In the 60's there were TV's that had mechanical remotes the operated on sound. It required no batteries or cord. 6-functions: On/Off, Volume Up/Down & Channel Up/Down. It worked on a tuning forks.
Clunk clunk clunk clunk clunk around a motorized rotary dial channel tuner to get to one of the 3 tv channels . Very noisy and slow . Clunking and the remote was a high pitched ringing bell spring loaded remote box . Keys jangling or a small chain could trigger the electric motor piwered tv tuner in the tv set to start up clunking " around the dial " to change the channels . Dishes and doorbells triggered the audio controlled remote .
@@gregorydahl When I was a kid, I tried to hold the channel dial still, while it was rotating. That thing had so much torque, that my hand would probably break before the dial would.
The first tape I listened to on a Walkman was Boston's first album. BA - LOU - ME away! I will always remember where I was when that happened. Off The Wall, by Michael Jackson by the way was my first CD I listened to. Another banger!
17:33 _ Remote controls in the 80s also were available using the 9V Batteries, in addition there were "living remote controls", the kids, when parents would tell them to change the channel or adjust the volume on the TV. I was one of them. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
When I moved out of my parents house circa 1998 I had a VCR that I got from my grandparents. A teenager short on cash I tried to pawn it, the pawn shop guy laughed at me, he said they don't even make silver VCRs anymore! The thing was huge and loaded from the top. Anyway I remember I gave it to another friend who used it for a long time too.
As a top-loader it would've been one of the first gen of VCRs, which were _old hat_ and unwanted come the millennium. Funny thing is: If you took that same VCR into a pawn shop _today,_ they would *not* be turning it away... 💰😉
The VCR lived much longer. I really loved, when the price dropped on Hifi VCRs, because it was the best possible way for DJs to record long sets in one in cd quality. I used them even in the 2010s.
I have never stopped using paper maps. They are still valuable if you know how to use them. They are more reliable than mobile phone, work everywhere and don't run out of battery.
Exactly!! I ONLY use maps. I carry individual maps for all the nearby big cities in case I have to travel there. Oh get a GPS...then you find out your paying for everything and then at 7 years the company obsolete your model and you have the good fortune to buy another one and start all over again. Buy a paper map once. Yes I found that certain roads were closed not mentioned on the paper map just followed the detours.
Speaking as a heavily engaged Orienteer I can definitely +1 that comment! 🗺💯👍 Paper maps are much better for the purpose. I've _never_ managed to kill a paper map by running through thick patches of Ulex or deep streams, they've never broken when I've tripped at high speed and crashed to the ground on top of them, and they _never_ need signal to keep on going. 👍
Thanks for nice answers. I must admit that I use both, paper and digital. As a geocacher I naturally love also using GPS. However, there's always paper map in my cars glovebox, and I regularly use it. Also as a tourist a nice small paper map of the city centre is very convenient and often more usable that google maps.
@@WarrenBridges-um5cg I do similar on my bicycle, normally with a scaled map excerpt inserted into my Orienteering control description holder, which is strapped to the inside of my forearm. 🚵💪🗺👍
Most is right. The one thing that I miss is the phone on the corner. How many times we have a problem with our phones and the person on the other end want us to call from some other phone to troubleshoot our phones. Some of us have no other way. I miss the old land line phone.
We still have one, but probably not for much longer - the monthly charge is rivaling or even exceeding the cost of using a cell phone. My basic flip phone can do more and costs less than the land line phone now!
I wish I can go back to the 80s just one more time. I would appreciate this era with respect. We just didn't know how good we had it. Technology has come long and replaced childhood. This kids today don't know how to enjoy being kids. The 80s was a fantastic time to be a kid
I've used absolutely all of that ancient tech. The first thing I did when traveling to a new town was go to a drug store and buy a local, foldable city map. Smaller towns usually didn't have maps. Sometimes gas stations would give out free state maps. Every year I bought a new road atlas which had state maps and maps of large cities. I also bought a new almanac every year. It was crammed with data like sports statistics, election results, and so, forth. No Internet-everything was updated only once a year. I had several Palm Pilots, a Casio calculator watch, and a Sony Mavica digital camera. Every 6-10 photos, I had to swap out the 3-1/2 inch floppy disk. It was a pain carrying a pocket full of floppies, but it beat dealing with film. I don't miss any of it.
I just bought a map book for my car 3 months ago in case my phones not working or I lose it, or it’s stolen and I need directions on the road. Even if I never have to use it, at least I’ll have it.
I once saw a video showing a 6-8 year old girl (Presumably born late 2000s) struggling to operate her grandma's rotary phone to call her mom. Lots of people took the mick out of it, but my thought was _What if Grandma was having a medical emergency and the girl was trying to dial 9-1-1?_ ☎🚑😨
I miss the film camera. The experience was between friends and family, not the globe . Sometimes, i feel that you were held accountable for all actions. Your brain got the needed workout.
