Can you Identify these old things? Guess old items in 5 secs.

Time to test your memory.
Take this quiz to find out how many old items you remember from the past. If you are around 50, then you should beat this quiz.
30 Old items to identify and 5 seconds for each.
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[@sinenominecc]

As a 73-year-old, I'd like to know where the old stuff was in this quiz?

[@danielpearson6306]

Sine I was born in 1950 and did see any old things. I have most if these down in my basement set up as a museum. My sisters kids and Grandchildren come over just amazed. My wife came here and she is 40. She loves the treadle sewing machine and uses it regularly even though she has a new electric machine. Have several hundred VHS tapes,and many 8 track and cassette tapes. A copy type machine that has to type Master and clip it on a drum and uses ink and turn the drum and it copy it.

[@sinenominecc]

@@danielpearson6306 😄❤️👍🤗 you, like me, grew up in a world that had a fresh memory of the second world war, and had the greatest generation as our models and resources. I'm pretty sure we see the world around us with very different eyes than younger people do.

[@NewtonWashinton]

Sine Nomine, I was thinking the same thing, where's the old stuff?

[@sinenominecc]

@@NewtonWashinton 👍❤️

[@tuc1113]

I'll soon be 72. The only thing on the list I thought was old was the toaster. I did know what it was though.

[@svennoren9047]

Not only did I recognize these items, I've actually used most of them!

[@tea4223]

I got them all except the toaster.

[@giles-df9yu]

That toaster was very very old.. and I have an old typewriter, older than the one shown

[@neilbarnett3046]

@@giles-df9yu Some toasters I have seen in Italy look similar to that one.

[@neilbarnett3046]

I still have some. a couple of cassettes that have recordings of our children, plenty of VCR tapes and a player and a Beta VCR, and there must be plenty of transistors in my DAB radio. I also have 2 linear slide rules and a circular one, and I can still use them, though not with the same adroitness that I could 50 years ago.

[@rooky55]

I still use many of them

[@habeuscorpus9309]

I'm 83, and I remember when some of these things were state of the art.

[@tomaustin9017]

same age....we were so poor, we could not afford many of those things.........

[@user-bs7ue6yz3m]

Me too !!

[@buttercupandnorrie]

Yes and nothing made today is going to ever last as long!!! Hope you make 93!

[@jeffreydavidconner]

Hope you have them now..Most are cheap. I remember my Grandfarther bought one of the first calculator's. I think it cost over $400.00. Now you can buy them at the dollar store. Same with VCR machines/flat screen tv/computers. Only thing not getting cheaper is food. @@tomaustin9017

[@BigDaddyJinx]

Yeah I remember in the early 80's paying $1500 CAD for a VCR that you can now get at a pawn shop for $5 CAD.

[@bladestar2322]

I was born in 1957, I aced this! I'm so Old I remember us kids being the remote control! 😀

[@Stantonv]

"Don't spin the dial!"

[@jjflash1645]

You were born in 1957, you still are a kid. From someone born in 1945.

[@bladestar2322]

That's what I tell people in their 40s and 50s when they start griping about being Old. 😀

[@celestephelps144]

Not to mention adjusting the TV antenna and bunny ears with aluminum foil!

[@bladestar2322]

Had to go outside and turn the antenna every time it rained. And I was terrified having to turn metal pole with my bare hands when it was Lightning!

[@vipertwenty249]

It wasn't called a rotary phone. It was called a telephone. Nobody called them rotary phones until the push button phone had become commonplace and the old style telephone had become rare.

[@Calliope0954]

This oldy-moldy KNOWS that was definitely ROTARY DIAL phone - no coiled line, do not drop hand-set on foot(will break a toe - yea, I did and never did it again). The lighter models made of heavy plastic, hard-wired into the wiring, wall and desk models - still rotary dialed, lighter models with the exciting "push buttons"! - in mid-'70's. I don't know if any collectors or thrift stores would even have any of that older desk set model shown. I've been asked recently "YOU still have a "landline?" Yes, no cell to distract me.

[@dp-sr1fd]

Dead right, it's a telephone and that's that.

[@karyannfontaine8757]

All my telephones are rotary. In my state I cannot make out going calls. I worked for the Telephone Company as did my father and Uncle. Favourite phone is an Oak and Nickel which sits on my desk. I have a cell phone as well to call our.

[@elder1144]

Hmmm, was this connected to a Party Line?

[@vipertwenty249]

@@elder1144 A party line could be set up to enable multi person conference but that was back when I was a bit too young to be needing to do that so I'm a bit vague on the details. That's why Zoom and suchlike services are popular now I'm sure - enables the same to be done without a plug-in analogue exchange. I think party lines were also a thing where more than one phone in a building used the same telephone wire - could that be more the sort of thing you're thinking of?

[@ChristLink-Channel]

Your "portable cassette player" is actually called a Walkman. I never heard anyone refer to it as a "portable cassette player".

[@kathyelliott6051]

Only in adds in the newspaper 🗞️

[@ruthmcpherson247]

I had one. Thought I was so cool. As a Walkman, it was cool. Portable cassette player?? Not so much.

[@ragdollplayer]

Walkman is a registered trademark of Sony Co. which has been adopted into common usage

[@heatherhoward2513]

Still got mine, and cassettes are coming back, like vinyl records.

[@getin3949]

Actually the Walkman was a brand named by Sony just like Apple named the ipod, a/k/a Media Players. We forget that certain items like the Kleenex brand is ONLY belongs to Kleenex but we tend to call ALL tissues Kleenex which they are not. Puffs are Puffs and so on.

