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[@devingiles6597]

I do miss the Internet Explorer. As well as the video cassette recorder (VCR), phone books, and telephone booths growing up.

[@mylsyl]

Rover cars Cadbury dream Bulky televisions Video game case booklets

[@XXPYR0XX]

2:11 you just said niggagell

[@XXPYR0XX]

15:23 that guy just broke his usb slot by sticking it i on an angle like that.

[@catacocamping874]

@@devingiles6597you can still use them it call buy them lamo

[@aunt_cami2650]

I spent SO many hours on Napster, and burned hundreds of CDs... for what??

[@NotshylikeMarylinMonroeNxde]

cds are still used by car users with players

[@catacocamping874]

Well when Spotify shuts down one day you will love the cds and songs get taken off all the time

[@AlexanderBogdanow]

Well I charged ppl 1.50€ per CD while attending middle school^^ ofc I did it for free for friends&family. But I'm astonished when I think about how much was wasted just to transfer data... That's one reason why ppl consumed so much TV.

[@L33tSkE3t]

@@catacocamping874 Although I’m a big believer in owning your own media and hate the fact that music and other streaming services can just pull content on a whim or if they can’t re-secure a license for a piece of content, I don’t see music streaming services ever shutting down. They might change and Spotify may not be around forever but, some company will always fill the void for music streaming and delivery because there is always money to be made.

[@jason4275]

yea me to lost count on how much i burn

[@rome8180]

I still regularly buy CDs. The nice thing about them being unfashionable is that they're dirt cheap. I find that if I buy physical media, I'm much more likely to listen to it. Streaming services offer infinite music, and it makes it feel disposable. I also buy vinyl, but it's a lot more expensive than CDs and harder to keep clean. CDs really do sound the best of any physical media. You have zero surface noise, no tape warble, etc. I'm going to continue championing them as the best way to listen to music.

[@mcglinnen]

I'm the same way. The prices are the same and yes you may have to wait a few days but you own it. I've had a home computer since they came out and I can't tell you how many times a new system or upgrade couldn't read an earlier version of a download so one would have to purchase it again. I understand it's the same way with the cloud: it you don't pay your monthly service you don't have access to your music, so do you really own it..... Unfortunately I can see the day when music doesn't come in a CD format.

[@annatuma1809]

I prefer them for music in the car.

[@Zauchi]

thats what I am like with movies... if I buy them from a store I'll watch it within that week, maybe even the same day, if they are available to stream or I buy them online it can be whenever. I have films I have bought online that I have never got round to watching. lol

[@modelrailpreservation]

Shellac 78s are the way to go for me. The old prewar big band music, it's the best way to hear that music, the way it was meant to be heard 80, 90 years ago. Put some classic prewar trains on my layout, put some shellac on the phonograph, and that is a perfect evening right there.

[@amehak1922]

I prefer CDs and DVDs as well. I can watch my favorite stuff without worrying about a streaming service's random whims.

[@TheDustinExperience]

CD's actually still exist. You can find them at most stores still.

[@neccros007]

These people are clueless.... LOL And CDs are getting popular again

[@friendlyanomaly6109]

Aren't CD what videogames use for physical copies? I hear a lot of people don't like digitial download too.

[@catacocamping874]

I was around when Napster was a thing and there is no cds around not at Walmart or kmart or best buy maybe a local shop

[@ArtSmosh1274]

popular again?​@@neccros007

[@That-chick54]

My car, 2012 Infiniti has a cd player and I have cds

[@georgem2334]

I still have a VCR, CDS, and a CD Player, plus a land line!

[@AdderTude]

My dad still has his old ZIP drive. I even took it to work to show the receptionist several months ago at my last job.

[@KirilNeglovich]

Nice to know there are still dinosaurs roaming earth

[@Akira625]

@@AdderTude I had an external SCSI ZIP drive, but it unfortunately suffered from the "click of death" and destroyed one of my disks. I later got an internal drive and never had any problems with it.

[@jessifer23f]

@@georgem2334 I still have my IDEs with music I got off mirc.

