Once Completely Necessary, NOW OBSOLETE
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Some things were so necessary that it would be hard to believe they could ever disappear. But time has a funny way of erasing things from our daily lives. These objects are very familiar to all of us, but in most cases they have been obsolete for years, so let’s take at some of the things that were commonplace way back when, but are now obsolete.
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I still like an alarm clock so that I can see the time when I barely open my eyes and not move. I don’t want to have to pick up a phone.
I just bought a new one.
@@julienielsen3746 A new phone?
@@josephgaviota A new digital alarm clock. I would miss that. As for my phone, I still have a flip phone, which of course has the time on it. Also have my land line yet.
@@josephgaviota A lot of people still use alarm clocks myself included
Yup - us too. Even if it’s just a minimal digital alarm clock with no radio.
I miss the ability to permanently own something vs forever paying subscribing to a service making it available.
And that's what it's all about today. Paying for a whole lot of useless things that we really don't need but somehow end up with
... I like to use open software but it invariably ends up being owned by the lizards
You got to get your Macgyver on!!!!!! That is what flash drives ,external drives .dvd burners and DVR for. That is how I own everything without strings attached. You got to Mac... the system to of subscription streaming that is designed to burn holes in all of our pockets.
@@samuraibushido7077.. on a global scale too
@@samuraibushido7077 agreed - but I miss not HAVING to put so much time and effort into getting such basic sh!t done, ya know? In the end, one doesn’t seem worth the money, while the other doesn’t seem worth the time. It’s all getting ridiculous
I miss life from before the internet, a lot. It feels like I live on a different planet now.
Yeah, a very strange different planet.
Says the person commenting on the internet
@@gustavsorensen9301Isn't it past your bedtime child.
I couldn't agree with you more !
Right?! It affected EVERYTHING… how people live, interact, communicate, everything 😔
My mother bought a digital alarm clock/radio from the Home Shopping Channel in 1978. It still wakes her up every morning.
Wowza!😂😊
I have a really nice alarm clock from "Sharper Image." It's got to be 20 or more years old, and I use it every day, and listen to the radio on it every day ... when if finally gives out, I'm not sure WHAT I'll do ...
Same here, I still have an alarm clock radio on my Nightstand. I also have an answering machine and a land line. I've tried to get rid of the Land Line but where we live, it's the cheapest way to have internet service and the Phone Company requires I keep it, LOL!
I still use mine. 😊
I just realized a couple of weeks ago that mine is 30+ years old. I was complaining about my new cat learning to turn it on for attention. Someone actually asked "what's a clock radio?" lol
I still remember when daily papers had morning and evening editions. The help wanted ads were divided by 'Jobs for men' and Jobs for women'.
That was a good thing. Helped saving girl‘s time to apply for a men‘s job and vice versa.
Your comment reminded me: I used to deliver The Rocky Mountain News, a now gone newspaper, in the evening after school in the early 80's. There was a local store front where us newspaper delivery KIDS would get our newspapers and supplies. We went, without our parents, to this place, folded our newspapers with a rubber band, would load the newspapers into a double sided "saddle bag" that slipped over our necks and out we'd go onto our delivery routes. And if you remember, the Sunday news was like log, so we'd use a shopping cart to deliver the Sunday newspaper 🗞️🛒
*Take a shot every time I say "newspaper", lol! 😅
I had a paper left on my drive yesterday. Recycldd
Mee tooo!! but I can't live without that Sunday paper!!!
I miss the Sunday paper. In the 80s-90s, that's how I found jobs. I'd pour over the want ads all afternoon. That's also how we found our dogs. Now I find it more of a hassle to upload resumes and pet ads are for pets out of state.
I still get the daily newspaper, have a land-line and answering machine, an alarm clock and house keys. I like it like that! 😊
Me too
I still have two out of four. You can guess which two. And my summer daily driver car was made in 1980.
I still pay bills by check and, each month, balence my account using a pencil and an old forgotten skill I learned in school called arithmatic! In the end it's as fast or faster than using smart phones and computers, accessing milions of dollars worth of electronic servers, satellites in geosynchonous orbit above Cincinatti, and computer algorythms to accomplish the same thing.
I bought a new boom box in the early 80’s. I still have it. Works like a charm. I have it in my kitchen and play it loud! In the 90’s we had the answering machine. I had a dog. I would call home and say hi to the dog.
The boom box I bought in 1983 finally stopped working a few years ago. 30+ years out of it is not bad I would say.
If the dog picked up the phone and said hello, you would be in trouble.
I also put a boombox ( in the kitchen) that I found in the trash about 10 years ago-maybe more. And it Always sounded good in the morning. But it like broke two years ago I can fix it but never found the time to do it.