Push button phones became popular in the 1960s! Rotary phones were replaced by Bell, during the 70s, and were available at reduced rates by 1972. The deposit was $15 less than touchtone phones, and a few dollars less, per month, in 1972.
I know technology has made life easier and more convenient but honestly I’d prefer to go back to the 80s and relive these moments. Life seemed simpler and human interaction was more prevalent. Not having everything immediately made you appreciate things more imo. 🥰❤
I've seen some boom box's with cassette player am/fm radio, but it has a modern up date you can play your cell phone music on it to. The batteries is what I remember being expensive to buy as a young teen.
4:58 I had that exact Sony Walkman, it was awesome. 7:36 also had that IBM typewriter she was typing on. 12:12 he’s holding a DirecTV remote control. 😅 We never had corded remotes in the 80’s, all of ours were IR, infrared remotes.
In the late 70's we got a corded remote. Man, we thought that was the best thing ever made! It saved my little sister from having to get up to change the channel for us. LOL
As a doctor I hated the pager/ bleeper and put it on the bin when off duty. The cleaners duly placed them on my bedside. However, I lost my wrist watch with a keyboard (expensive) but the insurance covered 90% of the cost. Since that incident (petty crimes in London was common) I stopped buying expensive stuff except a portable Dictaphone. I hated the answering machine.
I hate to say it but dot matrix/impact printers are still used for bulk invoices and other things in mostly the commercial industries due to the rugged build quality and low price per page prints, especially for multiple carbon copies. The price per page print is still less expensive than xerographic printers like laser and LED units. I find it amusing but possibly true where you still hear these relics in Futurama. I don't think we will see these disappear for a long time.
They _might_ still be needed for light gun games (Where a single frame is used as a targeting mask for the gun, and modern TVs tend to omit it as an assumed signal error) but they might also have worked past that problem by now. I'm not a gamer myself, but I know exactly what you're talking about! 📺💸😉
@dieseldragon6756 no joke realy before the 5 1/4 disch there was 8 inch disv very ecpensive 430 for one blank disc that held less that half of the 5 -1/4 disc
@dieseldragon6756 i just looked it up the capacity of the 8 inch disc was 80 kilobytes thats correct only 80 kb and remember a blank cost $30 arent we luck now adays
Just to clear things up a bit, 5¼" drives did not have plastic cases. They were usually paper, or something else that was floppy. Hense the name. It was the smaller 3½" disks that had the plastic shell. They also were called floppies, though of course they weren't. It was more correct to call them diskettes. It still is.
@@ilovethe70s I don't imagine those 8" disks had much capacity. I've seen them. They're interesting to look at. I wouldn't mind seeing one still in use. I think they're neat because they represent history, not just computer history either. I can guess it was a god-send to people who finally had a portable format to store programs and code. Of course, I can either sit here and type about it, or I can go use the GoogleBing and it would tell me everything. Maybe there are even vids to watch. : ) I don't know about you, but it's been a long time for me, using PCs. 32 years. Of course others have been at it much longer. But whenever I think about what I've seen come and go, what's changed in my life, all 32 of those years come falling right down on top of me. Sorry for the long reply.
@@keithbrown7685 Looks like the first 8 inch floppies held 79 KB and the largest by the end were 1.2 MB. I've never seen one in person myself. The first computer I used was in elementary school, a TRS-80 Model III I think. We had IBM PS/2s in high school.
12:40 is not an antenna "adjuster" as described and did not move the antenna, but rather adjusted the amplitude of the incoming signal. Then, I had a good laugh at 12:50 when the drab couple is enjoying a stationary picture, printed and taped on the tube.
Pagers are still common among service people who work in proprietary or classified areas. Because they do not record anything, and do not transmit anything.
Still better than today's technology which becomes obsolete after every two years. The 80s things survived and served much longer, just like the Gen-X itself.
The last blockbuster video store was in Bend Oregon and closed relatively recently. It wasn't just online services that made them go under though, but also portable rental services like Redbox
Phone books were not always thick, in rural areas they were often thin. Some phone calls, even though they were not far away they were sometimes long distance. To me the 80s is girls dress style, hair styles, music, movies and early computers. Computers were still magical and dreams of what they would become. They turned into smart phones - a big disappointment.. Carbon paper was EVERYWHERE. It was cheaper than copied machines. School teacher desks were big and had lots of draws, that held everything from chalk and erasers, confiscated items and paper that would be used with copier. People were much more friendly back then. Because keds grew up playing with other kids all day all summer. today there are few places where kids still spend summers playing with many other kids. This is one big reason so many people are lonely. They did not get to learn important social skills as kids
In 1980 my grandfather got a VCR for his Birthday from my Uncle, his fairly well to do son...750 bucks, a hefty sum at the time.. The entire family was amazed at this magnificent new piece of technology.. Within a few years the prices went way down and nearly everybody had them..They were no longer a big deal.. Sadly many years latter when my Grandfather passed away nobody even wanted it because DVD players were the new thing.. I think it it just ended up in the trash..😟
There is still one Blockbuster Video left in the world. It is located in Bend, Oregon. This location was a franchise from the beginning and still is today. Every year or so, the renewal of the brand comes up, and they get the O.K. to continue using the brand. There is a documentary called “The Last Blockbuster” which was released a few years ago. The store relies more on memorabilia than anything else. There should have been a college course called “Map Refolding 101.” Once the damn thing was unfolded, it was either balled up and thrown in the back seat or given to the kids to refold so they would keep quiet. TVs from yesteryear used to take 4 grown men to carry it into the house. Now, the smaller ones can be carried in like a couple of school books and hung on the wall.
