Modern Inventions No Longer Used

[@DMS-pq8]

I don't think anyone born in the 80s or later truly understand what a revelation the VCR was, For the 1st time people could record a show and watch it later and better yet FF thru commercials Not to mention the ability to watch a movie at home whenever you wanted. Truly a device that fundamentally changed how people watch and consume entertainment

[@d3al3rplays68]

And then they became even better when the pause system was introduced. The VHS recorder would pick up a signal when the movie started or commerical began and pauze or start when was needed again. Awesome.

[@DMS-pq8]

@@d3al3rplays68 I never had one of those, Just had to FF

[@d3al3rplays68]

@@DMS-pq8 Could have been a thing in our country only, we had a Phillips and in The Netherlands the broadcasting company's had to attach the signal to the broadcast. Not all did it though. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_Delivery_Control

[@jenlynch5550]

Agreed!! Makes me feel old…

[@mouchiecat1]

You are so correct! It was amazing!!

[@jacktribble5253]

I have used almost every consumer product on this list and I'm not that old. Tech moves fast once it gets going...

[@catswalkjpgr]

I know what you mean.

[@the_kombinator]

I've seen an 8 track once or twice, can't say I've ever used one. However, the other day I was listening to Aerosmith on tape in my carburetted car from the 80s. Good times ;)

[@VArsovski10]

@@sanvirel6182 you mean over 35 ? :) [I'm 37 for ex.] Things were used even AFTER they came out, most of these things became obsolete just like 20-30 years ago

[@ronb6182]

Not all are totally obsolete. The VCR and audio tape machines are still used. Audiophiles still use reel to reel tape and phonograph records. Rock groups are starting to use vinyl again because they are not getting their royalties for their music because of streaming and pirates. Also audio is much better in analog. 73

[@SheaMF]

Even a gramophone?!

[@CSXIV]

The floppy disk will live on as the universal icon for "save file."

[@allan9603]

That floppy disc sent Dennis Rader the notorious "BTK" serial killer, to prison for life.

[@fajarkurniawan9434]

A child found a floppy disk : “Dad why d’you 3D print the save icon?”

[@roostermcnoodle5642]

@@allan9603 I just watched a documentary about that, it's crazy!!!

[@allan9603]

@@roostermcnoodle5642 yes! Ironically I grew up in the same neighborhood where some of BTK's victims lived, just a little further south. Contrary to what the media reported, Rader was not from, nor born in Wichita, he's originally from Pittsburgh, Kansas, which is SE Kansas near the Missouri line; one town over from Galena, Kansas, where my sister lives! Rader is imprisoned at the El Dorado Correctional Facility, in El Dorado Kansas. OK, got off subject.., so back to that floppy disc..😂🤣🕺👌🍻

[@roostermcnoodle5642]

@@allan9603 crazy!

[@9852323]

Magnetic tape is actually still used for a lot of data backup solutions and other things in data centers etc, and it’s advanced enormously over time with some tapes holding up to 15tb

[@trex2621]

LTO-9 native capacity 18 TB. And continuous 400 MB/s is hardly slow. Locating single file can take couple of minutes, but they are for backup/long term mass storage.

[@Bob-1802]

It's easy and cheaper to hold a LOT of data for backup on a tape. On a disk, you need much more advanced tech to do the same, if possible.

[@OmegaWolf747]

I remember being quite startled when I read that a few years ago.

[@CAP198462]

Still nothing better for durable and secure storage of data that doesn’t change often, like archiving.

[@ronb6182]

@@manp1039 yeah or metal. The IBM systems used disk packs. That were multiple magnetic disks. I wanted to format one for audio when I was in highschool but no one knew which direction to go with the idea. Same with beta and VHS. Using reel to reel tape heads you could have a dozen travks. Also faster speeds like 3 and 3/4 in per second or 7 1/2 inches per second.73

[@Jennifer-jt9cb]

I remember when VCR's hit the market they were so expensive that not many people could afford them. So to keep their businesses alive, rental stores began renting out the device itself, and not just the movie in question. So everyone could watch a movie they wanted to see by renting a VCR. That was also in the days before the internet existed.

[@codetech5598]

The desire to watch pr0n at home drove the early VCR market.

[@ntvypr4820]

@@codetech5598 Same with the internet, sadly.

[@codetech5598]

@@ntvypr4820 And the "lifelike robot" industry.

[@DylansPen]

I remember renting VCR's and movies in the early 80's. Good lord is it that long ago.

[@rafapenson]

Just like CD players were as expensive as VCR recorder when it released..

[@jmfriedman7]

As a kid growing up in the 60's, I remember going to a "Homes of the Future" exhibit and seeing video cassettes and other devices in this video that are now obsolete. I remember thinking about how futuristic everything seemed. My dad told me that recorded videos would never catch on, because everyday people would never be able to afford anything that expensive (projected prices were in the range of thousands of dollars or tens of thousands of dollars), and because everyone was quite happy with TV as it was back then.

[@DWilliam1]

As I approach 60, I remember something an older person told me in my youth, “The world you’re born into is not the world you died in”…

[@dcardagain]

I heard the same thing when I was younger. And so many other things as well.

[@PhyllisJohnson-lr9bq]

True That

[@daskriegsman7013]

Even though I was born in 01. I still have very fond memories of VHS's. Use to watch them all the time at my grandparents house when I was a kid.

[@schumifan1legende]

same

[@johniii8147]

I have fond memories too finding My stepfathers porn Betemax tapes.

[@EmilyS-gk3st]

I was born in 2000, and I can say the same

[@CAnAbrAvA2011]

They lasted until 2006 I guess, it was the time the video rental places got rid of the vhs's to only display dvds, and later to a brief display of blueray.

[@alvallac2171]

*Used to (past tense)

[@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj]

I feel so ancient as I have seen and used a number of these.... getting nostalgic again. I hope DVDs and Blu Rays don’t become obsolete as they have advantages that streaming does not have.

[@commentresurrection1841]

DVDs and BluRays will absolutely go the ay of VHS....Dosnt mean you cant still use them

[@taffykins2745]

Me too!! I don't want to be forced into buying tv service again...

[@godfreyberry1599]

What's blu ray?. Worried the technology might pass before I've experienced it. On the aside: The CD was hailed as something incredible & groundbreaking in the day - where did that go?. The CD was the absolute worst dissapointment ever. I'm back to turntables and cassette players & really enjoying my music.

[@cynthiaclarke3979]

@@commentresurrection1841- Since it's inception l have amassed almost 8,000 DVD and Blu Ray..I hope even at 64 these will stay around another generation..

[@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj]

@@commentresurrection1841 Not necessarily but let’s see..

[@kittygaillot2286]

Before digital/iPhone cameras, there was the Polaroid camera. It was so cool to watch the pictures develop. Thanks for bringing back all these memories.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

I still have one, but it didn’t work last I tried. 😢

[@TheInkPitOx]

It was like magic. A camera where you didn't have to take the pictures to develop.

[@hellenhellen12]

Polaroids are still popular

[@acr21957]

How about a 400 dollar HP calc. Parents spent $70 in ‘73 to get my sister a calculator to take to college.

[@Wguy56]

@@acr21957 I spent about $65 for one in 1974 before starting high school accounting class only to find out they weren't allowed in the classroom...only math in your head!

[@Robert08010]

To clarify a couple of things: There was a Sony reel to reel video recorder that was only B&W but there was never a VCR (Video Cassette Recorder) that was only B&W. The first commercial VHS VCR was color. And while most people think VHS means "video home system", that was a change made by some marketing person. VHS actually stood for Video Helical Scan which described the method of transferring the video signal to tape. It described the way the tape wrapped around the video head.

[@codetech5598]

There was a child's toy VCR that used a cassette tape and gave B&W video.

[@modularhomehunters8837]

@@scheraw7658 I had one of those, the Fisher Price PXL2000, glitchy but really fun

[@jimholmes2555]

In the early 1980s Fisher Price had a Toy video recorder that recorded B&W video to an ordinary cassette tape. I think it was called PXL 1000.

[@fredjennings5312]

Thank you for the clarification an being so much better and more accurate than this Rhetty For History channel. That dunce always gets lots of stuff wrong in his videos.

[@mylovesongs2429]

My dad bought an RCA Selectavision VHS recorder back in 1980, i think.. That boat anchor sized thing was awesome! A year later, he bought a portable Magnavox VCR with a camera. I own two VCR's. I use them to digitize video tapes.

[@isaac198428]

I remember using my mom’s nail polish to glue together the cassette tape ribbon which got chewed by our stereo. People would get mad if you borrowed their VCR tapes and forgot to rewind… BlockBuster would charge you extra if you returned a movie without rewinding it. Fun times. 😂

[@mollybrolly4717]

NEVER thought of that!. I instead struggled with the damn sticky tape!!...