Most all items that you live is on ebay and local . No reason to go without might be a few miles away .
@@vmobile890 Thank you for the heads-up. I wish we can go to stores that sell the old style snacks. I can get the Ginger Snaps and the Chocolate fudge Squares that my dad used to send me to the store to get as a 7 Y/0. But, I miss the old style Archway cookies that were so thick-you could make a meal out of them if you ate 4 ,lol lo lollol l:)!!. And those Dolly Madison fruit pies with the Peanuts characters on them. You know if we can get most of these things right now ,that we enjoyed as children our lives would be so much richer. When the dollar store, brought back the Giner Snaps about 12 years ago or more ,and I showed about two bags of them to my boss he was elated because he used to eat them to.
I was born in 1961 and miss just being there for all these simple things and the simple easy going friendly times. Yay, no cell phones or internet and yay for the books back then.
Yay no internet, says the person commenting on the internet
Cue, "Summer Breeze" by Seals and Crofts. That's my "simple easy going friendly times" theme song for my reminiscing lol.
THE good old fashion Sears Catalog . JC Penney's Catalog were good books to read LOL
When I feel like this, I just remind myself of the fricking MESS that was fully depending on the kiosk to deal with a missed or cancelled flight before smart phones. Especially before mere cell phones made it possible to quickly reach/inform your ride of the new plans! Lol
I still have my old tube radio( AM only), I would not trade that radio for anything, it still works today as it did when I got it as a gift from my grandfather( moms side of the family)when I was 10 years old. I listen to baseball games with it. I was born the same year as you, I just turned 63 years old, I share the same birthdate as WILLIAM SHATNER( MARCH 22nd).
I used to have an answering machine back in the 80's from Radio Shack, now even physical Radio Shack's are gone!😯💯👍thanks for beautiful memories of days gone by!
we have a radioshack hybrid store in our tiny town. 👍
Even those evolved to the point of wide use of their digital form long preceding smart (or even cell) phones - from standard tape, to tiny tape, to digitally recording physical machines, then to a landline phone company provided digital service option (less popular), to internet-based home lines’ voicemail system (that could even show up on your cable tv screen and forever show on its recordings lol), to the cell + smart phone voicemail we know today. Most businesses had switched over to digital phone + voicemail systems by the mid-90s (if not earlier) since they could easily afford their benefits.
House and car keys are not obsolete We still use keys to lock and unlock our house front door Even with push button start in todays car the car key must be in the car to activate the push button
So true. I have both.
Yeah, I didn't understand why keys would be considered obsolete.
Agree. I know absolutely no one with any push button house doors. Every one I know whether house or apartment have door keys. They do have a key fob to get into a lobby though.
The content creator really dropped the ball on that. Keys are still essential items.
It's always a good day whenever Recollection Road uploads
Can I get an Amen!!!!
@@samuraibushido7077 Amen
Items way back in the day were actually manufactured/designed to last almost a lifetime. I know someone who has a washer from the brand gold star, a brand which no longer exists, and that washer still works wonderfully.
I grew up using a JC Penny microwave at home (data plate on the back said manufacture date: 1983). When my parents finally bought a new one for their house (I guess the '83 just didn't look "modern enough" any more, and also was humongous...), this microwave went to the family business' kitchen area at the office/warehouse, for use by the employees there. Built like a tank and ran beautifully until a 19-20 year old employee microwaved a metal fork in it in 2019. RIP JC Penny microwave:
1983 -2019, you were taken from us far too soon...
GoldStar and Lucky Chemical companies combined, now known as LG.
My maytag washer and dryer bought back in the late 1980's are still working, my daughter's maytag made it 3 whole years. I do not understand. My fridge is still farily new but now I've seek cracks in the crisper buckets and the gaskets are not holding well. I have also returned my ice make 6 times back to a store and with the warranty I buy I get a new one every time but this is ridiculous that they break down after 6 months. My grandmom's old fridge was over 30 years old back in the early 1960's and that thing is still running now. I'm on my likfe 5th fridge?????
@@JennyWinters I can only assume it's by design. We had a washer go out after 5 years (advertised with a 10 year LIMITED warranty, and surprise surprise it didn't include the electronic components...) -- motherboard computer chip died...worthless without that. Replacement part was almost as much as a new washer. So -- fix a 5 year old washer, or spend $50 extra and get a brand new one? We got a brand new one, but this has to be by design. Ridiculous.
Good star
When I worked for Publix in the late 70s and early 80s, I used to clock in and out with a punch clock, lol. Wow. I was in my late teens back then, I was born in 1961.
I remember my grandmother collected S & H Greenstamps at Publix
I currently work at Publix, now we use a small digital screen, I’m curious as to how the cash registers were back then. The ones we have today automatically do all the calculations for you.
