential computer owners. Insiders buying Sykes stock early on got rich.
This is my second time watching this. I noticed a few typos in my comment below. Anyway, My Dad is a computer and tech guy, going back to 1962, so he knows all about floppy disks, bar codes, etc. He still enjoys talking about anything to do with computers. I got my Rubik's Cube for Christmas in 1980. I was never able to solve it. 😆 I ended up "solving" it by following step-by-step instructions found online many years ago, just so it can sit in its packaging its original state. That digital computer with the cassette tapes sounds really cool. I had never heard of that.
So that original mobile phone brick looking thing, the Walkman and that 8 pound digital camera now all fits snugly into a tiny palm sized smartphone and it can also scan barcodes!
Anyone remember Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 with 12 k memory, monitor, keyboard, and a cassette player for data storage? Basic program language was included.
I’m sure someone has already noted this, but the fact that someone from Kodak first developed digital photography? Kinda sad and ironic all at the same time.
Actually the technology for the cell phone was developed long before the 70s in the 1940s truckers had radio telephones and yes they weren't portable they were tied to a vehicle but it was still the same idea a system of towers that relay the signal
Agree. I said the same above. I’ve actually seen an old advertising promo video put out by Bell or AT&T in the 1950’s or 60’s explaining how good it was and how it worked and benefits ‘your’ business (and they used cell like towers to connect). The example used was a road construction project and communicating back to the office. It’s on UA-cam somewhere.
Fun to watch the hey day of modern technology inventions. I was a teen and remember how all these things took time to come out as to be affordable for the population. One thing I didn't see on the list was the Pong game. I remember getting that for my siblings for Christmas in 1978. A 60s invention? Overall, it's fun knowing the baby boomer generation was part of all this and I was a part of all that. Yet, sometimes I miss the simplicity and quiet times of the days before all these inventions were popularized.
I remember the day in Atlanta when I saw a man using a 'Brick' cel phone (cordless). There was a flood on new consumer technologies in the late 70's and 80's.
Can tops that completely detached had created a nationwide nightmare of litter in every place imaginable, including and especially the grassy areas adjacent to highways.
I can tell you from personal observation that the majority of aluminum cans were not using the pop top in 1976. In 1980, Coca-Cola was still using pull tabs. They actually had a huge marketing contest that involved pull tabs that had letters on the underside. You had to collect all the letters of "Coca Cola" in order to win the biggest prize. The "L” was the one that was impossible to find. It wasn’t until 1981 that Coke products started moving away from the pull tab. Some other companies had switched by 1980, but they were almost all using the pull tab until around 1980.
I used so many of those items, but not in the 70s. I guess I was a bit behind. I used 8" floppies on a university computer in 1982, also a Rubricks cube I solved on my own. My father won a 1st gen cell phone. I bought my first one several years later. I never did have a Walkman.
What about the VCR ?? Or the Atari video game system ?? Or Pong or Space Invaders ?? Dude, I worked for Atari in the late 70's. Granted, most of the games were crap, but it was the 70's.
@@petermontoya1796 that would be painful after the first week. I fully understand. I’m 55 so I grew up at the perfect time for the golden era of video games. I played pong when it first came out. Then the home pong, then the 2600, the arcade era from 78-88. Then PC games. I haven’t played a video game in the last 12-13 years and don’t care if I ever see another one. I’m totally burned out on them. At one time I was a world class Defender player. I do miss that sometimes. But I’m sure I’d get bored in a hour or 2. All the best!
The Have Blue project had a direct influence on the "F-117" development but in no way was it a Nighthawk prototype. Although they had similar designs, they were completely different aircraft. And the F-117 was never a fighter aircraft despite it's designation. It was a stealth attack craft mostly used for bombing.
I turned 20 years old in '71 so that I still remember all those new inventions, I will always cherish the memories, that same young man will remain intact within me till I'm gone.
That lady is true for all of us Lucca. I think back to stuff I could do as recently as 2000, and its truly bittersweet.
@Sunrays2020 Thank you for spinning disc's for us eternal Spring Chickens.
I'm 64. Cashiers don't know how good they have it, before barcodes they had to ring everything by hand and have a basic knowledge of sales.