Fun fact, the Commodore 64 at the start worked with cassette drives and games were stored on them. However, actually loading the games was extremely slow. Understandably, floppy drives overtook them big time on the C64. The Famicom Disk System used a proprietary version of floppies. However, advancements in cartridge storage format made the Disk System ultimately redundant. The short lived 64DD also had its own version of the format. The Sega Dreamcast was intended to have its own ZIP Drive attachment.
Your phone book reference was incorrect. White pages was for ALL published phone numbers whether they were residential or business. The Yellow Pages was Advertising. I oughta know, I grew up on the books. AND I advertised in the Yellow Pages,
Actually, we had push button telephones. There were those who still had rotary from time to time, but push buttons were really popular in the 80s. also, we had cable TV in the 80s. Wasn’t as wide spread as it would become, but we did have it.
Portable phones became popular in the mid 80s because we had one. Rechargeable and portable though big and clunky in bright colours with long metal aerial. The 90s brought the rounded handsets with "rubber" buttons and rubber short aerial 900mhz. Pushbutton phones first appeared in 1964 but were not popular.
What I find interesting is the bit about the TV Antenna adjuster. I since got rid of the cable/satellite TV service and get all my local channels over the air, and still use a TV antenna adjuster. Between that and the Disney+/Hulu/ESPN+ bundle streaming service and that is ALL the TV I am interested in. Also, given certain "recent events", it seems that pager/beepers were actually still fairly prevalent in usage.
The woman in the thumbnail photo is not 80's themed. Kind of discredits the rest of the video when you can't even get that right. 😂 I don't thing Ruby the riveter was prepping for Dessert Storm, but I digress.😂😂😂😂😂
You still can buy a new Rolodex, I still have mine (from 1989). Still a helpful tool to keep contacts organised, especially ones from people that only have addresses but no phone or even a smartphone. Also pay phones are still in service but in decreasing numbers.
No, we weren’t still using carbon paper in the 80s. Every office had giant photocopiers. There was duplicate and triplicate dot matrix printer stock that worked the same way, but nobody was shoving carbon paper into a typewriter. However, you did seem to overlook the use of duplicators that were still used in schools, with that lovely purple ink that you could take a big whiff of and improve your day!
Push button phones were in the '70s . And cable was installed with promises of expanded communications and ' visiphone " telephone service with video calling . The 1980's began more and more car mobile phones and " portable" home phones with an antenna transmitting to a reciever hooked to regular telephone lines or cable communications .
The first pushbutton phone, and, the first video phone appeared in 1964 but were of course expensive and I doubt many had it until later. There were Car Phones in the 1950s but they were expensive and took up almost half the trunk area of a Cadillac.
Though they might be obsolete, they were the base for almost all of the technology today. Most of them live on, in today's gadgets or probably, one gadget. The mobile phone.
In the late 70s and early 80s, the first pagers did not have a display giving you the number that had dialed you. To differentiate between a preselected set of numbers that was programmed into the pager to receive, the pager would beep in a code that would identify which of the preprogrammed phone numbers had called you. My dad had one while he worked at White House Communications, and his would alert him only if he was called from one of five different phone numbers, either from the White House's main switchboard or four other extensions within his department. Before even those pagers, the beeper would simply beep, indicating someone was trying to reach you, and you'd have to call some kind of switchboard operator to find out who the hell was calling you. My dad said those things were more of a pain in the ass than anything else.
Believe it or not I work for a large call-center company as a recruiter and I once either earlier this year or late last year called a candidate I believe to remind them to complete an assessment, and was shocked to learn they had an old-fashioned answering machine. Literally I was leaving a message and the person answered in the middle of it, and it wasn't the live voicemail thing like they're doing now, it was actually a proper old-fashioned answering machine and the person wasn't even elderly which would make sense because a lot of older people do tend to keep Things like that that they have grown accustomed to.
Photocopiers were available in the 1980s. In the seventies they were rarer and one used Spirit duplicators. The film section included an ad for APS which came in 1996. No TV had a remote with a cord in the 1980s. They were similar than they are now though typically had individual plastic keys. It was nice if you dropped it and it broke the individual keys were all over the floor.
