There’s another one of kids being shown a rotary phone. It’s a hoot..
This seems so weird, but I keep forgetting that these kids were born mostly after 9/11.
Even though I was born in the 70s, I was keenly aware of what all sorts of devices were that were from the early 20th century to the 60s. That just shows how little changed in that period compared to the years since. I suppose that many of the movies and cartoons that were still widely shown at the time were easily made in the 40s and 30s, so there is that too.
We used to have to get up and walk over to the t.v. to change the channel.
I believe it is all in the American History Museum. Definitely worth a visit.
This is not hilarious. Rather, this is sad.
If we wanted to watch Ed Sullivan at 8:00 we had to turn the set on at 7:57 so it could warm up.
And some “elderly” people have no idea what an iPhone is.
I still have one. Bought it at the Going Out of Business Sale at a local Sony Store.
As I tell the guy from the cell phone carrier when he tries to sell me a smartphone with a data plan, “I’m perfectly happy living in the 80’s”.
Clunky? CLUNKY???
First, that doesn't even mean anything.
Second, chronological bigotry is repulsive regardless of who's doing it.
These are always fun, and I suspect the kids are chosen for their cuteness rather than their tech savvy. But at their age, I was not only tearing about 10-50 year old technology but understood how it worked and could built it from scratch. This generation can’t even find the freakin’ cassette slot without help.
Better hope the interwebs keep on a running kiddies....
That’s right you little punk ass kids, in the 80’s we didn’t have Ipods, internet, and .mp3’s, we had to make do with the Sony Walkman! We had to carry around cassettes and switch them in and out if we wanted to listen to something different, unless we made a mix tape. And that was alot of work. You little snots don’t know how good you got it!
Oh yeah, and we had to ride the bus uphill both ways in the snow too. No mommy taking us in the Lexus. We had to rough it!
I still use'm.
I even have a couple new ones I bought while they were still selling them.
They do everything I need for them to do. So....
(PS, I'm a retired chip-maker)
Was digging in archive.org and ran across a review of the [cassette]Walkman's successor, the Sony MiniDisc player, oy, the price, from 2001...
Question for audiophiles here:
Many moons ago [circa 1994 or so] I was in an electronics store and saw a music player/reciever combo that used a disk not unlike a floppy disk but half the size. I cannot find any reference as to what it was. Anyone here ever see such a beast back in the day? Every reference I see goes vinyl/8-track/cassette/minidisc-cd/MPx and that's it.
Those videos are cute, but the information boxes that show up at the bottom of the screen are really annoying.
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