I got a Panasonic cassette recorder for Christmas 1968. Apollo 8 was orbiting the moon that Christmas Eve, and the astronauts sent a Christmas message. I recorded that message, and still have the recording today. It's still audible. I still have and use a dual cassette deck in my stereo system. Of course, I have CDs, DVDs, and USB devices too. (Jan Griffiths).
1. I'm legally blind and disabled. I can't see a cell phone screen and I can't afford the chwrges. I have w landline phone with big buttons. 2. I used to correspond through the mail with s friend who loved cassettes. She would talk on the tapes and it would be like she was coming from Pennsylvania to visit me in Californis.
I was born (UK) during the early 1950s and have used and seen all these technologies plus more come and go. I do believe some of these have been good for society and others are bad.
This was really a blast from the past for me. Being in grade school im the 70s and in HS and an undergrad in college in the 80s, I remember all of these. FAX machines are still used for certain things but sending electronically has really made things easier. I've also heard the pagers are still around. I still have a lot of music cassettes somewhere. Time marches on and things change!
Gosh I feel really old. While in high school, way back in 1972, I received a brand new gadget, a Texas Instruments pocket calculator for Christmas, about the size of one of my feet (it required a really large pocket). Unfortunately, my algebra teacher, Miss Walton, determined that this had no place in her classroom. Yep, we had to learn to solve quadratic equations the hard way. For this I am truly thankful, today. It's nice to not be dependent on a calculator to determine what the actual total cost of your 30-year mortgage will be.
In the 90's my employment was through temp services, and if I wasn't at home, which was most of the time, I survived on getting new assignments by pager and pay phone. That was my jam.
One of the heart stopping moments of VHS & cassette tapes was when you borrowed or rented one & inserted it into your cassette or video player, then pushed play only to hear that awful sound of the plastic tape being unraveled & chewed up by your player. 😖☹
There was an additional but short lived home movie technology and that was the RCA "movie disks" that were the size of a record LP and in a plastic case. I don't think they lasted more than a few years into the 1980s. My late roommate who passed in 1994 was keeping up with electronics tech and the last thing was a Pioneer Laser Disk player. It's true that the picture on them were great and often times old movies filmed in Cinemascope were letterboxed!
Near my home is a restaurant that still has the phone kiosk mounted on the outer wall, complete with the original telephone still in it. Of course, the phone has been disconnected for over 25 years now, but it's an interesting and unexpected reminder of times gone by.
The demise of writing letters will likely lead to an archivist’s nightmare. For example, letters sent home from wars in the past were easy to track down and provided important insights into the reality on the ground, the moral of the men, etc. Nowadays soldiers can simply call home, and that information does not get documented. Texts might be an option but I wonder about the longevity of that format.
Actually, the systems are in place we could do the same thing but even much better. Data science and AI can comb through the vast databases and reconstruct daily lives, over a whole range of lifestyle factors, including personal correspondences from war zones. As the_kombinator points out,the nsa is probably doing that now.
Saying these were all canceled by the Internet is a misnomer. Most were canceled by advancing tech, not the Internet. But still a fun video. I’m a child of all this old tech.
I actually saw a payphone at a rest stop in Quebec last week - I think the last time I used one was 15 years ago, and I was pissed that it cost 50 cents now to make a call.
I think I remember seeing a reel-to-reel video tape recorder in my middle school, a couple years before the first VCR's came out. In high school we used a VHS camera and recorder for a class project. I think even in college in the mid 80's I used a separate VHS camera and recorder. Then in 1987 when I worked at Radio Shack there was one camcorder you could buy but it was at least $1,000 which was too much for most consumers. They didn't really start to come down in price until the 90's and by the mid 90's they made a smaller VHS format the VHS-C. You would use an adapter to make the smaller tape play in a standard VHS machine. I still have a VHS-C camcorder.
If you work for a company that doesn't allow you to walk around with your phone because of security or because the 20 somethings can't keep their faces from being stuck to them, pagers are the only way to be sure your family can reach you.
I even have a working VHS and Betamax machines. And movies and blank tapes for both. DVDs are more convenient, and I have that too, but I still use my old tech now and then. (Jan Griffiths).
I remember my 1st computer coming with a stack of floppies that was its backup. It seemed so impressjve having the whole thing in "just" a "few" disks in my hand, lol. I still think computers are visually more impressive the further back we go. As a kid I wanted to have the Batcomputer or TrubAlert now I'm on just a glorified picture plate without even the nice frame.
Best thing about a TV remote watch was to go the places like Sears and at the TV wall turn all the sets off and on, change volumes. watching the clerk go nuts wondering what was happening.
The buttons kept popping off of my Casio calculator watch. Mine also had a game that could be played. I still have a wired phone--too many lack of service issues where I live.
