There’s another one of kids being shown a rotary phone. It’s a hoot..
Back in the day, the Sony walkman was the bomb. It was expensive, high tech and enjoyed exclusivity for years, even as knock offs flooded venue by venue until they reached the bottom of the market....convenience stores and carnival prizes. Eventually, the .mp3 format and the iPod killed off the cassette based walkman and it’s many daughters. When you see the current success and fad of the iPad...That’s what the walkman was like back in those days.
They’d really be confused by the 8 track player I had in my first car.
We ended up with an old rotary phone recently. My nephew found it at a construction/demolition job he was working on and brought it home for his sister's kids to play with. They didn't get it, and one of them started crying when given the "phone" to play with. He was expecting an iPhone or something similar, not this weird thing that didn't even have a screen! We volunteered to give it a new home, and may actually start using it.