@@staceyl.thienel1499 S&H green stamps they were great, I saved them too. I still have 3 books i never redeemed, oh well.
As a supervisor, I had to sign each card
I only worked one place with a a time clock, Leewards. The other places you just filled in a schedule or just showed up.
I still have my old digital alarm clock that I got for Christmas back in early eighties. The radio on it doesn't work anymore, but the clock does and I still use it. It's sitting on the table next to my bed.
I still use a digital clock, it's the 1st thing you look at when it's 4am and you have to go in the middle of the night pee.
I still have my digital clock in the bedroom and still use it !
Testimony that they "don't make things like they used to" :(
@@davechattoe9144 _4am and you have to go in the middle of the night pee._
I'm a 3:30 man myself.
@@staceyl.thienel1499
They sure don't! Everything is junk.
I still use a landline and answering machine.
I still have my landline phone as the wireless reception in my home can be flaky at times. Nice to have the cell phone for when I’m out though.
I had my landline for 40 years, same phone number. Just recently got rid of it due to high costs of landline & cell phone. Have low cell service cost with T-Mobile thanks to veteran discount & changed cable services & eliminated landline coverage. They had the nerve to tell me that I would have to pay extra for backup service if the power went out ?!! That’s the main purpose of paying for a landline for when the power goes out, why would I pay an additional fee for that?!! 🙄 So I keep a portable & car charger in case I will need to charge up my phone if the power ever goes out for a long duration of time. Smh 🤦🏽♀️
Me too. But I can't run it without internet.
I still have a land-line and have had the same phone number for 40 years.
I will never have a landline again. The last time I had one, it reminded me why I went a few years without one: all the BS charges they add to the bill… which, some have been determined to be straight up illegal.
As much as I appreciate how the internet and smart phones has made life much more convenient….. I sure miss all of these obsolete items we no longer use.
My family had the gold colored dial box that rotated the outdoor TV antenna. Can't even recall the correct name for it. Got all three networks! LOL I'll never forget that ratcheting sound.
At least many of these can still be used if preferred - even analog thermometers (tho they’re mainly the very long used red-dyed alcohol filled ones that the video skipped by going straight from mercury to digital).
Not much can be done about the bygone satisfaction of a game machine spitting out tickets and tokens rather than a filling a digital card, tho, lol)
@@ZeroPhuqsGiven2000 Zenith TV . Magnavox box were some of the companies that sold the rotating TV antenna and if you had one you were top dog in the neighborhood
I remember all these things, except not having a Sony watchman,in the 70s&80s life seemed more fulfilling than everyone glaring into the smartphone
@@kendavid891 I remember when people were worried the Watchman could be dangerous because you couldn't hear around you. Now look how many people have died from staring at their phone.
The company I worked for from 1973 until 2012 still used the same time clocks with daily cards that they had in the 1950’s. And as far as I know they are still using them.
there is a coffee shop in Amsterdam no phones, laptops any tech gadgets are allowed only Sundays so people can socialize. the gathering call "off line club" 90s 80s vibe we really miss
Personally I’d like to go back to the way things used to be
I have no issues not answering my phone or texts all day. I have this long standing saying that it must be user error bc I never hear my phone. 🤷♀️
You can most all the vintage stuff talked about on this site .
No Thankyou!
I still use an alarm clock/radio, I have had it for over 30 years. I have thought about retiring but it still works so I keep using it. I still use DVDs and also have a DVD/VHS combo player. I don't have many VHS tapes left but a few.
I still prefer my digital alarm clock, you don't need to pick it up to see the time.
A lot of people are DVD collectors. Streaming is a poor substitute.
I find it funny that generations now who hear the "Pina Colada Song" (Escape) don't understand the whole idea of the personal column that is the basis of the song, coming up with all sorts of reasons why it would be in the newspaper. And forget "Want Ads" by Honey Cone.
Or "Let your fingers do the walking on the Telephone Man ..."
lol even their Craigslist “personals” for is long gone now!
Yes honey cone!!
@@kendavid891One monkey don't stop no show!
@@kendavid891 Isn't that a catchy tune?? lol lol lol ....:)!
I still have my boombox from the early 80's and it works and sounds just at good except the cassette. I also have a small fridge from college during that time that has been in use ever since then while I've replaced many other fridges and freezers and appliances. Both in the garage exposed to heat, cold and dust and still going strong.
Hahaha...every vehicle I own still uses keys, I have a pocketful, I have an alarm clock that's extremely similar to the ones you showed, and I punch a timeclock every single workday. Living in the past and loving it! (My wife and I actively search out appliances and home furnishings from the 1980's and back for our home. We yearn for yesteryear and hate modern society.)