[@Allister2000]

Glad to hear that time travel exists

[@roklif73]

MP3 players are still actively manufactured and sold. They offer better storage space, better battery life, and not reliant on a wifi/cell signal to operate 🙂

[@charlesdunne7909]

Exactly. Have an up to date one, and thanks to that my phone battery doesn't just DIE.

[@booblla]

You mean to tell me that they have devices that play music that *don't* require a subscription or contain advertising?! 😆

[@starscreamthecruel8026]

and they dont cut out with your ringtone when some idiot phones during Guns N And Roses: November Rain Slash solo. That would drive me nuts.

[@arnolski1979]

A lot of people get them for their kids too when they aren’t ready for them to have a phone.

[@ninji5226]

I switched to my phone very late compared to my friends and I'm thinking about going back. No service, no music despite having tracks on Amazon music being supposedly downloaded on my phone.

[@marydauby5229]

I remember when “Ma Bell”was a monopoly and had to break apart into “Baby Bells” yes I am old 😂

[@pooky-bellegaming4089]

“Ma Bell”? “Baby Bells”?

[@phantomrequim]

I remember my math teacher would always use the overhead projector instead of the board. Such memories.

[@spoozilla]

COMPACT! Compaq sounds like Compack. So annoying.

[@jameshannahs9010]

I caught that too. Figured maybe it was a slip once but he said it every time.

[@bartdaley7371]

Where’s the freaking “T”? It’s not there!!!

[@originalcosmicgirl]

They guy in the ad clip they used even says it and he still got it wrong!

[@TubeLVT]

The “t” came from the same source as the “m” lately heard in “sandwich”!

[@kriscynical]

I did the same thing after the third time he said it wrong within 15 seconds. There's no T on the end of it. How hard is that? Of course this guy also said the letters "Q-W-E-R-T-Y" for the keyboard instead of saying it as the word "qwerty". _Which is what the damn thing is called._ It's videos like this where the age of some of Mojo's narrators is painfully obvious. Rebecca wouldn't have made that mistake. lol

[@introvertsrock9843]

Projector.... memories Had a math teacher who only used it so his back was never to students

[@jameshannahs9010]

When I was teaching, I was glad we still had one available when the bulb blew on my projector. Took over a week to get a new one ordered in.

[@guessundheit6494]

I wish I had one in my classroom. You can change acetates in a second, do it repeatedly, to let students see different things or write on them.

[@rome8180]

That wasn't even the first version of the floppy disk. Younger people may wonder why it was called a floppy disk when it was actually fairly rigid. That's because the original floppy disks were way larger and were actually floppy. The 3 1/2" disks pictured here were the most common ones from my childhood, but I remember using the 8" version from time to time. Some computers had multiple drives to insert different types of floppy disks.

[@rdspam]

5 1/4” floppies were in the first IBM PC’s and were the dominant format for many, many years.

[@1985pennst]

Yet the logo to save a file is a floppy disk. The logo to make a call is an old style landline handset.

[@seanaguilar2057]

Everyone I've ever met, including the audio in this video shows that people who used floppy disks never called the diskettes floppy, to differentiate. We knew they were different. Even the boxes in this video show their name as floppy diskettes but again, we all called them diskettes.

[@dennisc6716]

I had an IBM PC clone in 1985 that had an 8" floppy disk drive attached to it (a $2,000 drive by Flagstaff Engineering) that I used to port software and data from IBM System 23 and System 36 computers to the PC. I could also write 8" DOS disks that weren't compatible with any other machine but mine.

[@kingdomgirl4life]

We still have phone booth in Australia and everyone in Australia can use it for free now

[@sarahfields288]

Ours are used as toilets and things to smash up

[@user-kr5jk7sz3y]

You got alot phone booth in Australia

[@matthew_natividad]

Why free?

[@ronnycook3569]

@@matthew_natividad Likely costs more to collect the change than they would be paying the person to do so. And I believe they still cost $$ (credit card only) for international calls. I suspect the real reason why they still exist is a contractual requirement tied to the privatisation of Telecom some years back.

[@Nola5427]

We have some payphones in our city still, in Canada 🇨🇦

[@Xayjohns]

LimeWire was a huge part of my life back in my high school days, gotta admit that.