[@kennethfreeman4041]

I'm still waiting for someone to show a metal ice tray with a arm to loosen the ice.

[@keshatton2334]

I had one. Made by prestige Aluminium thing brilliant

[@jehannehardwick6311]

We had one.

[@susanhlavaty9500]

I still have one

[@spearministries424]

i have 3 of them and i do use them

[@Songwriter376]

Had them all the time back in the day. Pulled too hard and the handle broke.

[@christinebutler7630]

I still have my grandmother's Singer sewing machine, operated with a treadle instead of electricity. It still works just fine. I live off grid, so I have lanterns, a washboard, a coffee grinder, a wringer, a clothesline and clothespins, a bellows to help the fire catch in the woodstove, a toaster that's meant to be used on the hearth of the fireplace, the manual typewriter I used in high school (still works. Hard to find ribbons for it, though.)

[@dennisoyston]

Hello Christine, Looks like we both live in the same environment. I am 84 and the sewing machine is hand driven, the toaster is a 3 prong fork! Knew all of those. Dennis.

[@jamesfacer594]

If you live in any area subject to hurricanes or blizzards you have some lanterns hanging around.

[@paulbennett4415]

@christinebutler7630, I have a manual typewriter and I agree with you, just can't find any ribbons for it. The ones I have are now threadbare, but I used to love typing away on it (much quicker than writing).

[@steamboatwillie7344]

What about a ' rack' clothes airer' in the kitchen, with 4 wooden rails and a hoist with a cleat on the wall, sited near the Raeburn solid fuel fire, with back boiler??

[@Merlin3189]

@@jamesfacer594 But these are not lanterns, except in the generic sense of lights. They are specifically hurricane lamps, with tubes to allow them to burn steadily even in windy conditions.

[@roybradley5532]

Born in 1958 some of these didn't seem old at all to me😁

[@samanthab1923]

I’m 59. Makes me laugh when they call the 80’s vintage 😂

[@TheRealBrook1968]

Except that coffee grinder. By the time self-grinding came back in style, we had the eclectic ones.

[@linnpierce]

Same age. I agree.

[@justmeperthau]

Couldn’t agree more born the same year

[@yoyo-1958]

Same here!

[@tonyneilson1652]

I worked with computers beginning in 1974 and the first item you pictured was called a diskette. A floppy disk was about 4 inches square and was made from a very thin plastic material housed in a sleeve also manufactured from a very thin plastic and the assembly of the two was very flexible, hence the moniker floppy! There were also 8 inch floppy disks used in centralized computers back then.

[@richdiddens4059]

I've still got a box of them and it's labeled 3 1/2 inch floppy. Just found them a month ago cleaning out a cabinet. The next older was a 5 1/4 floppy. The larger ones weren't used much if at all on home computers.

[@steveurbach3093]

A floppy was 8" (hard or soft sectored) or 5.25" BTW early Z80 mini's used 8"

[@debbylou5729]

This is why I love watching people talking about history. You just have to go with it because no one actually cares about the tiny steps. I always wonder what the rest of these things were called along the way

[@batmanlives6456]

@@richdiddens4059 I had a home computer that used 5.25 inch floppy disks And it had a massive 20 kb hard drive!

[@gkrishnan4829]

still today at least the symbol or the icon is used as an icon for 'save' command on all MS applications and appears on the top row of command icons

[@sklag1]

Know them all. But I'm so old I can remember when the Dead Sea just had a bad cough.

[@nobodynone]

I have to steal that remark, my ribs hurt from laughing. 🤣🤣🤣

[@sklag1]

@@nobodynone :)

[@cathymooney7498]

🤣😂😅😂🤣👏👏👏😭

[@keithlibner9259]

I was on the committee that named dirt.

[@bobair2]

Good one!

[@gregshonle2072]

I think the 8-track player was really a full-on receiver, that had a built-in 8-track player. I see a tuning dial, volume & balance controls, and an input selector, in addition to the 8-track mechanism. The toaster was WAY older than any I ever saw...

[@Rick-or2kq]

I haveseen toasters like that but they were just for decoration not used.

[@BRLaue]

My grandmother in Wyoming had one in the ‘50s.

[@richardvoogd705]

I've only seen one 8 track player that I can remember, and that was in a class mate's family's car in the 1970s.

[@monicaluketich6913]

@@linas1319 VHS won because they literally went through Sony's garage and got the plans for models that didn't work as well, but it allowed them to get to market sooner. Story from my music and electronics loving older brother.

[@kathyputman5160]

exactly, it appeared to have an equalizer as well.

[@paulveenings6861]

I not only know what all of these items are , I still use a lot of them . 😂

[@harlangrove3475]

Lots of VHS tapes going through your VCR, eh? OTOH, if you have a classic Pontiac GTO, only 8-track would be appropriate.

[@Sandyg1961]

I have a stereo with record player, cassette player, am-fm radio and eight track tape player all in one. Listened to “The BestOf The Guess Who” eight track tape just a couple weeks ago. Also have an eight track tape recorder but haven’t tried using that in twenty years or more.

[@Sandyg1961]

@@harlangrove3475 I have over 100 vhs tapes and three vcr’s and still use one from time to time. One is a Magnavox that was one of the first machines produced for public consumers. Don’t even get me started on my Tandy TRS-80 computers.

[@randyrobinson3951]

Me too

[@Maddog-xc2zv]

still have some with no practical use today (diskettes, rotary phone, vhs and vcr, cassette tapes, walkman........)