They were the best VHS 📼 far better than DVD When DVD came out they said they wouldn't scratch what a lie they ought to pay people back Bring back the VHS 📼 and the Walkman better than CD
2:00 I remember rotary phones in the 70s, but by 1980 they were becoming a rare site, even more so when more automated systems began to appear. These systems needed the tones from push button phones. By the time I was in Jr High school, (1982) I hardly ever saw a rotary dial phone.
And the earliest Portable Rechargeable phones appeared. They were big and heavy and staticky. Became smaller and more reliable by the mid 90s and the Cellphone was already a thing.
PDAs didn't exist until the 1990s. There were clamshell PCs (Atari Portfolio, Poqet PC) but the Tandy handheld was the first to the market in 1982, before Crapple.
Basically, all these things have been replaced by a computer. Some of them are still useful, like the slide projector. Also, I prefer to have physical media like VHS, DVD, bluray.
Re: Yellow Pages. Yes there are online sources, but there are SO MANY out of date online listings. I still prefer a lot of the old tech. New tech goes out too fast and is actually much more fragile. What happens if your cloud storage company goes out of business? What if your device dies or the battery is dead? Paper and pencil still works. Most old tech was fixable, now everything is disposable.
The rotary phones, at least here in New Zealand anyway, could be exploited at pay phones. You could do a thing called tapping where you took each number and subtracted it from 10, then deftly tap that number on the receiver holder. If you got it right you could make phone calls for free. The good old days..
Fax machines do not turn image into a bitmap (BMP) file, those take up another of memory, it is turned into TIFF file, which is a lot smaller, which is handy when transmitting at such low speed
I loved the 1980's . I would love to go back there.
back there? I wouldn't in my case.. the sovietism was still a bit rampant in my area of birth back there..
I would love to go back but I don't want to be a kid again.
In the 60's there were TV's that had mechanical remotes the operated on sound.
It required no batteries or cord. 6-functions: On/Off, Volume Up/Down & Channel Up/Down. It worked on a tuning forks.
Yes, but many early VCRs had corded remotes, although I doubt many used them.
Clunk clunk clunk clunk clunk around a motorized rotary dial channel tuner to get to one of the 3 tv channels .
Very noisy and slow . Clunking and the remote was a high pitched ringing bell spring loaded remote box . Keys jangling or a small chain could trigger the electric motor piwered tv tuner in the tv set to start up clunking " around the dial " to change the channels . Dishes and doorbells triggered the audio controlled remote .
@@jimmyday9536 Just for porn.
@@gregorydahl
When I was a kid, I tried to hold the channel dial still, while it was rotating.
That thing had so much torque, that my hand would probably break before the dial would.
Zeniths and Telefunkens 😂
I miss the 80s
@dtulip1 me too!
I don’t. So PRIMITIVE!
Don't we all.
Yep, no pronouns.
@@darkstars-torpedoes-of-truth still no usa telli tho. Laughs in European.. Panasonic and Japanese..
Born in 79 and remember all of this. Didnt belive so much would go away as fast as it did.😅
Me born in 80 I remember all of this to😅
All replaced by a computer
Nostalgia for old gadgets is a universal phenomenon.
I never considered myself as old, till I watched this video. I have owned and used so much of this now obsolete technology!
Same here.
I turn 60 on the 14th of October and Thank You for the Memories of the 70's
when I was a kid and teenager Thank You.🇺🇲📺🇺🇲
I remember that phone book smell. They all had that smell. Weird how I can remember it so well.
And the smell of alcohol from the old crank copiers.
That’s poetic
I still have my third Sony Walkman. I bust it out every now and then to play old cassettes and time travel in my head. 😊
The first tape I listened to on a Walkman was Boston's first album. BA - LOU - ME away! I will always remember where I was when that happened. Off The Wall, by Michael Jackson by the way was my first CD I listened to. Another banger!
That's so 😎 cool 👌‼️
Video Cassette Players reached their peak in the mid 90's.
thanks for chiming in with that inaccurate, pointless and frankly idiotic comment
17:33 _ Remote controls in the 80s also were available using the 9V Batteries, in addition there were "living remote controls", the kids, when parents would tell them to change the channel or adjust the volume on the TV. I was one of them. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Same here 😂📺
@@valerieannrumpf4151 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The simpsons had pliers to turn the shaft of the broken missing channel knob .
@@gregorydahl 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I remember that! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"I was one of them."
Technology has made you obsolete.
I realized my age when I had to explain Lite-Brite to my coworkers!
When I moved out of my parents house circa 1998 I had a VCR that I got from my grandparents. A teenager short on cash I tried to pawn it, the pawn shop guy laughed at me, he said they don't even make silver VCRs anymore! The thing was huge and loaded from the top. Anyway I remember I gave it to another friend who used it for a long time too.
As a top-loader it would've been one of the first gen of VCRs, which were _old hat_ and unwanted come the millennium.