@@cynthianaylor9514 But are helpless without computerized aid. Heaven help them if something ever takes the grid out...
@@starmnsixty1209 I worked in an large Indie video rental store for 23 years in North Miami fl. If the power went out we did everything manually. We had a generator so only the main computer worked. It was a pain but it kept t h e business going especially during the hurricane season.
These presentations are always disappointing... they end. 😁 Another stroll down memory lane, and learned about stuff. Thank you as always RR!
How I fell. I don't want to go back to NOW!
Ikr!!😔
Curiously absent from this list, endings were also invented in the 70s.
In 1982, I worked at Sears. My friend’s father was often in the store, and one day, he was telling me about what he was working on at the local phone company. He said they were setting up the cellular network, and someday “ we would all be walking around with phones in our pockets.” I thought it was an incredible and amazing concept, but never thought it would be as commonplace as it is today.
the old pull tabs on soft drink cans might have been dangerous if you stepped on one, but you could make cool rings out of them.
like a chain. we had chains crisscrossed on the ceiling of my college apt, like a spider web
I kinda hated pull tabs...
If you pulled upward instead of back, you'd pull the ring right off before the tab came all the way off...😬
also made great doorway "hippie' beads
Yup, went to school, worked in the early IT industry starting in 1974, and I remember it all! Hard drives as big as small washing machines, and a whopping 60 MB too. 🤣😊. BIG floppy disks. Cold rooms that took up a whole floor, and rows and rows of data entry stations. We've come a long way. My smart phone has more processing power and storage than those systems I worked with then. Love the channel and thanks for the wonderful memories! God bless you and yours and thanks again for all you do!!
Yet sometimes I wonder if it's all that great. Listen to Zsger and Evansy "In the Year 2525, to get some idea what I mean.
Rather Zsger and Evans.
@@starmnsixty1209 I remember the song! One of my favorites. Thanks for the comment.
When I got my first personal computer in 1990, it didn’t even come with a hard drive. I had to purchase that separately. $300 for a 30 meg hard drive. Remember disc swapping?
@@spankynater4242 yes I do, but I wish I didn't. 🤣👍
In 1979 I had an after school job at a Jr. College cafeteria, and there were some Asian students there that hung out and 1 brought in a Walkman and he let me listen to it, and I was shocked at the sound coming from it. Prior to that there were only transistor radios to listen to music that were that small and portable. Time sure does fly!
Pre-Post Its, we had squares of paper, with adhesive on one edge. You would wet the adhesive, and it would stick (permanently) to the page you stuck it on.
Post Its are FAR superior. They don't damage the page, they can be removed, they can be moved ... better in _every_ way, me thinks.
As a 'boomer', I was in my 20's for most of these. Great fun, as are most of your vids. Thanks!
I remember Walkmans and their clones in the 80's, and they came in endless models and price ranges. You could get a basic, no-frills model that only had a fast-forward button (no rewind) for around $15, all the way up to models costing almost $200 (and that's in 1980's money!). I remember one Sony model that was super-small, had all-metal construction, Dolby, etc
My son was young when I found a Sony Walkman & DiscMan in a thrift store. He still uses them in his 20’s 😊
I made sure I always had one
I hand an Aki model with DBX noise reduction and necessitated the purchase of DBX encoded cassettes for that feature. What I find amazing is that younger generations seem to think that "tech" was invented in the 1990's or turn of the 21st Century. Well, goes to show how our system of education has failed us - again.
@@kennixox262 Back then, Akai made some serious stuff
@@justsumguy2u Way back, actually my little Akai "walkman" was probably towards the end of that companies best years. DBX noise reduction at the end of the day was a total flopper.
The story of barcodes is very interesting.
Guys at the beach, thinking about Morse Code ... then dragging their fingers in the sand to change the dots-dashes-spaces into vertical "jail bars." ... The Bar Code.
Basically the same idea as Morse Code: thicks, thins, spaces, just "tall" as a bar, rather than a dot or a dash.
Thanks for explaining it.
I heard that he sold his idea for a song..the buyer ran with it and made bank
I still have my huge floppy disk from 1982. I remember I was filling out Christmas cards with my Mom back in the 70's and she said "if they can have a roll of tape that sticks on anything why can't they do the same to stamps. We used a small bowl of water and a sponge to put the stamps on back in those days. My brother had one of those huge phones back in the day.
