UNRECOGNIZABLE To New Generations, But Not To You!

[@RecollectionRoad]

Can you think of any other things that might confuse kids today?

[@naughtydorf18]

Hardwork.

[@anthonychihuahua]

To paraphrase another commenter on this thread: for the most part, common courtesy and respect seem to be completely lost on this generation 🤷‍♂️

[@IBM29]

The first computer "peripheral" I ever used was an IBM-29 80 Column Card Puncher. That would baffle today's generation for sure.

[@jarekstorm6331]

The rotary antenna box that sat on top of the TV, which you turned to aim the outside rotary antenna toward the transmission tower. It came with tiny number stickers to mark the correct position on the rotary dial.

[@kentwalker6456]

Thanks for another great video. The "bingo cards" included in periodicals - are they still used? Circle the numbers that correspond to the ads you are interested in, mail in the card, and receive literature a few weeks later.

[@jtchristiank1]

I started teaching high school in 1991 and am still there. I still use the overhead projector I "borrowed" from our library that same year. The kids make fun of me; I love it.

[@samanthab1923]

Have fond memories of the overhead projector. Every First Grader got their silhouette done using one. My Mom had them all framed & lined the stairs. Five of us!

[@Aristodama]

"The kids make fun of me"

[@jtchristiank1]

@@Aristodama ❤

[@GaryCameron]

The bulbs kept burning out in those things. About 1 time in 10 the projector seems to blow its bulb when you turned it on. There was a spare switch on the ones we used in school.

[@jtchristiank1]

@@GaryCameron I bought bulbs on ebay. When one would blow, the kids would cheer. I'd wip out another, and they'd moan. Good times.

[@bennemer489]

Regarding old TVs, when something went wrong with the TV, we used to go to the drugstore with a box of the TV tubes in order to test them, and if one was bad, there were replacement tubes in the storage cabinet below.

[@starmnsixty1209]

📺📺📼📼📺📺

[@pennierkaide4985]

That sounds cool and probably a little before my time. I do remember a TV repair man coming to our house with a huge case and my mom complaining about how expensive it was.

[@anthonychihuahua]

Driving-age kids today will never understand having to tap your left foot on a small metal round pedal on your car or trucks floorboard to turn on the highbeams, lol! 🔦🚗💨

[@danven1256]

That was quite an adjustment for me when I drove my first car with the high beam lever on the column. 😆

[@IBM29]

My '64 Olds Wagon had the on-floor high beam switch. Fond memories.

[@anthonychihuahua]

@@beadyeye2312 I've heard of "white-knuckling" when gripping the steering wheel ever so tight, but never of "white-toe knuckling" to keep a foot firmly planted, HA 🤣

[@American-Motors-Corporation]

So it's not relevant. You'll never understand how to drive a model A or T

[@randyronny7735]

It would baffle them if they had to use a floor starter. It took coordination to pull the manual choke, step on the gas pedal & the floor starter at the same time.

[@dad4ever-c90]

As a young man, it felt like a giant leap in technology when I got my first push-button phone and an extra long phone cord so I could walk around the room where the phone was ATTACHED to the wall. When my kids were toddlers, they loved playing with toy rotary phones, with their moving parts and realistic sounds. The toy smartphones today's kids have might as well just be a rectangular piece of cardboard, for their lack of entertainment value.

[@thejourney1369]

I’m 67 and I still remember the red rotary dial toy phone my Mom got for me one evening when she got off from work. I think even our toys as a whole were more memorable.

[@bridgetmccracken1381]

This channel is such a treat, I so enjoy looking back and remembering when life was good

[@DarkElfDiva]

I'm guessing you weren't abused as a child?

[@bridgetmccracken1381]

@@DarkElfDiva I am guessing you come to this channel to try and bring people down

[@DarkElfDiva]

@@bridgetmccracken1381 Not really. Just trying to understand normal people.

[@bridgetmccracken1381]

@@DarkElfDiva Please find another person to understand, I want to enjoy this channel and the memories it invokes

[@cosmicraysshotsintothelight]

Check out the movie "The Illustrated Man" to remember when films about when life was good were good. It will surprise you.