Funny thing is: If you took that same VCR into a pawn shop _today,_ they would *not* be turning it away... 💰😉
The VCR lived much longer. I really loved, when the price dropped on Hifi VCRs, because it was the best possible way for DJs to record long sets in one in cd quality. I used them even in the 2010s.
I have never stopped using paper maps. They are still valuable if you know how to use them. They are more reliable than mobile phone, work everywhere and don't run out of battery.
Exactly!!
I ONLY use maps.
I carry individual maps for all the nearby big cities in case I have to travel there.
Oh get a GPS...then you find out your paying for everything and then at 7 years the company obsolete your model and you have the good fortune to buy another one and start all over again.
Buy a paper map once.
Yes I found that certain roads were closed not mentioned on the paper map just followed the detours.
Speaking as a heavily engaged Orienteer I can definitely +1 that comment! 🗺💯👍
Paper maps are much better for the purpose. I've _never_ managed to kill a paper map by running through thick patches of Ulex or deep streams, they've never broken when I've tripped at high speed and crashed to the ground on top of them, and they _never_ need signal to keep on going. 👍
Thanks for nice answers. I must admit that I use both, paper and digital. As a geocacher I naturally love also using GPS. However, there's always paper map in my cars glovebox, and I regularly use it. Also as a tourist a nice small paper map of the city centre is very convenient and often more usable that google maps.
@@dieseldragon6756 I slip a map into the plastic sleeve on my motorcycle tank bag. Don't even need to take my hands off the handlebars.
@@WarrenBridges-um5cg I do similar on my bicycle, normally with a scaled map excerpt inserted into my Orienteering control description holder, which is strapped to the inside of my forearm. 🚵💪🗺👍
Give me the 80s back any time ,
I still have my 1979 VHS video and Sony yellow walkman,my Atari 2600, g.i joe and transformers figurines,the best of my youth
Fantastic channel! I'm addicted. Bingeing on all your vids. 👍
I still have my 1977 RCA vcr , 1979 Zenith and even my analog phones. And I’m not even 30. I love it !
while outdated today, retrotech like these and others are still cool
Most is right. The one thing that I miss is the phone on the corner. How many times we have a problem with our phones and the person on the other end want us to call from some other phone to troubleshoot our phones. Some of us have no other way. I miss the old land line phone.
We still have one, but probably not for much longer - the monthly charge is rivaling or even exceeding the cost of using a cell phone. My basic flip phone can do more and costs less than the land line phone now!
I still have mine, and my computer is hardwired to my landline
Now, if somebody could just make a Time Machine so I can go back to the 80s lol
Smart phones replaced so many things. When you add them all up it’s actually good value.
I wish I can go back to the 80s just one more time. I would appreciate this era with respect. We just didn't know how good we had it. Technology has come long and replaced childhood. This kids today don't know how to enjoy being kids. The 80s was a fantastic time to be a kid
Rotary dial phones were mostly gone by the 80's, replaced by the push button phone
Well not in sweden. We didnt get them until the start of the 90s
And also the late 80s & 90s that when we started using the Cordless phones
Not in Germany or the U.K.
We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us.
I've used absolutely all of that ancient tech. The first thing I did when traveling to a new town was go to a drug store and buy a local, foldable city map. Smaller towns usually didn't have maps. Sometimes gas stations would give out free state maps. Every year I bought a new road atlas which had state maps and maps of large cities. I also bought a new almanac every year. It was crammed with data like sports statistics, election results, and so, forth. No Internet-everything was updated only once a year. I had several Palm Pilots, a Casio calculator watch, and a Sony Mavica digital camera. Every 6-10 photos, I had to swap out the 3-1/2 inch floppy disk. It was a pain carrying a pocket full of floppies, but it beat dealing with film. I don't miss any of it.
I just bought a map book for my car 3 months ago in case my phones not working or I lose it, or it’s stolen and I need directions on the road. Even if I never have to use it, at least I’ll have it.
A couple of years ago i had to instruct a guy born in 97 on how to use a rotary dial telephone. It was funny and tragic at the same time.
At least you didn't try teach him to read an analog clock.
I once saw a video showing a 6-8 year old girl (Presumably born late 2000s) struggling to operate her grandma's rotary phone to call her mom. Lots of people took the mick out of it, but my thought was _What if Grandma was having a medical emergency and the girl was trying to dial 9-1-1?_ ☎🚑😨
With old school phones you also remembered a half dozen 8 digit phone numbers. Now we have no idea what number to call.
@@paulgerrard9227 Now you pay for call display, but their real number can still be hidden.
I miss the film camera. The experience was between friends and family, not the globe . Sometimes, i feel that you were held accountable for all actions. Your brain got the needed workout.
You can still buy and have Print Film processed it just means driving to the town still having sn actual photography shop.