[@diane1390]

I got most of them correct. I had a problem with the TV remote, but otherwise I was good. Im 70, so I knew them. The laundry mangle I knew as a "wringer". I worked in an industrial laundry in the mid 1970's, and we called the presses that ironed out sheets and towels, etc as manglers. We had others that pressed uniforms. I worked with a towel folder in the second industrial laundry I worked in.

[@soulsurfer5531]

That “portable cassette player” was always called a WALKMAN. The old “remote control” was called a CLICKER bc you had to click the buttons and they actually made a noise.

[@KeesKouwenberg]

Walkman was the brandname of a Sony cassette player. And, yes, the picture was a Walkman, but the name of the device is portable cassette player.

[@soulsurfer5531]

@@KeesKouwenberg True. And I ended up with an amazing THC pcr. However, where I lived we them the same thing. Like tissues and Kleenex.

[@KeesKouwenberg]

@@soulsurfer5531 Well, that is true, the name 'Walkman' became the name for all portable cassette players. Like aspirin for pain killers.

[@soulsurfer5531]

@@KeesKouwenberg 💯! Wherever you are & whatever’s going on I agree with you on this point completely. Honestly, I don’t remind a single friend/person/ even my parents etc.. who referred to my rtp as anything but. Walkman. Same for CDs. And I had a As Waterproof as you couldn’t get at the time Sony Sports CD player. 🎧

[@JustinMShaw]

@@soulsurfer5531 I had a few walkmen. I never paid attention to the brand. Eventually I got one that played CDs (ridiculous feature since those skip if the player gets nudged) and called it a "walkman that plays CDs."

[@andreg212]

I've had and used most of these. I'm 80 yrs young.

[@salyluz6535]

Born in the 60s and I got 29 out of 30. The only one I wasn’t sure about is the toaster, because it looks so very different from the manual toasters I have used. That sewing machine is not a treadle or foot powered one- it has a hand crank on the right. It’s manual and I have a used one like it several times; it was in use before the year 1880. I was blessed to spend many days with the older members of my family growing up. Most of them lived on farms, and I even knew my grandmother‘s grandmother. Every time I stayed overnight at my great-grandmothers house I slept in a feather bed with a rope grid underneath, instead of a box springs or modern mattress. I definitely sank down in the middle of that bed! Sometimes in winter we warmed up beds with a hot water bottle, hot rocks or a heated brick wrapped in a towel. Everything in this list besides the toaster was easy- ours were just a different style.

[@samanthab1923]

I thought I was surrounded by older family members but that’s something. A real feather bed 👍

[@MrMousley]

My grandparents had a toaster exactly like that one. The bread went in at the sides .. you could only toast one side of the slice of bread at a time .. and there was a toast rack on top to keep the toast warm until you'd finished toasting all the slices you needed. I took absolutely AGES !!!

[@jackkircher1755]

I missed the roaster one too. It was primitive state-of-the-art technology back when electricity was in its infancy. We had a charcoal iron shed i was little plus other items pictured here such as a washboard and typewriter. I learned on a "Underwood" brand typewriter. The office typewriter brand was Royal.

[@sinenominecc]

I knew it was a toaster, but yes the one they use was much older than most of the other things it showed.

[@sinenominecc]

They showed, not I showed

[@fjtalleyauthor2242]

The real question is: how many of us had--or still have--these items in our homes? And so odd--to me--that typewriters, staplers , fax machines and kaleidoscopes made this "vintage" list.

[@pueblodove]

I used a stapler like that the other day

[@user-bu7jl6zy5d]

The iron and toaster were pretty ancient. In the case of the antique toaster, if I hadn't seen one for real, I might not have guessed that was what it was.

[@johnphillips2396]

I confess.I have some of these items still.

[@judyevans3434]

I was thinking I still had most of them. Not the toaster but I remember them well. Got rid of some floppy disks the other day! Still have my boom box 8 track, cassette player and radio plug it in or use batteries good for when the power goes off!

[@antilogism]

@@user-bu7jl6zy5d Fully manual. Fist one side, then the other and don't walk away! My waffle iron is nearly the same age (1932) but it works great.

[@Venus77x]

The shocking thing is I've actually used almost all of these in my lifetime!

[@tonywright8294]

Why is it shocking ? You moron

[@merleboyd9962]

Had no idea it was a toaster but knew the others and l'm 88 . Brain still working well !!

[@PanglossDr]

I never used a washboard but my mother did.

[@richardball3585]

I still do.

[@kathyelliott6051]

Me to

[@barryhallam1628]

I note that the 'Bed Warmer' puzzled quite a few people commenting and have probably never seen one. Unfortunately, the picture gave no impression of its actual size. The lidded pan would have been about the size of a large inner-plate about two inches deep - it was filled with hot coals or cinders. The wooden handle could be of varying lengths, but three or four feet would be usual. The pans of quality versions would be made from copper and/or brass, and highly polished. Nowadays, they can be found in antique shops, purchased as ornamental wall-hanging furniture. My grandmother had two of them hanging in her hall.

[@designed_by_danita]

I missed this one. I'm sure it was because of the picture too. It looked like it could have been a tool for so many pre-electric things! I know what it is because my Mom told me about things growing up in the 1930s, and I was forever asking questions. But it was the only thing not really used in my lifetime. I was lucky enough to have a portable 8 track player with which I could record my music off the radio. My children would even remember VCRs and VSH taps. Sadly I don't think my grandkids would know any of these items. Maybe I'll quiz them just for fun! 😊

[@stephaniebibb9102]

I only knew about the bed warmer from an old episode of Bewitched, when they visited the House of Seven Gables, the bed warmer kept harassing Samantha!