[@ThePoreproductions]

It wasn't just blockbuster that had that "Be kind, Please rewind" policy, but I think the video store industry as a whole had it.

[@isaac198428]

@@mollybrolly4717 Poor you! We made it! lol

[@craigmclean8260]

That's why the cassettes held together w/ little screws were my favorite; easy to take apart if I needed to splice the tape (using Scotch tape)...Early on, I found the 90 min. cassette tapes were more prone to breaking than the 60 min. (esp. since I bought mostly cheap, on sale cassettes!)

[@justefe]

Imagine living in a city with power cuts! I once missed the deadline to return a rental because it was stuck in the VCR! Also you didn’t wanna take a chance rewinding because a power cut would mean you couldn’t eject the tape. 😅

[@jovanweismiller7114]

I remember when 3.5 in floppies came out. Our reaction was, 'who would ever need that much storage'? Little did we know! LOL!

[@Mr1T2X1]

Ha! I remember punching a hole in the other side in order to get twice the storage (double density). I also remember the $2,600 5 megabyte hard drive. The drive cost more than the IBM AT or XT PC that it was installed in. The sales rep said we would never fill the drive. LOL!

[@MrJest2]

Yep. I tended to have more advanced hardware than many of my friends, simply because I worked in tech and had friends/roommates who did likewise, so I had managed to upgrade to 3.5" before anyone but Mac users. And had an actual hard drive before any of my non-tech friends did, too... lots of tales of the mid to late 80s, working in what I now call "Silicon Valley 1.0". 🙂

[@kevinrinehart]

I used platter hard drives (where the term hard drive crash comes from) and they were encased with I believe 4 or 5 platters the size of a regular LP. They held so little data by todays standards. I think it was like 10 megs or something like that. One last thing to remember is that the Apollo space craft that landed on the moon had less technology than your average smart watch has. It was like a VW bug in space...

[@kevinrinehart]

Correction those old platter drives held 3.75 megs. I learned to program using two 5.25 inch floppy drives. One for data the other for the program. They held 160 KB per side and that was more than ample space.... I feel really old now.

[@Mr1T2X1]

@@kevinrinehart Ha! I know what you mean about feeling old. I did programming at NASA on punchcards and used a twin 10-inch floppy drive in the early 80’s. One disk for OS and one for data. LOL!

[@jonelfilipek7848]

I was a secretary in the 1980s. I remember how excited I was when I got a new IBM Selectric self-correcting typewriter and could finally get rid of the little tabs of correction tape around the typewriter. I just couldn’t imagine then that typing could get much better than that.

[@16nowhereman]

I was in college in the early 80s and still using a typewriter. One tiny mistake on the paper, you had to redo the entire page. That was punishment.

[@soyburglar77]

I feel so privileged to have grown up in the ‘80s and ‘90s, as I was almost the perfect age to experience all of these different technologies. I was born in ‘77 and vividly remember my grandparents having cameras and radios from the ‘40s and ‘50s, my dad was a pharmacist and started buying tech as soon as he started making decent money. So, we always had really nice stereos, double-deck VCR’s, video cameras, gaming systems (we had an Atari with over 100 games), etc. I got my first cell phone in 1995, I had several pagers over the years, and I’ve had internet since 1997. It’s been a wild ride and it’s only getting better! I’m in awe of what iPhones and computers can do these days.

[@bunyavissuthisorn5909]

I got smart phone(no buttons at all except on/off and volume switch) in 2016 and it belonged to Huawei. Just $150. ..........

[@treetopjones737]

Any smart phone, doesn't have to be an iphone.

[@amym3169]

Yes I grew up in the 80s and 90s also and witnessed so many technological changes too. From walkmans to portable CD players to MP3 etc.. Then it was the star tac flip phones to the blueberry phones to the small digital cameras, and finally the iphone that is still going strong to this day. The last 30 yrs saw so many changes and the time went by so fast..

[@RockNRoller66]

@@dallasbathtubrefinishing I miss the girlfriends I had in the 80s and 90s I used to go to Blockbuster and rent the movies with. In between GFs that place was just plain depressing for me.

[@214warzone]

I was also born in 77. I've noticed that younger people prefer to do things on their phones rather than on their computers. I just really prefer the ergonomics of typing/viewing things on a laptop, rather than having to 1-hand everything on my phone..

[@mvalentino5650]

It’s crazy how a lot of these things are actually coming back into cultural relevance. A lot of young people, myself included, are very nostalgic for a time they never even experienced.

[@tomloft2000]

for your sake, let's hope mood rings and pet rocks don't.

[@Handsoffthekids]

I still have some of these things and they still work. Lol.

[@looseballs1966]

@@tomloft2000 LOL yea but more recently it was the fidget spinner LOL,,,,AHHHHH the pet rock and mood rings versus the fidget spinner,,,,,,I guess we are even now as then somewhat simple minded in what will make us play with and spend our money on pretty stupidly simple things,,,,,,like a monkey with a shinny object LOL 🤣🤣🤣😂

[@georgeglass4105]

My '72 Cougar has the original 8 track to this day, and 23 tapes. I was offered $2500 for the deck and tapes. *NEVER*

[@MsSavagechef]

My youngest bought a turntable and some LPs. I had to laugh. When CDs came out, it was the greatest thing since Betty White or sliced bread.

[@andythedarkone1982]

DVD's are still relevant, there low overall cost makes them a good option for people who live in areas where the internet is lousy, also useful for TV series as most streaming services have limited options.

[@saucerguy3]

I still use them, the most bang for your buck and they can handle an EM pulse and ignore it. They could replace the hard drive for cheap laptops and the rest running Linux distro of some sorts easily as well.

[@esmeraldacazares4833]

Redbox is still everywhere

[@josephking6251]

Not only that but they also take down shows a lot too. If you're a fan of older shows like threes company or family matters, good luck finding them. The glorious thing about owning either physical media or having it downloaded, no one can take it from you without physically taking it

[@marsvandeplaneet7786]

Now, there are dvd players with HDMI out!

[@gparyani]

Movies on discs are still favored by videophiles today. A typical streaming HD movie is compressed to around 5 GB resulting in noticeable artifacts, and the audio is also heavily compressed. On the other hand, a Blu-ray disc can hold 25 GB minimum, up to 100 GB for 4K discs, and can hold uncompressed or losslessly compressed audio.

[@Godric_71]

Referring to the AOL part, he said that you couldn't use the phone while you were online. This is very true. In fact, if someone was online and you picked up the phone, you got a very impressionable lesson as to why you shouldn't.

[@craigmclean8260]

...and then there were the acoustic MODEMs where you actually placed the phone handset in the device!

[@mmosm]

When someone pick up the phone, it's really pain in the ass moment

[@xyph6]

i used call wave, online answering machine. best thing ever.

[@SandsOfArrakis]

We suffered that problem with our first PC (486 with a 14.4k modem). After awhile we decided to get ISDN. Which meant faster Internet, and the phone line could still be used for calls.

[@Godric_71]

@@SandsOfArrakis Cheater. 😎🏍💨👍

[@daniellemartin9896]

My 11 year old discovered cassette tapes when he was 8 and he's been collecting them ever since. He loves to listen to older music.

[@jeffrobodine8579]

I remember finding and buying cheap 8 tracks in the eighties when I was a kid. Amazingly I still have them all.

[@GarryGri]

Maken sure he never sees a 78 rpm shellac LP then, those things can cost a fortune nowadays 😀

[@erasabledata]

I still use a vcr! It took me forever to find a working one but eventually I found one that an elementary school didn't use anymore. I still have a collection of vhs tapes from my childhood. I just wish there was still a vhs section at thrift stores.

[@Jagg61]

The goodwill's here in Az have a VHS section.

[@denisepellettier5524]

What there’s not a section

[@elultimo102]

At last count, I had 20 VHS machines--mostly Panasonic, a Sony, and two Go Videos----one dual VHS and a VHS with DVD burner / player. I bought most in the mid-90s, when DVDs came in, and people were dumping good machines for $5 - $20. I have nearly 1000 tapes, but can't fix the machine if it breaks, so I hoarded a few extras just in case.

[@jagmarc]

@erasableData Picture quality of prerecorded films and analog TV is way better straight off VHS into a CRT. What struck this home to me was when I was watching classic film Sound Of Music on TV a decade ago - there was something weird about the lipsync and picture movement on the screen that was bugging me. Things like the actors eyes and mouth moving in different directions to the cheeks on face on a scene I'd last saw on VHS. I then went and found the actual VHS tape plugged it in to watch the same scene and the VHS picture quality was completely natural no peculiar movement effects like are on DTV. I switched back and forth between DTV and VHS to confirm so much was the difference that DTV started to give me a migrane so I watched the rest of the film on VHS until it cleared.