Push button phones became popular in the 1960s! Rotary phones were replaced by Bell, during the 70s, and were available at reduced rates by 1972. The deposit was $15 less than touchtone phones, and a few dollars less, per month, in 1972.
Id go back to the `80s in an instant if I could.
The bit about pagers being reliable hasn't really aged all that well.
I know technology has made life easier and more convenient but honestly I’d prefer to go back to the 80s and relive these moments. Life seemed simpler and human interaction was more prevalent. Not having everything immediately made you appreciate things more imo. 🥰❤
Common Sense was also necessary in the 80s that is rapidly becoming obsolete these days
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
I've seen some boom box's with cassette player am/fm radio,
but it has a modern up date you can play your cell phone music on it to. The batteries is what I remember being expensive to buy as a young teen.
Boxes.
4:58 I had that exact Sony Walkman, it was awesome.
7:36 also had that IBM typewriter she was typing on.
12:12 he’s holding a DirecTV remote control. 😅
We never had corded remotes in the 80’s, all of ours were IR, infrared remotes.
In the late 70's we got a corded remote. Man, we thought that was the best thing ever made! It saved my little sister from having to get up to change the channel for us. LOL
I feel like I'm watching the first few minutes of _Back to the Future 2_ with this video.
Still no flying skateboard
As a doctor I hated the pager/ bleeper and put it on the bin when off duty. The cleaners duly placed them on my bedside. However, I lost my wrist watch with a keyboard (expensive) but the insurance covered 90% of the cost. Since that incident (petty crimes in London was common) I stopped buying expensive stuff except a portable Dictaphone. I hated the answering machine.
Here's a tip, add me to the list. Im now totally obsolete. Just ask RUclips
I hate to say it but dot matrix/impact printers are still used for bulk invoices and other things in mostly the commercial industries due to the rugged build quality and low price per page prints, especially for multiple carbon copies. The price per page print is still less expensive than xerographic printers like laser and LED units. I find it amusing but possibly true where you still hear these relics in Futurama. I don't think we will see these disappear for a long time.
Good luck trying to convince the most hardcore retro gamers that CRTs aren't necessary.
They _might_ still be needed for light gun games (Where a single frame is used as a targeting mask for the gun, and modern TVs tend to omit it as an assumed signal error) but they might also have worked past that problem by now. I'm not a gamer myself, but I know exactly what you're talking about! 📺💸😉
you forgot the 8 inch floppy disc
And are still used for the software in commercial aircraft today.
Those mostly died out in the 70s. The original IBM PC from 1981 shipped with 5.25" drives and the 1984 Macintosh had a 3.5" drive.
Steady on, chap! This is an all-ages channel! 💾🇬🇧🤣
@dieseldragon6756 no joke realy before the 5 1/4 disch there was 8 inch disv very ecpensive 430 for one blank disc that held less that half of the 5 -1/4 disc
@dieseldragon6756 i just looked it up the capacity of the 8 inch disc was 80 kilobytes thats correct only 80 kb and remember a blank cost $30 arent we luck now adays
It's nice to see all the old gadgets we used but I like what we have now, much progress in tech.
Can't believe it,all that in our palm now...
Funny enough, some software developers still have to support faxes and communication via them.
Rotory phones didnt used electricity :))))) Yeah, they run on smoke signals
Just to clear things up a bit, 5¼" drives did not have plastic cases. They were usually paper, or something else that was floppy. Hense the name.
It was the smaller 3½" disks that had the plastic shell. They also were called floppies, though of course they weren't. It was more correct to call them diskettes. It still is.
5.25" (and 8") floppy disks definitely had plastic cases. They were thin and flexible unlike the later 3.5" disks but it was still plastic.
@@ilovethe70s I don't imagine those 8" disks had much capacity. I've seen them. They're interesting to look at. I wouldn't mind seeing one still in use. I think they're neat because they represent history, not just computer history either. I can guess it was a god-send to people who finally had a portable format to store programs and code.
Of course, I can either sit here and type about it, or I can go use the GoogleBing and it would tell me everything. Maybe there are even vids to watch. : )
I don't know about you, but it's been a long time for me, using PCs. 32 years. Of course others have been at it much longer. But whenever I think about what I've seen come and go, what's changed in my life, all 32 of those years come falling right down on top of me.
Sorry for the long reply.
@@keithbrown7685 Looks like the first 8 inch floppies held 79 KB and the largest by the end were 1.2 MB. I've never seen one in person myself. The first computer I used was in elementary school, a TRS-80 Model III I think. We had IBM PS/2s in high school.
rotary phones are from the 80's ? are you from another planet?
In Dutch these phones were called 'draaischijf' phones. Never knew the word rotary originated from this.
12:40 is not an antenna "adjuster" as described and did not move the antenna, but rather adjusted the amplitude of the incoming signal. Then, I had a good laugh at 12:50 when the drab couple is enjoying a stationary picture, printed and taped on the tube.