[@kathyputman5160]

The one my granny had was more like you described. I believe it had a pattern of holes on the top so you couldn't turn it over. She would put hot coals in it and run it between the sheets before we got in and then piled quilts on us so thick we couldn't more unless we woke up one of our sisters to hold it up while you got up or rolled over. There was no heat in the house at night. Just cinders in the coal stove in the front room to make it easy to start in the morning.

[@aspenrebel]

We used to use one to make popcorn in the fireplace.

[@aspenrebel]

​@@stephaniebibb9102ha ha!! Now they have a "Bewitched" statue of her in Salem.

[@jerryjasinski8229]

The "transistor radio" looked more like a table top tube radio. Transistor radios were quite small.

[@sinenominecc]

Not the earliest ones. But yes, most people will remember transistor radios as being more like a cigarette packet size device.

[@michael931]

Yes. Se Some of these weren't quite correct. Laundry mangle?

[@sinenominecc]

@@michael931 Yeah, I'm in my '70s and I never heard that term before. Those were always called wringers in my mother's house.

[@giuseppe4909]

Jerry…it even said TRANSISTOR RADIO right on it…..pay attention.

[@sylviawall2030]

​@@sinenominecc I'm 79 and from North East UK. My Granny had one of those and always called it a mangle. My Mum had a smaller version that clamped onto the end of a kitchen table. She called it a wringer.

[@williamlewis9320]

CHILD'S PLAY for this 80 year old! I GOT 'EM ALL!

[@midnittkr]

That bed warmer sure looked like a popcorn popper

[@chrisc5147]

Thats what I thought it was at first. That was the only one I missed. Bed warmers were used way way back in the day like 1800's and before i thought

[@anonymousbastard2981]

I missed the bed warmer too.

[@HariSeldon913]

My bedwarmer doubles as a mousetrap and prefers tuna as fuel.

[@as400techman]

We have one hanging on the wall in my house.

[@pointnIaugh]

I thought it was a popcorn popper as well.

[@OldDude1776]

I'm 73 Years old too.... didn't see anything I haven't seen had or used in my life. Yep, as the othe person said.... where's the Old Stuff ?

[@darleneengebretsen1468]

I was born in 1960 and got 29 of 30. Many of these items are still in use.

[@glenm3712]

I chuckled when I saw the slide rule. It reminded me of the time someone wrote, "He worked out the taxes with a sly drool." 😂

[@TheInkPitOx]

You could give me that one. I guessed ruler

[@dionlindsay2]

And the constipated mathematician who worked it out with a pencil

[@glenm3712]

@@dionlindsay2 🤣🤣🤣

[@roberts1922]

I had to take a short course on using a sliderule when I started university… 😢

[@glenm3712]

@@roberts1922 I think you're kind of giving your age away. 🤣

[@elliottgussow9555]

The mangle was really a wringer. A mangle is an electric ironing device.

[@johnjackson8692]

Why didn't you Google that before you made such nonsense statement.

[@edithdavis2848]

It's both . I did Google it, we had the Mangle electric iron and have used the wringer mangle to squeeze water from cloth items.

[@canuckprogressive.3435]

When we speak of something getting "mangled" It comes from the wringer device. A lot of people got their arms crushed in those things.

[@debbiemullen2574]

I enjoyed this, born in 1960. There were several I didn't know, but many I did. Makes you kinda miss the old days.

[@douglasburnside]

29 out of 30. The toaster was too weird looking for me to identify right away. I grew up with most of these things.

[@pansysutton4689]

The same here never used a toaster like that, we made toast in a iron skillet or the oven.

[@j5nephews558]

@@pansysutton4689 we held bread on a fork over the gas burners.

[@secondchance6603]

Got 25, I'm fine with that.

[@rooky55]

I have a drop side toaster but the bread rack on top is what is confusing.

[@jimmeade2976]

I'm an old guy so this quiz was pretty easy. I lived through everything shown.

[@rwadley15]

Great trip down memory lane, thank you. It's quite astonishing that in my lifetime I have seen so many of these items come to market and then been superseded.

[@catherinedavy1022]

Brought back great memories 🥰

[@eandsm4620]

Yes, indeed it did for me, too!

[@EagleOneM1953]

Nice to see the coffee grinder... reminded me of my grandmother..... used it thousands of times when I visited her... And making coffee with a kettle of boiling water and a cloth coffee 'filter' in the coffee pot.... still the best way to make a good cup of coffee...

[@bgueberdenteich5206]

My German mother called filtered coffee CASTRATED. She made the best coffee, just dumped the hot water over the coffee, which she grinded in her coffee mill, please excuse my /English, and let it steep a while. The Germans have the best roasted coffee beans. When I visited her in Germany, I would drink 4 cups in one sitting. So delicious it was !

[@patricialertora8407]

I still have the identical coffee grinder on my kitchen counter. 😂

[@EagleOneM1953]

@@patricialertora8407 wished I still had one... and grandma's coffee pot with a long elongated pouring snout...

[@pansysutton4689]

A stove top percolator! Best smell in the morning!

[@bgueberdenteich5206]

worst coffee ever !@@pansysutton4689

[@kacythomas7436]

The only one I missed was the remote control, because never had one like that. Born in the early 1940's and have used everything else the mangle is also called a wringer, because without it you had to wringer your clothes by hand.

[@erichanastacio9695]

WOW!!! An Octogenarian (most likely) 😁😁😁😁

[@rebeccamcintyre1112]

We had a remote for the TV. It was us kids.

[@keensoundguy6637]

@@rebeccamcintyre1112 The voice-activated TV remote controls (a.k.a. children) were the predecessor of Amazon Echo and similar devices.