[@TexasCat99]

@@jagmarc The Digital or streaming of Sound of Music issues is typical of Cable services because they compress so much with sub-par hardware. Try the DVD or BluRay version over a steamed/cable version. Even Disney has some oddities with their shows sometimes. VHS is timed for CRTs. CRTs are harder to find. I loved my last SONY TVs (CRTs) which were among the best. But I'd take a modern LCD over those old TVs any day.

[@machinegunangel]

My parents bought their first VCR in 1985 for 900$. We weren’t allowed anywhere near it 😂

[@machinegunangel]

@Anthony Kelley even home computers were 800-1200 dollars when I was younger. It was the epitome of technology back in the day so it was expensive.

[@RockNRoller66]

That's a wee bit off to say the least. They were pretty damn expensive in the late 70s though. The camcorders were around that range and even above a grand for some.

[@johndor8772]

And the lock never worked

[@tvormwald]

Bought our 1st VCR in 1986 for $299.99

[@jameslandry5952]

@@machinegunangel HA! I recall going into Radio Shack around 1977. I'm pretty sure I saw a pricetag of $1,700 for an Apple(?).

[@Jp_e46]

I remember packing all my casettes and CDs as a kid for vacation. And i am proud to be a part of this Generation😌

[@mikepalmer1971]

Same here.

[@GrimGalore]

Me too

[@angelafisher5726]

I would have to make mix tapes of my songs to bring. my parents wouldn't let me bring more then one or two. : (

[@JamesBond-hu9rg]

Crassest are back !

[@JamesBond-hu9rg]

Still use my “Walkman “

[@nadiazahroon6573]

Who remembers the $200.00 Texas instrument calculator. Now it’s $5.99. Good morning Rhetty, hope all is good.

[@bpekim1]

I remember this - my dad got one through his job and he brought it home and we were all in awe of it.

[@tmapes1989]

My wife needed one for college, about killed us financially at the time!!!

[@christopheroliver148]

As I recall, the Datamath 2500 was about $70 when my parents bought one. As I recall, my first serious calculator (HP-41CV) was $250.

[@wilde.coyote6618]

And solar powered

[@surmatise]

And the math teacher saying you wont always have a calculator in your pocket. My phone has one and its always in my pocket.

[@Heather420]

I remember getting my first anti skip CD player. It blew my mind, I felt so cool listening to it on the bus

[@gregorykiernan7849]

...With the cassette adapter to play in the car.

[@blitheringrando1410]

I had one walkman that I could skateboard with in my pocket and it would rarely skip. I'd carry it in my hoodie pocket at school and hide the headphones in my hood. I think I still have a few of the CDs I had back then

[@Heather420]

@@gregorykiernan7849 I had a old van an was using one of those not to long ago 😳😂 It was the only way I could connect my phone

[@lesliehackney7519]

I love these videos! They take me back to when I was young. I remember many of these things and owned several. It is fun to see how they evolved. I still have a few of them around the house even tho I don't actually use them much. Thanks Rhett, this was enjoyable as usual.

[@ianhosier4042]

With catch-up on my TV not much point having a DVD collection now.

[@greyhawk4898]

I miss most of these. I was a kid in the 60s. Personally I think the 70s and 80s were the best years. I wish I could go back. Love to raise my grandchildren in those years. Better tech, entertainment and way of life no matter how you look at it better times

[@RockNRoller66]

Amen to that brother!

[@hopeyoustumbleuponthis.8627]

No, you were just young.

[@yzho105]

i believe you. these days people watch their tiktoks 24/7.

[@Zach-qs2bw]

Also much higher crime rates especially violent crime...the past was never as rosey as you remember it

[@RockNRoller66]

@@Zach-qs2bwWhat are you talking about? Were you even born by the 70s? Nothing tops the current crime rates especially in Memphis where I am from.

[@RETROTV1394]

I still have some of these items from the past. Even though they no longer in working condition. I love saving obsolete items. I guess I'm a bit of a horder. I'm glad that vinyl records have made a huge comeback.

[@exodore2000]

Vinyl was a good way to record some of the others just had too short a shelf life.

[@conniephillips8217]

Oh yes, a trip down memory lane! Thank you for all these fun videos and the hard work that went into making them. I certainly enjoy them and they bring a smile to my face every time!

[@adamjhuber]

3:00 pagers are FAR from extinct. They are used heavily in the medical field. Pagers will receive pretty much EVERYWHERE. The transmitters push out a LOT of power and penetrate buildings very well.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

the tech is utilized in restaurants as well, you are handed a modified beeper that alerts you when your meal is ready for pickup

[@gott2641]

I was about to type this as well- I worked in a medical institution a few years ago and pagers were still used in full force for the doctors that were on-call.

[@CobraFat2000]

Just like magnetic tape for computers deemed unused in the video - but backups are still pretty widely stored on tapes - sure not directly used to access specific data all the time, but whole database migration to tape and back in case there's a problem - daily, weekly and occasionally used in many data centers.

[@jad43701]

@@CobraFat2000 Was just going to mention the the cassette tape as storage. Writing down the the tape counter numbers so you could find the start of a program. God help you if you forgot to. Or forgot to reset it first. 😅 Computer Programing in BASIC was bad enough, But we were using TRS-DOS from TANDY instead of MS-DOS.

[@kittenastrophy5951]

If I remember correctly, Motorola Tx PURC use a 100 w and 300 w power amp module.

[@MrJacMac1968]

Born in 1968.I remember how all these devices were so state of the art but now are relics.

[@peterrjg6843]

Born in 1968 too - I remember my tranny (transistor radio) fondly. A little black handheld job that I could listen to sport and music wherever. Batteries were cheap for it too.

[@sandrafaith]

I think if you handed a Walkman to a kid today, they'd figure it out very quickly. The play, rewind, and fast forward buttons have very recognizable icons on them.

[@d3al3rplays68]

I Agree but give them only the Cassette and a Pencil and they are flabbergasted.

[@ImmortalDreamsProductions]

They'd have to understand how to work tapes. Side A vs side B. Manually fixing and winding tapes when they got tangled up. I both miss and don't miss tapes.

[@Saurles]

For you youngsters out there, AT&T stands for American Telephone & Telegraph.

[@trixibellalestrange7232]

Telephone? Those evil inventions trying to replace my delightful telegraph.

[@xaenon]

@@trixibellalestrange7232 Telegraph? Those evil inventions trying to replace my delightful Pony Express and smoke signals.

[@stanleyhape8427]

@@xaenon 😆

[@silverballstudios3578]

Ik bc I'm into retro stuff like CRT tvs and computers VHS cassette telephone dial up etc... I'm gonna buy a lot of this retro tech... That's saying I was only born in 2008

[@walterulasinksi7031]

AT&T was set up for “long distance “communications. For local , if you were a business you could get only get the Bell system. Residential had to get the “ Home” system. No direct dialing, through an operator only.

[@howardcraigiv518]

ugh….. the good ole days. Kids now days will never know how fun it was to be growing up in the 80s -90s. It just seemed like life was so much different then and the World did NOT run off Social Media

[@BILLY-px3hw]

I kinda miss those times when you had limited choices, you either watched what was on TV (3 or 4 channels) or watch one of the 2 movies you rented, Nowadays I fall asleep scrolling thru an endless choice of things to watch, I have a watch list I never feel like watching and mostly just watch stuff on KZbin like this video.

[@sargonsblackgrandfather2072]

Ah the good old Walkman. How could I have lived with my journeys to and from school without it.

[@blaster1466]

Glad I still do that

[@billycox475]

I took a computer class in high school in 1978 and you had to pick up the phone receiver, dial the number and when it started ringing you put the receiver down on the modem that connected to the central server downtown. I also remember going into a music store a couple of years later looking for an 8 track of a Stevie Nicks album and the guy said, "Sir, we don't sell 8 tracks anymore, but we do have that album on these compact discs." Me: "Nobody's gonna buy those stupid things." ~Leaves in a huff~ 🤣 Thirty ish years later, Apple proves me right. 😁

[@bpekim1]

My first year in college in 1978 I had a computer class where we had to write a flow chart and then program a pile of punch cards. Then you had to wait in line with all of the other students to run the cards through this gigantic machine too see if your program ran successfully - and then you got your grade on the project. And it would all be to add together a bunch of numbers as the objective.

[@JohnSmith-mw2hh]

Acoustic modems good riddance...loads of errors. Then we got a direct modem that sat on the floor and was the size of a large box and weighed about 40 lbs. Blazing speed of 300 baud!!! Hooked to a decwriter printer termnal Circa 1982

[@trainsntile]

@@bpekim1 Yes, i believe mine was an 027 keypunch machine that made confetti all over the place LOL!