It’s funny you never forget the taste of stamps!
The US issued one self-adhesive stamp, late in 1974. But it took a long time for them to catch on in this country. But a couple of other countries in the world were doing it in the 60s. That was a great invention.
And you didn't have to take out a small loan to buy a roll of stamps.
I used to get my kids to lick the stamps. They thought it was a great privilege! Haha
@@amymeyers9682 We did that, and over time realized why Mom kept a damp sponge in a bowl on her desk.
I still have a working Commodore 64 with 2 - 1541 floppy disk drives which is guaranteed to NEVER get a virus!
That was my first computer too, but then we upgraded to the 128 when my then husband went back to school.
This was so fascinating, especially considering these items were invented within the past 50+ years. Technology is moving so swiftly.
As a subscriber, I watch everything you put out, but especially enjoyed this one because (a) I was a teen and 20-something in the 70's, and (2) I love to nerd out on technology. Thanks for this personal-to-me video! It stirred up all sorts of good memories of my own.
As a kid back in the 60s & 70s i remember being awestruck by:
FM radio
Pull tab cans
Push button phones
Cassette tapes
Color TV ✨
Remote control
Yeah, I remember I was my dads' remote control and antenna 🤣
Was small transistor radios late 50's ?
I still see leftover pull tabs from soda and beer cans. For the record, Anheuser-Busch was the last company to get rid of them around 1984.
With some common sense, the pull tabs weren't so bad. Too bad 😞 common sense has often Bern in short supply.
@@RJ-hx5nb Yes, they were. Funny, I have one and it still plays.
I had an IBM System 23. It had a printer that weighed nearly 100 pounds and 8 inch floppy discs.
It's funny, when you see an 8" floppy disc, they are just HUGE.
Everybody thinks the 5-¼" floppies are big (and they are, compared to the 3-/2" floppies), but the 8-inchers are really big. I saved ONE of them, and when I show people, they can't believe it. And it only held 64K.
I remember getting a Rubik's cube and taking it apart to put back together because, I couldn't solve it. Those were the good old days!
Same
THANKS I LOVE THE OLD DAYS!!!!
I remember all of these. Loved my Sony Walkman, and certainly cut my bare foot once or twice on a discarded pull tab!I I remember when the can design changed.
I bought my first computer, Apple 2e, when I was in college in 1991. As you were typing a document you had to constantly save your work, because at any time the hard drive would crash. The Apple computers in college constantly crashed too. It was very common. Years later, I bought an iMac when they came out. I got it home and...... the hard drive crashed...permanently.
I still have a Word Processor and some Floppy Disks... There was a young kid who sold my daughter a Walkman for $5.00 The kids mom came looking for the radio which had cost her some money. In the long run, she told my daughter it wasn't her fault and to keep it 😄
This great fun!! Love your channel! You always bring back great memories for me. Thank you! 😊
i might still have my walkman somewhere I do also have a RADIO SHACK REALISTIC wireless am fm headphone set..still works :)
Just great! Now I have to take an antidepressant because you've shown me how old I am. I can't lie I love this channel
Gee, I thought it was Romy and Michelle that invented Post-it Notes! Haha!
Gah! You beat me to it! LOL!!!
LOL and Heather Mooney invented the quick burning cigarette paper for the girl on the go! Love that movie!
Same.
I posted this comment on another video about things in the 70’s. For a short time after the pull tabs on beverage cans, they came up with the two hole punch lid. One hole was smaller then the other. You would punch both ones inward and drink for that. However a lot of women were complaining about breaking nails. This is when they came up with what we have today. The two hole punch idea was only around for a short time
Thanks RR😊
I bought my first floppy disc in 1984, storing 360K bytes, for $30. In ten years, they were about $1 for 1.2M bytes.
As a teen in the '80s I had a walkman (don't remember the brand) that had a 3 band eq and a digital tuner for AM and FM. It cost alot in those days, and it was the nicest one I could find. I still like having nice things, built well from quality materials and with quality features. I just can't always afford them.
Well done on pluralizing Walkman as "Walkmans" as it's a product, Hear so many people get it wrong.