[@sweetkitty3249]

When I got married almost 40 years ago, my co-workers gave me a rolodex as a shower gift. Oh joy!

[@dad4ever-c90]

I had to read that twice! At first, I thought they gave you a ROLEX and I was jealous. A Rolodex is more in the price range I would expect from my work friends too.

[@samanthab1923]

Don’t laugh, I still have all my old Address Books! I still buy stationary on occasion.

[@pennierkaide4985]

​@dad4ever-c90 I bought myself one and felt so important with it on my desk. Now 35+ years it's sits where my kitchen lan line was untouched and unloved😞

[@johnjeffreys6440]

There's a clip of some children looking at a pay phone. One of them says, "I saw this before, we learned about it in science class."

[@samanthab1923]

Years ago I worked with a woman who mentioned her daughter was growing up in a world of FAX machines & Beepers. The height of technology 😂

[@blossom1643]

Oh lord! That’s just Wrong!😂

[@questfortruth665]

I used to know at least a dozen phone numbers by heart! Today I'm hard pressed to remember my OWN phone number! I usually have to look it up on my fancy-phone!

[@samanthab1923]

I’m just as bad. Still remember my home phone numbers from K-12 but god forbid I know my own sons!

[@heymikeyh9577]

Home, 1961: 264-5283 Home, 1965: 948-8352 Home, 1972: 946-8830 Dad’s work, 1965: 942-1111x3069 Dad’s work, 1970: 942-3069 Mom’s mom, 1961: 943-1821 Dad’s folks, 1961: 947-7867 Used to be able to do the same with license plates until the state decided we need new plates every other year or so (1961: RAV111…)

[@Randy7th]

I am 61 and still remember my brothers, one sister, and my mother's telephone numbers lol

[@mandilynn24]

I still remember the phone numbers. Even before area code was needed or the second set of digits. Just 4 #'s....😂😂

[@DesideriusTheSerious]

That is a completely useless information to hold in your head to be honest.

[@footballlvnlady]

My aunt and uncle had 9 kids. They had one red wall phone in the kitchen. They never got a second. Only one bathroom too!

[@jackmessick2869]

My dad had a remote control for our television in the 1960s and 1970s--me. "Jack, turn on channel 8." 😂

[@video99couk]

Here in the UK, my mum would say "put the other side on". Because there were only two main channels (BBC 1 and ITV) whereas BBC2 (if your TV was new enough to be able to pick it up) was just for weird programmes.

[@budselect71]

I’m 53 years old and I wish I could go back in time.

[@sonhuynh8222]

Same here…. Every single day!

[@thelittlegreenball6813]

Same! The 1970's were my happy years.

[@MarjorainMD]

I concur 💯 I’m almost 66 and had the best times in the 70s 80s & 90s wish I could go back and stay there.

[@thelittlegreenball6813]

@@MarjorainMD Yes!💯👍

[@stephendacey8761]

@@MarjorainMD I know, what has happened? Is it 9/11 or all this new technology? Or, a little of both bc back in the 70's and 80's it seemed people were happier despite the world not perfect.

[@blast4me754]

Nobody really warns us that somewhere after age 35 you're going to spend more and more time reminiscing as you age. I've flashed back probably about 30 times today and it's only 6:45 pm.

[@anthonychihuahua]

~Remember the future Imagine the past~

[@zacharyrome3432]

This just about sums it up perfectly !

[@mandilynn24]

Perfectly said! ❤

[@starmnsixty1209]

Wait until the 60s arrive...

[@blast4me754]

@@starmnsixty1209 I remember when I was a kid I didn't understand when I would see seniors awkwardly looking at me with that distant, sad and somewhat happy look in their eyes but I do now.