We LOVE your videos!
Alarm clocks are actually still quite common. Many of the digital clocks on the market still have an alarm feature, though I have no idea how many people use them. I can say that the mere sight of my phone annoys me more than any alarm clock I've ever owned, so a phone is the last thing I'd like to see first thing in the morning.
I think I need a tshirt that just says obsolete! Thanks for the video.
Bet they're out there.
We're being replaced by robots as we speak.
Who used to be embarrassed when you would have a message on the answering machine and everyone could hear it
There's an episode of Seinfeld where Jerry walks into his apartment with his date and hits the button on the answering machine. George left a message saying his date laughs like Elmer Fudd. 😄😄
That’s how my family found out my mom was pregnant.
I still use an alarm clock as a back up. There has been too many times when my phone alarm has failed to go off for whatever reason.
I always have that problem. That's why I still use an alarm clock. It's digital but still works and is almost 15 years old. My cell phones always die after 2 years. I seriously think they are programmed to "fail" so they can force you to buy a new one.
I didn't know that alarm clocks were obsolete. I don't trust my cell phone to wake me up.
As someone who owned a LaserDisc player, I can tell you titles were NOT limited, and almost every single popular movie and tons and tons of exclusive content (like concerts) were available on LaserDisc. They were, however, VERY expensive, popular movies could sell for $40-100 right up until the mass release of DVD and players were $500+.
You forgot the advent of transistor radios that could play TV audio! I got one when I was 11 and flipped out listening to TV shows in bed past my bedtime. 🤩
With the invention of desktops and laptops, typewriters have become obsolete
Classroom pencil sharpeners, 8 track player, reel to reel recorders and Polaroid cameras. I miss em.
Blackboards.
I still have my Polaroid & film
So, in summary, evidently the smart phone has replaced everything.
The only thing it hasn't replaced yet is toilet paper. I'm sure someday there will be an app for that, too. 😃
I'm wondering what would replace smartphones. I'm sure it will be obsolete someday.
Pretty much
Not really.
I can think of a few things that have changed over the years
1. Most recently that new cars do not have gas caps.
I remember having to buy a locking gas cap to prevent someone from stealing gas out of my car.
2.the use of mercury filled thermostats for you home.
Now digital means you can program from phone.
3. Went from percolating coffee to instant and all the commercials to a Kerrig machine to finally for the last 10 years using a French press
New cars don't have gas caps?! 😲 That's crazy.
50 to 80 k for a ok car and 80 to over a 125 k for a SUV NO THANKS
Cars without gas caps?
I had no idea
@@joannamcpeak7531 Yep. "The Easy Fuel capless fuel filler feature eliminates the need for a fuel filler cap and allows you to simply insert the fuel nozzle. When fueling is completed, removing the nozzle causes the spring-loaded fuel filler to close and latch. The capless fuel filler system helps avoid splashback, fuel theft and prevents fuel vapors from escaping into the atmosphere." Mostly on Ford products starting in 2008.
@@BookZealots Yep. "The Easy Fuel capless fuel filler feature eliminates the need for a fuel filler cap and allows you to simply insert the fuel nozzle. When fueling is completed, removing the nozzle causes the spring-loaded fuel filler to close and latch. The capless fuel filler system helps avoid splashback, fuel theft and prevents fuel vapors from escaping into the atmosphere." Mostly on Ford products starting in 2008.
Have to add that having a landline was always the best. Sound,reliability,and u could always plug them in during a storm. Now every thing is dependent on the internet . When that goes out ur in trouble.
That is why I keep my landline. Half the time I get no reception in my concrete and brick apartment building.
I miss the days of old😫Growing up in The United States of America in the 1970's was a great time😃The simple life was better😁I still have to ask people about things on my so called Smart Phone😆I'm amazed I can run a RUclips channel🤣ROCK ON!!!!!!!!🤘🏻🤙🏻✌🏻
And you rock! I look online (search engine or RUclips) if I don’t know what how to do something with my particular smartphone.
Film photography is making a comeback (albeit small), especially instant film. The Analog Renaissance has been growing steadily this past decade, and people are rediscovering old tech in the best way possible.
I wouldn’t be too surprised to find a few (albeit faster + fully automated operatorless) film developing/photo printing machines popping up here and there)
We're not printing pictures anymore. Future generations will never find pictures of us because there aren't any.
I own quite a few 35mm SLR cameras. It's fun to take these huge "bricks" out and take photos, manually adjusting the focus, and selecting an aperture that gives the depth-of-field that best suits the picture. Then I send the film to the lab, and wait for the results (online, thumb drive, printed.) Totally impractical, but fun for someone who used these cameras back in the 1980's.