Also people who pluralize a computer mouse as "mice" instead of "mouses".
This highlights the point that a lot of technology has been around a long time it just evolves and continues to improve.
The only problem is that one day, all this tech is gonna kill us all. I mean really, 5G phones that emit harmful microwave radiation, lithium batteries that explode sometimes, self-driving cars and trucks, and airborne energy based weapons...just to name a few.
I went to a small Christian school, starting in 6th grade. When I was in high school they installed something I had never seen before- whiteboards with erasable markers. I'm guessing this was sometime between 1978 and 1980.
That digital camera you mentioned was really interesting. In 1998 my father bought a Sony digital camera that used a floppy disk as memory. We still have it today, and it still works. It takes 640 X 480 pixel pictures. My earliest PCs had floppy drives. I wish I still had a floppy drive in my PC, then I would continue to use that camera, since I like old technology.
If I had seen whiteboards back then, I would have screamed anarchy and ran out of the room.
Out of the 12 schools I went to, I can only remember one that used whiteboards. More specifically, it was whitewalls as the entire wall in every classroom was designed to be used for writing on.
Thank you so much for your nostalgic and informative videos. Definitely in my top five subscribed channels on UA-cam❤️💯
0:35 It's hard to overstate how popular WordStar was as a word processor in the early days of computing. And, having processed many thousands of those files, the way WS set the 8th bit at the end of each word required "fixing" every single word before we could use that text.
You'd have to be old to remember when "8-bit clean" was a thing.
🙋♀️Yep. I remember!
Yup. Wordstar.
Mom worked for IBM 1970-1990
Data processing div. White plains NY
SONY Walkman!
3M post it notes
3M were the man !
And one floppy to boot the operating system, a second floppy for WordStar!
In 1974, my mother began working for a law office, within a year the office had purchased a Wang and my mother always talked about how easy it made her work.
@@jpbaley2016 Wang was another groundbreaking system in its day. As a very young man, I worked taking files from Wang systems to Atex typesetting systems-all things that no longer exist.
And, those of a certain age will remember the joke "Eve was the first Computer Expert ... an Apple in one hand, a Wang in the other." Nobody young would get _that_ joke.
As I recall you could also listen to the radio on some Sony walkmans.
I love your channel! Thank you for all you do!
I think email was invented back in the 1960's, but was only used first by its inventors to message eachother across their universities. Shortly after the military used it. I think the military wanted to keep it for themselves, but the idea and technology of email is not so hard visualise and make. So it was a matter of if we don't put it out, soon someone else will and so they made it available to the public.
And yes, remember the Sony Walkman very well, it was all the rage then. Popular with commuters in trains and buses as they could listen to their music, rather then look at strangers!
There was no network control protocol until the early '70's,
Cerf and Kahn developed TCP in 1973 and released it in '74.
That's not to say DARPANET could not communicate between nodes, just that abc@Xdomain (the concept of email) didn't.
When I was a kid, a phone booth was a shelter from the rain.
I am a new subscriber. All of these are great, but they are way too short. Get more content and make them longer. For those of us that were alive at the time this was all happening in the normal, we would like to just see more. Thank you for what you do!
I bought that Sony Walkman, in black and gold, at Kai-Tak airport in Hong Kong coming back from a five-year stay in Papua New Guinea... must have been around 1982. I remember it cost $105USD. Super nice, almost all-steel and great sound if you tossed the included headphones and got some better ones.
I still use cassettes... lol I'm old.
Thanks again, nice job.
I always throughly enjoy your videos. They bring back great history for this old guy.
Thank you kindly.
Mr Shiva Ayyadurai did definitely not "invent" email... Attributing it to him would be like pretending Microsoft was the first to use a windowed UI.
Also; floppies shrunk between the 8-incher from ibm, and the utilization of the 5,25 inch floppy from the apple II
second also; the digital camera made by the kodak engineer, is a famous case of inventing something that has no logical implementation in our current existence yet... And is one of the things that the higher-ups at kodak failed to understand, even though it literally would become a painful sidenote in history; as the "digital" camera, kind of caused kodak to have a long, long and terrible decline in popularity; spanning the following 3 decades, until the market bounced back.