[@kleine.5438]

Why wasn't the beeper on this list 🤔??

[@finger-board]

Is anybody else just now learning about Nick a jell? 😂😂😂😂

[@WiLDCHiLD.]

🙋🏻‍♀ I'm like, what? Also, it looked gross. I'd still try it, though. 😅

[@FolkFaninMA]

Yes. There were actually a few things on here I’d never heard of.

[@danielreher1987]

Yep

[@ToniHunterOne]

GAK! The name of the computer COMPAQ is pronounced COM-PACK it doesn't end with a ta sound.

[@guessundheit6494]

That's what happens when they hire ignorant kids to narrate based on their voice instead of knowledge.

[@mike91dsm]

KaZaA and Morpheus walked so Limewire and Bearshare could run.

[@tonytone4851]

So damn true! Man the amount of shit I've either attempted to download or downloaded off Kazaa and limewire off the 56k modem until cable was a thing still blows my mind. You needed to truly have patience lol

[@packie04]

Wow, you just opened up a can of memories 🥹

[@AdderTude]

I actually had BearShare up until the time they finally closed down in 2016. Now I use MP3 conversion sites so I can load files onto MusicBee.

[@DERRTYCHYBO]

Taking like 5 hours to download a 3 minute song. Those were the days.

[@Adam_Outdoors]

@@DERRTYCHYBO That's nonsense. On a 56k it used to take about 8-10 minutes.

[@carolinesconcertvids860]

I still buy cds. I usually rip them and listen to them on my phone, but love having a cd collection and always have one in the car

[@kriscynical]

I do too. I just love actually _owning_ my music.

[@CaribouKai]

@@kriscynical Same. I'm thankful I was too lazy to sell my CDs and DVDs/Blurays about a decade ago.

[@wingnut5404]

It's funny to me how all of the physical media they show here makes it look like the ultimate cumbersome annoying experience. Yes, digital is great and convenient. But I didn't think that taking a folder of CD's on a road trip was some kind of problem. And no ads! 😊

[@kriscynical]

@@wingnut5404 Not to mention the visor CD caddies they used to sell for cars. They held like 6-8 discs.

[@rgbii2]

While some may be limited, so many of these things still exist.

[@Nola5427]

Some but not alot of them really, you can still find payphones, we have some where I live in Canada 🇨🇦

[@tracidavis3565]

Love these nostalgia videos. Especially the old commercials.

[@WatchMojo]

Glad you like them!

[@tammywebb1289]

​@@WatchMojo You should do a countdown video of "Best Commercials of the 1990s"!!

[@pooky-bellegaming4089]

@@tammywebb1289That’s a great idea!

[@TornSparrow1974]

I remember having a Garfield phone and a Mickey Mouse one. I loved them!

[@julieyearwood4204]

I had a Garfield phone too!

[@samoyed81966]

You forgot Wisk Laundry Detergent to the list of products that don't exist anymore. Wisk was a laundry detergent that was known for their "Ring Around The Collar" commercials. Wisk was discontinued in 2017.

[@jenniferhart559]

Those commercials used to annoy me... like, dude, use a rag with soap and actually WASH your neck so that you're not leaving gank on your clothes 🙄

[@Tipper16]

That's just a brand laundry detergent still exist.

[@samoyed81966]

@@Tipper16 Where can you find Wisk today? Wisk is no longer in stores such as Publix, Walmart, and Target since Wisk was discontinued in 2017 in order for Henkel to focus on Persil.

[@KT926]

I used to have LimeWire on my family's first computer, I still have an MP3 player and it's the best one I've ever had. I always use it when I walk to and from work and when I travel

[@johnbernhardtsen3008]

I also use a 16gb mp3 player, still using dvd player on my pc, since the old tv series are so hard to find!

[@waynepalmer1709]

I still have my 160GB 6th Generation iPod that I have had hooked up in my last three cars. It is filled to capacity with so much music that if played 24-7 it could go 70 days without repeating a song track.

[@Crip2Knyght]

You forgot; iTunes, Sobe Drinks, sega Genesis (or Sega consoles in general), Google stadia, butter finger BB's, ask Jeeves search engine, dial up internet, the DeLorean, Atari, and 8 track players just to name a few.