Anyone else remember Windows 95 on Disk's ? I think it was 12 to upgrade from 3.11 to 95. That was one of the last big software releases on that many disks as CD's took off more and more within a short period of time. By 1998 i was rarely using disks or if i was it was a Zip drive. But CD burners became the norm quickly as well and it made no sense to use disks, especially with the click of death on Iomega Zip drives. There was the Super Disk as well that held 20 mb more than the Zip drive, but as i said by the time this came out, most folks were upgrading or buying a new PC with CD burner in it and the price of the media compared to floppies was huge. 50 packs for $29.99 at the time for CDs.
Anyone remember Ditto tapes? Iomega made those as well and they were like cassette tapes but way less forgiving. They were less expensive but such a pain because the tapes would always become completely de-spooled. Eventually I went to CD drive and eventually the DVD drive which replaced it.
4:09 Oh, I didn't know pagers and beepers available in the 50s. I use to have one. But I've never seen one have full messages like these in the video. I'm assuming there was a difference between a beeper and a pager now that I'm seeing this video. Meaning the beeper was just to get the beep with the phone number to call back and the pager to get a full message.
Some technologies will remain for decades for specific use cases or backups. Until smartphones can operate without cell towers/satellites Walkie Talkies will still be super reliable in remote areas and forests for communication.
I am a millennial born in 1992. I am the last generation, I say, of using the VHS, the cassette, the CD, the phone book, the landline phone, card catalog and magazines for selling cars and houses. There were still print road maps used in my childhood. I have never used a fax machine or sent a postcard. I don't use the DVD anymore. The last phone book I got in use was in 2009. I only listen to music online. The Internet makes it easier to find a book in the library now. I am not using a print encyclopedia for years now. I don't read newspapers or magazines anymore. I also have never used a typewriter. The computer disk is now gone too. We're about to stop using smartphones with the usage of just a screen soon. So even I have seen major changes in technology in my life.
The other day I had an employee at a local business ask me if I had fax capability! Wow! I told her I knew of no one that still used those dinosaurs and offered to email the papers to her. Nope. They had no email. I called a different business.
I actually had to write a check, find an envelope, write out that envelope to the correct corresponding party, go to the post office, buy a stamp(66Cents) and mail said envelope. 2023 look at me living the old school life if only once in the entire year
Why would you completely skip over push button touch tone phones. Mention of rotary dial and smartphone too much? Also, what about the telephone answering machine, one of those many uses for cassette tape?
No, the internet didn't replace theese things, smartphones did. Just about everything can be done on a smartphone now and I HATE that. I HATE how smartphones do everything now. I HATE how everybody's addicted to them. I HATE how the world has changed and become dependent on them. I wish they had NEVER been invented. I miss the way the world USED to be. I'm not joking here, I REALLY DO MISS the way things used to be before smartphones existed. I HATE SMARTPHONES.
They were cancelled by the Internet? Nothing you mentioned was cancelled by the Internet. They were cancelled by newer tech.
I got a Panasonic cassette recorder for Christmas 1968. Apollo 8 was orbiting the moon that Christmas Eve, and the astronauts sent a Christmas message. I recorded that message, and still have the recording today. It's still audible. I still have and use a dual cassette deck in my stereo system. Of course, I have CDs, DVDs, and USB devices too. (Jan Griffiths).
I just read an article yesterday that Doctors still use pagers in hospitals where cell phone signals are weak.
They do. My family member has one that goes off at home sometimes when an emergency patient needs attention.
1. I'm legally blind and disabled. I can't see a cell phone screen and I can't afford the chwrges. I have w landline phone with big buttons.
2. I used to correspond through the mail with s friend who loved cassettes. She would talk on the tapes and it would be like she was coming from Pennsylvania to visit me in Californis.
I'm surprised someone hasn't invented a cellular or internet device to replace your big landline phone. Or if there is I am not aware of it.
I was born (UK) during the early 1950s and have used and seen all these technologies plus more come and go.
I do believe some of these have been good for society and others are bad.
This was really a blast from the past for me. Being in grade school im the 70s and in HS and an undergrad in college in the 80s, I remember all of these. FAX machines are still used for certain things but sending electronically has really made things easier. I've also heard the pagers are still around. I still have a lot of music cassettes somewhere. Time marches on and things change!
Phone booths are still used in Portugal.
Doctors use pagers still. At least in Canada.
Gosh I feel really old. While in high school, way back in 1972, I received a brand new gadget, a Texas Instruments pocket calculator for Christmas, about the size of one of my feet (it required a really large pocket). Unfortunately, my algebra teacher, Miss Walton, determined that this had no place in her classroom. Yep, we had to learn to solve quadratic equations the hard way. For this I am truly thankful, today. It's nice to not be dependent on a calculator to determine what the actual total cost of your 30-year mortgage will be.
