Technological experiences current youths won't make anymore

[Syt]

How about typing in a computer game code from a magazine in order to play a game...

I bought my kid one of those classic Fisher Price toy phones.  I realized that as it was a rotary phone my kid will have no idea what it is supposed to represent.

Do Consoles still use cheat codes?  I honestly don't know.

He means whole programs that you had to type off the pages of computer mags in the days when computer games didn't come with floppies, CDs or DVDs.

A German computer tv show also distributed software to their viewers - at the end of the show they would play a computer software tape via audio. You could record it with your normal tape recorder and then use this program on your computer.

[Camerus]

Young people today don't know what it's like to get 5 AOL CDs in a month in mail.

Or for that matter, the AOL floppy disks.  I used to erase them and use them for my own files.

[Razgovory]

How about typing in a computer game code from a magazine in order to play a game...

I bought my kid one of those classic Fisher Price toy phones.  I realized that as it was a rotary phone my kid will have no idea what it is supposed to represent.

Do Consoles still use cheat codes?  I honestly don't know.

He means whole programs that you had to type off the pages of computer mags in the days when computer games didn't come with floppies, CDs or DVDs.

A German computer tv show also distributed software to their viewers - at the end of the show they would play a computer software tape via audio. You could record it with your normal tape recorder and then use this program on your computer.

Eh, I didn't get a computer till the 1990's.

[Barrister]

What Syt said.  I remember typing out games on my Apple II (and you guys wonder when I became an Apple fan) that came in magazines...

[The Brain]

I came in magazines in the 80s.

[Barrister]

I came in magazines in the 80s.

I sure hope those were a different kind of magazines...

[Caliga]

What Syt said.  I remember typing out games on my Apple II (and you guys wonder when I became an Apple fan) that came in magazines...

Did that with my Commodore 64.  COMPUTE!'s Gazette

[FunkMonk]

Young people today don't know what it's like to get 5 AOL CDs in a month in mail.

Ahh, the free coasters. I forgot about those.

[The Larch]

One thing that is more a change of habits due to technology than a technological experience per se is calling a buddy to their home landline. Nowadays I only call people at their cellphones rather than at their houses. The only people that call me at my landline nowadays are my mother and telemarketers.
This habit change has also created a pet peeve of mine in my friend group, phoning or messaging you to do something RAIT NAO. What happened with planning stuff ahead?

It's also been ages since I last used a floppy disk. At the office our computers still have disk drives, but nobody uses them anymore. The IT guys told me that they wanted to phase out disk drives for our newer units but some old farts resisted the change so they still had to provide at least a few units with them.

[The Brain]

One thing that is more a change of habits due to technology than a technological experience per se is calling a buddy to their home landline. Nowadays I only call people at their cellphones rather than at their houses. The only people that call me at my landline nowadays are my mother and telemarketers.
This habit change has also created a pet peeve of mine in my friend group, phoning or messaging you to do something RAIT NAO. What happened with planning stuff ahead?

It's also been ages since I last used a floppy disk. At the office our computers still have disk drives, but nobody uses them anymore. The IT guys told me that they wanted to phase out disk drives for our newer units but some old farts resisted the change so they still had to provide at least a few units with them.

Haven't had a landline in years and I haven't seen a floppy drive in even more years.

[Josephus]

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?

They have seen houses, there are houses in the world. There isn't many diskettes left anymore.

Guess what, one used to save or even play games from tapes/cassettes. The same ones used by the Walkman...

That's what I learned on. I actually remember my first, and only, computer science class in Grade 12 back in like the mid-80s. There were about 8 IBMs in the back of the classroom and ONE tape recorder taht the teacher would wheel on a trolley from one PC to the next for us to save our work on.

[Iormlund]

The only people that call me at my landline nowadays are my mother and telemarketers.

Which is why I don't have a phone set hooked to the landline. It's there just for DSL.

[The Larch]

Another curious change of habits related to technological advance is the change of pace in office work. My father, who is still in his late 50s but has been an old man at heart for ages, constantly reminisces about the good old times in which there were no computers at the office, and when you were asked for something the deadlines were of weeks or months, and you had to check up piles and piles of documents to find references of stuff, when nowadays they're of hours or days and information is just a few clicks away.

[Josephus]

I remember a summer job I had back in 88 or 89 and being in awe of the fax machine. "I just got a fax from Finland!"

[Ed Anger]

I personally dislike the over reliance on tech nowadays. When I see 20 year olds unable to figure out 6% sales tax without a calculator/cell phone/app, I want to strangle them.