[@kathyputman5160]

ours was on top of the machine and I still wear a scar from getting my arm stuck in it.

[@bite-sizedshorts9635]

@@kathyputman5160 I have a numb area on my arm from getting caught in the wringer. They didn't have the safety shutoff back then in the early 50s.

[@mike196212]

I got most of them. Some I've never heard of. I still have cassette tapes(TONS!) from the 80s and 90s. I'm 61 and came up recording my lps on these things. Recorded from the radio as well. They still sound great. 8-Track tapes were a disaster. Had a few when I was in junior high. I still have a working vcr and several vhs tapes. I'm old!! lol.

[@stevencunningham4680]

Born in 1961 , I got every one of them right and most aren't that old. Many are still in use today.

[@Phaedrax2]

I love old items and collect them at boot fairs, have a very old sewing machine, wash board, old bread bins, zinc buckets & baby baths. I'm very nostalgic 😊

[@usmale49]

Great quiz...thank you for uploading and sharing!!!

[@zzzbbbooo]

Great quiz...if you're 25.

[@mariannevandenlemmer3428]

As a 65 year old, I knew everything.

[@dmpag7000]

Great video - thoroughly enjoyed it thanks

[@jackkircher1755]

The gramophone was also known as a Victrola or phonograph (later called the record player(. If they had a record (vinyl disk on here, very few people would know what it was. I only missed three.

[@lenom1289]

That reminds me of a funny saying from my dad. When he met someone very talkative, he said: "He must have received his vaccines from a gramophone needle." I told it to my son and he was 🤔😶.

[@ronlapworth5805]

Actually Victrola was a brand. The records were shellac, not vinyl.

[@canuckprogressive.3435]

@@ronlapworth5805 They were slate dust mixed with shellac.

[@JustinMShaw]

We called them "old record players."

[@southernmermaid2526]

I answered Phonograph as well, when I saw the answer I said out loud “ same thing “ 😊

[@marionmarino1616]

Those old iron irons were very heavy, very hot. They did a GREAT job. Wish I could find one to use today.

[@dostondoc23]

Good! Informative. Brought back good memories. Thank you.

[@batmanlives6456]

When you are as old as me and I still use most of these items , it wasn’t too hard !

[@georgegrubbs2966]

27/30. At 82 years and counting, I have used most of these items. Others to consider: pogo stick, stilts, yo-yo, slinky, slingshot, arcola, icebox, arcola, coal bin, metal skates, skate key, and BB-gun.

[@marionmarino1616]

How about a milkman delivering your milk. Or free beef bones and liver? Giving your pastries list to the guy who delivered your bread?

[@caldy206]

I still have a slingshot and use it to this day. Woodpecker on your house at 4 am. Ice and a slingshot. Hit right below them and it makes a horrid noise and that’s the end of the 4 am wake up call.

[@lesleyhawes6895]

What, is an arcola?

[@georgegrubbs2966]

@@lesleyhawes6895 It is the brand name of a heating unit that heats water into steam and the steam goes to the radiators. It usually burns coal. I have not so fond memories of going out to the coal bin and getting buckets of coal for the Arcola. I also had to dispose of the cinders. Good old days.

[@caldy206]

An Arcola is a moth. Or it could be referring to a town which there are many in the US. There is also a census place call the same thing.

[@mattwaters6987]

Im 63 and the "bed warmer" was the only one I missed. Today we call it a spouse. 😂

[@user-dk9kb2yn5p]

Enjoyed the quiz

[@albertwells8503]

Half the stuff in that video are still used today.

[@TheScavenger71]

Me too. VHS and cassette tapes and my trusty stapler! (They forgot to mention my vinyl records)

[@albertwells8503]

@@TheScavenger71 Yes, I have stacks of vinyl records, and somewhere I have a box of 8 tracks. I still watch movies on VHS, and play records occasionally. And I don’t know the 1st thing about computers!

[@mintywebb]

@@TheScavenger71 but you don't play them on a gramophone. Using VHS today is just weird.

[@bmoshareholderappleshareho855]

@@TheScavenger71 I guess they did not mention vinyl records or a turntable because vinyl records are making a comeback. I still use a VCR because I have a lot of VHS tapes. I'm going to play them until they are worn out.

[@tobygathergood4990]

Well that's a 100% right for me. Not only that, I have almost all of those items still kicking around here somewhere...

[@TnseWlms]

How about the device you put a credit card in and slide back and forth to print a receipt?

[@canuckprogressive.3435]

I remember using those when I pumped gas in the 80s.

[@michaelzurilla7639]

Knucklebuster

[@bmoshareholderappleshareho855]

That one should have been on the list.

[@rooky55]

@@canuckprogressive.3435I used them pumping gas in the sixties.

[@nealparkinson6779]

Complete honesty here: The only one I missed was the Toaster. The stamp holder was a strange angle, but "Saw it" as soon as the name was revealed. The only other in question was the "Laundry Mangler" never heard it called anything other than a "Clothes Wringer," which is where the expression "Putting them through the Wringer" came from. My biggest sense of Pride came from the Bed Warmer. We had an antique one hanging as decoration on our fireplace. (I am not that old! Lol)

[@lesleyhawes6895]

I think it depended on the person, half of my family called it the 'mangle' the rest called it the wringer, I understoo do both terms. You got me with the warming-pan though, I thought it was a chestnut roaster, sa,me shape, but much smaller.

[@nealparkinson6779]

@@lesleyhawes6895 chestnut roaster? Closed like a bed warmer or porous like a popcorn popper?

[@Lily_The_Pink972]

In the UK it's just a mangle. We don't add unnecessary words like in the US!

