Technological experiences current youths won't make anymore

[Syt]

Stolen from a German website who probably stole it from somewhere else, and it feels incomplete, anyways.

Technical stuff kids of today probably won't encounter/experience anymore - unlike most of us here:

- creating an audio mix tape
- related: using portable cassette players (Walkman)
- paying extra for not rewinding the videotape they rented
- dropping off a photographic film for development
- slideshows with real, photographic slides (we still have 10 or 20 thousand from my dad )
- trouble finding the right cable to connect a peripheral to a computer (yay USB)
- using floppy disks for, well, anything
- using DOS command prompt to start or configure programs
- arcade game halls (Pacman etc.)
- telephones with rotating dial

[Grey Fox]

You know what I find funny?

How we represent saving in computer programs by an diskette icon.

How are you suppose to know that means saving if you've never seen a diskette?

[Syt]

You know what I find funny?

How we represent saving in computer programs by an diskette icon.

How are you suppose to know that means saving if you've never seen a diskette?

That's kinda like linguistics - most people will agree on what the letter "A" stands for these days, but few will know that it probably used to be an rendition of a cow's head and used to signify "ox", i.e. aleph.

[Malthus]

Two I've done which seem positively antediluvian these days:

- Correcting errors made on a manual typewriter with liquid paper.

- Using punchcards for computers.

[Admiral Yi]

You know what I find funny?

How we represent saving in computer programs by an diskette icon.

How are you suppose to know that means saving if you've never seen a diskette?

Or how are people who live in high rises supposed to know that the little house represents your home page?

[Syt]

Oh, I have a good one: at school, we sometimes still used to get worksheets copied via Hectography.

The sheets always had the teacher's writing in purple, and smelled of solvents.

[DontSayBanana]

Of those, video game arcades are the one thing I'd say I actually miss.  Going into what currently passes for an "arcade" is just depressing- there's maybe a fighting game or two, a GunCon game or two, some flavor of Dance Dance Revolution, some flavor of Guitar Hero, and the rest of the games (except skiball, where applicable), which make up the overwhelming majority, are some form of casino-ish game of chance to win tickets.

Rotary-dial telephones, I do not miss.  It was so awkward when my parents had to explain to me why I couldn't call "vote-by-phone" TV numbers.

[Josquius]

Surely in the present and for the forseeable future dos prompts will still exist?
Dosbox guis aren't that great and automated yet and even people who were too young to play old games first time around often get curious.

Telephones with a dial- try telephones plugged into the wall. It seems ever more people don't bother with landlines.

[The Brain]

Firing the Swedish K.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Dial-up modems.
My dad still has several sitting in a cabinet. They're ancient relics now.

[The Brain]

Dial-up modems.
My dad still has several sitting in a cabinet. They're ancient relics now.

Yi hates you.

[Sahib]

Stolen from a German website who probably stole it from somewhere else, and it feels incomplete, anyways.

Perhaps it was stolen from here:
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07/100-things-your-kids-may-never-know-about/

[Admiral Yi]

Yi hates you.

Bob's OK.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Dial-up modems.
My dad still has several sitting in a cabinet. They're ancient relics now.

Yi hates you.

Yi hates you.

Bob's OK.

[Norgy]

Using rabbit ears to get a tv signal and then banging the wooden frame of the tv set to get a better one.