I died a little today.

[kpzra]

Three words. 8 track player.

Sold one today at our garage sale, but I just found some more tapes for it.

Two other words.....

Rotary Telephone.

Yes, I have one of them. Never fails to work and will wake the dead with the ring.

B

I can top that, my Dad has one he uses that it so old it needs an adapter to plug in to a standers phone outlet. Still works though, it's the kitchen phone.

[Greenday]

they also think Duran Duran's "A View to a Kill" is a cover.

Or that the music from Zeppelin's Kashmir was sampled from Puff Daddy's song Come With Me (Came out with Godzilla in 98) or from RATM's song Wake Up.

[RootedPhoenix]

Or that the music from Zeppelin's Kashmir was sampled from Puff Daddy's song Come With Me (Came out with Godzilla in 98) or from RATM's song Wake Up.

Sampling and time travel. Wow.

[Food Lady]

Better yet: reel-to-reel.

I'm surprised this isn't a dalesys post.

[dalesys]

I'm surprised this isn't a dalesys post.

I'm flamous!

I remember watching TV (at friends houses) with round screens... (we didn't get a TV until I was 16 or so)

One of my dad's friends had a wire recorder.

My high school electronics class did our lab tinkering with tubes: dy-odies and try-odies. Yelling *!BANG!* when a classmate was plugging in the last wire on their solderless breadboard was always fun. (250VDC power)

[BeenThereDoneThat]

My parents had a great record collection...very eclectic, and they weren't really into rock and roll or pop music from the rock era. But my mom did have some very cool 45s, dating from the 50s (such as Elvis, The Everly Brothers, Patience and Prudence, and Frankie Avalon); the 60s (The Association, and um...can't remember what else ); and the 70s (Tony Orlando and Dawn, Anne Murray, Neil Diamond, Hot Butter). I have most of the 45s, which I need to bring to their house now that they have a turntable/CD burner thingy (even if I have most of those songs on MP3 now), and they kept some of the LPs that were still playable.

Anyone who is old enough to have bought music on cassette should know what a B side is, as well...cassettes lasted into the 90s. And yes, I know that 1990 was 21 years ago now...

[fma_fanatic]

I've died a little bit at work.

While we were cleaning up for the huge renovation I came across a 14.4k modem. I make the comment to a young sales rep about how I remember using it to get on the internet, and how things have changed from using dial-up. He looks at me for a moment and says "What's dial up?"

Another rep who's old enough to be my dad happened to show me an ad for the original Walkman he found in some old papers in his garage. Think very late 1970s, early 80s. One of the young reps looks at it and says "What's a Walkman?" Yes..we died a little that day too.

These reps are easily 10-15 years younger than me. The should know what some of this stuff is, right?

[BeenThereDoneThat]

I would think so, as their parents probably would have had such things around. Some kids seem to be totally oblivious these days...or maybe I'm just becoming my own parents

[Cazzi]

I used to drive my daughter mad when she was younger, she'd turn the radio up saying "ooh, I like this new song" and I'd be singing away to it

After a few rounds of "how do you know that, its new?" and me explaining what a cover was, she finally got it

I also remember when I was young listening to old 78rpm records, my grandparents had some and my mum ended up with a few old classics.
Unfortunately, I have no idea what happened to them

[MoonCat]

I still have my cassette Walkman. It still works, too. But I also have the new version which is an MP3 player.

[teh_blumchenkinder]

I have a beat-up vcr, from when my bf got it when he was like in early middle school/ around 12 or so (so like mid-nineties, or ealier)... remote and everything, and I need to get it hooked up, so I can introduce my room-mate to The Last Starfighter, Indiana Jones, and Hunt for Red October.
Can you believe that anyone hasn't seen Indiana Jones?? It's gonna be awesome. I also have an A-ko and Demon City that I haven't watched, but got last summer, along with the HfRO-- all from a thrift store, in the ever-lonely book/media section... y'know, the one that is the dumping grounds for people who can't sell/burn/give away what they dug up from gramma's estate-sale... :\ EH. More 4 me.
BEHOLD:
http://www.iheartchaos.com/post/1048...-might-as-well

[draggar]

I still have my cassette Walkman. It still works, too. But I also have the new version which is an MP3 player.

I still have a CD player from the early 1980's - and yes, it works.

[Crossbow]

draggar, i have one from my dad that you'll be able to relate to...

this was when dad was in his 20's (so 80's)
he was in a RECORD store, all the way down at the far end of the alphabet (Yes, the Who, ZZ TOP, etc) and all the way at the other end (the A's and B's) comes this high-pitched squeal (that only tweenage females and dolphins can communicate in) "Oh Missy! Did you that Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings!?!?!?"

these young ladies were not even a full 10 yrs younger than him....

Can't remember how long ago it was (at least 8 years), but that was a question on Teen Jeopardy: "Paul McCartney was in this band before Wings." Nobody got it. One contestant said "Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?" and another responded "Paul McCartney was in a band?"

[BeenThereDoneThat]

We have a great local radio station that plays stuff from the 60s through the 80s...one of their promo ads has soundbytes of kids in the background, and the voiceover says "You don't know the words to THEIR music...how come they know the words to YOURS?" so true!

[AdamAnt316]

Amazing that I've missed this thread before now...

I'm 28, and have known what a B-side was since I was about ten, when I got hooked on vinyl (after I'd gotten my first CD player, no less). Before that, I grew up listening to cassettes, and 8-tracks (found a box of 'em in our basement sometime back in the late '80s, and listened to them until one of them developed sticky pinch roller syndrome, and ruined the player. )

Now, I have several hundred records, and a couple of dozen turntables, my favorite currently being this bad boy.

I am a student of obsolete technology. I collect antique radios, obsolete computers, rotary telephones, vintage stereo equipment, and much much more. Heck, I've even started collecting calculators. And VCRs being old and outdated? How about Laserdisc, or even Selectavision CEDs?

Oddly enough, my parents were into the 'latest and greatest' when I was growing up, or at least that's how it seemed. My father had a stereo system left over from his days in the military, but only used it to listen to the radio, and it eventually went into storage where the turntable and cassette deck had already been. Our only rotary phone was in the basement, and vacuum tube devices were a curiosity, and nothing more. We didn't even have a computer in the house until 1992, when we were handed down an Apple //e. Somehow, I managed to pick up on all this stuff by myself.
-Adam