I used to be a Photography and collected and repaired old mechanical / electronics camera and film processing business for many years. I had an onventory of Kodak, Fuji, Auxfa both B/W and colour films for processing the pictures.
@@siddrajput1029There is a company online that will print up to 80 digital photos for free each month😊! My DIL uses it all the time and I have used it for a few pictures. It’s just like waiting for film to be developed only possibly a little faster!
How about a job? My mom was a travel agent for many years but because of the Internet and being able to book your own flight and hotel, that job is now obsolete. Makes me sad.
Sad. In some ways the Digital Age has made consumers work harder. Scanning their own shopping, booking reservations, checking their own luggage, doing their own banking.
I miss having pictures in an album instead of having to scroll through a phone.
Albums aren't obsolete. I have lots and lots of them, even with digital cameras I use.
In 25 years someone could easily make a clip like this about all the oddball things we have to use today which will be way gone twenty five years from now. There will also be astounding advances in medications and medical equipment to ease suffering and prolong life. Above all else man is a tool maker.
My family had a wringer washing machine long after automatic washers were invented.
My mother believed automatic washing machines couldn't get clothes clean enough.
Remember seeing the last wringer washer for sale at Polk Bros. in Elgin, Illinois. Early 80's.
Mine too
I had the EXACT Panasonic Clock Radio at 6:35. Awesome to see it again.
Everyone has it
I miss the old printed newspapers.... I loved sharing them with my dad, and up till 2016, I still received one twice a week. I miss them.....
I still subscribe to a twice-a-week print newspaper.
I also get the digital version but never read it. I enjoy the hard copy much more.
I have to get the digital version of the local newspaper. They stopped printing a real copy. What do people like their bird cages with?
There are still printed newspapers in most cities.
Few of those stuff aren’t actually obsolete like film cameras, sitcoms, tokens, and metal keys! Film has resurgence like vinyl records, and nowadays stores are selling out of their film stock! I would say Xerox photocopies that was once necessary at school or office is now obsolete.
As a GenX, I used some of these things growing up and witnessed the fast paced changes of technologies from 70s to present 2020s. In summary, most of the devices mentioned are now integrated into the 2 main technologies we use everyday: SMARTPHONE and INTERNET. Watching this Recollection clip makes me NOSTALGIC really. 😄
I miss paper card catalogs so much. You could run through them so much faster than the online versions, and they introduced you to many new subjects on the way. Now books are in short supply.
🎉 retro greetings from coastal Mississippi. Thanks for the flashback memories. I remember all of these. I still have a lot of them . Even the landline😂
I genuinely miss film. Took photography in school and loved developing my photos. 😢
I agree! I used to develop film as a job!
You can still do that 😊
Absolutely. 😢
@@coldsamon when we move, if I have space, I’ll set up a dark room 💞
I took photography in High School and developed my film too but I have to admit I love digital photography for the ability to see the photo right away and address any potential issues.
As a kid I had a small black and white television, that had a converter plug in the back that you could plug the tv into a car cigarette lighter to watch "On the go." I remember that day Prince Charles married Diana. (29 July 1981). I started watching at home around 4am (in Miami), then I was going to work with my father on that particular day, so I loaded the tv into the front seat (on the floor board) and plugged it into the lighter, and away we went to his office, where I then re-plugged the tv in a wall socket.
Digital changeover obsoleted a lot of TVs.
I was feeling young (I'm 50) until I watched this! 😂 Ditto machines, phone books, TV guides. Cashier looking through a booklet for stolen CC at the grocery
I will say: slide rules were before my time - lol
I still have my slide rule from High School. 🤣
I had a slide rule in high school. I was a junior in high school when they introduced the first four-function pocket calculators. But scientific calculators like the HP-35 came years later.
I dated a guy in highschool who kept a slide rule in his pocket. He became a very celebrated professor.
I've seen NASCAR pit crews use slide rules. They still do today. However, it is set up very differently although the concept is very similar. The reason for this is to track how much fuel might be left in the gas tank. They are constantly re-calculating the fuel left with EVERY lap. Then they tell the driver when to come in. It does work because how else can you explain a driver running out of fuel the INSTANT the car crossed the finish line? That was intentional. They were so good at this that they had it down to mere feet. Have seen this happen in Formula One too.
@@largol33t12 Wow! That's very interesting!!
I still have and use the majority of the items mentioned in this vid. And I do NOT own or have ever used a cell phone. And I'm very happy! Go figure...lol.
I have a cell phone mainly for emergencies when I’m out … it’s a flip phone and it’s off most of the time.