[@stevenmiller7747]

They didn’t forget them, they didn’t claim they were listing EVERYTHING that was no longer around.

[@Elmothefuzzle]

iTunes is still around. I use it for my massive mp3 collection

[@isaiahach]

you simply can't bring up PDA's without the "eat up, Martha" reference

[@Wokovertris]

😅🤣

[@LuccaRPG]

Delias got me through my teens and early 20's. I'm a teacher and I do not miss overheard projectors. The amount of ink I'd get all over my hands drove me nuts. And it was HOT. And you mention Compaq, but not Netbooks? Remember those? Like they were hot for a year or two and dropped like a hot potato when people realized how slowly they run?

[@MarsInFlight]

Orbitz was ahead of its fucking time (looking at YOU boba)

[@neccros007]

I still have 2 sealed bottles of Orbitz on my shelf of unique drinks

[@MarsInFlight]

@@neccros007 I spent 16 years homeless. we have 2 very different lives.

[@neccros007]

@@MarsInFlight No idea what that has to do with Orbitz?

[@MarsInFlight]

@@neccros007 accessibility and opportunity

[@WiLDCHiLD.]

@@neccros007 right?

[@AC-ih7jc]

Gen Z: Wait...what happened to my online playlist?!? And the stuff I stored in the cloud? All my music is GONE?!? Boomer: (pats his massive CD collection) Suddenly, non-volatile storage doesn’t seem like such a dumb idea, does it?

[@jimdennis2451]

I use a $50 iPod Shuffle at the gym. I am not going to hurt an expensive phone / air pods with my sweat. I use an iPod Classic to keep my entire collection on. Excellent products.

[@kriscynical]

I still use an iPod touch and have a couple retired iPod classics in my sock drawer. I don't want to pay to stream my music or waste storage space on my phone. I'm still enough of a dinosaur that I actually purchase physical copies of my music, and I'd rather have a dedicated device for it that doesn't need the internet to operate. I like owning my music!

[@whocares110]

My android comes with water resistance. I can literally wash it off in the sink if it gets something on it. Also, my bone conducting headset is waterproof so I can even swim while wearing it. I'm not really worried about sweat hurting them. Soon I think all new phones and headsets will be like this.

[@Tipper16]

IPhone is your problem.

[@kevinW826]

My original IPod I got in 2004 finally died last year. I used that a lot at the gym and in my car. I miss being able to put together a different playlist every week.

[@jimdennis2451]

@@kevinW826 There are places that will fix old iPods. I sent mine off to a place in Kentucky and they did a pretty good job.

[@Aivottaja]

Landline phones still exist.

[@Aivottaja]

As do CDs.

[@tamaramcrae4037]

Exactly? My mom has her I don’t like when they say something that people are clearly using. My baby boomer coworkers still listen to their cd players LOL

[@whocares110]

Barely, and they will cease to exist soon enough.

[@bluetwinkiesaregood]

My dad still has a landline. But he has a smartphone too. My landline hasn’t worked since 2005!

[@Nola5427]

@whocares110 It' s hard to say, you can still find pay phones around, we have some where I live.

[@user-kr5jk7sz3y]

I used to have a CD player back in the day

[@bonniemcmaken3966]

I still have more than one...

[@rluv4evr]

That's false. JVC Still makes VCRs and it's 2024.

[@gadaadyn8190]

Affordable homes

[@Nola5427]

That never existed.

[@mattwolf7698]

​@@Nola5427Wrong, starter homes used to be a thing.

[@Nola5427]

@@mattwolf7698 Many, many years ago.

[@donlupejkis3121]

Compaq. Not COMPACT.

[@rdspam]

I have a landline, answering machine, GPS, MP3, and VCR.

[@Denis-89]

Microsoft Edge is a very worthy sequel to Internet Explorer I think.

[@davinp]

I haven't used a typewriter since high school in 1995

[@Nola5427]

I remember typing stories on my typewriter.