And in the category of unmentioned stuff; XEROX PARC developing a GUI, and having Steve Jobs run away with it; and the invention of the greatest cpu that literally paved the way for the widescale adoption of home computers ^.^ the MOS technologies 6502.
Without the 6502, that was literally priced at bargain prices, compared to the Motorola 6800: there would be no Atari 2600, no Apple 2, no NES; to name just a few
A fascinating look at technology developed during the tumultuous 70's. 🤓
The first "mobile" telephone I ever saw was owned by a doctor friend of mine. It cost around 10k bucks, and had a huge unit in the trunk of his car. You could only talk 30 seconds at a time.
At $3 for those 30 seconds. I had that unit, I also had the brick phone.
Our first one was the one that came in a ‘travel’ bag. It was large like the one he showed, but it had a cord that connected it to the bae. I don’t remember if it plugged into the car or not. That was mid-80s.
Thanks for sharing!
LOVED THE 70S ❤
A lot of the gadgets we used during the 80's and beyond.
I got to borrow a Walkman that someone had brought from Japan, before they were available in the USA. It was a marvel.
I’m a Gen X’r, and I found it hard at times to convince my Millennial friends and associates that a lot of things they thought came out in the 80’s came out in the 70’s.
They came to be in the 70s, but the actual R&D started long before that.
Laser discs came out in the 70's. They were 12" and had to be flipped over in the middle of the movie. They didn't catch on because they were too expensive and while you can probably find a player somewhere, the discs were known to degrade over time. These, of course, were the precursor of the DVD. Home video game systems also started in the 70's starting with Pong. Trouble with Pong was TV's back then weren't prepared for them and if you played long enough it would burn images on your screen. The Atari 2600 was introduced in 1977. Also, prime time Super Bowls were started in 1978(1977 season). Before that they were played in the afternoon.
Yeah I have a couple floppy drives that my wife refuses to get rid of. Somehow I think she thinks that that technology will come back around again.
I still have a box of 3-1/4 inch hard disk and 5 inch floppy disk. Haven't had the heart to throw them away yet.
3:33 I was most surprised about the Rubik's cube being invented so early in the 70's. I thought they weren't even sold until the early 80's.
4:11 I actually remember soda tabs that looked like the one shown here. I'm surprised I remember, though, because I would have been pretty young. I have an excellent autobiographical memory, though.
I didn’t get my first Rubik’s cube until the early 80s also. I do remember pop tops! Jimmy Buffet uses that in Maragaritaville and has talked about his younger audiences not having a clue what that is!
@@amymeyers9682 That's awesome! I couldn't remember what they were called.
The cell phone was inspired by the Trek Communicator! Love Long and Prosper
I graduated high school in 73 and we hadn't heard of these until a few years later
I have 3x5 Post-Its all over my kitchen cabinets with hand written recipes and recipe notes, so easy when cooking.
I REMEMBER THAT SONG..."SHE'S A BRICK PHONE"🤭🥰
Seems I once heard about the barcode readers, they were invented in the late 1950's but nobody cared. Then 20 years later, somebody from IBM saw the readers at a trade show like, "We've got to have THIS." and then he found out, IBM had already bought the patent 20 years earlier. Or I'm not sure about the details, but the story was something like this. Nobody wanted the readers when they first came out. That's how famous inventions usually go. Kodak turned down the office copy machine. The army didn't want the airplane. Western Union didn't want the telephone. The railroads didn't want air brakes. Record companies did not want digital recording.
When I was a teenager there were two types of people. People who could put Rubik's Cube together in less than a minute and people who thought it was stupid anyway. I was in that second group. Whenever I see floppy disks I think of my old Commodore 64 and my favorite game, Micro-League Baseball. I had the GM's version that let you create your own teams. Of course it took four disks and close to 10 minutes to load it up but once it was humming, it was play ball! I created whole leagues using stats from a baseball reference book. In my league, Babe Ruth could face off against Bob Gibson and Ty Cobb always won the batting title. Fun times indeed.
I worked for Kodak and they saw the digital Camera as a device that had no future and would ruin their main business of film and film processing. So they abandoned digital cameras.