@@jeank5410How are you typing this then? You must have a device that allows you to watch RUclips, no? 😂
@@GladeSwope I like you have and Android phone , but I got rid of the VHS eons ago for DVR and DVDs. But I know somewhere in the cellar ,I got a few VHS tapes somewhere :).
Pencil boxes that kept pencils and erasers in for school
Ads in news paper personals also had notices for pen pals
When everyone carried cash and paid for almost everything in cash.
For a short time, wind up clocks and watches had glow in the dark marking on dials and numbers. They used radioactive and phosphor, and always glowed.
Having to wind up clocks and wrist watches and calling the phone number for time to make sure the were correct.
Back when a TV show was really good, literately everyone would watch it and then talk about it. Like the moon landing, and Evel knievel doing a motorcycle jump or President Nixon resigning.
Back when restaurants or diners that had jukeboxes were good hangouts.
Back when most people had at least 5 phone numbers in their head.
Back when desks had lots of drawers and were heavy.
Back when kids picked breakfast cereal that had the coolest toy inside or by mail.
Back when kids read comic books and adults read magazines.
Back then clothing sizes were smaller, ie a medium use to be large.
Back when 3 or 4 people would ride in the front seat.
Back when people stopped and pick-up hitch hikers, most of the time, a complete stranger.
Back when people had change holder for all the coins Women had ones that snapped open and close, men and kids had to be pinched open.
When people would lean over to open the car windows on the other side.
My job used punch card time clocks until 2017. Dinosaurs are hard to kill, eh?
If it isn't broke....🤷♀
My job still uses one .
I hit one on the way out of work this evening. 😁
I don't really see any big advantage of going digital on that it just adds more opportunity for failure when the computer crashes and employees are unable to clock in/out and/or data is lost from the crash
We’re not just talking about change. We’re experiencing change at never before seen SPEED! In previous generations, things would change at a more leisurely pace. But in modern times, something that was new two years ago is now ancient technology. It’s much harder to keep up and adapt.
What you missed:
1. Alarm clock radios are still used. Many people will not allow a cell phone in their bedroom, so don't make assumptions.
2. Although many late model cars are keyless, many if not most cars use metal keys. Most homes, boats, etc use metal keys.
I enjoy history so I enjoy videos like this. I was born in 1992. There are things here that I won't ever remember using. Keys are not yet obsolete, they are becoming obsolete. We must get used to a world without privacy. I remember a TV without a remote control used by me, my parents and my brother from 2000 to 2009. In just 15 years look how much we've advanced in technology. I don't use CDs anymore, and I have never used an iPod. America is a continent, not a country. It should just say "disappeared". In 20 years we won't be using USB Sticks, landline phones, smartphones, DVDs or cars to drive by us humans anymore.
Haven't used an alarm clock since the mid eighties, when I used to manage a c-store. Eventually I got so used to waking up at five o'clock that my body just automatically woke itself up, thus negating the need for an alarm clock.
I remember when I was a young unemployed person and afraid to leave my house because I was actively seeking work and was afraid I would miss a phone call for an interview. A friend from church bought me an answering machine so I wouldn't miss any calls. It cost $100. I still remember his kindness.
I still have (and use) a clock radio. My old eyes can focus and see those big numbers a whole lot better than they can see what's on my phone. Still have an old boombox out in the garage, too.
I didn't know alarm clocks were considered "obsolete" now. Yeah, it's neat, but I think it's pretty dumb to have your phone as one. What if someone calls you in the middle of the night while you're trying to sleep? Or even when you get a text, and the bright light is keeping you up? With an alarm clock, it only goes off when it's set on a scheduled time. Your phone has a time and place, but sleep should not be one of them.
I turn the volume down on my phone and turn it upside down so I don’t see the light from it. I only have one ringtone and it’s for my phone and alarm. “Theme from Hawaii 5-O. I used to watch it when Jack Lord was Steve. I used to dream of going to Hawaii. Then one day my husband came home and made my dreams come true. The Army blessed us with a transfer to Hawaii. 3 years!! WooHoo!! Those 3 turned into 5 and I was in heaven. Unfortunately I couldn’t convince my husband to retire there. So when they announced they were bringing 5-O back there was no debating. I was watching it. When I found out I could download the theme as my alarm…no choice. I never could figure out how to make my own ringtone but that was ok because I had the one I wanted.
Well, you CAN silence your calls (and even allow certain numbers to bypass it) while still using the alarm, and the ability to program different times for different days is mighty nice…as is knowing that unless it’s unplugged with a near dead battery, it’ll still go off in a power outage…
I still have an alarm clock w CD& radio or just alarm to get you up. I keep my cell phone Voice mail full to keep away spam.
Still using an old-school clock radio. I did finally replace all the RJ-11 phone jacks with cover plates...
