Tech We REALLY Wish Came Back

[@KinseyFromThisIs]

The experience of Matt texting me this Bert from Sesame Street lookin Austin asking me to make him old in faceapp for the thumbnail is truly Something

[@ThisIs_Matt]

Are you sure this isn't Bert's twin brother Bart?

[@grantpaterson1016]

WinAmp IS back :)

[@grantpaterson1016]

Though I still use Zune software on Windows 10....the BEST media player for music

[@DanteToska]

@@grantpaterson1016 I love you

[@grantpaterson1016]

@@DanteToska That's incredibly and unexpectedly nice :) Love you too.

[@VintageFenrir]

9:45 Removable batteries were great! I didn't need a giant power brick and usb cable so I could slowly charge my phone if it got too low, I just had an extra battery, and it took like 20 seconds for my phone to go from 0% battery to 100% battery

[@rhylin26]

The thing that made cartridges superior was that the game had to be complete when published. 😅

[@jdhall420]

no they didn't lol, That was the downfall of cartridge games, they would sometimes be sent out full of bugs with no way to patch.

[@luciascarlet]

@@jdhall420 That was indeed sometimes the case, but as a general rule, developers couldn't simply just assume that they can ship a buggy game because they can just patch it later and it's not a big deal.

[@bnbnism]

@@luciascarlet actually this is also untrue as there was revised editions for most games going back to nes era and that's not even including re released versions(punch out for example) and later updated versions that might have had some more content basically the original version of GOTY editions

[@luciascarlet]

​@@bnbnism you're right, but still this was either done either in really really bad "emergency" cases or as a sort of definitive special edition release afaik? like, you still wouldn't just half-arse a game and put it out back in the day knowing that you can just patch it easily, as it'd require a reprint and possibly recall, or you'd have to release a special edition of the game with more content or other enhancements which isn't really the same thing as a patch anyway

[@bnbnism]

@@luciascarlet your sort of correct, like it is now sometimes it's when the set in stone launch day came whatever was done got shipped and you move onto the next product, when they shipped another batch of say 100000 copies or something months later this would be the 1.1 version SM64 is a good example and so many bugs can be fixed but it's nothing too major like a minor-ish day 1 patch type difference. But it's interesting to look at all these differences especially in regions as well.

[@craigbourquin9919]

The After Dark screensaver was awesome waaaay back in the day. I remember putting a math coprocessor in my Packard Bell 286 so that I could run it.

[@AronFromThisIs]

3:28 Sorry, Matt broke out of his containment simulation for a few seconds, there.

[@jparrish]

I think removable batteries on cell phone are a great idea. In fact, I have an old LG MS550 phone that I literally just ordered a new battery for. Do I use the phone often....No. But there are some older apps that I can't run on my Pixel 6 Pro. I only use the phone in WiFi mode, but it has saved me on many occasions. The original battery just expanded enough to pop the back off, so it will literally take me less than 1 minute to replace the battery with the new one come in tomorrow.

[@Cappyey]

You replaced an expanded battery? You need to throw that phone out, expanded batteries can easily explode if you try to remove them.

[@jparrish]

@@Cappyey the phone was designed with a removable battery. It was a simple replacement

[@aefinn]

As a librarian, I have never loved this channel more. Donate to your local library! Or just visit and use them! Or both!

[@R3AL-AIM]

Even though I personally don't use the headphone jack often, I do use an AUX in my vehicles. Both my cars were produced right before Bluetooth became a norm. So I have everything except Bluetooth until I swap the radios. AUX also sounds amazing in my Buick with the HK system. A good cable with direct connection always had better sound 🤷

[@ShockingPikachu]

I just prefer wired headphones because unlike Bluetooth they are far less likely to eventually just totally stop working as a result of a dead battery.

[@EDV8ZR1]

@@ShockingPikachu or a update could break your headphones with Bluetooth ones fun right

[@Scientist538]

AUX users are real men due to no invisible waves nuking their sperm

[@Girder3]

Winamp is still around. In fact, they just recently released a new version (5.9) this past September.

[@cherrycreamsoda4253]

One thing I remember is portable media players. Get your sleeve of your fav DVDs, movies, whatever and have them next to you with the dvd player on the headrest in front of you? Bliss.

[@MinecrafterPictures]

I heard that WinAmp still exists and got recently updated for modern OSes with I'm pretty sure it's legacy support for the older themes for some reason, likely nostalgic reasons

[@wairgald]

It does still exist, and the old version was updated to be able to work correctly on the newest OSes, but they are supposed to be releasing the first fully revamped new version with a completely updated UI. I don't know if the new version will have skin/visualization support or not.

[@iswaraKITT]

I'm still using it! and it's the latest one released by the devs!