[@junkboxxxxxx]

CDs are now $1 to $5, which would have saved them in the 90s, when in Canada they were commonly imported from the US and cost $26 to $28

[@cliffcorson4000]

On Pontiac The biggest issue is how GM treated it The same car in Pontiac was also made as a GM and Chevy just with different name

[@UrBasicGuy]

Still remember what the acronym pontiac stands for (not officially of course, lol). So many people would lose their minds hearing it now a days. lmao Funny thing is while it is racial, it was a brother of color at navy boot camp that told me about it. He laughed so hard, he loved telling it to white people that had never heard it.

[@kriscynical]

I still use an iPod touch and have a couple old retired iPod classics in my sock drawer. I'm enough of a dinosaur that I still buy physical copies of music, I don't want to need an internet connection and pay to stream my music if I don't want ads, and I don't want to waste storage space on my phone with it. I still like having a dedicated device for listening to music that I actually OWN and can do whatever I want with.

[@Kris_sy]

VHS tapes were my babysitter in the 90s

[@TheTitaniumSkull]

The reality of napster and lime wire is that it really didn't hurt the music industry but rather expanded the listening experience to people that didn't know about all the different bands and genres out there. Later replace by streaming music services that save people the costs of buying an album for a couple of good songs with the rest being lackluster songs. In the end the napster opened the door for independent bands to pop up and be found out online, now the genres have exploded into so many that radio stations can not compete.

[@TheoRae8289]

I remember Linkin Park leaning into napster as a digital word-of-mouth

[@davinp]

GM also killed Oldsmobile and Saturn

[@Aupsic-hh5sy]

Land lines are still a necessity since they can function without electricity. So, if there's an emergency, with a natural disaster or whatever, land lines can save lives.

[@Nola5427]

We also still have phonebooths where I live in Canada 🇨🇦

[@parkerhatcher224]

20:07 I saw a phone booth outside of a hospital in Halifax Nova Scotia last week. My wife pointed at it and exclaimed “A phone booth!” And I looked around and yelled excitedly “Where 😯???!” Then. I saw it. Like I had jumped through time. It was sort of standing alone fixed into a support pillar about 30 feet from the hospital entrance. It was incredible. I might go visit it just to take a photo. Or even. Make a call. …. In all seriousness, Nova Scotia is stuck in the mid 1990’s and I LOVE IT! I’ve been here for nearly three years. I left Manitoba to be here. And I’ll never think twice about that decision. Afterall, ⭐️phone booth 🤩 ! As previously mentioned. Take care 😄❤!

[@randilowery9669]

I LOVED KUDOS BARS SO MUCH!!!! Childhood fav sack lunch treat! 😋

[@TheDustinExperience]

I can understand why laserdiscs don't exist anymore. Those things were heavy as hell and expensive as hell.

[@Akira625]

Yeah, they were always a niche product since they were so expensive. DVD players were also expensive when they came out, but they eventually came down in price, something that LD players never did.

[@TheDustinExperience]

@@Akira625 Exactly.

[@davinp]

Defunct PC manufacturers in USA include Packard Bell, Compaq, eMachines, and Gateway

[@originalcosmicgirl]

You forgot Commodore. My first computer was a Commodore 64.

[@davinp]

@@originalcosmicgirl I was talking about the IIBM-PC compatible that used Windows.

[@originalcosmicgirl]

@@davinp OK. I apologize for missing that.

[@_am.ber_]

My 6 year old was mystified by our landline phone in our hotel room, "Listen, it keeps going mmmmmmmmmm!"

[@tamaramcrae4037]

My mom who is 70 still uses her land line, so wtf are you talking about? It’s still exist

[@kriscynical]

My 76yo parents still have a land line. It's what they give so telemarketers call that instead of their cell phones. lol

[@guessundheit6494]

Landlines exist, but companies want to get rid of them. Phone lines can be used for DSL internet (5-100Mb/second, about 1/6th to 1/10th the speed of cable). That may not be good enough for streaming, but it is more than fast enough for downloads, reading text, images and 240p video. Many places in the US ~~~STILL~~~ don't have ANY internet access. It's ludicrous that phone companies don't use existing wire lines for it when the hardware already exists. I lived in the Philippines for a few months in the mid-2000s. DSL on phone lines was how they quickly provided internet access everywhere because they didn't have to built any new infrastructure. They went directly to wifi later once they had the money.