[@nealparkinson6779]

@janeaustin9120 fair enough, but we eliminated even Mangler. We don't use them anymore despite the nomenclature. So, we aren't really adding words there. However, I will admit to adding "A" or "The" to hospital! Lol Sorry, "He was taken to Hospital" just sounds like an incomplete sentence to us on this side of the big pond!

[@Lily_The_Pink972]

@@nealparkinson6779 To we Brits, going to the hospital sounds odd. Which hospital? We leave the out and use hospital as a generalisation. To be more specific we would name the hospital. You don't say a kid goes to the school, so why add the when referring to hospital? But thats just one difference between British English and US English! Getting back to the mangle, we also call it a wringer. So putting someone through the wringer is giving them a tough time.

[@missmayflower]

Haha..I know them all, but I’m so old that I forget the names.

[@karenedwards6713]

I got 27 of them and I own most of them. I almost bought a gun with a coffee grinder in the stock but it was in really bad shape and I'd rather spend a little more and get a better example. My nephew told my sister that coming to my house is like visiting a museum.

[@theprior46]

Fascinating to see these things. On a pedantic point the Telephone shown was never called a Rotary Telephone - it was just called a Telephone and had a rotary dial which they all had untl the early 1960s when the dials were beginning to be replaced with push buttons. But it was fun to do the test. Easy too for us oldies !

[@Ugot2BkddnMe]

I'm old.. i missed one. The bed warmer.... i thought was a Leprechaun's pipe.

[@cnjsharp2]

Only missed the toaster. I still have many of those times in our house.

[@teresasnow-angel5494]

The oldest item I have is a washboard bought in the late 60's--plus a sony walkman---lots of tapes...those were the good old days!!!

[@rufust.firefly4890]

We had a wooden rolling pin, WOODEN checkers, and an ice cream scoop with a wooden handle. No plastic. My grandmother had wooden clothes pins with out the springs in them. My grandfather and father would say "ice box" even though they were long gone. I also remember when a tube went bad in the tv. Call the repairman, $15 for a house call.

[@teresasnow-angel5494]

@@rufust.firefly4890 I remember those days well and miss the good o'l days..still using some wooden clothes pins better then the useless plastic ones!!!

[@bmoshareholderappleshareho855]

I still use a VCR because I have a lot of VHS tapes. I'm going to them until they are worn out.

[@paulmaxson2769]

Got most of them...nice memories.

[@John-oe5nb]

The toaster got me. It looked like something in an old time horror laboratory along side a "Jacob's latter". (Two wires with a spark that goes up them)

[@DarrellCook-vl6lm]

Oh yeah the great Jacobs ladder, one of my early attempts to electrocute myself and become a superhero. And a Van der Graff generator, electric fences, stun guns, Tesla coil, arc lamp capacitor or modified bar lights could not do the job. I've been bit by them all. I still fear lightning, it's a little bit extreme. Best not to go too far, it always hurts

[@wayneparkinson4558]

I thought it was a mafia style torture implement for removing pinkies?

[@rondias6625]

So if this was a piece of cake I knew every item and I have owned everything in this video that must mean I'm older than DIRT !! Lol 🤔🤪✌️

[@wrotenwasp]

At 59 , most of these things don't seem "old". VCRs/dot matrix printers were still in use in the 2000s. An old item seems like something that would be over 50 years old.

[@wayneparkinson4558]

Its not officially ancient antique until its a century old but retro as change that for people want to ark back to simpler times i think?

[@bite-sizedshorts9635]

Gibbs had a dot matrix printer in an episode when the group was pinned down in his basement and Tim wanted to use a computer. Poor Tim had a hard time.

[@sallyhausken2307]

I agree…most of these things belong to the recent past 60 years…way too new for us oldies.

[@markstench4470]

Missed three , but honestly the bed warmer wasn't to scale

[@MartinJames389]

Some of these aren't old at all. Hurricane lamps (which you oddly call a "lantern") are very much used now, and the only practical light source in many circumstances. Staplers work just the same, too, only they look a bit more flashy nowadays.

[@johnbgood52]

In most parts of the country, that's a lantern. They're only called "hurricane lamps" in places where they have hurricanes.

[@MartinJames389]

@@johnbgood52 There are no h.urricanes where I live, but I've never known it called anything other than a hurricane lamp. "lantern" can cover a multitude of things, where as there are only two types of hurricane lamp, one with a passive fuel tank and the other with a pressurised one, which you use a drop of meths to light, then close the glass and pump up the fuel presssure. The pressurised type gives a stronger light as long as you pump it occasionally, but it does emit a hissing sound, which I find very soporific.

[@marysneed7119]

I got most of them, but that "transistor radio" looked a lot bigger than I remembered. The transistor radios we had fit in your hand

[@frederickwelham3829]

Transistor radio was not an indication of the size, but a description of the electronics that made it work. Prior to transistors being available radio sets used valves, which were much larger and used far more power, making small portable units impractical. You had to wait for valve operated radios to warm up. The valves themselves were quite fragile, and would not withstand rough treatment transistor radios could.

[@OhSoddit]

I've used a radio that still had valves :)

[@bite-sizedshorts9635]

That's because when we had the pocket transistor radio, almost all the larger radios were still tube type. My father finally bought one of the larger portable radios that had transistors in the mid 1960s. It used too much current to run much on batteries, so it had an electric cord.

[@briangriffin5524]

Transistor radios came in every size and shape. At the Woodstock museum in Bethel NY, there is a exhibit of radios tracing the history of music and how we all listen to music.