Martin Cooper always said his inspiration for the cell phone was seeing Captain Kirk and his communicator.
So cool to see how quickly the technology advanced. Thanks for the video.
I think some of the information in this video is incorrect. I was an 80's kid and I don't remember scanners until later. Also I remember when pop tabs were round and you pulled the whole thing off. I don't remember walkman's being a really hot item until I was like 6or7 and cassettes because before that they only had those great big case things you put in a great big square slot in your stereo to play music. I remember when my uncle had a great big car phone in the 80's but it couldn't be taken out of the car.I don't remember actual cellphones until the 90s and even then they weren't that popular until the late 90s and I had never seen a floppy disk until the mid 80's.
Just because you didn't have them doesn't mean they didn't exist.
The "great big case thing you put in that great big square slot" was an eight-track tape. We had a stereo with played them, along with record player, and AM/FM radio for the house, of course. It was a good quality item that lasted for years. Those truly were the years.
Some of other items probably simply appeared later in your region.
I definitely remember seeing Walkman in the 70s.
I miss the pull tabs. Mom and I had chains made from them. Wished I'd have kept them.
Wish I still had my Walkman as well. I remember the 70s and they were far better days than what we have now. Yes I like some of the new things but life was better in the 70s over all. With just enough tech to make life fun but not overboard. I miss my landline phone too.
Nicely done good info.
We still have a Walkman, and a land line.
@@jillefeldme9452 I have a Walkman in storage. Needs a band. I wish we had a land-line but it's been a hard time finding a company that will install one. They all offer the kind that plugs into your internet. Basically a base cell phone. Garbage
My sister used to save all the pull tabs and make belts and necklaces out them. Came in real handy during hippie movement and Vietnam war protest.
My first computer was an Atari 400, it used a audio cassette tape for storage.
I thought ‘mobile’ phones were around in the 1960’s (and it depends on your definition of mobile phone)….. and I mean ones installed in cars. I’ve seen a UA-cam video from the time put out by one of the phone companies and how they use towers etc.
Yes, versions of various attempts at mobile phones go back some decades.
There were phones in cars as early as 1960, but only businesses used them. And taxis and police cars used radio-telephones well before that, starting in the 1930s.
They had contact lenses in the 1920s, made out of real glass, but only for the Rich and Famous.
In 1982 my wife wanted a Timex Sinclair for Christmas. I got it for her. What a piece of crap!! Then again, it was only $139.
I remember the mid-70s my rich friends parents had satellite phones and car phones.
My employer had satellite phones and they worked everywhere. They used them mainly when they were on their boat so they could be in touch.
i still have a walk man in my dresser drawer..i should get it out sometime..
Love the memories. Liked and subbed. 👍
In the early eighties Sykes Datatronics developed a modem to connect your computer to the network. AT&T used this to provide network access to business and residential computer owners. Insiders buying Sykes stock early on got rich.
I love your channel, the Rubik's cube has a much deeper history. Find stuff you should know podcast to hear the history of the Rubik's cube
This is my second time watching this. I noticed a few typos in my comment below. Anyway, My Dad is a computer and tech guy, going back to 1962, so he knows all about floppy disks, bar codes, etc. He still enjoys talking about anything to do with computers. I got my Rubik's Cube for Christmas in 1980. I was never able to solve it. 😆 I ended up "solving" it by following step-by-step instructions found online many years ago, just so it can sit in its packaging its original state. That digital computer with the cassette tapes sounds really cool. I had never heard of that.
So that original mobile phone brick looking thing, the Walkman and that 8 pound digital camera now all fits snugly into a tiny palm sized smartphone and it can also scan barcodes!
Great video!!
They were the best of times... they were the beigest of times.
Cool 😀. I enjoyed my Sony WalkMan in the 1980's
And then tech flourished while people became more deponent on it and dumber because of it. Great video though. That's when I grew up.
True! We used to know everyone's phone number by hard. I only remember mine and my daughters' now. Duh 😄
Anyone remember Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 with 12 k memory, monitor, keyboard, and a cassette player for data storage? Basic program language was included.
Thanks. Good video
post-it notes was huge!
I’m sure someone has already noted this, but the fact that someone from Kodak first developed digital photography?