[@jillefeldme9452]

We still have a View Master, we still use 45 centers and my husband has a Tshirt with one embroidered on it. I have a rotary phone app on my phone. We used to be able to pull up next to another car and make the gesture of cranking the window to get the other person to open their window. Everyone knew what that gesture meant. My mother in law was a photographer. We used tons of film canisters for many things. Right now I’m feeling a little cold and seeing the overhead projector made me warm when I remembered how hot that thing would get. My mother still has an aol email and we don’t miss the dial up modem. Prior to remote control, we used our sister. She is very ADHD, which in the 70’s was just called bad and disobedient. She never sat dow, so we had her change channels, adjust volume and tuning and rabbit ears. I still have my Polaroid camera. I still have the Rolodex at work and refer to it often. I still have jacks, but haven’t played in decades. My father in law used a slide rule. He was a chemist. I never learned how but I know what they are. Thanks for the memories.

[@markcollins2666]

In 1994, as an Army Staff Sergeant, I had an extensive vinyl record collection. A private was assigned to me, from Texas, who had never seen a record, or a record player, IN HIS LIFE!!! He grew up on cassettes, and that was all he knew. An eye opener for us both!!! And so long ago!!!

[@michaelv.9622]

I still have on my desk at home the Rolodex I used at work in 1979! Can’t bear to part with it. 😂

[@andgate2000]

Courtesy and respect is something they don't recognise either.

[@kevinj2412]

You are right on there, if I said some of things to my grandparents that my grand kids say to me, I would have got a first class ass warming. That's something that's missing in our society today.

[@Lisa-cj6vx]

You got that right!!

[@LearnAboutFlow]

Yet crime rates are at all time lows. HMMMMMMM, guess all those 'ass warmings' decades ago just resulted in more violent criminal behavior.

[@DesideriusTheSerious]

Guess who raised them?

[@markcollins2666]

@@kevinj2412, It doesn't work anymore. You have to be smarter than that. What do grandkids say to you that you can't outsmart them with words?!? Hitting them simply doesn't work. They get enough of that, from bullies in school, and what does it teach them? To steal heat from parents and relatives, and bring it to school? Be an ADVOCATE, for your kid! I'm 67, with a 7 year old daughter, honor student, speaks 3 languages, and when her school refused to address the bully, we said, "See Ya"! It takes extra effort and attention to set them straight. And hitting them doesn't do it.

[@TC-tw5zk]

The only thing I remember about Jax was when they got lost in the shag carpet and then stepped on them later..... ouch

[@anthonychihuahua]

The predecessor to the Lego.

[@starmnsixty1209]

Ah, Jax. Another item from a world gone away...

[@slim-oneslim8014]

Another great trip back. I liked the rotary dial phones, manual crank windows. Don't forget floor vents in cars.

[@jons.6216]

It must have been in the early 2000s that you would stop hearing instructions on a call waiting for "if you are on a rotary phone...!" It's funny you showed a picture of the Flintstones on the TV screen because they had an episode about Fred buying a new "remote" at the store which was a little bird that flew out and changed the channel! Wilma's remark about Fred saying "What'll they think of next?!" being "something to get a guy up OUT of his chair!" was perfect! Haha;

[@mewregaurdhissyfit7733]

How about the little triangle shaped vent window on vehicles? When you needed air, but didn't want the big window rolled down. Of if you smoked in the car, having this cracked open would suck out the smoke so it didn't bother others in the vehicle.

[@samanthab1923]

Vent windows! The best

[@stephendacey8761]

I just bought a new car and it doesn't even have an ashtray.

[@samanthab1923]

@@stephendacey8761 They haven’t had them in a bit. About 15 years ago I bought a charger for my phone only to realize I had no lighter to charge from.

[@sixtoes2313]

2/60 A/C

[@DesideriusTheSerious]

Only pleb smoked in the car. Actually, only pleb smoke.

[@jw4620]

Jacks. The pain those little stars inflicted makes Legos seem not so bad at all.

[@nongthip]

"Little black film canisters". Of course their primary use (after the film) was to store your personal stash of weed. Just looking at that image I can remember opening it and smelling buds.

[@glennso47]

I used them to store my guitar picks.

[@marilynsiddiqi2105]

They are also great for storing quarters.

[@danparker1976]

I was gonna comment the same thing..thats the same I used back then..

[@karenroot450]

I miss the hi-beam button on the floor. I found it easier than the one on the column. I also miss the hand opened vent at the side of the vehicle down by your feet. That extra cool air coming in was nice. On hot days! Thanks for the memories!

[@DavidLS1]

We all remember what the number one alternative use for those black plastic film canisters was. :)

[@reneebru1]

🌿🌱🌿🌱

[@DavidLS1]

@@reneebru1 Yup.

[@LearnAboutFlow]

Putting up preserves?

[@garywagner2466]

Very small screws.

[@DavidLS1]

@@LearnAboutFlow lol, no.

[@ChadQuick270W]

Pay phones. An encyclopedia (the set of books kind), a dictionary and thesaurus. Mile tables on road maps telling the distance between cities. Heck, road maps in general. White out? (I still use it). VCR and videotapes. Pagers. Floppy disks. Long distance phone calls. There’s probably more than I’m forgetting. I’m 52 and remember using these items.

[@anthonychihuahua]

Don't forget the school libraries Dewey Decimal System!

[@ChadQuick270W]

@@anthonychihuahua oh yes and the card catalog at the library. Good call.

[@anthonychihuahua]

@@ChadQuick270W 52 and class of 1990 here, too! 👍

[@Lisa-cj6vx]

Haha, class of 1975!!😂😂😂

[@anthonychihuahua]

​@@Lisa-cj6vx I had probably just graduated from diapers to tightly whities by then, lol!

[@andysupple4838]

I remember when 35mm film canisters were metal with a screw top lid

[@Frank_nwobhm]

Now I do too. Forgot about that.

[@Sarkli]

I got to experience most of these things as a kid. Fun memories. I will say one thing, manual windows are still a thing in newer vehicles although rare. I was in a Jeep Wrangler yesterday that was a 2019 and it had crank windows.

[@jeremy1350]

I think that if we took away all the kid's cell phones, and attached a Rotary Dial Phone to the kitchen wall, and told them that if they wanted to talk on the phone, it would be HERE in this one SPOT, and that you only had THIRTY minutes of phone time allotted to you, their heads would EXPLODE !! But MOOOOOOM, I need privacy !! Privacy, who needs Privacy?? Anything you can say to your friends, you can say in front of your parents !!

[@jeremy1350]

@@beadyeye2312 When I was a kid in school, all the clocks were analog tickers on the wall. There were no "digital" time keepers yet (read:1970's - 80's) We had 1 Rotary kitchen phone. When we moved into our forever home in late 1979, I had a land line in my bedroom, so I had the second existing line, that was on the main house phone line, not separate. When the first "hand held rechargeable phones" came on the market, we got a few of them for other rooms in the house. That was in the 80's. In Jr. High, we learned the basics of home care, sewing, typing, cooking, wood shop, graphics design. (boy, we had some cool graphic machines for the 80's). We had rotary phones all the way through my years after HS. Funny, kids did not know how to read a clock, or how to use a rotary phone. I would have loved to have gotten that on film for posterity !!! I still carry watch on me today, even though I have a cell phone that does the job quite well. Handkerchiefs, Watches, Ticking Clocks. I'm stuck in a time warp !!

[@bluegrassgal]

I still have mine & it works. TV man & apprentice..kid said..what's that. I explained. Call a friend. That was a lol struggle.

[@DesideriusTheSerious]

I bet most parents doing that are pretty clueless why their kids don't want to meet them or say anything about their lives later in life. Most parents have always been the best source of information for gossiping neighbours and therefore resulting in their kids being put into constant shame. Pretty lame attitude.

[@saminaneen]

@@DesideriusTheSerious Your comments are irrelevant, no facts are in evidence, you are cautioned about "improper thinking", and all your comments will be stricken from the record, thanks for playing, you lose

[@starmnsixty1209]

​@bluegrassgal😊👍👍👍

[@patrickwall8517]

Records aren't coming back just because of nostalgia. The sound is actually better because the range of bass and treble on them is larger than most digital formats. In fact some digital formats aren't even true stereo. MP3's for example are actually 2 channel mono which isn't the same as stereo.

[@mommyquackquack1825]

I remember all these things. My husband used over head projectors at work. We found one at a Goodwill or some junk store. He bought it for less than 5.00. It collected dust in the basement for years until we moved. 😊 Guess it was just the attachment of memories he had using it back in the day.

[@rafaelrodriguez1029]

Artificial intelligence growing linearly. Human intelligence decreasing exponentially...

[@perfesser944]

8:19 The shop in the college where I teach has one of those huge slide rules that were used to teach their use, hanging on a wall as a souvenir. Several students have asked me, seriously, "Prof, what is that thing?"

[@James-the-LDB-Stan]

"Extra uses" for the empty film canisters. 😉

[@anthonychihuahua]

Weed-on't know what you're talking about! 🤷‍♂️

[@Frank_nwobhm]

I kinda forgot they were really meant for film.

[@naughtydorf18]

Matches, fish hooks, coins, BBs, split shots.

[@samanthab1923]

@@Frank_nwobhmI knew someone who went to get their teeth cleaned & told us later the Hygienist used a roach clip on his bib! 😂

[@robertl7239]

They were perfect for storing "oregano" (wink-wink) and for transporting shots of your favorite alcohol.

[@TimeToStartOver]

Born '82, I'm glad I saw the 'old world', sometimes I miss the simpler times, yet loving the opportunities of the 'new world'. As a millennial I feel like a child of both worlds.

[@JCin-s9h]

You forgot one ... Dewey Decimal Classification System with its rows of small wooden drawers to organize the cards. Couldn't find a book without it.

[@tracycraft]

Library catalog.

[@JCin-s9h]

@@tracycraft Yes ... God I'm old

[@ronalddevine9587]

Boy, am I old! I remember all of these. With Polaroid cameras, I remember the older models that were black and white only and you had to pull the film out and wait to open a door on the back of the camera, peel the picture off the negative and coat it som nasty smelling stuff.

[@charlie-obrien]

The Polaroid Land Camera! It was flat until you needed to take a picture and then it "transformed" into a hexagonal camera shape. I was always more impressed by that feature than I was of the photos.

[@erikschoff2272]

Funny thing....i can remember the phone number for my childhood home. I can't tell you my parents ' phone numbers today.

[@phoenixswanson1561]

Class, heritage (they ignore theirs), peace, service, moments, cloistered days and revealing nights, quality, no statements, and the joy gleaned from individual discovery.

[@rogertemple7193]

I'm 59 and I remember many of these things view masters, records and record players, anything that was manual among other various things in the video and most of them we're really great thanks for the memories of the past.☕📺📻☎️🇺🇲

[@danven1256]

Yes to all of the above ! You brought back fond memories from a better time. Thank you. Oh and I still use the "You've got Mail" for my notifications on my cell phone. I just like the memory. 😁

[@notsure8338]

Jax the most painful thing to step on!

[@samanthab1923]

LEGOS! Second worst

[@Nihilanth1982]

when we were young we were excited about technology and the future. now older, we talent the detriment technology has brought today with social media etc. where EXACTLY did it go wrong?

[@DesideriusTheSerious]

I'll give you a pill that is hard to swallow. Internet ~20 years ago was something only reasonable people with decent jobs and intellectual background could afford. Now every asshole with a $200 smartphone has access to it so they can release their anger, driven by life failures, on the internet.

[@doublewhat07]

Because we don't use it correctly. Technology is supposed to be used as tools. If you abuse it and make it your life then it limits you.

[@stevencooper2464]

When I was in High School, electronic calculators were just becoming available and were still very expensive (a simple 4-banger could cost over $100.00). In my physics class, we had to learn how to use a slide rule, though calculators were optional. When finals came around, we could use a slide rule or a calculator, but, the teacher would note on the test which one you used; those who used a slide rule, their answers had to be accurate to only three decimal places, but the ones who used a calculator, their answers had to accurate to six decimal places. I used a slide rule...couldn't afford a calculator back then.

[@bettyswallocks6411]

I hated overhead flatbed projectors. All too common in the workplace for a while, too. I know Powerpoint isn’t perfect, but it’s a massive improvement.

[@gaidhliglass]

Jacks, marbles, pick up sticks, tag, dodge ball, hide-n-go seek, ... fun times Things that would confuse youngsters today? Manual cars, rotary phones, VCRs, walkman players, ... basically everything we grew up with 😂

[@dwill123]

Remember the days of KZbin when there were no commercials interrupting what you were watching?

[@carlavision6143]

Thanks for the memories! Really enjoyed your video.

[@kimhall5863]

You forgot to mention the cool lava lamp on top of the old 70’s tv at 6:19❣️👍🏻☺️

[@Markimark151]

My nieces and nephews have a view master toy with Disney reels, they also know 45rpm singles, the adaptor is used for kids records since they’re cheaper than LP albums. Also Polaroid cameras are very popular with teenagers, because they don’t need to use their phone for pictures, especially with privacy concerns, instant film is popular with kids.

[@anjaglas5784]

It‘s always interesting to see your videos and compare which things we had here in Germany too back then. Technical things of course were here the same but I Espe love to compare what kids played back than in the US with games we had as kid. For example, I never heard of Jacks before.

[@matrox]

I never saw the fascination with jacks other than spinning the jacks to watch them twirl.

[@lisalynnmarie2448]

If I had unlimited money, I'd get a landline and an old, black rotary phone like my grandma had. I'd get a car with the manual windows and a side vent, and best of all....a bench seat! Also, I'd have a Zenith console TV and remote (but find a way to get cable somehow ☺) and play jacks....metal, not plastic, in the basement like I did when I was young lol The one thing I'd wouldn't do is use dial-up internet; but had I known then what I know now, I'd rather stay in the days of my youth. In a way, I truly miss those days. Kids these days have no clue what it was to be a kid back in the mid 70 to early 80s. Memories are so great! Thanks for all the videos!!

[@appaloosa42]

I passed on buying a ‘51 Buick with the split flat windshleld… no place to work on it!

[@lisalynnmarie2448]

@@appaloosa42 Aww, too bad!

[@appaloosa42]

@@lisalynnmarie2448 yep. Tough decision, especially cuz daddy had one. First family car I knew.

[@lisalynnmarie2448]

@@appaloosa42 Wow! The first family car I remember us having was a Ford Falcon, like a light mint green. I have no clue what year.

[@appaloosa42]

@@lisalynnmarie2448 can you tell I been around a while?

[@NITE_SHIFTING]

This is so true! Show a picture of a human brain to a kid today and say: "We used to use THIS back in the day!" 😂

[@richardjohnson2965]

I’d love to see film cameras back….and a Polaroid camera would be excellent. I like holding the picture in my hand, and sharing them with friends.

[@wizardsuth]

Bank books. When I was young the tellers used to write the transactions and balances in the book. Later they started using printers, and after that the tellers were replaced by ATMs with printers you could use to update your bank book.

[@thomasallen3818]

Growing up in the 50’s and early 60’s, Veiwmasters were along for our every road trip. I had a black one and my sister had a red one. Then one Christmas we both got illuminated battery powered Veiwmasters. We had an album that held the different slide wheels.

[@ChargerBullet]

My nephew, who is in his 20s, came to my house for a visit while I was playing music on my stereo. He had seen LP's before so I didn't think anything of it while I flipped to side B. He was looking at the record on the record player and then asked "What is that"? It was a 7" 45 EP. I explained to him it was just like the larger 12" albums but smaller.

[@mrman-gb6uz]

I find it hard to believe that recent generations of people don't know what rotary phones, pay phones, records, tube televisions or other 'historical ' items were. Whether you were alive or not at the time, I guess things that happened before the day you were born aren't important to a lot of people. I wasn't alive 100 years ago, but I know who the Wright Brothers and Henry Ford were. It seems kids today have different priorities but a little history in your life can be fun too.

[@michaelfink64]

Have used most of these, but not a slide rule or Rolodex. I remember we had a Telexed instead of a Rolodex. You would press a button on the side with the letter you wanted and press another button and it would open on that letter.

[@lisanidog8178]

I still have my Polaroid from the 80’s. Stopped long ago getting film for it. But before that I had a small camera that I got flash cubes for as a kid. I have a digital camera I never use .

[@thomasBanjopunk]

I ❤ these videos! 😊

[@davinp]

The Big 3 were AOL, Compuserve and Prodigy

[@timroot4207]

Thank you !!!

[@dennisud]

Patience was really needed back then, and you hit just about everything I have either used or had done. Plus 35 years of teaching made things even more interesting back then

[@julenepegher6999]

Our wall rotary phone was in the kitchen and we stretched it all the way down to the end of the hall, me and my sisters when our boyfriends would call. 🤭

[@samanthab1923]

That was a big no no in my house.

[@julenepegher6999]

@@samanthab1923 haha, same here, but we needed privacy, we got yelled at though!

[@KarlLaFong-v2q]

Our wall rotary phone was mounted next to the sliding glass door that led out to the back yard. All us kids just went outside to talk privately ( except for when it was raining ) :)

[@marynorth235]

One person goes outside to turn the TV antenna, and the person by the TV yells when the reception looks good

[@brianloy7856]

Empty black film canisters: As Rob Schneider - SNL would say, “You put your WEED in there!” LOL!

[@notmyworld44]

Thank you, my friend, for the sweet memories.

[@mikemcdonough4923]

I was born in 44 and our first phone was a wooden box on the wall with a crank on the right side, a horn you talked into and the thing you listened to was on a cable and you held it up to your ear. our number was 18 on a party line. there were several people on it and each phone had a special ser of long and short rings but anybody could listen in .

[@3DJapan]

2:06 We had this phone on my kitchen wall. When it rang we'd yell "yellow phone!".

[@prestonmack320]

People been saying the same thing about young people for a 1000 years and you'll do the same when you get older

[@56music64]

My dad had a Teledex in his home office. Remember those. Flat metal device for storing phone numbers and addresses. You would slide the alphabet finder up and down to the desired letter, once found you would press the button, this would pop the Teledex open at the desired listing. Our tv had an on and off knob which you would push in and out, it also had a dial for channel selection. Yes when push button phones came in, it was really a great step forward 😂

[@neohistoryfan1014]

i've seen those in a thrift store--I had no idea that "Teledex" was the word for those things until just now.

[@56music64]

@@neohistoryfan1014 I am glad my 68 year old brain has helped you 🙂

[@tracycraft]

I never knew the name either. My great aunt had one and I enjoyed playing with the letter slider thing.

[@laurachristianson1688]

HEY! I was the Jax champion in my friends circle. There is a tremendous amount of hand eye coordination going on there, which Inthink helped me a lot in future years, at times it was kind of physical, like jumping rope in a fancy way.

[@InglouriousBradsterd]

AOL was the biggest thing in the world in 1995. How the hell did they throw it all away?

[@stephendacey8761]

My 91 year old father used AOL right up to his death 3 weeks ago.

[@melissabibby7310]

Thank You! My Mom who was born in 1954 Loved this video.👍

[@moriver3857]

I'm sure glad I enjoy all of the subjects presented, all of them. All that made me a better person and to admire so much ingenuity of past generation. Many skills and knowledge not found today..

[@lisanidog8178]

I laughed at that picture of a lady holding up records. I went into a ‘record’ store that was when CD’s came into being. And I bought my first CD’s. The kid behind the counter had no idea what a record was and had to explain it to him. When was that? 1989.

[@lisanidog8178]

Our overhead projectors in school weren’t used much but stood waiting in a corner.

[@stephendacey8761]

I remember going to work in an office back in the 70's, 80's, and 90's and having to look through many cabinets of office files. Today, everything is on a computer for storage.

[@DesideriusTheSerious]

The best nostalgia driven lie you'll hear in every job from people born in 60's or 70's is "what will you do in your job when power goes off?". And they claim that having everything stored in an endless pile of papers on a shelf is both stable and effective way to organise their workflow. Without electricity you won't be able to do anything at all nowadays.