In the 90's my employment was through temp services, and if I wasn't at home, which was most of the time, I survived on getting new assignments by pager and pay phone. That was my jam.
One of the heart stopping moments of VHS & cassette tapes was when you borrowed or rented one & inserted it into your cassette or video player, then pushed play only to hear that awful sound of the plastic tape being unraveled & chewed up by your player. 😖☹
Oh yeah! The cinco facts machine. I remember that thing!
I installed car stereos in the seventies, cassettes were all the rage. Good bye to to those bulky 8tracks.
The reason betamax survived that long is not from home use but because tv studios would use them.
Studios used Betacam SP, not Betamax. The word Beta in both formats refers to the loading mechanism, not the formats themselves.
There was an additional but short lived home movie technology and that was the RCA "movie disks" that were the size of a record LP and in a plastic case. I don't think they lasted more than a few years into the 1980s. My late roommate who passed in 1994 was keeping up with electronics tech and the last thing was a Pioneer Laser Disk player. It's true that the picture on them were great and often times old movies filmed in Cinemascope were letterboxed!
I had the RCA CED videodiscs, too.
The watches were like the Dick Tracy comic strips.
Near my home is a restaurant that still has the phone kiosk mounted on the outer wall, complete with the original telephone still in it. Of course, the phone has been disconnected for over 25 years now, but it's an interesting and unexpected reminder of times gone by.
The demise of writing letters will likely lead to an archivist’s nightmare. For example, letters sent home from wars in the past were easy to track down and provided important insights into the reality on the ground, the moral of the men, etc. Nowadays soldiers can simply call home, and that information does not get documented. Texts might be an option but I wonder about the longevity of that format.
I think the NSA will have an (archived) word with you.
Actually, the systems are in place we could do the same thing but even much better. Data science and AI can comb through the vast databases and reconstruct daily lives, over a whole range of lifestyle factors, including personal correspondences from war zones. As the_kombinator points out,the nsa is probably doing that now.
Pagers are still used by the medical industry. I bought a calculator watch for my kid 4 years ago, he loved it!
Saying these were all canceled by the Internet is a misnomer. Most were canceled by advancing tech, not the Internet. But still a fun video. I’m a child of all this old tech.
I actually saw a payphone at a rest stop in Quebec last week - I think the last time I used one was 15 years ago, and I was pissed that it cost 50 cents now to make a call.
My middle school had a lazer disc player and lazer discs. Never seen anything like it before or since.
I think I remember seeing a reel-to-reel video tape recorder in my middle school, a couple years before the first VCR's came out. In high school we used a VHS camera and recorder for a class project. I think even in college in the mid 80's I used a separate VHS camera and recorder. Then in 1987 when I worked at Radio Shack there was one camcorder you could buy but it was at least $1,000 which was too much for most consumers. They didn't really start to come down in price until the 90's and by the mid 90's they made a smaller VHS format the VHS-C. You would use an adapter to make the smaller tape play in a standard VHS machine. I still have a VHS-C camcorder.
@@FoxRivers778 we had 2 separate reels for the projector as well
If you work for a company that doesn't allow you to walk around with your phone because of security or because the 20 somethings can't keep their faces from being stuck to them, pagers are the only way to be sure your family can reach you.
I even have a working VHS and Betamax machines. And movies and blank tapes for both. DVDs are more convenient, and I have that too, but I still use my old tech now and then. (Jan Griffiths).
Thanks for the wonderful memories. I think tube televisions are making a comeback for older game consoles.
Tube amplifier for electric guitars are still popular for some musicians.
Everything has to have a beginning, and ways to improve on it. Who knows what the future may bring. (Jan Griffiths).
I still see a few phone booths around surprisingly
The desk phone in my office is a 1947 Western Electric 302. It's the only reason I still have copper.
I have a video closet filled with VHS tapes and 100's of Laserdiscs, but no machines to play them... they died.
Super Man had to find a new way to change his clothes. When the phone booth was discontinued.
Now he uses pride parades 😂😂😂😂
@@jcmontecarlo6123Well then he will be okay 😂
he just said...fuck it😅😅
I remember my 1st computer coming with a stack of floppies that was its backup. It seemed so impressjve having the whole thing in "just" a "few" disks in my hand, lol. I still think computers are visually more impressive the further back we go. As a kid I wanted to have the Batcomputer or TrubAlert now I'm on just a glorified picture plate without even the nice frame.
Best thing about a TV remote watch was to go the places like Sears and at the TV wall turn all the sets off and on, change volumes. watching the clerk go nuts wondering what was happening.