[@isaiahach]

@@guessundheit6494 i must be fortunate then because i have DSL (6-8 Mbps) and stream at 2k perfectly fine. sometimes 4k even. i used to have much better internet before moving away for work.

[@Nola5427]

You can still find some payphones around, we have some in our city.

[@jordanferrazza8700]

We have landline phone which is exactly like a landline but it is hooked up to the broadband and isn't power-operated

[@MsTwilightSpeaks]

3:53 they need to bring aspergum back and put some THC in it 😂

[@TheoRae8289]

if it doesn't exist already, give it a year and there will be thc gum

[@kiryentk]

03:22 Fun fact: automakers have started to omit a built-in nav system because they know people will just use their phones. Can't believe this video is just 4 hours old and we've already got our first entry for the next edition.

[@postal_the_clown]

A story to relate. I got my first camera in 1959 and the last time I purposely shot film was 2000. This year, I finally finished transferring my digital pics (back to '98) from optical media to SSD and, have thrown away the binders with the discs.

[@DuncanAndersonNZ]

About half of the things on this list have been made obsolete by smartphones.

[@jimdennis2451]

If you don't have your phone with you... you are screwed.

[@Nola5427]

We still have phonebooths where I live in Canada 🇨🇦

[@nickmotsarsky4382]

WTF is Compact? It's COMPAQ

[@bobthedopeman7327]

Arizona in glass bottles. Bring em back !

[@originalcosmicgirl]

Products that dont deserve to be on this list: Nicogel PB Crisps Delia's Catalog Orbitz These products had nowhere near the popularity and cultural impact around the world that products like the typewriter, phone booths, iPods, etc. had. Do your research!

[@thcyouinheck]

Pontiac announced production this year.

[@stevenmiller7747]

As GM Authority covered previously, the Pontiac brand is not making a comeback, despite a cryptic ad published in the back of a popular car magazine declaring otherwise. Unfortunately, the ad was just a joke, as confirmed by General Motors.

[@misstekhead]

I remember whenever a teacher would spray the ink off the overhead projector we would all just instantly say, “Watercolors!” I don’t know how that caught on, but it did.

[@PixiePrincess501]

I remember my freshman year in Uni (Around 2014/2015) I was a bit older than my classmates, so I was the only one that went "Oh, snap! It's been years!" when our Professor brought in an older tv with a vhs so we could watch a documentary for the class. Meanwhile, my Gen Z classmates were fascinated by the 90's relic before them.😂 I used to have a Boom Box and a few cassettes before the CDs took over. I actually still have my CDs somewhere in my closet. I honestly was so happy when my cousin upgraded her iPod and gave me her older one, since I had the bad habit of taking my CD collection everywhere. (I can't be in a car without my music. It helps me relax and enjoy both long and short car rides. My escape💖)

[@bobthedopeman7327]

My first computer was a compaq 😂

[@pauls5745]

me too!. I loved my Presario.

[@lovepets2781]

I don't like having to be subscribed to a music service to buy music .

[@Nola5427]

You don' t have to, I have two free music apps, one I download music from and the other I play it from.

[@Alachewie]

There were no PDA's in the 80's...barely any even in the 90's

[@kriscynical]

I have never heard anybody list out the letters "Q-W-E-R-T-Y" to describe the keyboard. Just say it as a word. Qwerty. Kwer-tee. It's a qwerty keyboard.

[@DudeEM]

I used to believe I couldn’t survive the day without my walkman. It was an introvert’s bestfriend. My parents used to tell me that the money they spent on those AA batteries were insane but I had to convince them hard that I needed my walkman to motivate me to keep fighting to stay at my batch’s top 5 students and it worked to my parents’ both delight and dismay.

[@mitchellryan7621]

I'm glad that DVDS and Blu Rays aren't on this list.

[@gadaadyn8190]

For now 😂

[@roflrex]

Yet.

[@wingnut5404]

Going to the second hand store today. DVD's buy 3 get 9 free sale!