Did anyone see the 2 bedroom/2 bath apartment for $250 a month @1:02. Dated August 3, 1977.
No missed it but $ 250 a month was expensive back then Today it's crazy expensive for an apartment
We rented a 3 bedroom house with a garage and large yard in the early 70's for $125 a month. Nice house and suburban neighborhood.
2:58 Excuse me? I still keep a home landline. One big advantage after a destructive EF3 tornado six years back: The cell towers may be damaged or w/o power but the landline itself carries the microwattage the device requires, so even in a power outage the landline [corded, not cordless] phone may yet be used to make/receive phone calls.
I will never give up my technology but I do miss certain things we had before it existed for the regular person. The way people In general now is revolting - Man😢y people just seem to not care that there are other humans in their world - watch a family in a restaurant - they are all - kids and parents - on their phones - no conversation - barely even recognizing others in their group! People drive differently forgetting about other cars - I dint want to go back at all but I sure wish people could be more human!!!
My mind played the alarm clock tone in my head when the image popped up. Ack Ack Ack is the best way to describe it, such a unique sound.
I wake up to one every day. 😁
Ugh, i HATE that sound! I always used the radio to wake me up.
1. Shoe polish and sole dressing
2. TV Guide
3. Hair rollers
4. Money Orders
5. Tea pot
I still have the digital clock plugged in my dresser so when I look across the room, I see the time I don’t use the alarm function though, even though I have my phone next to the bed😂
I still have a digital alarm clock by my bed to see the time easily. Although, I do use the alarm on my phone. I also have a boom box. Sometimes I listen to a radio station that plays the old Casey Kasem top 40 countdowns. It's nostalgic to listen on the radio instead of streaming.
I still use my alarm clock, don’t trust that I would hear my phone. 😂
Punch time clocks are still widely used, and are still sold in warehouse catalogs.
I remember the telex machine in my father's office.My father told us there was a little man inside of the machine typing the incoming messages.When a telex would come in l'd look for this little man or hoped he would show himself!😁
What a time to be alive, sadly those times are gone forever 😢
Give me back those car keys. It only used to cost a few bucks to have spares. Now, you need to pay hundreds to replace one of those heavy fobs, let alone to repair a push button. The technology in new cars makes it impossible to be worked on for even the simplest tasks. Instead, you are out a small fortune for jobs that used to be easy. Not to mention the fragility of car body parts compared to steel. And those screens that run everything, - You will have to pay thousands if they wear out or just fail, - and you'll be stuck somewhere with nothing you can do except wait for a tow truck.
I lived in New York way back in the 60s and I remember the subway train tokens.
I have SEPTA Tokens only for HS students in Philadelphia when I graduated from HS I still have HS students ID but the SEPTA gate keeper at subway station had locked the gate and asked me to pay full value of riding that was 45 cents with transfer (this was 1974 price)
Same here. I live in the Boston area and I still remember the little gold tokens we used on the T. You would pass a ten dollar bill through a window to a guy working in a booth and he would pass back ten tokens to you. This was back when a token cost 85 cents. Wow! Can you believe that? I remember it all changed around 2007 or so.
We had bus tokens and plastic tokens for school lunch.
We had a toll bridge. Toll was 10 cents but if you bought a book of tickets for $1:00 you got an extra ride free.
This made me feel so damn old.
I still have plenty of keys.
I love how he’s implying physical keys are “obsolete”; this is hugely UNTRUE.
When was the last time you used a key to get into work?
@@garywagner2466 When is the last time you didn't use a physical key to get into your home?
Punch Time Clocks are SOOOO much more precise and reliable than a program you have to "clock in" on online.
The program the company I work for uses, is ALWAYS screwing up, running slow, breaking down, or freezing up.
Punch time clocks never did that.
I still use a light up digital clock. My phone is just that........a phone. I text friends a lot, but thats about it. I don't use it for anything else.
I miss the black and white movie ads in the newspaper!! Loved looking at them to see what movies were playing ❤❤❤❤❤❤ Great video 😄😄😄
Remember how real money as in change used to sound jingling in your pocket or purse. Try dropping a coin on cement. It now goes thud. While it is legal tender it sounds like plastic play money.
I had an American friend who took a portable tv into Sizzler restaurants so he could stay for hours eating the all you can eat buffet.
I still use this technology, I still love my boombox to listen to my cassettes and I still have a landline with an answering machine. This stuff is still in use, albeit maybe by a minor sector of society not compeltely enamoured by door dash and buying groceries online and or ordering crap online. I still prefer the old way and dealing with real people over dealing with people overseas that don't speak any sort of clear English.
