If You Remember These Gadgets, Your Childhood is Probably Over
Age is a nasty habit of sneaking up on you. One moment you are wondering if grade 7 will ever end and the next moment you can’t believe that people 10 years younger than you are now in university.
As time has gone by, technology has evolved and we now live in the ‘I have an app for that’ era. All that’s left is pictures of the past. Speaking of pictures…
1. Film roll – 8 year olds will no longer feel proud about mastering how to load film into a camera
2. Rotary telephone – Children no longer have the pleasure of visiting their grandparents to play with the most fun toy ever (apologies to all the people I accidentally dialed while playing).
3. Atari Joystick – Figuring out video game combo moves is no longer easy now that joysticks have over 10 buttons.
4. 5.25″ Floppy Disks – Nobody has to worry a smidgen of dust destroying their data.
5. TV antennae – Watching television no longer entails lying upside down with your left leg in the air (unless you find that comfortable).
6. Multipoint pencils – Modern day stationery shopping is more about paper for your printer than the coolest pencil in the classroom.
7. Suspenders – People born after 1995 will likely live their whole lives without seeing these worn outside of a retro party.
Brings back memories. I’m old enough to remember the slide rule, which people used before computers. I remember when electronic calculators were so new that they were in science museums. Umm, so yeah I’m old.
Perhaps I’m not as old as I thought!
I miss the ring of the old phone… 😦 But once you have a cell phone, it’s so hard to go back. Thank you for a reminder of all the old gadgets. 🙂
I certainly don’t miss phoning someone and having to listen to their annoying little brother recite the alphabet instead of handing the phone over
LOL – never had that happen but that’s hilarious! 😀
I do remember the 5 and a half floppies and very clearly my father ominously warning me that “this is the brains of the computer and no liquids are allowed near it (a Kaypro) in the study!!!!” I still remember quaking at the thought of having to spend all my allowances if I damaged the thing! Oh, and I remember that idiotic game Pong that seem to thrill us all so much at the time! Ahh the good old days. Needless to say I always seemed to find my way back to pen and paper or a clunky typewriter…..
I still like Pong! I’m with you about using pen and paper… though every time someone mocks my handwriting I’m thankful for computers
If the rotary phones were still around, id totally use them! Age is no deterrent when it comes to playing with the rotary keys 🙂 I know it’s painfully slow, but if I need speed, I can just use my cell phone. .. kids these days totally missed out on it…
I reckon you could still find a rotary phone in an antique store!
My childhood is over!
I do appreciate advancement for good, A Collection of Musings but change for change sake is the pits, if it works don’t fix it!
Christian Love from both of us – Anne
P.S Your call came at 12.30 at night , you could of at least said hello!
Annie not impressed 🙄
Anyone remember Letraset?
Okay now I feel young 🙂
Miaow.. 😉
Hey, I remember Lestaret! Ok, the childhoods over, but that just means we get to blog about stuff that will be cool again in another 10 years when that generation ‘discovers’ it!
Wow, how time flies…
On this count, I am proud to have seen and experienced numerous products, gadgets and services between the 1950s and today’s era. Steam locomotives, narrow and metre gauge trains, valve based radios, transistors, a window air conditioner that resembled a huge radiogram set and at high school learning tables by-heart, logarithms, surds etc. sans any calculator or the modern day wonder of google…. watching a movie in tent cinema (travelling or touring talkies), 8mm 16 mm and 35 mm projector movies, cinemascope, Yes, I am lucky so to say at my age 66 years…
I admit the majority of those gadgets are odd to a teen like me, but in photography class everyone loads film rolls! Oh, and you forgot to mention the sad decrease in book reading. I mean, come on my fellow teenagers! What’s so horrible about a perfectly bound book? 😀