[@BuffaloTLK]

I'm glad I can watch movies in 4k without wasting any kb of bandwidth.

[@catholiccontriversy]

Dedicated GPS devices are great. Cell phones require a cell signal whereas dedicated devides connect directly to the satellites, and there have been many times where my GPS worked when my wife's phone stopped.

[@jfwfreo]

It will be quite a while before the payphone is obsolete here in Australia, especially those that are in locations where mobile service is limited or non-existent (such as outback roadhouses and truck stops)

[@Nola5427]

We also still have phonebooths where I live in Canada 🇨🇦

[@molly_nap_queen]

I don't miss vcr's per se, but I do miss renting movie over a weekend and have a cozy movie night with mom and brother.

[@superdrummergaming]

I still have a landline and answering machine. They're great for not dropping calls and they still work during cell outages from storms and whatnot. They work when the power goes out.

[@MalcolmLittle-pw9dz]

Unless you have a cordless

[@magstheonlyone]

As soon as they got to PDA I thought of that Simpsons bit lol

[@jonathangriffin8060]

It's a shame that typewriters are hardly ever used today...but it would be a great alternative because with computers being so easily hacked and people's information being so easily stolen and being sold on the dark web, you never have to worry about old-fashioned typewriters being hacked. I still have my electric typewriter and I use it as well as my computer when I write. And as for most of the items on this list, some of them are slowly making a comeback because of the slow disdain and lackluster enjoyment of the technology of today.

[@Akira625]

I grew up in the 80s, and witnessed typewriters slowly get overtaken by word processors as home computers became more popular. I can understand why this happened, since word processors allowed users to edit and proofread documents before printing them. I saw some electric typewriters that had incorporated some word processor features like editing, but they weren't as robust as full word processor apps.

[@guessundheit6494]

There are quality new electric typewriters still for sale (Nakajima, Brother), but the only manuals being made anymore are cheap garbage made in China. I ~~~LOVE~~~ my manual, being able to do quick and dirty - and legible - printouts when needed, usually faster than booting up a computer. Remember how people used to react to hand written letters, they saw it as something done just for them, not cheap and mass printed? Type a letter on a typewriter and mail it to someone. You will likely get the same kind of reaction and grattitude.

[@TheoRae8289]

@@guessundheit6494 I'm going to assume someone is either a hipster or a technophobe if they start sending me stuff off a typewriter. I'm also a big fan of not wasting paper.

[@remakeyourself]

The kid recording the voiceover has never heard of Compaq. He said "Compact" every single time

[@Stittsy1963]

We still have a land line for emergencies. If electricity goes out, landlines still work.

[@Nola5427]

We also still have phonebooths where I live in Canada 🇨🇦

[@ECGgroup]

Bro talking about all this stuff like it's ancient history and here I was going through my CD case the other day trying to find an old album (old ripped album).

[@taronbrown7665]

poloroid and disposable cameras

[@spiceupyourlife7755]

Both are still popular today

[@RiddleLeech777]

Honestly? I remember Netscape. I was a late 90s/early 2000s kid. I recall Netscape surprisingly vividly.

[@metalgrinch]

I fell in LOVE with PB Crisps as a teen in the 90s. Mom used to buy them all the time and for them to make a comeback would be incredible.

[@JasonHalversonjaydog]

i think landlines are almost exclusively used in businesses now

[@jillmcafee4989]

We literally just ditched our landline this year. We replaced it with a cell phone and ported our landline number over. The impetus was that AT&T in our area seems to have a problem actually providing service more than a couple of days a week. We also ditched our fiber internet. We have 5G now and it's much more stable.

[@Gruxx42]

The thing in this video about Sony Walkmans not existing anymore isn't 100% true. It's true that they don't make portable cassette tape players anymore but you can still get Sony Walkmans that you put music files on that work like mp3 players. I have one.

[@harleybriggs3496]

HOW IS BLOCKBUSTER NOT ON THIS LIST?!