[@jillgibb4022]

Got all of those. Easy peasy! Some of them still in use in our house.

[@michaelwright-tu6qb]

Got ‘em all. Should have my picture included at 82 yrs old.

[@johnearle1]

I got them all. I’m surprised you didn’t include a manual egg beater or a razor blade sharpener. Film cameras also are oddly missing. I have a ceramic foot warmer about the size of a big loaf of bread. You fill it with hot water, and put your feet on it. It’s about 150 years old. I also have a working mantel clock which is 170 years old.

[@keithlibner9259]

I have an 1870s Moreau mantle clock with Poseidon riding 2 horses.

[@kenstrauss5841]

I still have and use a lot of them !

[@unprofor9394]

C’mon…😂 I’m 50 Years old, and I remember all of this stuff…😉

[@elaines8297]

The quiz made me smile, but reading the comments made me LOL!!!!!!🤣

[@carolynwoodman1734]

17 correct. What a hoot. Merry Christmas everyone.

[@douglasherron7534]

As others have noted, your first item is NOT a floppy disk, it's a "stiffy" (so-called because is came in a hard plastic case which meant it didn't bend easily - in fact it would break rather then bed). Floppy disks were much larger (from 5.25 inches up). I used 5.25 inch floppy disks when doing my Computer Studies O-Grade in 1984/5 on BBC microcomputers at school. Personal computers in those days (Sinclair ZX-81/ Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad, etc.) tended to use cassette tapes from a tape recorder to load up programs or games at that time. I didn't use stiffies until I went to uni in the late 80's/ early 90's.

[@gbone7581]

The one in between the Floppy and the Stiffy was called the Semi-lazy!

[@greglinski2208]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@douglasherron7534]

@@greglinski2208 I know, I know.... Must have been a computer nerd who came up with that name! 😆

[@smithno41]

Even though the 3 inch computer disk pictured had a stiff plastic outer case, the magnetic media inside was still flexible and it was still called a "floppy". I had computers with those, 5.25 and 8 inch floppies at one time.

[@douglasherron7534]

@@smithno41 The 5.25 and 8 inch floppies had soft plastic covers over the magnetic media inside and flopped/bent if picked up by one side or corner. While the magnetic media inside was the same, except for the storage capacity, the hard plastic case of the 3.5 inch mean it did not bend when held - hence it was stiff. The use of "floppy" and "stiffy" also helped to readily identify what type/ size of disk you were talking about. Maybe this is a US v UK thing (two countries divided by a common language).

[@ralphmills7322]

Born in 1956 never saw a toaster like that, my Dad used an old toaster that after toasting bread on one side you drop the sides of the toaster and flipped the bread over to toast the other side. No "pop up" mechanism and only one heater coil. Took twice as long to toast and you had to watch it or your toast was charcoal. Your "Floppy Disk" is a 3.5" diskette which have a rigid plastic case. Floppy disks were either 5.25" or 8" where the magnetic media was held in place in a flimsy plastic sleeve. We used to make our single sided Floppy disks into "Flippy disks" by cutting a write notch and adding a hole to the other side of the sleeve thus we would double our capacity in single sided readers by "flipping" the disk over. Our old Maytag had an attached "Wringer" that was a powered version of the "Mangle" you showed.

[@terrytt5067]

Still got 2 full functioning VCRs. One is a Spare in case of malfunction in main-use one. Still got a Portable Sony Cassette player with graphic equalizer! Many of the items shown are still in use by our extended family. I was a '55 baby! Up the revolution, bring back Graphic Equalizers on Stereo Systems, bring back National Service (especially for Politicians & Asylum Seekers) and BAN "Flairs" from making a comeback! Have a Nice numerous day haha!

[@losonsrenoster]

Born 1956, I received a gyroscope exactly like the one at 5:33 from my uncle who toured Germany around 1963. I used a piece of string wound around the axle to spin it. The toaster got me, it looked a little like my italian aunt's spaghetthi maker.

[@OhSoddit]

The toaster and the "bed warmer" defeated me.

[@mikeneill6813]

@@OhSoddit I was born in 1949. Knew them all except the type eraser. Cos I didn't know they existed. I do now.

[@jonelfilipek7848]

I’m 66 and the only one I missed was the bed warmer. We were blessed to have furnaces.

[@ccgsales]

LOLs... I thought it was an old fashioned popcorn popper for a fireplace! The only one I 'missed', though I still say it looks like an old popper!

[@allanrichardson9081]

@@ccgsales The size could have confused some people. I saw one in an old plantation house where my aunt and uncle lived up until the mid sixties (after my uncle died, my aunt sold the plantation (a combination cattle ranch and lettuce farm) and bought a house in town, where she lived the rest of her life. Anyway, the pan would be filled with hot coals at bedtime, and with the lid closed, placed above the covers at the foot of the bed, to keep the sleeper’s feet warm. The long handle allowed the occupant to move it around.

[@jerry171460]

I didn't know what it was!

[@melodyszadkowski5256]

At 68, I remember sitting down for the first time at an electric typewriter with a correctible ribbon and thinking it was the coolest thing ever. No more White-Out, no more eraser crumbs to clean up, no more retyping whole pages cuz the editor found one typo. Flash forward 45 years and I'm sitting at my laptop reading that my wonderful item is now officially "old." Well, so am I and I'm proud of it. Never thought in my 20s that I would ever say that! 😁 Keep the quizzes coming.

[@kulturfreund6631]

I like the 80ish like presentation. Just fits. 👍

[@mookyzook]

I think some of the items had slightly different names in english speaking countries around the world.

