100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About (GeekDad)

[DrewWilson]

There are some things in this world that will never be forgotten, this week’s 40th anniversary of the moon landing for one. But Moore’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 …

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I remember getting dizzy from blowing the dust off of the NES cartiges once to get them all in working order. Picky things those were!

[Signa]

My little brother was just gifted an original game boy with a handful of games and a link cable. Brought back some memories.

[mountain_rage]

My cousins were at their cottage and wanted to listen to a cd, they opened the tape deck and went how does this work and proceeded to try and see if the cd would fit. At which point I told them what it was, how it worked, and got blank stares, then I felt old.

Needless to say they never did manage to get their cd to play in the tape deck.

[rainbowdemon]

Gifted?


Make the English language item number 101!!

[fleecy]

wow. having read that list, i now feel old.

[norm1515]

I'm in my 20s, and a lot of those things aren't familiar to me already. Sure, I've heard of vinyl records, 8 tracks, betamax, and rotary telephones, but I've never actually used them. I'd say this article was written for an older audience. Folks my age already notice a generation gap.

[mountain_rage]

I'm in my 20s, and a lot of those things aren't familiar to me already. Sure, I've heard of vinyl records, 8 tracks, betamax, and rotary telephones, but I've never actually used them. I'd say this article was written for an older audience. Folks my age already notice a generation gap.

I'm 23 and I've seen 8 tracks, had a betamax and rotary telephone as well as some 78's. Hell I even remember there being a typewriter in my house, but I may be the exception not the rule. Anyone here ever seen a voice recorder that used metal wire, weirdest thing my uncle ever found in the dump.

[rainbowdemon]

I'm 23 and I've seen 8 tracks



Seen them? When I was 23, hell, I had a fair size collection of them in my car!! And my home stereo could record them too!!


http://i27.tinypic.com/14l3bk6.jpg

[norm1515]

I'm 23 and I've seen 8 tracks, had a betamax and rotary telephone as well as some 78's. Hell I even remember there being a typewriter in my house, but I may be the exception not the rule. Anyone here ever seen a voice recorder that used metal wire, weirdest thing my uncle ever found in the dump.

Wire Recordings!!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_recording

Some of my favorite Sun Ra records were made on wire. A very lo fi recording approach.

Yet I confess, I have never seen a wire recording device in person.

[DrewWilson]

I've used a rotary phone. Spinning that little disk full of holes to the stop for each number. Whee! I found them kind of fun when I was a kid actually.

I've seen a laserdisc at a fair once. It was wierd seeing the "giant CD" and remembered wondering if they stored more memory.

I had an old record player. I remember getting in trouble for spinning it faster and making it sound funny (no wonder I want to be a DJ! :P ).

I remember playing Tetris on the gameboy and remembering someone I know getting frustrated after reaching a certain level because the pieces gradually became less and less visible.

Thinking about the Atari game consol really brought back memories. I remember Burger Time, that pong game and, I think, Bubble Bobble (not entirely sure that was the name, but pretty sure).

Floppy discs, now those were a joy. Bigger than my hand those things, so I at least knew why they were originally called "floppy".

I'm not sure if I'm remembering DOS, but I remember a command prompt where the background was blue and the letters were a lighter shade of blue. Either way, it was on a commador 64.

Tonnes of stuff on that list that I remember. Total nostalgia there. :smile: