5 old forms of technology that would confuse kids today !
Technology that seemed cutting edge 10 or 20 years ago by past generations now looks like nothing more than paperweights to the modern generation.
Would the youth of today know how to operate some of this old technology if they needed to?
1# The Sony Walkman
The Sony Walkman was a portable audio cassette player released in the late 70's.
Would modern day children know how to insert a cassette or master the art of using a biro to rewind the tape after it had been chewed up?
2# VCR
The humble videocassette recorder makes a DVD player look like the Starship Enterprise.
Using magnetic tape videocassettes to watch grainy videos was the height of technology back in the day.
The true challenge was programming the thing to record your favourite TV show. (I'll be honest, I probably couldn't even do that now with a VCR)
3# Rotary dial
I'm pretty sure modern day kids would know this was a phone (in fact I'm 100% sure they would know), but would they know how to dial a number on it?
Sadly the days of speed dial and pre saved contacts were a along way away when this beauty was in use.
4# Floppy disk
Good old magnetic storage again. These wonders of technology were used between the 70's and mid 2000's to store maybe 5 images on if you were lucky.
A little switch at the back turned on write protect to stop you accidentally deleting your files.
I remember when WinZip came out, it seemed like magic at the time as it allowed you to maybe squeeze that 6th image onto your disk 😂
Today a 256GB USB drive can hold more data than 213,000 floppy disks.
5# Super 8 film camera
Super 8 film cameras were manufactured by Kodak in 1965.
The super 8 film the cameras ran on could record 2.5 minutes of video at 24 frames per second.
Today's mobile phones and GoPro's can record for hours at 30 frames per second.
Installing the film in a Super 8 wasn't an easy task and getting it developed meant sending it away, unless you had your own dark room.
Did anyones use any of these "ancient" technologies back in the day? Or is anyone still using them now?
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I remember that time when I was using audioplayer,that was long ago.thanks for sharing :)-
Time moves fast in the world of technology. Thanks for the comment.
Pulling apart a floppy disk was good fun! The good old days
Haha yes, moving that metal gate opened a world of fun.
Or the mini heart attack when your favourite video tape started unraveling!
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STOPI knew the phone the floppy the walkman !!
The progress
Thanks for the comment. Yeah technology has moved on pretty quickly. Followed.
Fortunately for us and for the future 🔝
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ha! I'm 40 and that Super8 would confuse me too ;) Would love to have it though.
Oh that bit about 24 frames per second is interesting as I've heard recording at that rate gives the footage more of a film look. Don't know how true that is as I have not tested that.
I'm not sure if it's the frame rate or the film itself. I know there a few directors who still use film to this day like Steven Spielberg. He recently said:
"I’m still planning to shoot everything on film. I guess when the last lab goes out of business, we’ll all be forced to shoot digitally and that could be in eight-to-ten years. It’s possible in ten years’ time there will be no labs processing celluloid.”
Oh no, I'm sure its the film itself. But I've read that why people try to film at that rate. Yeah, there's something magical about film. Will be weird when it's gone.