[@rejeanasselin4083]

if you want to mess up the mind of a millenium kid, give them a rotary phone, and the instruction to operate it in cursive letters

[@geriroush8004]

millenials are entering middle age. They're not kids anymore.

[@robertwalker7457]

The local high school did the musical Grease, they had a rotary phone and the kid pretending to use it poked at it with his finger like a touch pad, good laugh for the oldies.

[@missmayflower]

Not exactly a flex, knowing hoe to operate an obsolete phone.

[@reb1050]

I'm 74 and have seen, used, and in come cases, still have, everything pictured.

[@lindickison3055]

Heavens! Im stull using half this stuff - including grandmas washboard!!!!!

[@colossusforbin5484]

It is NOT wrong to call the first item a floppy disk. That's what they are called in the US at least. It is NOT a hard disk. It's technically a "floppy" disk, but with a protective casing. If you slide open the silver protector, you'll see the disk inside is actually "floppy". As "floppy" as the 5 1/4 floppy disks. Same material. Just smaller with a different casing.

[@MsAmericanMaid]

Yeah but we called them diskettes back in the day, Before we were using 5-1/2" floppies

[@colossusforbin5484]

@@MsAmericanMaidStill not wrong to call it "floppy".

[@bite-sizedshorts9635]

@@MsAmericanMaid I was working with them "back in the day," and we called them floppies. We had used 8-inch floppies up to 1988 on IBM Displaywriter word processing machines, and then had to transfer everything to 3 1/2 inch for use with IBM PCs and WordPerfect 5.0 for DOS.

[@terrygraham1226]

Except for bed warmer, I have used every item. First phone I used was a crank phone. A telephone operator would answer and you give her the phone number you wanted to be connected. Phone number for folk's business was "123"! Never mind my final score! ☺

[@HariSeldon913]

I remember. The operator was Lilly Tomlin.

[@DyenamicFilms]

Some of these I still have. Walkman (GE brand), 8 track tapes, VHS tapes, cassettes, floppy disks.

[@eleanorbertuch135]

Great fun 👏😀

[@ryandavis7593]

Actually that wasn’t a mangle, it is a wringer. A mangle is a kind of iron built into a drum shape for mass ironing of clothes. We had one when I was growing up in the seventies that my sisters used to iron peoples clothes that they would wash, dry and iron for spending money. I really hated to see it go when my mother sold it. It made ironing a lot easier. The wringer on the other hand is what one used after doing laundry by hand. We did that too when we lived up in the Rockies. I never want to see another one.

[@anndinoto]

I think your answer is correct. The mangled my aunt had was run by electricity and warmed up like an iron would today. I also remember the smell. That's why I hate going to the dry cleaners.

[@martindunstan8043]

We called it a mangle when my mother used one in the UK early 70s

[@geoffreycodnett6570]

Certainly is a mangle. A much smaller motorised version with rubber rollers formed part of some washing machines in the 1950s and 60s. Those were referred to as whingers sometimes. A mangle was a much wider machine often with wooden rollers and with adjustable handles to change the pressure. Those dated from the Victorian era. There were stand alone whingers, again with rubber rollers,and much smaller than a mangle.

[@briangriffin5524]

Laundry day was such drudgery for women. Ironing was another task no one missed.

[@davidrobinson9972]

My auld mum used to say, "That's about as funny as a tit in a wringer."

[@joem7889]

If you find a majority of these hard to identify, your might be lacking the social fabric binding all of us together. Even if it's before your time, I can't imagine any well-rounded person not knowing a telephone, floppy, printer, or even the old-time iron. BTW, I have a pencil sharpener on my desk that looks just like yours.

[@garywinterbottom4930]

Agreed seems a lot of todays youth are so engrossed in the cult of celebrities rather than expanding their knowledge base in general.

[@SnowSaska]

Yes I remember all of these items but forgot 6 of their names - good quiz

[@worldtraveler930]

Several of these items can still be purchased and utilized today!!! 🤠👍

[@kathrynmast916]

I’m old…knew them all and used most of them. Even have about three quarters in my house right now 😁👍

[@gayhutton2462]

I have many of them am 83 most I'm familiar with.

[@gj8683]

Boomer here and the ones I missed were the bedwarmer (never used one) and the toaster, which looked like a pretty weird toaster if you ask me.

[@JR-fl3yx]

I think they call those flip toasters. It heats the bread up on one side, then you open and shut the door again to flip it around to toast the other side. They were common in the 1910s up to the early 1920s or so.

[@gj8683]

@@JR-fl3yx Thanks!

[@smithno41]

Only one I missed was the bed warmer. The toaster was an early one, but recognizable as a toaster.

[@bentoncushing8693]

😅love it fun stuff

[@linriddles3336]

Born in 1952. Aced it.

[@unclejustin7267]

The only one I missed was the typewriter eraser. We used little clear sheets with white stuff on them and you would back up and type the exact letter on top of the mistake with the white compound on them and it would cover the offending letter.

[@bite-sizedshorts9635]

Our typewriter erasers were shaped like a pencil and could be sharpened as you used up the eraser. There was a brush at the other end.

[@bobjacobson858]

Some of these were difficult to identify from the photos--sometimes because the scale is lacking, in others the background looked as if it was part of the object under consideration, and in a few others I was familiar with a completely different model. I'm especially poor with electrical entertainment things, as I've never had or used a VCR.

[@Flipper86]

I remember asking my dad for a VCR for Christmas. His was response was, “What’s that?” (not going to be under the tree)

[@FriesianKiwi66]

I identified 30 out of 30!

[@algobarnes2177]

Only missed the toaster & bed warmer. Glad you included the 8track. This was fun.