Kinda sad and ironic all at the same time.
the 70s were awsome
Ah memories. The old days were the best. 80's you will be mourned. Everything after that is garbage.
Actually the technology for the cell phone was developed long before the 70s in the 1940s truckers had radio telephones and yes they weren't portable they were tied to a vehicle but it was still the same idea a system of towers that relay the signal
Agree. I said the same above. I’ve actually seen an old advertising promo video put out by Bell or AT&T in the 1950’s or 60’s explaining how good it was and how it worked and benefits ‘your’ business (and they used cell like towers to connect). The example used was a road construction project and communicating back to the office. It’s on UA-cam somewhere.
I'm thinking certain high end automobiles had similar phones.
One small correction: the MRI was actually invented by Raymond MRI.
Fun to watch the hey day of modern technology inventions. I was a teen and remember how all these things took time to come out as to be affordable for the population. One thing I didn't see on the list was the Pong game. I remember getting that for my siblings for Christmas in 1978. A 60s invention? Overall, it's fun knowing the baby boomer generation was part of all this and I was a part of all that. Yet, sometimes I miss the simplicity and quiet times of the days before all these inventions were popularized.
I remember the day in Atlanta when I saw a man using a 'Brick' cel phone (cordless).
There was a flood on new consumer technologies in the late 70's and 80's.
Can tops that completely detached had created a nationwide nightmare of litter in every place imaginable, including and especially the grassy areas adjacent to highways.
I can tell you from personal observation that the majority of aluminum cans were not using the pop top in 1976. In 1980, Coca-Cola was still using pull tabs. They actually had a huge marketing contest that involved pull tabs that had letters on the underside. You had to collect all the letters of "Coca Cola" in order to win the biggest prize. The "L” was the one that was impossible to find. It wasn’t until 1981 that Coke products started moving away from the pull tab. Some other companies had switched by 1980, but they were almost all using the pull tab until around 1980.
I used so many of those items, but not in the 70s. I guess I was a bit behind. I used 8" floppies on a university computer in 1982, also a Rubricks cube I solved on my own. My father won a 1st gen cell phone. I bought my first one several years later. I never did have a Walkman.
You left out the first Computed Tomography scanner was invented in 1971 by Godfrey Houndsfield at EMI. the Beatles record company at the time.
What about the VCR ?? Or the Atari video game system ?? Or Pong or Space Invaders ?? Dude, I worked for Atari in the late 70's. Granted, most of the games were crap, but it was the 70's.
Yep, I have a VCR which changes time automatically when it's Spring Forward or Fall Back. Hee hee
Games were great
@@EricPetersen2922 My job at Atari was to play these games for 8+ ours a day. Sounds like fun, but ... got REALLY boring.
@@mariamercy7317 My first VCR was a Sony BetaMax. Better quality, but not many videos.
@@petermontoya1796 that would be painful after the first week. I fully understand. I’m 55 so I grew up at the perfect time for the golden era of video games. I played pong when it first came out. Then the home pong, then the 2600, the arcade era from 78-88. Then PC games.
I haven’t played a video game in the last 12-13 years and don’t care if I ever see another one. I’m totally burned out on them.
At one time I was a world class Defender player. I do miss that sometimes. But I’m sure I’d get bored in a hour or 2.
All the best!
"Don't copy that floppy!"
Great info! 👍🏻
My childhood 😢
Thanks!
1:57 another thing that was invented in the 70's were wild sideburns.
You’ve never heard of muttonchops? These out of control side burns were around in the 19th century.
@@xr6lad Well yes I have seen pictures of Chester A Arthur, just never knew him.
@@Acejustforalaugh I had them myself in 1975.
@@Acejustforalaugh I knew that, it was a joke that didn't go over well.
@@Acejustforalaugh and I have to say that guy had some magnificent ones, mine were never that good.
Interesting. I remember it all.
The first prototype for the F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter was flown in the '70's.
Have Blue flew at the end of '77.
You can definitely see the familial resemblance
The Have Blue project had a direct influence on the "F-117" development but in no way was it a Nighthawk prototype. Although they had similar designs, they were completely different aircraft.
And the F-117 was never a fighter aircraft despite it's designation. It was a stealth attack craft mostly used for bombing.