Pagers are still common among service people who work in proprietary or classified areas. Because they do not record anything, and do not transmit anything.
Still better than today's technology which becomes obsolete after every two years. The 80s things survived and served much longer, just like the Gen-X itself.
The last blockbuster video store was in Bend Oregon and closed relatively recently. It wasn't just online services that made them go under though, but also portable rental services like Redbox
Phone books were not always thick, in rural areas they were often thin.
Some phone calls, even though they were not far away they were sometimes long distance.
To me the 80s is girls dress style, hair styles, music, movies and early computers. Computers were still magical and dreams of what they would become. They turned into smart phones - a big disappointment..
Carbon paper was EVERYWHERE. It was cheaper than copied machines.
School teacher desks were big and had lots of draws, that held everything from chalk and erasers, confiscated items and paper that would be used with copier.
People were much more friendly back then. Because keds grew up playing with other kids all day all summer. today there are few places where kids still spend summers playing with many other kids.
This is one big reason so many people are lonely. They did not get to learn important social skills as kids
Very good video.
The 'p' is silent in Psion. Just thought I would let you know.
AnTANa 🤭
In 1980 my grandfather got a VCR for his Birthday from my Uncle, his fairly well to do son...750 bucks, a hefty sum at the time.. The entire family was amazed at this magnificent new piece of technology.. Within a few years the prices went way down and nearly everybody had them..They were no longer a big deal.. Sadly many years latter when my Grandfather passed away nobody even wanted it because DVD players were the new thing.. I think it it just ended up in the trash..😟
Born in 1975 I love 80’s and 90’s …
Good thing there were reliable ways to archive documents and images that didn't screw up in less than a decade.
1:51 Notice the number on the dial. Good stuff
Amazing to think a single smartphone does almost all of these tasks in one item, and generally better too.
Life just felt better back in the 80’s.
There is still one Blockbuster Video left in the world. It is located in Bend, Oregon. This location was a franchise from the beginning and still is today. Every year or so, the renewal of the brand comes up, and they get the O.K. to continue using the brand. There is a documentary called “The Last Blockbuster” which was released a few years ago. The store relies more on memorabilia than anything else.
There should have been a college course called “Map Refolding 101.” Once the damn thing was unfolded, it was either balled up and thrown in the back seat or given to the kids to refold so they would keep quiet.
TVs from yesteryear used to take 4 grown men to carry it into the house. Now, the smaller ones can be carried in like a couple of school books and hung on the wall.
Fun fact, the Commodore 64 at the start worked with cassette drives and games were stored on them. However, actually loading the games was extremely slow. Understandably, floppy drives overtook them big time on the C64.
The Famicom Disk System used a proprietary version of floppies. However, advancements in cartridge storage format made the Disk System ultimately redundant. The short lived 64DD also had its own version of the format.
The Sega Dreamcast was intended to have its own ZIP Drive attachment.
Both the cassette tapes and the floppies in C64 were much slower than comparable products on other manufacturers.
Your phone book reference was incorrect.
White pages was for ALL published phone numbers whether they were residential or business.
The Yellow Pages was Advertising.
I oughta know, I grew up on the books. AND I advertised in the Yellow Pages,
Actually, we had push button telephones. There were those who still had rotary from time to time, but push buttons were really popular in the 80s. also, we had cable TV in the 80s. Wasn’t as wide spread as it would become, but we did have it.
Portable phones became popular in the mid 80s because we had one.
Rechargeable and portable though big and clunky in bright colours with long metal aerial. The 90s brought the rounded handsets with "rubber" buttons and rubber short aerial 900mhz.
Pushbutton phones first appeared in 1964 but were not popular.
I like your videos
88 born here, used most of these in Brazil during my childhood with the exception of micro-fish and Rolodex...
My employer still uses a dot matrix printer :/
They never actually disappeared. They still have niche uses that ink jets or laser can't do.
What I find interesting is the bit about the TV Antenna adjuster. I since got rid of the cable/satellite TV service and get all my local channels over the air, and still use a TV antenna adjuster. Between that and the Disney+/Hulu/ESPN+ bundle streaming service and that is ALL the TV I am interested in. Also, given certain "recent events", it seems that pager/beepers were actually still fairly prevalent in usage.
the older stuff was built better and lasted way longer than what's built today
VHS is commonly understood as ‘video home system’ but it actually refers to the technical video format called ‘vertical half scan’
hmmm. I never knew that. That's neat.
Originally it stood for Vertical Helical Scan, but they soon officially changed it to something more marketable.
Nonsense.
What? Only one brain cell working today?
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
The woman in the thumbnail photo is not 80's themed. Kind of discredits the rest of the video when you can't even get that right. 😂 I don't thing Ruby the riveter was prepping for Dessert Storm, but I digress.😂😂😂😂😂
Much of the products shown and pictured are not 80s but 90s.
but she has an old hairstyle
I was once a TV remote control, and a VCR remote control, and a stereo remote control and a dishwasher.