[@MrJest2]

Cassettes blew 8-track out of the water early on, much like VHS killed off Beta. I used to have hundreds of cassette tapes, but never once owned an 8-track player or tape. Well; that's not entirely true - I once bought a used car that had an 8-track stereo installed. I tore it out and replaced it with a cassette unit as soon as I got it home (I always had a handful of beat-up old car stereo units lying around the apartment until about 20 years ago).

[@efandmk3382]

I remember dial up internet. I was only a kid, but I remember it. Seems kind of Mickey Mouse now, doesn't it?

[@theotakux5959]

I remember my computer classes in High School (2001-2005). We still used floppies to save our work. Which became a problem when I wanted to do stuff at home and neither the desktop or my laptop had a floppy drive.

[@jomybaby22-gaming]

if floppy disks would make a comeback, Morris worm would be unleashed back to the Internet (coz Morris is saved in a floppy disk)

[@musicislife7512]

In japan they still using it alot,the most is all big companies ! ! ! !

[@paulstan9828]

How fast technology has changed. Definitely improved. Will never forget the sound the of the internet dial up. I had a small Sony tv and took it with me on many deployments while in the military. Ha!!

[@RhettyforHistory]

It is a distictive sound and for me it has some exciting memories associated with it. Thank you for watching Paul!

[@AwkwardBlackGal613]

I can hear my grandma yelling now! Get off that

[@samuelschick8813]

Paul, Sometimes I think Rhety goes out of his way and enjoys making us feel our age. LOL

[@samuelschick8813]

@@AwkwardBlackGal613, " DON'T SLAM THE SCREEN DOOR!!!" Remember that one?

[@paulstan9828]

@@samuelschick8813 Ha!!!! That’s to funny. You could be right.

[@suem6004]

Lived through many of these. Took typing class in high school and am glad I had. I got quite a few jobs knowing how to type. You could almost add the iPod to this.

[@dstinnettmusic]

You can add the iPod. It’s officially discontinued. Officially in the same world as those people who still use AOL.

[@suem6004]

@@dstinnettmusic yes, so should be on this list, right?

[@bpekim1]

Yes, me too! Who knew learning how to type would make it easier to get jobs back then before computers.

[@birdsfan57]

Yep! I, too, took the dreaded typing classes in Jr. and Sr. High School, at first on those old manual typewriters with the keys that took all your "finger strength" to work (this was back in the early-mid 70's). We were over the moon when Selectric (electric typewriters) made their debut in our Sr. year. Still used that dreaded carbon paper though. One could never have secured any type of office job without those typing skills back then (the faster the better). Dictaphone (ever hear of that contraption, kids?) and stenographic (steno) skills also guaranteed you a lucrative office job too. So glad I acquired those skills, even though the last two are no longer relevant today...

[@sl8605]

@@birdsfan57 We had those awful typewriters too. It took all the strength in your fingers just to hit a key. Kids don't know how lucky they are.

[@buck546]

I remember my first eight track tape player given to me by my parents as a graduation gift May 1972. It was very basic but it was stereo music being heard for the first time. When compared to the old AM radio I had been listening to it was wonderful. It sounded so great cruising down the road in that old 1957 Oldsmobile Super 88 with stereo music cranking out of those two little wedge speakers mounted on the rear window deck. At eighteen driving my first car listing to stereo rock I felt like one cool cat.

[@agostinodibella9939]

This video is great! It’s hard to believe how many of these inventions were replaced by today’s smart phones! I still have that exact Sony VHS/DVD player shown at 5:18 in my living room! Good job 👍

[@RemoWilliams1227]

Lol I have it in black in my game room connected to the big trinitron

[@sterlinsilver]

Same except it's the black variant

[@DareToBeDeviant]

Does yours play burned DVDs? I have an elderly aunt/uncle who own a Cinevision brand and it fails at that task. Uncle loves to rewatch his VHS copies of the time he was a ballroom and theater dancer in the early 90s so it serves some purpose.

[@UPBEATFOREVER]

If it was not for Simon.maybe no smartphone would of been in use today.i am glad that people never gave up.there is always room for improvement for better and easier lives ,today!i just got a hunch feeling that one day,every household is going to own a robot.i got a feeling that you all have a feeling too.right now with my smart technology.i do almost everything on it.except...the shopping part...i still go to the malls,stores and supermarket.i hella love the self checkout lane/vending machines....some workers don't want to deal with customers,customers don't have to deal with workers,problem solved.one less headache for everybody.so put away the asprin😂

[@selfdo]

The "smartphone" is the electronic "Swiss Army Knife" or "Leatherman".

[@TeamCat1128]

Did anyone else have the converter for the 8-tracks to cassettes? It was used to play a cassette in an 8-track player. Game changing at the time when cassettes first came out since most people still had 8-track players in their cars. Oh, the 80s…😊

[@zmbdog]

Weird, my brother just mentioned those this morning and that was the first I ever heard of them.

[@thebanditabromowicz]

I have one of those adapters in my pile of stuff !!!! Was going to try it on my old yorx stereo with some of my collection of cassettes lol and 8tracks

[@rafickkhan1505]

YEP Also had a player FOR 45 singles in car deck IN VAUXHALL CRESTA

[@mgriff39]

My father had an eight track FM adapter, his 1970 Dodge Challenge only had an AM radio.

[@grampadad]

@@mgriff39 I OWNED A 4 TRACK CASSETTE PLAYER IN 1964

[@rcooley111]

I'm a doctor and still use my pager every day! Hate using cell phone texting for messages, I don't hear the phone sometimes when it goes off, but the pager is unmistakeable and beeps for like a minute so I don't accidentally ignore it

[@nadiabrook7871]

Ah, the memories!! I had a Walkman first, then a Discman!! I also remember playing with my Mum's typewriter as a kid!! I never could learn typing!! Thanks for the nostalgic video, Rhetty!! XXXX 👍💗

[@kenc2257]

As a high school student in the late 1960s, I took a typing class. We used 'manual' machines--not electric typewriters. [I don't remember if it lasted an entire semester, or just a few months.]

[@rparl]

I took typing in High School and I've always been glad I did. At one point I could even touch type the number line.

[@Kevin-go2dw]

Nadia you may not have learnt to type, but you can not be too bad as I assume you typed a comment. In the 1970 I took typing as a school subject. Only a couple of males in a class of about 30. I did manage to learn to touch type and while I no longer have a typewriter, guess what? Every computer has a typewriter keyboard!

[@nadiabrook7871]

@@Kevin-go2dw Thanks, Kevin, I actually typed this on my phone!! X🤣

[@glennso47]

My handwriting is such that now I’m glad for typing. My handwriting is not legible due to hand tremors. SCM had a portable typewriter that had the letters on a little wheel. This was similar to the IBM Selectric typewriter that was used in offices for years in that it was quiet and didn’t have the letters mounted on little hammers. And the carriage was stationary and the little wheel moved across the page as you typed.

[@bpekim1]

I remember always bringing a transistor radio to the beach with friends in the mid-seventies and listening to top-forty music while we sun tanned and smoked cigarettes.

[@Allen-ps6bx]

@bpekim1 Don't you mean smoked weed?

[@zog97xy]

@@Allen-ps6bx His lungs are toast now.

[@Jackson27mc]

@@zog97xy also his skin.....

[@PhyllisJohnson-lr9bq]

Hey don't I know you! 😂😂

[@fredgarvin716]

I'm glad I lived during the time of record and video stores. Browsing the isles of Tower Records or Blockbuster with your friends was part of the excitement.

[@notpub]

Can't be beat!!!!

[@alvallac2171]

*aisles (means a lane in a store) isle = geographic term for a small island

[@suziecreamcheese211]

Yes. One of my favorite things to do at the time.

[@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj]

Me too and miss those days.

[@mwsc04]

The principle is the same - if you have to put forth effort to get something you want, you appreciate it more. Both those stores were standard fare, and it was always a rush to discover something new while browsing! Just not the same when everything is available instantly.

[@farmerj1]

@Rhetty, thanks for the walk down memory lane. I had a Sony Discman in my car, that used a cassette tape converter - I put it on the passenger seat, and yes it jumped anytime I hit a pothole. I started my first professional job in 1988 and was amazed at how you could send entire documents instantly via Profs (IBM) and faxes. My family had a remote control TV as early as the late 70s...my father would announce a channel change and I would get up and make it so.

[@dcardagain]

I resemble the remote function.

[@skunklepew6276]

I remember a good number of these. I still use my DVDs and CDs - I still buy both!