I am an antique and I mean you can't run a business unless you have a backup to the old ways when the power goes out. Just know, we knew how to get stuff done and today it's all hogwash, maybe faster but not worth it. Working in a hospital and having to deal with a water main problem, having to fill bathtubs with water just to flush toilets. The entire system now goes down in a power outage, people aren't equipped with backup plans to deal with it.
I still have a digital clock radio, a mercury thermometer somewhere, and a boom box. Two 1970 vintage GM cars. Also wing tip brogues that I still wear.
I am surprised you haven;t mentioned Cable, Satellite Dishes, Landlines and Rotary phones, as it has been said they will be gone by 2025, since they are being phased out. Now. I would have understood if this stuff was decades ago but like....this was 10 years ago. Everything was the norm and flipping rage. Not only where did the time go, but like, how in heck did the world change so fast so quickly. This is right in the feels and I am not even old damn it....okay apparently I am middle age now (I am in between ages), but still. Now we know how the generation felt when old stuff went and new stuff comes in. The world changes sure, but the old life has gone and I never thought I'd see alarm clocks and radios being the thing of the past...ooh...this hurts a lot.
Cable and satellite TV will still be around for some years to come, some older people still prefer it. Cable is all digital now anyway, really just live streaming with a special box.
that's good, but in Britain, they starting a change over ready for the phase out next year@@johnathin0061892
Spent many an hour in my darkroom developing film and making prints. Can sometimes still smell the chemicals I used. How I miss those days!!
I still have my old digital alarm clock that I got for Christmas back in the early eighties. The radio on it doesn't work anymore, but the clock does and I still use it. It's sitting on the table right next to my bed.
A tv show in the 60s called Way Out had an episode where the guy was a photographer who discovered a retouching fluid that could actually change the features of a person whose picture he was retouching. He was found out by his wife and he was retouching her picture to make her look old and ugly and his own picture young and handsome. The end of the show was very frightening to watch.
Film is still used a lot more than you'd think, some professional photographers prefer it. And it'd surprise you how many movies have at least some scenes shot with real film even today.
Thanks once again for helping me to remember the times of my life. I know we can’t go back but we can look back thanx to you!
I still prefer mercury thermometers since I don't have to worry about incorrect readings if digital thermometers have low batteries or malfunctioning
I read somewhere recently that American comedy television over the past 60+ years have been using the same laugh track(s) since the 1950s. Makes since because all the LTs I hear in such 1960-2010s shows like Beverly Hillbillies through Big Bang Theory all sound the same.
Before motion detectors stores used to have large rubber mats that would open the door when someone stepped on the mat. Today we have UPC codes and self-checkout. Bottles and cans weren't redeemable. You could probably do a whole episode on how things have changed for handicapped people. There was no handicap parking or access. There were no electric scooters. You could probably do a whole episode on how things have changed for the elderly too. Today there are over55 communities. There are pension plans and 401Ks.
I remember before the mats stores had lights that would open the door when you walked in and blocked the beam
I worked for a municipality. I retired in 2016. At the time I left, we still had time clocks to punch, typewriters to do our business and no internet! We were the last town in the state to get MLK day as a holiday and that was only because the state made them. Also the threat of Al Sharpton coming to picket in the parking lot was a contributing factor.
My first camera required a one time use light bulb (flash bulb) to take a flash picture. I also remember when my mother bought the new polaroid camera that spit out the picture and you waited a couple of minutes to see the picture.
Keys will probably never become obsolete. They are always backup when the digital lock doesn't work. Most portable landline telephones still have an answering machine at the base station. Alarm clocks will never become obsolete since they are more convenient than cell phones for bedside use.
I still have a DVD player (Expensive? It cost about 30$), a set of keys (including one to start my Chevy Spark), an alarm clock-radio. I don't own a smartphone: too expensive for my budget. Things do not change at the same rate for everyone…
Thank you, I always like the vids you make:) I'm one of the odd ones that omit one of your last comments, "we all have mobile phones" :)
My mother was a private secretary when I was a child in the 70’s. I remember mum showing me a telex machine she used at work
The 747 lounge. You entered by steps up to an upper floor. Some had pianos, full serve bars, and lounge seating.
I was born in 1993 and WILL ONLY ACCEPT up to 2007 standards.
When automobiles had keys and the internet was minimal.
(Of course, we didn't get internet until 2013.) lol
I love to see that stuff in person again.
My dad had a 1950 Chevy that had a starter button. Only needed a key to get in the door.
We still had punch clocks even in the 90’s and early 2000’s
Heh I hit one on the way out of work this evening.
I miss reading the personal ads. Those were funny
I still have a clock radio to wake up in the morning, not a smartphone or other Internet gadget. I've had too many Internet outages from my ISP to depend on waking up to that.