I don’t find getting a phone number from the internet so easy. I’d rather use a phone book.
The buttons kept popping off of my Casio calculator watch. Mine also had a game that could be played. I still have a wired phone--too many lack of service issues where I live.
Vhs I will never let go of I got just as many VHS as DVDs
Anyone else remember Windows 95 on Disk's ? I think it was 12 to upgrade from 3.11 to 95. That was one of the last big software releases on that many disks as CD's took off more and more within a short period of time. By 1998 i was rarely using disks or if i was it was a Zip drive. But CD burners became the norm quickly as well and it made no sense to use disks, especially with the click of death on Iomega Zip drives. There was the Super Disk as well that held 20 mb more than the Zip drive, but as i said by the time this came out, most folks were upgrading or buying a new PC with CD burner in it and the price of the media compared to floppies was huge. 50 packs for $29.99 at the time for CDs.
You ever discuss Palmtops and Palm units from late 90s andf early 00s ?
Anyone remember Ditto tapes? Iomega made those as well and they were like cassette tapes but way less forgiving. They were less expensive but such a pain because the tapes would always become completely de-spooled. Eventually I went to CD drive and eventually the DVD drive which replaced it.
4:09 Oh, I didn't know pagers and beepers available in the 50s. I use to have one. But I've never seen one have full messages like these in the video. I'm assuming there was a difference between a beeper and a pager now that I'm seeing this video. Meaning the beeper was just to get the beep with the phone number to call back and the pager to get a full message.
12:53 -- Oh we didn't just have yellow pages, no sir! We have The REAL Yellow Pages!
Phone books, helping short people drive & sit at the big kids table for decades. 🤣
T.V. watches should make a comeback.
Or simply have larger sized smartwatches that we have today with digital antennae.
Some technologies will remain for decades for specific use cases or backups.
Until smartphones can operate without cell towers/satellites Walkie Talkies will still be super reliable in remote areas and forests for communication.
VHS succeeded, but the unsuccessful Betamax had a much higher quality picture, IMO..
I am a millennial born in 1992. I am the last generation, I say, of using the VHS, the cassette, the CD, the phone book, the landline phone, card catalog and magazines for selling cars and houses. There were still print road maps used in my childhood. I have never used a fax machine or sent a postcard. I don't use the DVD anymore. The last phone book I got in use was in 2009. I only listen to music online. The Internet makes it easier to find a book in the library now. I am not using a print encyclopedia for years now. I don't read newspapers or magazines anymore. I also have never used a typewriter. The computer disk is now gone too. We're about to stop using smartphones with the usage of just a screen soon. So even I have seen major changes in technology in my life.
The other day I had an employee at a local business ask me if I had fax capability! Wow! I told her I knew of no one that still used those dinosaurs and offered to email the papers to her. Nope. They had no email. I called a different business.
I actually had to write a check, find an envelope, write out that envelope to the correct corresponding party, go to the post office, buy a stamp(66Cents) and mail said envelope. 2023 look at me living the old school life if only once in the entire year
The telephone was not invented in 1844 but 1876 100 years after America declared independence
not much privacy for superman he had to change in a phone booth with everyone watching
While playing “The Stripper “ by David Rose Orchestra. 😅😊
Not smartphones replaced fixed landline phones. Just mobile phones...
I just got a phone call from a fax machine. OH! The pain in my ears that my call record machine played the call back. 😩😭
Who remembers the excruciating noise of dial-up connection, like when you would start up AOL.
Why would you completely skip over push button touch tone phones. Mention of rotary dial and smartphone too much? Also, what about the telephone answering machine, one of those many uses for cassette tape?
Your title is totally wrong.
Of all the items mentioned, only the fax machine was killed by the internet.
video doesn't play only shows a black screen
was this produced using AI ? because there is a bunch of inaccuracies and just nonsense in this waste of time.
No, the internet didn't replace theese things, smartphones did. Just about everything can be done on a smartphone now and I HATE that. I HATE how smartphones do everything now. I HATE how everybody's addicted to them. I HATE how the world has changed and become dependent on them. I wish they had NEVER been invented. I miss the way the world USED to be. I'm not joking here, I REALLY DO MISS the way things used to be before smartphones existed. I HATE SMARTPHONES.
I can’t get my phone to do the dishes after I eat my dinner. I don’t doubt that they are working on that in the back room. 😅😅
Even compact disc is not a thing anymore.
VHS tapes were not beloved to me! I could never figure out how to use the VCR Or program it.
@@glennso47 They're not? I thought that was still the main way people get their music, that and streaming.
@@glennso47 Most people couldn't! I don't even use VHS any more, I transferred it all to DVD and hard drives now.