[@davidmoorhead2293]

I will buy physical media for as long as it is still available. I've lost track of more digital files than you could count. My discs are all nicely arranged on a bookcase and will likely outlive me.

[@markplott4820]

Rehetty - I only had a portable CD player for a short time , as soon as MINI-disc was Released in Japan , I bought EVERYTHING . I still listen to my MINI-disc today over my Generic Android mp3 player in my Smartphone. when I bought iTouch mp3 , I transfered my CD and mini-disc Libarys to iTouch. I bought the very LAST generation iTouch.

[@Agwings1960]

I loved 8 track tapes, you had 4 chances to get close to the song that you wanted to listen too.

[@rtwice93555]

I really enjoyed this video. At 57 years old, I remember most of what you shared. I had to laugh at 8:30 when you referred to the audio cassette as "durable" are you kidding me? Throughout the early 1980s the bulk of my music was stored on audio cassettes, most of which would eventually get eaten by one of my cassette players. Almost anyone nearing their 60s will remember pulling wads of audio tape from a cassette player and trying to wind it back into the cassette with a pencil. Beta video tapes got a bum rap back in the day. My family's first VCR was a Beta and the picture quality was crystal clear. I think their only draw back was their limited recording time. VHS eventually won that battle but I still believe the Beta offered superior picture quality. Maybe we just got lucky and owned a very good Beta VCR. Speaking of supetior quality, my Mom was in a band in the 1960s, their music was recorded on a reel to reel player she owned until the 1980s. The sound quality was beyond anything else I have heard. Perhaps I am partial to anaog recordings. While listening to the band's rehearsals and demo, every sound was captured with such clarity it almost feels like I am sitting inside the studio. Mom had the tapes transferred onto CD and it never sounded the same. What I would give to have those reel to reel tapes again. Finally, the old transistor radio. Santa Claus got each of us kids one for Christmas of 1971. That was our big gift then, and it was the best gift I could dream of. Santa's budget was a lot less than with kids today, but that little radio was worth a million bucks to me. I carried that radio everywhere I went, except school. Today it sets inside a shadow box my wife made for our living room wall

[@rudygracia5573]

What I miss most about THOSE days;Aside from being young,we spent a lot more time outdoors,and around friends.8 track tapes..I remember their short life span.They would start to drag,then you had to stuff a small piece of folded cardboard on the side of the cartridge,to make it function properly,but only for a short time!And,You'd try to catch the beginning of the next track,but it would sometimes SKIP over!😱.So,you had to wait,listen(tolerate!)to 4 or 5 songs you weren't planning on hearing!,then try again!I don't THINK?8 tracks will ever come back again!Good ridance!!Of course,that's what I thought about LP's!AND Converse sneakers!...haha!

[@RodBeauvex]

Or just stringing it alongside the road if it wasn't salvageable.

[@jacksheet2395]

The good Cassettes were the CRO2 and Metallic

[@3butalcomp3]

Hold on to your radio!

[@gregrowe1168]

I remember when cds first came out and they were amazing. No more rewinding, always hated that. Sound quality was so much better. In my opinion they are still the best format for listening to music.

[@markplott4820]

Rehetty - today in 2022 , I still use a Radio Receiver, but its a DIGITAL Communications Receiver , and I can Listen to any kind of Analog and Digital transmission , including LW, SW, HF, VHF, UHF and SHF, also LSB & USB. it can Listen to Multiple Analog and Digital modes.

[@omegaman1409]

The most complete going down memory lane trip. Always amazed me how one technology replaces another. Loved it.

[@larrycanepa]

I still have an 8-track collection and a player that I use to listen to them now and again. Some great stuff: Stones, Michael Jackson, Cheap Trick, etc...

[@tazbod6723]

Well, you mentioned the gramophone was replaced by the record player almost in passing at about 5:10. Vinyl records were a big deal. People lined their home walls with vinyl records. They were an functional and collection item at the same time. Folks prided themselves on their collection and variety.

[@joestrike8537]

I stapled the LP album covers to the wall of our rec room in a checkerboard pattern - my friends were very impressed with how cool the room looked that way.

[@talkinsmak]

Records are making a slight comeback. The local walmarts etc sell them again. Some would argue records still have a superior edge to sound quality to this day

[@azwizeguy]

Back in the days when having a music collection meant something, Now everybody has a music collection, It's just on the internet, Kinda like My sea shell collection, that I have scattered on beaches all over the world.

[@j255173]

Wow, what a great nostalgic channel. I was born in the late 80s but I remember a lot of these items from growing up, or my parents or grandparents having them. I am happily binge watching these lol!

[@leesashriber5097]

Another great trip down memory lane 🙂 I'm old. 🙄 What does amaze me is the years a lot of these products actually debuted.

[@markplott4820]

Rehetty - my father in the 1970's built a Heathkit Color TV and we still had it till 1980. we bought NEW sony Trinitron "digital" tuner model in 1981.

[@hedcase]

As a pensioner, I love a bit of nostalgia, so thanks for the video. I had quite a lot of the items you showed. I'd probably add the atari console to your list, my first introduction to gaming and I've never looked back. At 68 I have both Xbox series X and a good gaming PC which I enjoy daily in my retirement lol

[@markdavis4754]

My mother used to play space invaders on the 48K spectrum when us kids where at school and not using it, Pretty sure she would have whipped ours asses if you could same the score.

[@Stacey0909]

@@markdavis4754 Does anyone remember that Atari game, Montazuma's Revenge? 🤩 I still remember my first all-night, solo gaming experience, trying to get to the end of the game. I still have my console and all the games too. Thank y'all for the awesome memories! 💞

[@miroslawkaras7710]

Tape data storage is still in use and in high demend. There are still places in US were dia up is still in use. Flopy disk capacoty was from 300KB to 120 MB. Most popular was 1.44MB where the 2.88MB required paticular disk drive that could do this format and it was not that popular.

[@xaenon]

2.88 might have been more popular had it been introduced a little earlier. By the time 2.88 mb discs were hitting the market, there were 100mb Zip drives, early CD writers, and early flash drives. The prices of hard discs was plummeting as well.

[@narmale]

tape storage is bigger than ever since IBM came up with the mega capacity drives 317 gigs / sq inch on their new tapes... WAY more than SSD's or HDDs

[@allenjenkins7947]

300kB? Luxury! The first floppy disks I used were 8inch, single-sided, 90kB (PDP11). We eventually installed a 12inch, 10MB hard drive in the PDP11, at a cost about the same as a new family car.

[@the_kombinator]

I've only seen a handful of 2.88 drives, mostly in IBM machines. I don't think I've ever held a 2.88 in my hand, and I was a computer tech in the 90s. I do have several working (gasp!) ZIP100 drives around here, even one of those 120 Mb versions (USB) not from iOmega.

[@the_kombinator]

@@xaenon I recall when a 42 Mb hard disk cost several hundred bucks. Oldest one I've ever had was a 10 Mb MFM drive (no bad sectors!) and that was fairly recently, in a 286.

[@legobatman8353]

Having seen most of these things come and go, I feel really old now.

[@theprior46]

Facinating slice of techno history. No wonder so many likes. I remember building a transistor radio back in the late 1950s with my Dad's help. The transistors had to have a heat-sink clipped to the 3 terminal wires to solder them as heat could destroy them. The head boy at my school in 1959 had a PYE pocket transistor radio and it was almost the size of half a brick! I envied the fact that he would listen to cricket scores during "break" in the Playground. What an astonishingly fast evolution to today.

[@codetech5598]

And then The Beatles came.

[@wrexhammusic]

I still use cassette tapes and VHS tapes. I've even been able to record from Freeview to a VHS tape so I don't miss my shows when I'm out. I had an old VHS copy of a movie I didn't even like so I used a bit of sticky tape over the notch to turn it into essentially a recordable tape.

[@originalxbox9924]

I once had a Panasonic walkman back in 1996. I love that device, the headphone and sound quality was actually good. I would listen to my walkman in buffet restaurants getting in line selecting food items while listen to music. What an experience

[@brendaholliday6866]

Rhett, I enjoyed this no longer used modern inventions video. I was familiar with alot of these items, but some I hadn't heard of before. Loved the photos, too. Have a fantastic weekend. Take care 🐎

[@coloradostrong]

Another one here that is confused with 2 simple words. _Alot_ is a town in India. _A lot_ is more than one of something. 🙄 🙄

[@dcardagain]

@@coloradostrong semantics ?

[@dcardagain]

Looks more like a typo to me. Seems to be missing a letter.

[@stevehoward3541]

The AM. Table radio is one I'd like to mention. It was basically replaced by the transistor radio. The ones with colorful catalin bakelite are cool and very collectable.