You still can buy a new Rolodex, I still have mine (from 1989). Still a helpful tool to keep contacts organised, especially ones from people that only have addresses but no phone or even a smartphone.
Also pay phones are still in service but in decreasing numbers.
No, we weren’t still using carbon paper in the 80s. Every office had giant photocopiers.
There was duplicate and triplicate dot matrix printer stock that worked the same way, but nobody was shoving carbon paper into a typewriter.
However, you did seem to overlook the use of duplicators that were still used in schools, with that lovely purple ink that you could take a big whiff of and improve your day!
Push button phones were in the '70s . And cable was installed with promises of expanded communications and ' visiphone " telephone service with video calling . The 1980's began more and more car mobile phones and " portable" home phones with an antenna transmitting to a reciever hooked to regular telephone lines or cable communications .
The first pushbutton phone, and, the first video phone appeared in 1964 but were of course expensive and I doubt many had it until later.
There were Car Phones in the 1950s but they were expensive and took up almost half the trunk area of a Cadillac.
Though they might be obsolete, they were the base for almost all of the technology today. Most of them live on, in today's gadgets or probably, one gadget. The mobile phone.
Did you know they made a VHS player with HDMI out , they also made a VHS/Blu-Ray combo drive.
Abstraction is often one floor above you.
Most of this is wrong. So many of these products and technologies had been around decades before the 80's.
Nancy was proud that she ran a tight shipwreck.
In the late 70s and early 80s, the first pagers did not have a display giving you the number that had dialed you. To differentiate between a preselected set of numbers that was programmed into the pager to receive, the pager would beep in a code that would identify which of the preprogrammed phone numbers had called you. My dad had one while he worked at White House Communications, and his would alert him only if he was called from one of five different phone numbers, either from the White House's main switchboard or four other extensions within his department. Before even those pagers, the beeper would simply beep, indicating someone was trying to reach you, and you'd have to call some kind of switchboard operator to find out who the hell was calling you. My dad said those things were more of a pain in the ass than anything else.
Let's see how much of the digital world remains after a massive EMP.
Believe it or not I work for a large call-center company as a recruiter and I once either earlier this year or late last year called a candidate I believe to remind them to complete an assessment, and was shocked to learn they had an old-fashioned answering machine. Literally I was leaving a message and the person answered in the middle of it, and it wasn't the live voicemail thing like they're doing now, it was actually a proper old-fashioned answering machine and the person wasn't even elderly which would make sense because a lot of older people do tend to keep Things like that that they have grown accustomed to.
Photocopiers were available in the 1980s. In the seventies they were rarer and one used Spirit duplicators. The film section included an ad for APS which came in 1996. No TV had a remote with a cord in the 1980s. They were similar than they are now though typically had individual plastic keys. It was nice if you dropped it and it broke the individual keys were all over the floor.
I remember sniffing the pages when the teacher handed out a fresh exam paper. 😵💫
Rotary phones DID require electricity. The electricity was in the phone line. And, by the 70s, most homes had push button phones.
They were the best
VHS 📼 far better than DVD When DVD came out they said they wouldn't scratch what a lie they ought to pay people back
Bring back the VHS 📼 and the Walkman better than CD
They definitely come back again
I loved the VHS…..a lot of the early movies are not available in the cloud like king frat, baby love ect…..
2:00 I remember rotary phones in the 70s, but by 1980 they were becoming a rare site, even more so when more automated systems began to appear. These systems needed the tones from push button phones.
By the time I was in Jr High school, (1982) I hardly ever saw a rotary dial phone.
And the earliest Portable Rechargeable phones appeared. They were big and heavy and staticky. Became smaller and more reliable by the mid 90s and the Cellphone was already a thing.
PDAs didn't exist until the 1990s. There were clamshell PCs (Atari Portfolio, Poqet PC) but the Tandy handheld was the first to the market in 1982, before Crapple.
Basically, all these things have been replaced by a computer. Some of them are still useful, like the slide projector. Also, I prefer to have physical media like VHS, DVD, bluray.
Re: Yellow Pages. Yes there are online sources, but there are SO MANY out of date online listings. I still prefer a lot of the old tech. New tech goes out too fast and is actually much more fragile. What happens if your cloud storage company goes out of business? What if your device dies or the battery is dead? Paper and pencil still works. Most old tech was fixable, now everything is disposable.
Anyone remember Laser Discs?
I have a player and several disks. Hard to find either one anymore!
The rotary phones, at least here in New Zealand anyway, could be exploited at pay phones. You could do a thing called tapping where you took each number and subtracted it from 10, then deftly tap that number on the receiver holder. If you got it right you could make phone calls for free. The good old days..
Fax machines do not turn image into a bitmap (BMP) file, those take up another of memory, it is turned into TIFF file, which is a lot smaller, which is handy when transmitting at such low speed