[@cliffcorson4000]

The whole reason for the QWERTY keyset was to slow down typing on typewriters

[@vickiwaatti1076]

Google says: The QWERTY layout was designed to prevent the keys on a typewriter from getting stuck when typing fast. The letters on the keyboard were arranged in a way that kept the most commonly used keys apart from each other, so that they would not get jammed together

[@cliffcorson4000]

@@vickiwaatti1076 still today it's not needed as it was back in the 1900s I've seen keyboards designed with ABCDE layout and no loss on it

[@WiLDCHiLD.]

@@cliffcorson4000 but those are keyboards, not typewriters.

[@desperadox7565]

That a joke?

[@cliffcorson4000]

@@desperadox7565 actually it's not When typewriters came out using the ABCDE format people were typing so fast the keys would jam In 1874 the "Sholes and Glidden" typewriter came out using the qwerty format and it's been here ever since in spite of it actually harming typing speeds

[@jillmcafee4989]

You forgot mimeographs! Before schools could afford copiers, there were mimeographs. The "copy" process left the sheets damp with blue text. I can still smell the chemicals of my math test!

[@crollwtide9452]

17:20 A Kodak employee basically invented the digital camera back in the mid 70s...it's really sad how they couldn't even cash in on what would become the entire future of the business they were in.

[@whiskeytango-pl5ht]

Never heard of nicagel. Everything else I remember. The dewey decimal system. Not even my phone can autocomplete it 😂. Weird thing I used to love the encyclopedia set we had. My parents got it when I was born. White leather bound. When I was bored I would just go grab a random one and read for awhile.

[@megjulia4007]

My pink Blackberry that I had my freshman year of college in 2010 is still my favorite phone I've ever had. That keyboard hit different.

[@DA0470]

“Most new things arrive more often than new sports. Number of new sports invented to date: Hardly”. -Mark Goodson , 1915 - 1992

[@jameshannahs9010]

21:17 don’t forget about Windows Phone on Nokia. Came out in 2011. They also weren’t successful and faded away after only about 2 years.

[@originalcosmicgirl]

I had a Windows phone. It was horrible. There were virtually no apps.

[@KuroRyuu86]

@@originalcosmicgirl That was the only problem with it. It had no apps. But the phone was actually awesome to use. My dad used it for 5-6 yrs.

[@originalcosmicgirl]

@@KuroRyuu86 True, but the reason I bought it was for the apps. It was my first smartphone, and I couldn't afford an iPhone. It was supposed to combine my cell phone and pda in one device. I suppose it did do that, but not as much as I had hoped. I guess I should have used the word disappointing instead of horrible.

[@finger-board]

I still use my IPod

[@MegaAlexis92]

My dad still has a laserdisc player and it still works to this day. Every now and then I will get the need to play a movie in it.

[@BC_Animus]

Had an iPod and hated it - the Zune however, was amazing. Great software and interface, with seamless syncing between device and PC.

[@tremblingaspen]

I graduated high school in 2003 and university in 2008. Overhead projectors were still very much in use then.

[@doclewis8927]

I absolutely loved the first used car that I bought with my own money and that car was a Pontiac 6000 which had 100,000 miles on it when I bought it. I put another 36, 000 miles on it before trading it in. When I traded it in, they gave me a trade value double what the bluebook was for the condition because it still ran, was great on gas mileage, and had zero cracks or rips or stains in any of the interior. It was my pride and joy but it was getting too many miles on it and I needed to say goodbye to it.

[@samoyed81966]

Pontiac wasn't the only automobile brand that was discontinued. So were Mercury, Oldsmobile, and Plymouth.

[@shigshug8581]

We don't have affordable things anymore...

[@mattwolf7698]

Tvs are cheap now, granted that's not a necessity

[@Sistik123]

Have Lan Line Phone still.

[@Nola5427]

We also still have phonebooths where I live in Canada 🇨🇦

[@k.b.tidwell]

How I miss Limewire. I have lovingly transferred my Limebrary to every storage device I've owned since way back then. I understood and used the Dewey Decimal System, but I am so glad it's gone. What a true pain.

[@knighttroy123]

There’s no T in Compaq!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@davinp]

The Walkman still exists as an MP3 player

[@oocinom]

Corporations, small businesses, hospitals, or any vital services still need Landlines. It will never phase out