[@chinablue1699]

I have ordered a 1920's crystal radio just recently from amazon, it doesn't need batteries as it uses the radio waves to power it and it uses crystals in the head phones to make sounds, been searching for a crystal powered pocket Rocket Radio for awhile now for a descent price.

[@ronb6182]

@@chinablue1699 that can be built it won't be antique but you can make a crystal radio out of a coil, penny a pencil lead which is really graphite. Look up fox hole radio. Use a dark penny instead of the razorblade. You can also use a ge diode a tuning capacitor will help if you use the diode in place of the penny and pencil lead. I used a .1 mfd capacitor instead of the pencil and razor blade when I first made the radio. It was in highschool when I learned how to make a crystal set with a dark penny. A ground and a good antenna is best. I used the TV antenna but I was playing with electricity and didn't know it. The TV in the living room was a series wired TV and the antenna was hot on one lead of the antenna wire. Dad just taped the twin lead he didn't use a splitter and the hot was from the TV chassis. I never got shocked but the lead from the .1 mfd capacitor sparked when I touched it on the razor blade. 73

[@jeffdriscoll6096]

One thing that you skipped over when talking about reel to reel tape. Back in the 70s Teac, Panasonic and others made 4 track quadraphonic reel to reel players. My friend’s dad had one. With 4 speakers at each corner of the room it was incredible! He had Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon recorded in 4 track. During parts of the recording the sound would fly around the room in a circle, in an X pattern and so on giving an unrivaled and as far as I know an unparalleled listening experience. Can’t do that with a CD!

[@robertgodhard3248]

Got a Sony 4tk reel/reel and a Doors quadraphonic 7"reel stunning.

[@dcardagain]

Playing different channels on differing speakers has been done on most recording mediums. CD's were no different in that respect. It's done by controlling recorded "channel" output.

[@jeffdriscoll6096]

@D.Card Except that CDs are stereo which implies 2 speakers 2 channels whereas true quadraphonic you have 4 channels 4 speakers each with their own individual track.

[@dcardagain]

@@jeffdriscoll6096 yes, “implies” is the correct term. There were methods of working around said limitations.

[@selfdo]

You could if the media were formatted for that. "Quad" was a brief fad in the 1970s which died out quickly; I remember the local album rock station in Orlando, FL advertised..."In Quad" for a few years. Yes, the sound separation and the ability of the recording artist(s) to achieve a more concert-like experience or perform special effects was enhanced, as Pink Floyd or Alan Parsons might do. Here was the problem: Only the most serious audiophiles with a lot of discretionary cash to spend could not only invest in the rather expensive, for the times, quadrophonic equipment, but also restock with all their titles that were re-issued in Quad. There was too much market resistance to take advantage of the superior sound experience, but at least it did drop the prices of the lesser grades of stereo equipment which made them more commonplace. It's the same reason that LP sales were still strong well after the 8-tracks and then cassettes were all over the place; folks simply had decent, functional turntables and liked the sound from them better than the tapes. Another issue was that 8-track recording decks and later cassette decks were just getting started, and already the record labels were suing both the hardware manufacturers like Sony, JVC, and Panasonic, and the media providers like Maxell, claiming they were profiting off of "copyright infringement", even though the makers and the media warned that their equipment and products were for private use only. This limited the sale of home recording equipment to the more expensive lines for stereo only while the various lawsuits were fought out in the courts, as none of the makers wanted to gamble on more widespread production and be liable for that many more "illegal" copies. They "won", but by then, Quad had already gone the way of the Dodo, a footnote of audiophile history.

[@hermestrismegistus3417]

What I find most interesting about old tech, is not how much of it is obsolete, but how much of it is still put to use!

[@colinmcdonald2499]

Yeah, obsolete is a relative term. For example, it is best practice to keep a battery powered radio in your basement for access to emergency broadcast service. In a tornado. Cell coverage might replace this .. but better to be redundant. For things like sports broadcasts, even less obsolete. I sit here on a smartphone using unlimited data to type this. But I am not going to chase down multiple subscription services.

[@bigred9428]

Many are not obsolete by consumer choice.

[@rhiannonk9030]

I would rather have a map and a compass than a GPS device. I can write on it or put post it notes. Plus, who want to steal what has no resale value?

[@colinmcdonald2499]

@@rhiannonk9030 I don't disagree for backpacking. But for a bike trip maps are just not convenient. Another problem is... It used to be easy to buy topographic survey maps. These days they are becoming hard to get current maps in some Countries. Not obsolete, but no longer reliably available.

[@GarryGri]

@@colinmcdonald2499 I didn't really thing of that, but it's true. Petrol stations and paper-shops used to always stock maps, not so much nowadays.

[@scottgould6590]

There needs to be a “tech smithsononian” where old inventions can be on display, for people can see the beginnings of all that we take for granted.

[@Sawsquatch]

Look, mum! No computer!

[@StoutProper]

It’s called a museum

[@MaxwellDarwin]

I’m sure there is somewhere. Probably the Smithsonian actually. There’s a museum of failed products. So why not.

[@Sawsquatch]

No but seriously. Check out look mum no computer, here on KZbin. It's genuinely a museum of exactly this.

[@dcardagain]

That could become an extensive display. Should it start with an abacus?

[@johnwillett4086]

More info - the Sony Walkman happened because Sennheiser invented the open-back headphones, which meant that headphones could be made much smaller and still have very high quality. Sony were the first company to take out a licence for "open aire" headphones and the Walkman followed soon after. On the cassettes bit you showed a picture of an "ELcassette" this was a different format that ran ¼" tape at 3¾ ips instead of the ⅛" tape at 1⅞ ips of a compact cassette to give a sound quality equal to an open reel recorder. Open reel recording is still alive and kicking at many recording studios for people who like the sort of audio distortion that are inherent in analogue tape recording and LP records. Betamax was technically much better than VHS which is why it stayed around for longer than people may have thought - Sony also used the same tape for the professional Betacam format, which lasted until quality solid-state digital cameras came around. The same tape was also used in the Sony PCM-F1 format to record digital audio with a converter and betamax recorder - this was very high quality audio and was the best way of recording 16-bit digital audio until DAT came around. But you seemed to have forgotten about DAT and MiniDisk in the video. And, yes, I do remember all of these and was around at the time that this was all "hi-tech". My profession is in Professional Audio, so I was in at the start of most of the audio items mentioned - though 8-track was only popular in the US and never really made it over to Europe; though a professional cartridge, based on the 8-track but with the pinch-wheel as part of the recorder rather than in the cartridge, was popular with radio stations for playing jingles and adverts for many years until digital systems came along. As the cartridge was "never ending" you had to be careful and "find the splice" before starting recording as you did not want to record over the join as it would caud a drop-out when played.

[@scottyellis3442]

I was born in 1968 so I remember alot of these, the Sony Walkman was a big favorite of mine back in the 6th grade.

[@samanthab1923]

My son still uses one

[@billyclub9733]

We were poor, so I had the bootleg discount store $10 version. Had no reverse muchless auto reverse. Fast forward only! Oh well! 😂

[@coloradostrong]

_Alot_ is a town in India. 🙄

[@jeanniemainzer8551]

A lot. Two words.

[@scottyellis3442]

@@jeanniemainzer8551 sorry I didn't know I was in a spelling class, I was just sharing a childhood memory. But really glad you corrected me.

[@AwkwardBlackGal613]

I am am a millennial born in 1991. When I was in middle school I remember my dad had a mini disc player in the early 2000s. Also remember my mom had a blue sky pager that matched her sky blue car in the 1990s, she was in the nursing field. My grandma got me a radio with a tape cassette player when I was in elementary school in the early 90s.

[@samuelschick8813]

I was in one room when I heard my daughter let out a shreik. Turns out she was going through my " back in the day" collection. I went to check and she had found my old vinyls from the early 1970's. "Dad, these are so cool!!! Can I have them?" Needless to say she owned them before I could answer and still has them to this day.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing your memories!

[@stanford-nf4jk]

You could even add MP3 Players/iPods as most people either use their phones as one or just stream music entirely. I still have a Discman, buy CDs, and have an iPod touch. I DID sell my turntable and vinyls though. It was fun at first but I’m rarely home nowadays.

[@69A12SuperBee]

I still have the eight track player and all my tapes in my 1969 dodge super bee 😊. Plus, in my collection of vintage audio, I have a whole assortment of some used in NOS Pioneer Supertuner under dash cassette and eight track/FM stereo units as well. Love them all!

[@samuelschick8813]

Rhetty, Something you might find interesting. The Iowa class battleships were brought back in the 1980's and modernized. But the 16 inch and 5 inch guns were still aimed and fired using WW2 technology and still hit the target. Compare that the 5"54' were completely automated except for loading the powder and projectile hoist.

