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| Wanna feel old? - 100 Tech Things Your Kids May Never Know About |
| 2009-07-27 |
| Nathan Barry, Wired There are some things in this world that will never be forgotten, this weekÂ’s 40th anniversary of the moon landing for one. But MooreÂ’s Law and our ever-increasing quest for simpler, smaller, faster and better widgets and thingamabobs will always ensure that some of the technology we grew up with will not be passed down the line to the next generation of geeks. That is, of course, unless we tell them all about the good old days of modems and typewriters, slide rules and encyclopedias Â… Audio-Visual Entertainment 1. Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something. 2. Super-8 movies and cine film of all kinds. 3. Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo.... Click through for the other 97, and feel the cold relentless grip of geezerdom upon you. Hey! You kids! get off my lawn! |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #8 And the crazy old sisters down the street who always listened in on the party line..... |
| Posted by: Spulet Ghibelline4424 2009-07-27 20:59 |
| #7 "Exchange Area" prefixes for phone numbers (FIreside 5-****), party lines and a few miles to the west of where I grew up, 'crank' phones (2 long rings-2 short rings, 3 short-1 long, etc) And only having ONE phone in the house. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2009-07-27 20:16 |
| #6 Daddy What was the MSM? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2009-07-27 19:23 |
| #5 Dang I feel old. I remember the ice man delivering a huge block to the "ice box" and giving us kids a chunk of ice we could suck on while sitting on the back porch on summer afternoons. We played outdoors all day in the summer, no reason to come inside (i.e. no TV, too hot inside without A/C) until it got dark. The basic video game then was catching lightning bugs in a Mason jar. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-07-27 19:22 |
| #4 Author sounds rather young Yep, left out punch cards, paper tape, and banging rocks together in binary. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2009-07-27 18:00 |
| #3 Pay phones. US Mail boxes. Garbage pails in the backyard. 7 digit phone numbers. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-07-27 17:50 |
| #2 Author sounds rather young. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2009-07-27 17:47 |
| #1 ...Going through an phone operator for connection outside toll area. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-07-27 17:46 |