[@theoldtechhandheldtinkerer4092]

@@wairgald it's not a revamped UI, it's now a streaming service to compete with spotify. Legacy Winamp is still available but will not receive any more updates, but there's also WACUP which is a fan made "emulation" of Winamp which seems to be getting new updates. haven't tried it out yet, still using OG Winamp.

[@nosavepoints]

Oh man Windows Movie Maker was my teenage years. I used to spend hours cutting clips from anime and putting them to music.

[@beanwithbacon]

I still use Winamp, no mother media player has support for as many different audio formats out of the box as Winamp does.

[@AVClarke]

The Sony MiniDisc was amazing technology. If it had been more successful and allowed to progress, we could have had MD sized Blu-Rays today.

[@jasonwebb7978]

My fave ever screen saver was a bouncing sheep one. The sheep would bounce higher and higher. Till they finally popped and they would build up all their bloody parts slowly filling up the screen.

[@ArtemisKitty]

PSX memory cards on a keychain made sense for arcade cabinets (typically racing games) which allowed you to save your progress/cars/etc on them. Not sure about the other ones, but I know there were a number of PSX compatible arcade cabinets in the early 2000s/late 1990s. I'm pretty sure that was their intended use.

[@wolfman1000000]

Ah. The episode where we learn Austin was just a figment of Matt's imagination the whole time.

[@AronFromThisIs]

👀

[@michaelwalsh3474]

🤣

[@WillPlaysGames1993]

winamp is still around and actually was updated awhile ago i still use it today on windows 10/11

[@game_master_rukia]

winamp is still around and still does what it always has

[@Ranger7Studios]

I would buy it. I would love it. Laser disk is d'bomb!!! Plus there are extras on the Laser Disk that you can't get anywhere else. That was part of the selling point.

[@bottledwaterprod]

Just realized that there weren't Gamecube memory card keychains despite that system probably having the most need for them. Mostly because F-Zero GX/AX was RAD AF, and you bet your sweet ass I was bringing my extra large 256 block memory card to and from my house and the mall arcade. Mario Kart used the function somewhat as well, but F-Zero was next level. What a time to be alive.

[@Random-ed2xf]

Schools bought into the laser disc. I remember in school that's what they used and it was already a bit late for them to switch format.

[@patricktrakzel9657]

Removable batteries were great. You could put 2 more small batteries in your pocket and go camping for a week. No problem recharging your phone every day!

[@VyllenceGaming]

Johnny Castaway is the best screensaver of all time and NEEDS a windows 10/11 port...

[@magi404]

Lol man this was a heck of a trip down memory lane, I loved it. The only think I would add is the old message boards on AOL or the homepage on AOL from like 98-00. lol

[@gmedina911]

I’ll never forgive Apple for ruining the headphone jack for everyone

[@Studio42-JZG]

I actually liked Windows Movie Maker. I didn't really have any prioblems with editing videos with it.

[@Q1-nomad]

this just reminded me about that windows media player skin where it was a green face and had speakers for ears

[@florky_01]

the thumbnail is absolutely nuts 💀

[@prestonlee7107]

Dankpods the audiophile youtuber actually made a very good point about headphone jacks. while the regular joe probably does not care about audio quality and will plug their headphones into anything, having a headphone jack on the phones means that they have to make space not only for the input but also a DAC. thats why headphone jacks on phones arent always the best quality. apple's dongle on the other hand has a way better DAC in it which sounds very good

[@lpalmosina]

I can't believe you guys didn't bring up MySpace or AIM/ICQ etc. Classics, my dudes!!

[@R3AL-AIM]

Yeah, I agree, we can just skip laser disk. Records are still cool, laser disk were proven as a proof of concept 🤣

[@camtoczynski1891]

Not really tech, but it kinda goes along with game disks slowly being phased out. But I loved when I bought game for my PS2, and reading the manual that came with it. It actually had helpful info in there and cool screen grabs and cool designs

[@TechDove]

@1:30 YES YES YES YES YES the headphone jack needs to come back, I'm so sick of living without it

[@jessievelasco6074]

13:25 Austin's smile when he paused Matt lol

[@John_1920]

Removable batteries was the time, I remember I would never go anywhere without a spare fully charged battery for whenever the phone battery needed to be charged and I didn't have a charger wire with me, or if I did have a wire, I didn't have anywhere to plug the wire into. It was so much easier being able to just pop off the back cover, flip out the battery, put in a fully charged one, put on the back cover again, and voila, fully charged phone again. Can't do that with your phone these days, and even if the batteries lasts longer now, you would still be f***ed on the go if your battery died on you and you don't have any way of charging it.

[@YassirAlSaffar]

Game cartridges, WinXP, WinAmp, Removable phone batteries, Screen savers. Good old days.