[@whaheydelee]

Not getting ya bro - Iowa class battleships are not considered modern inventions.

[@RhettyforHistory]

I do remember those being brought back under Reagan and ultimately used in Desert Storm. They then decommissioned once again in 1993.

[@caretakerfochr3834]

@@whaheydelee Phonograph and Telegraph predate the Iowa and they got a mention. Selective thinking.

[@whaheydelee]

@@caretakerfochr3834 You miss the point - what I said was battleships are not modern inventions, they've been around for centuries.

[@caretakerfochr3834]

@@whaheydelee No. You said "Iowa class battleships are not considered modern inventions." Do you want to blow off the Concorde because the Sopwith Camel predated it? It's not the same animal.

[@dillondelhoney714]

I remember having VHS tapes when I was a kid.

[@bobblowhard8823]

I'm an old guy. I still have quite a few cassettes, DVD movies, record albums, and a Walkman and Discman. Some items you didn't mention are film cameras, the Polaroid Land camera, movie cameras, film projectors, overhead projectors in the classroom, and slide projectors, just to name a few.

[@ericripley9739]

Good point!

[@codetech5598]

You could write on an overhead slide with a marker while giving a lecture.

[@pamelaulrich3928]

I remember watching filmstrips in school. When the record that accompanied the filmstrip had a beep sound, it was time to advance to the next frame.

[@Aveture]

I remember using/having a lot of these in my younger childhood. It's crazy how much things change in 20-30 years

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

A lot of this is 40 years old. Or more.

[@CLS2086]

Tape Data are still in use in Datacenters, we manage around 2000 machines that do backup job every day

[@kramregnu2945]

Great info! I was a teenager in the 80s and had lots of these devices. I was into CD players in the late 80s through late 90s. They introduced a feature in the late 90s that stored 3-30 seconds of data so the music you were hearing wouldn't skip. I actually ran laps around the track with one of these players on my hip.

[@jakemasterson6057]

One thing I remember you don't see anymore is the big ole long console tables that had the record player in them, most also had an 8-track and some even had a tv as well. My grandparents had one and my ex still has one from the late 70s. Lord help whoever had to move them because they were heavy.

[@21stcenturyfossil7]

People are actually spending money for the survivors nowadays. Twenty years ago, they could be found on the curb on trash day.

[@trainsntile]

I still have a 5 foot long Grundig cabinet model from the 1960s. It is made of wood (NOT PRESSBOARD) & has a high polished veneer finish. Also, it has 8 speakers. At the left side is a record player for 33, 45 &78 rpm records. Sadly, the rubber edged direct drive wheel has partially rotted & the phonograph does not play properly. In the center is a radio, which plays AM, FM & Kurzwelle (short wave). Years ago, I remember putting the thing on SW2 & very faintly, & without any special antenna, picking up a station somewhere in Canada that gave military time every minute in English & French. I live in NJ. Pretty cool!! Hopefully, I'll someday have the phonograph repaired, if I can find someone to help me lug it out of the living room, as it must weigh about 100 pounds!

[@birdsfan57]

@@trainsntile Those were quite popular in the 60's. My friend's family had one, but my parents could never afford the $599-699 pricetag (a small fortune back then, considering a new car cost between $1500-2000). Irony is that today, folks don't "bat an eye" at the pricetags for $1500 IMacs or $1000 IPhones, as if they are basic necessities...

[@21stcenturyfossil7]

@@trainsntile There's should be no need to move the whole console to repair the wheel. The platter can usually be removed simply by taking off the C clip at the spindle and lifting the platter off. The idler is probably held in place with another C clip. Easy. Also, I'm assuming the wheel you're referring to is an idler wheel. Idlers just transfer the speed of the motor spindle to the inner edge of the platter and their diameter isn't super critical. They can be repaired with a rubber O ring. I'm sure there's detailed instructions on the web if you're handy and want to give it a shot. The rubber on the replacement idlers is likely decades old by now and any good ones could be expensive. Phono cartridges also have some rubber in them and that rubber can go bad, as well. Phono cartridges are still being mass produced, although your table might have the complication of a non standard mount. Alot/most of the Grundigs use a clutch to shift from FM to the AM bands.. There's a pot metal disk in the clutch which is prone to cracking. If yours is working well, be happy. It's a pain to work on. The most serious potential problem that old tube products is that the paper and electrolytic capacitors deteriorate. These weren't designed to last 50+ years. They're best replaced and I wouldn't recommend that job for a beginner. The chassis can be easily removed for servicing, if you find someone competent to do the job or if you work yourself up to it with simpler projects.

[@nutritionperfection]

@@birdsfan57 To be fair people don't bat an eye because inflation changed what $1500 is. The median income of all US families in 1965 was about $6,900. That's about $61,658 in 2022. $599 in 1965 would be equivalent to $5,353 today. $1500 in 1965 would be equivalent to $13,404 today. I would bat an eye if my phone was $5,353 just as your parents did for the cabinet.

[@theedspage]

I don't think I can count how many audio cassettes I worn out during my childhood.

[@arobatto]

-12:59 Watches are ling gone?

[@alvallac2171]

*wore

[@tallras1]

The t.v./radio combo was a good one too!!

[@RhettyforHistory]

I always wanted one of those but never had one. My grandparents had one for camping in their RV qnd then they couldn't ever pick up anything where they went. Thank you for watching!

[@robertpayne2717]

Except when one or the other required repairs

[@Chuthermucker]

Another great interesting video! I am old enough where I remember pretty much every one of these items. I still have my old palm pilot. It is long dead now but it sure did get a lot of use! Have a great weekend.

[@bpekim1]

My Palm Pilot is still dead but I keep it in hopes of retrieving my first electronic phone list off of its hard drive. I transferred every contact out of my old handwritten address book back in the nineties to the Palm, and then I dropped it about four years later. One of those things you never get around to doing.

[@Chuthermucker]

@@bpekim1 I doubt there is anything left to rescue off mine. To tell you the truth, I don't even remember what I had put on it!

[@kiwiy2k]

You could absolutely fast forward AND rewind on a Walkman 😳

[@musicislife7512]

And the japanese versions you can also skip to the next track and remote control with display !! I still have 2 pieces of the legendary Walkman in my collection !

[@guyincogneto8979]

It just drained the batteries so badly that you didn't want to.

[@jackybraun2705]

My 7-year-old grandson is perfectly capable of operating a Walkman. He uses it to listen to the hundreds of old cassette tapes that his Daddy had when he was that age. I'm in the process of converting the cassettes to MP3, however.

[@KevRalph]

I thought I would do that but it became too tiresome. So then I discovered certain KZbin to MP3 websites. It was quicker. But that was perfect for an iPod but these days I'm just use Spotify

[@jodyguilbeaux8225]

young people laughed at me because i was still listening to the walkman in the early 2000. i was amazed at the sound of the WALKMAN, embarrassed , i just quit listening to music at work all together.

[@bangerbangerbro]

@@lexibat7829 Exactly, everything these days uses those symbol, and some of them are labelled anyway.

[@mister-Kayne]

It is just a waste of time, money and effort. Trust me everybody is going digital no more cassettes, CDs, any other music devices required

[@voidseeker4394]

To be honest, i don't think many people immediately knew how to operate walkman when they saw it the first time before they read the manual or someone showed them.

[@thevacdude]

Oh yes, I remember VHS tapes. They'd lose their quality after being played over and over again over time. DVD, obviously, replaced them, and were much better quality. I remember cassettes, CD's replaced them. Good memories.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories!

[@doktermobiel]

I own a lot of DVD's and the first ones are starting to rot now .. same goes for some of my (cheap) compact discs .. every medium has an expiration date I guess

[@lazer2365]

@@doktermobiel Fortunately streaming sites are making DVDs and CDs obsolete.

[@cynthiajohnston424]

I pet & house sit so get a glimpse into other people's lives - even in modern / upscale homes , often see VHS , DVD , CD , cassette players & of course record players / stereo systems . Many from nostalgia and/or big collections of movies & music too tedious or costly to replace. Lots of books too ! All sharing space w/ most up to date tech purchases !!!

[@jacobbellwood6184]

I still use cassette tapes, cd's, VHS tapes and I still have and play my first tapes I'd bought in the late 1980's

[@lmoore3567]

The VCR isn't quite obsolete yet--the demand is picking up again thanks to renewed interest in physical media, and due to the fact that many lost media titles are only accessible via VHS cassette.

[@benlabarre5547]

The portable T.V.s did have a niche. Being both battery powered and able to plug in, I saw these used a lot as a security guard. Many jobs of similar station relied on them like toll booth workers and the rest of the ‘sit and stay’ jobs.