[@tonysheerness2427]

Modern people do not know what the joy of waiting is, everything is instant. Couldn't wait for the post to deliver the developed films to see what they look like or Saturday night for the next episode of your favourite tv show. which you watched with the family instead of in your own room alone doing your own thing on your own tablet or phone.

[@DesideriusTheSerious]

Ah yes, getting something earlier seems like a real issue. I'd eagerily wait 1 year for post service to deliver my letter to a town 500km away just for the joy of it.

[@tonysheerness2427]

@@DesideriusTheSerious LOL

[@Colorado_Native]

At 2:47 I am so old 'the little black film canisters that came with rolls of film' were not plastic, but metal with a screw-on metal lid.

[@triadmad]

I remember spending several weeks in high school, just learning how to use the slide rule. Of course there was a giant slide rule hanging above the blackboard, so that the teacher could demonstrate to the entire class how to perform a function. Years later, well after digital calculators became the norm, I still had to use my slide rule when I had to use a logarithmic graph to get a value for for something that I was designing. I needed that visual feedback of the log scale on the slide rule. However, eventually my brain finally was able to grasp how to do it with a calculator.

[@maxon-m3c]

I used a slide rule into the 2000s at work. Some calculations I had to make were simply faster on it than punching numbers into a calculator!

[@karenchilders2449]

I used an overhead projector until I retired. You could watch the students at the same time.

[@nodanceswithwolves8425]

Boy, do I wish I still had roll down windows! Trying to find a car with those 2 buy today is no joke! And very expensive!

[@josearellano203]

I am 32 years old and I can recognize a limited amount of these things. Just like phone books, pagers, the VHS, the CD-ROM, the cassette, magazines to see cars and houses for sale, the fax machine, the landline phone and the print encyclopedia aren't recognized by children now. In just two decades we have had so many advances in technology.

[@masoodgha6765]

Thank you for this video,,, ❤❤👍👍❤❤👌👌❤❤

[@stevenweaver3386]

The old bacuum tube TVs were grest for drying out our wet wool mittens in the winter. A lot of heat would come up from the slots on the back of the set when the tubes got hot. Oh, and the set had to be turned on 5 to 10 minutes before whatever show we wanted to watch came on. It took that ling for the VRT to warm up. First a small white dot would appear, then agter a coupke minutes it would expand to fill the whole screen.

[@HeatherB81]

Omg the nostalgia!!!

[@JoanSmith-t7k]

I still have a bunch of my 78 rpm records that I WILL NOT give up, but then I don’t play them anymore.

[@stevenweaver3386]

The plastic film holders were great for carrying strike anywhere matches on hikes and camping trips.

[@Iamgroot9170]

Our little boy's know what Manpons are. LMFAO 😁

[@dgwaters]

Hey, rotary phones are COOL! I collect them and they ALL still work!

[@blossom1643]

The overhead projector was cool- at my school each room had to share it! ( First thru Sixth)!! The TV was a piece of furniture & I Still love vinyl over anything else! Old records are just Solid Class. ✌️

[@jameshorn270]

You missed the Opaque Projector, which was used to project the image of a book or document (opaque items as opposed to the transparencies used in other projector) You could make copies of polaroids. There was a device which held the picture at a set distance from a polaroid camera inserted into the device opposite the photo. We had one, but it was more expensive than most of the cameras, themselves. Also, polaroids were not exactly high resolution photos, so each generation of a polaroid got less and less useful.

[@garywagner2466]

I lost my slide rule in a flood. Wish I still had it. Now we use old prescription bottles for the same things we used film canisters for. Thanks for posting.

[@lisanidog8178]

When I worked for dad’s small medical supply business my desk, his desk and the secretary’s desk had our own Rolodex. Never had one of my own.

[@laurachristianson1688]

Aaah the slide rule….spent so much time in my physics, chemistry, and trigonometry classes just learning how to use one. As someone with massive far sightedness reading the bitty numbers and lines led to many miscalculations……while I always got points for my use of whatever formula I used the numerical answer was off 😊

[@Superduper666]

I collect ViewMaster reels. It's amazing how something that used to cost 50¢ can now cost over $50.