[@fernandosalazar730]

Wdym switch has cartridges

[@wildbyname]

Woah woah woah... We all know the best visualiser when the teenage wacky backy was out was Realplayer's Annabelle the Sheep 😂😂😂

[@XxPermaGrinxX]

I don't see 5 hour long compilations of "TikToks that changed my brain chemistry" or "TikToks that changed the world". Vine is the goat. Anyone that disagrees is a child or an adult in denial.

[@frankwales]

Surely the oldest piece of technology Austin uses on a daily basis are spectacles, not the headphone jack

[@--_DJ_--]

I dunno, the car he drove to work in probably had wheels on it.

[@Zac-wb7hu]

If only bluetooth would match the timing of sound in video for anything. some devices its better, some its worse, but when its noticeable i hate it

[@allsportnj]

I still have my Laserdisc player hooked up and just watched I Know What You Did Last Summer last night. :)

[@Simon_Mars]

Milkdrop visualiser for Winamp was THE shit back in the days

[@mattbishop731]

Grandpa Austin is so cursed it keeps me coming back to the thumbnail more often than I’d like to admit

[@wargreysama]

My laptop which is from 2019 still has media keys, it's a HP Pavillon Gaming laptop, love this small dude a lot.

[@LovelyAlanna]

man... Windows XP Themes were awesome, I loved Olive Green, also Royale Noir

[@theshadowman1398]

I demand Laserdisc to be brought back. It's an epic format that is capable of HD by the way.

[@MinisterRoy205]

okay, i have a position on gam cartridges. if an SSD, and 2 ram sticks, are the same size as old, game cartridges. then i want to see game cartridges with built in micro graphics cards to help consoles run them, that is how consoles can run at the highest fps and resolution making consoles once again plug and play and equal to computer processing power. so the cartridges and the consoles both have a graphics card. now i don't know the smallest yet strongest graphics card is, but the strong graphics card can be in the console while mediocre cards are in the cartridge.

[@0AThijs]

I personally only buy key oards with media keys, I use them everyday, and it became an 'instinct'. I don't know the word.

[@Miguel_Macias1]

These videos are so fun and it feels like they go by too fast!

[@anumeon]

You know that Winamp has returned, right.. :)

[@Joreel]

But no one really uses it anymore. I loved WinAmp back in the day, but we've all moved on to having our music streaming without it. Sadly the Lama does whip our asses anymore.

[@quantumleaper]

Yes, and I am currently using it to play my sound files. I use a 2.0 skin which was hard to find.

[@dontbotherreading]

U guys did Austin dirty with that thumbnail yikeees

[@bittertriumph2045]

Winamp is still a thing though. They literally just dropped a new version like a month or two ago.

[@IceBlueLugia]

Yeah I was so confused about that part

[@Chriva]

Still using Winamp. No junk, no online garbage and ads. Just a player playing my music

[@AM562]

11:46 when I worked at a grocery store when you were in the back cleaning produce or organizing someone brought a Bluetooth version of that pig and it sounded really good in the price they’re saying it cost it it should not have been that cheap for what you get

[@ryumewukowu]

anyone remember when laptops had tiny remotes that could be ejected out of one side of them for media buttons?

[@deze]

Yep😮

[@DarthDoomSlayer64]

Austin didn't use movie maker, Duncan did.

[@ZengoOshiba]

That feeling Matt gets when Mini disks will never return.

[@Moskyrath]

Vine was a great idea until people started being idiots with it same with TikTok. The number of times I've seen people get injured or killed because of them is beyond ridiculous

[@shidosensei.]

so nobody gonna talk about how Ethernet and HDMI ports have already been taken away from most laptops?

[@dragonhart6505]

This episode really whipped my llamas ass 🖤

[@ha-itsme]

Man, I really can't wrap around my head that latest expensive laptop have less IO than older mid range ones.

[@Ducklordess]

stumbled across your videos and just LOVE that Matt is promoting libraries. YAY! Been working in libraries for 20 years. Hit subscribed because of this.

[@johnperry6201]

Love the editing on the thumbnail

[@Taino5.0]

I want visualizer app or portal in general. Want something in the background to see while I listen.

[@bradtraq1]

Never changed the cursor on older versions of windows, at least for fun for a bit... Pssssshhh

[@gregsmith9183]

Winamp was great for the time. But since discovering AIMP (freeware audio player for Windows and Android) i'd never want to go back to Winamp. Also miss widgets in Windows, Google Groups, Netscape Navigator. mobile phones with physical keyboards, CD players in cars and the days when purchasing a physical game meant you got the complete game. Not part of the game that you had to download to play after you tried to install it.

[@Terry.W]

What about cassettes ...still rocking mine..