[@whiplashfatigue1430]

And we sure used ours in 2005 during Katrina when the power was knocked out.

[@lasskinn474]

They've made them at least to few years back(crt, they still make portable lcd tv's) Besides most of them were on market in 80s. For trucks, cars etc.. A lot of these products you can still buy or at least derivates, as conceptual ideas they're not obsolete in that sense.

[@MarkAltosaar]

The Sony Watchmen got really sophisticated eventually. My dad had an LCD one in the early 90s that was designed to also mount to a camcorder, (Video8 lol) which didn't have colour viewfinders yet.

[@RemoWilliams1227]

@@whiplashfatigue1430 dang glad you made it through that disaster.

[@RemoWilliams1227]

@@MarkAltosaar I would have thought that was awesome, wait I still do...!

[@mikemiller3069]

In the 70s, most cars only had AM radios. People (including myself) installed under the dash 8-track players. Not long ago while cleaning out my parents' estate, we came across a cartridge-like device that fit into an 8-track player but it was an FM tuner so you could listen to FM radio through your 8-track player. High tech at its finest. 😂

[@kennethwallace4338]

Had the one line pager. Man I don't miss them. Usually had no idea what someone was trying to tell me 😂. Still got 8 tracks, cassettes, vcr, dvd.

[@JohnAranita]

My first stereo recorder was an 8-track that I bought from a Goodwill in the '80s. The recordings were super fun!!

[@dhart28]

I grew up in the 70's, so an 8-track is the first stereo I installed in my cars. 8-tracks were notorious for getting stuck inside the players. One time one of my favorite tapes got stuck inside my player, so I get it out, took that cartridge apart, and I learned how they worked, and began fixing my tapes myself. Talk about the need for patience...🙄

[@Snarkapotamus]

@@dhart28 - Yeah, they seemed to develop an appetite for tapes as they got older. Something else from that era that was overlooked was the FM converter. Before Supertuners became all the rage, most cars only had AM radios and in order to get FM stereo, you had to install that little box under your dash to get it...God, I'm getting old!

[@grampadad]

@@dhart28 I OWNED THE 4 TRACK MONO PLAYER IN 64

[@luz1959]

My goodness! As a baby boomer, I have had most of these now obsolete items. Now I am certain that I am truly vintage. 😂

[@voidseeker4394]

I'm a millenial, and i used most of these devices, or at least held it in my hands. I'm tech junkie tho, and i live in Ukraine, so the technology lagged a bit while getting to my country. In ninetieth we used technology of your eighties, and it was new to us. Now, with globalisation kicking in and USSR long gone it already catched up.

[@glennabate1708]

Having everything on a smart phone is to much it’s ruined a lot of things for me.

[@johnjeanb]

Thank you for the stroll down memory lane. I have used almost all the devices you listed here and true most got completely forgotten. The fight with Netscape, a modem on a PC is something long gone, the floppy disks especially the 8 inch ones were of the 70s. Thanks for the fun

[@HariSeldon913]

Netscape has transitioned to Firefox and Explorer to Edge, but the one part that hasn't changed is that you still call someone computer illiterate if they use Explorer/Edge as their browser (beyond when you get a new computer and have to use it to download Firefox or Chrome).

[@dcardagain]

Let's not forget the spacecraft we sent away into the great expanse based on 68k architecture.

[@d3al3rplays68]

How about the Turbo button on the PC lol..

[@jessicayoung6208]

I remember cassette tapes, I remember being a kid and having it in my stereo and when a song came on the radio I loved I’d hurry and press record and record the song on the cassette tape.

[@Blacksheepishot]

Recording tunes off the radio due to these cassettes was so cool indeed. Must have over a hundred recordings from what was the very best radio station on the air at the time WRIF. DETROIT

[@trainsntile]

I still have 4 cases of them (48 per case), Nothing to play them on, though!

[@kurtb8474]

My daughter was born in 1986 and was part of the CD generation. Now, she prefers vinyl. She's got a collection that is still growing.

[@carch7243]

Good for her! I cherish my vinyl collection.

[@johnnypool2206]

@@carch7243 You better know it! My dear mom was a vinyl collector and she started me collecting when I was 15 years in age. I now have somewhere in the house of, as a guess, 4000 or more vinyl recordings. Aaaand, I have a 1974 model Sansui 9090DB receiver with a Audio Technica turntable to play my vinyl on. I am now 75 years in age and I'll take my vinyl any day of the week!

[@carch7243]

@@johnnypool2206 While I have replaced my amp from my younger days, I still have my JVC turntable that I love. 2 sets of 3-way speakers work out just fine. I do not have a count of my vinyl, but I know it is no where near 4000. I still have the first 2 albums I purchased back in the early 70s. Black Sabbath Paranoid, and Supertramp Crime of the Century (their greatest album!).

[@kevinstonerock3158]

I always hated getting up to change records every half hour or less so I got a Technics direct drive changer that could play six records consecutively. About three hours worth at a time. Along with a 125 watt per channel receiver I could loosen nails in the house if I wanted to. I don’t know whether the receiver works well enough for that now but I won’t sell either one since they’re impossible to find. The benefit is they can be repaired instead of being thrown out. No IC’s, just basic high quality electronic parts. Quality was something that was sacrificed to be inexpensive in the eighties on. Between my parents and siblings there’s a lot of these we still have where they’re practically indestructible, unless they got taken apart by the wrong hands.

[@samuelschick8813]

Old inventions no longer used: 1.) Common sense. 2.) Critical thinking. 3.) Logic. 4.) Thinking for yourself.

[@RhettyforHistory]

All necessary to come up with innovative ideas and inventions. But hey when it's not used so much it opens the door for those that want to get ahead! Thank you for watching!

[@samuelschick8813]

@@RhettyforHistory, How's the family?

[@joemarchinski914]

and FREEDOM and the CONSTITUTION and actually Proaecuting CRIMINALS and not spending billions$$$$ to shred AMERICA and the Law Abiding Citizens

[@tonyperek7292]

Old inventions unused today consists of love,honesty,and respect. Children run the home now,not the parents. Stern discipline in the home and at school, Christian values, Automatic record changers are now gone as it was discovered that stacking records on the machine can easily scratch them. Good manners have fallen by the way side. Loud music has become an epidemic in this country. Grownups now don’t act like grownups like they used to.

[@starmnsixty1209]

@@tonyperek7292 You sure got that right.

[@michaelturner2806]

Floppy disks could hold up to 2.88mb, but they were exceptionally rare, and seemed to only exist in Japan. The more common capacity towards the end of its life was 1.44mb. Some early digital cameras even wrote to them! I can only guess that by the time the Japanese market was considering expanding the higher capacity 2.88 floppies to the US, Iomega's Zip drive was getting popular, offering a capacity 35 times higher and much faster, so they didn't bother investing.

[@fungo6631]

No. You're spewing complete BS. They were 2.88 MB unformatted. Custom formatting could allow you to store more than 1.44 MB on them. Many game cartridge disk copiers took advantage of that to store 1536 KB on a single floppy, so that a 12 Mbit game would fit on one floppy.

[@dcardagain]

They were around, just too costly for most. Keep in mind that "removable (hot plug) USB" was available just before that which made external HDs possible for those of us in the tech field.

[@TOONMAN200]

Great video, I'm 76 years old now, and I owned most of the products in your video. The only thing I never owned was the LaserDisc player, it was definitely out of my price range. Now I do everything and anything on my smart phone, but when I go out I still wear a wristwatch, is easy to look at my wrist for the time, instead of pulling out my phone. One more thing I have a cabinet full of hundreds of DVDs, which are worthless , because I subscribe to streaming service, on-demand content, and I love it.

[@jackmatson962]

I have a Sony Mavica camera from about 2000 which uses the 3.5" 1.4MB floppy. As I recall, the camera was a bit pricy but made up for it by the dirt-cheap storage. This disk access was double-speed, I took a LOT of pictures with this!

[@petuniasevan]

I do too! Still works!

[@fryingpanhead8809]

That Maveica was state-of-the-art when it came out. 200,000 x 200,000 pixels. Kilopixels. Now your iphone is 10 megapixels.

[@Not-Great-at-Gaming]

In addition to being pricey, the disk drive made it pretty slow. Still, it was the best camera at the time.

[@MrJest2]

I still have hundreds of Mavica pics on my hard drive - a technophile friend of mine just HAD to get one when they first came out. By today's standards, the resolution was garbage, but they were honest-to-goodness digital photos in an analog world of photography...

[@fungo6631]

@@fryingpanhead8809 Those 10 megapixels are dubious tho. Remember the megapixel wars with digital cameras? There's a difference between a 10 megapixel DLSR and some 10 megapixel phone camera.