[@danielgomez7236]

I totally agree with this video, we need old tech back

[@theoldtechhandheldtinkerer4092]

I still use winamp to this day. even when I'm listening to Spotify I set up winamp to use milkdrop visualizations with the general output of the computer, so it works with everything. I also still use screensavers, most modern screens don't need them, but some actually still do, especially my cheap projector. Speaking of the shortly mentioned lan parties at the end, let's bring them back, I still have people come to my place and we play games together, including some old ones that still have a lan function, or online games, lan parties are unarguably better than, say, being on discord, which I still love for most day to day gaming, but playing with your friends in one room, is a much more social experience, you can share food and drinks with your friends and maybe watch a movie together in between, it's just such a good time, but equally as important I find, is having more games that allow gaming from the same device, we have mario kart and smash bros, and a few other good ones under the local multiplayer category on steam, sorry I'm mainly a PC gamer, but there should be more games like this.

[@tosin]

geocities and angelfire is how i learned to do web design

[@kchalu]

Austin you’re wrong, vine was amazing!

[@oisann8223]

i really hope we get another video like this

[@panthertheif7987]

We play laserdisc and vhs every year for Halloween movies . I got an import of ghost shell with three booklets and disc.

[@abdulhkeem.alhadhrami]

You should make a poll for how many people change to the silver XP theme.

[@carehguru5476]

Vine did not fail. The owner decided to sell out just because he could. Got bought by instagram/facebook i think?

[@liyah7867]

my local library where im from has a theater in it too!

[@mr.grotto]

Vehicles are older than your headphone jacks.

[@thecrow3461]

You can still use winamp. I used it up untill 2017 or so and now using foobar2000 because i needed something that supported scaling.

[@hasanmich1504]

Hes 100 percent right, vine was FAR more superior than tiktok

[@CANADA-SOLD-AS-IS]

Winamp - It really kicks the llama's a** ..... lol

[@aurorablaize]

I sooo miss winamp. It was absolutely huge in the mid to late 90s. Also, I used to make anime music videos with windows movie maker and it was pretty damn good. The first version. They updated it for Vista or Windows 7 and it just suuuuuucked.

[@RaccoonHenry]

I didn't know keychain memory cards were a thing either and now I kind of want one :|

[@jlegasp]

The laptop with less ports really gets me. My current Lenovo only has 2 USB A and 2 USB C which one is used for charging. Would really like a card reader, 1 HDMI, and an Ethernet port. I'll pay the extra 20 or 30 bucks just so I don't have to buy different dongles and have a mess of items on my desk

[@mattpijan4896]

Man I had some good times chilling to screensavers back in the day. Whether I was lit, rolling, or tri**ing they never let me down. I always vibed to the star tunnel one.

[@tehonlynoobs5556]

removeable battery are really best idea for safety and longer span of phone because when you drop y phone to liquid like water you probably have bigger chance that your phone still work by plugged out the battery and let your device dry than non removable

[@wizardtuga]

Windows XP was so good I used it until like 2014 when I got a PC with Windows 7

[@MuttonSquatch]

“Think of how many This Is’s we could do with Yahoo Answers” Well MBMBaM did several hundred podcast episodes based on it. 😂

[@johnchoy4896]

Griffin, do you want to Yahoo?

[@metallurgico]

winamp is still around: it has a new official website

[@trackboy311]

If game cartridges don’t come back what else we gonna blow on! 😂

[@joelavoie84]

My monitor just got covered in coffee when Matt mocked Austin with "mm I've got a wife."

[@thefuture1997]

Keychain memory cards to bring your DDR save to the arcade… what a time.

[@jlebrech]

game cartridges can come with an fpga or custom chip to add an extra feature.

[@imjustsomeguy]

Microsoft Windows needs to bring back the transparent title bar with blur. Windows 10 taskbar and settings sidebar already have the transparent blur. Why not put it in every title bar?

[@sinfulsymbiote2978]

The absolute disgust when vine and tiktok were compared to eachother 🤣🤣🤣

[@frodosfrostbite]

As a audiophile,I prefer the sound of wired headphones to Bluetooth. I'm glad my Samsung still has a headphone jack

[@themetalreaperttv]

um, fellas, winamp is back, and its here to stay.

[@SlowmovingGiant]

i have an old 30 pin ipod dock/dab digital radio/clock that has been on my bedside table for well over a decade. it currently houses an 8g ipod nano 6th gen. i have used an iphone, 3, 4 and 4s in it, ipod touch 2nd and 4th gen. Love the old nugget.

[@mistabrown830]

Honestly I can't believe ppl don't care having a headphone jack which is easier to use and you don't have to worry about charging them

[@joshmiller887]

Currently waiting for the Virtual Ribbon to come back in stock. You’re doing awesome work! I can’t wait to get my hands on a couple kits!