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Remember that little message on the rental VHS tapes, "be kind, rewind."
Video stores would charge you $1.50 if you didn't rewind them.
Yup. I sure do remember that!
YES. With the smiley face!
I remember having the count # written on tape labels of tv shows recorded so you didn't go back and forth of RW, FF
The anticipation of waiting for film to be developed, or waiting for the next Netflix in the mail made getting them even more fun. Immediate gratification isn't all it's cracked up to be.
yes, i miss Fotomats, real movies and food and hanging out in record stores with my friends.
@@felixculpa6240 I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathroom.
Patience builds character, instant gratification corrupts. We’ve certainly found that out.
I still use dvds and cds
@@timhollis3390 Us too. Even a few vhs's.
One common theme runs through this video: the awful rise of instant gratification. Now, now, I want it NOW!
That, and planned obsolescence.
@@miriambucholtz9315 True, but that's been around since the 1920's when it was discovered that cars were too well made and people weren't buying newer ones. First cars, then everything else.
@@LJB103 You can't fix things and keep them going like years ago. I remember growing up with mainly second-hand appliances that my father would McGuyver back to life when they broke down. That kind of planned obsolescence.
that is a characteristic of modern society. there was no yesterday, there is no tomorrow, only now.
@@miriambucholtz9315 I will try to buy Analog appliances from now on.
One thing I miss the most about the past is people talking to each other not at each other. (or screaming at someone because they don't like what we have to say).
This.
In February, my city had a 5 day power and internet outage. As most of us use our phones and laptops for most functions, we were hamstrung. No maps, recipes, entertainment, alarm clock, phone etc. Technology is all well and good until an emergency.
We just had about a 5-hour electrical outage yesterday because of some sort of vehicle accident that Duke Power never really described! It was getting a bit warm inside, then dark - thank heavens I still have a flashlight! My iPads and phone were losing power as that’s all I had to use and needed it for responses from the power company! Amazing how I would reach for something and realized it used electricity!!!!!
lol get a generator
Wb mobile data?
The sun is a powerful tech and grid killer. While rarely hitting Earth, the sun can shoot giant 'magnets' that can induce currents in unplugged wires and electronic circuits for that matter, causing overloaded circuits and made them catch fire (read: Carrington Event 1859). If we're unlucky enough to get hit by one of these powerful giant 'magnets', it'll disable power grids across the globe, bringing down communications and the internet with it, not for hours, but for months, perhaps even years. The human civilization plunged back to the pre-electricity era, and with today's instant gratification mindset, not many will survive.
@@sandybruce9092I noticed you said Duke Power. Are you by chance in NC? We are, and my parents electricity goes out practically every time it gets cloudy, lol. They are much worse than CP&L ever was.
I truly miss those days 😢
Same here I really believe that we were blessed to have experienced those days.
I’m with you!!!
100% with you.
And the sad clueless youth attempt negation of that reality even tho having never lived then. Without much difficulty, one observes such futile struggle as they display. Although admittedly, a very few DO get it, the truth in it being introduced to their notice through the B&W media (Sci-Fi) of that time mainly, the rest as implicationally following.
The present trend cannot end any in way other than general doom, very sorry to have to say.
@@tonycollazorappo I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathroom.
I still have a checkbook that I use primarily to pay the rent every month. It occasionally comes in handy for other things too. I also still use an alarm clock. It's one of those fancy ones that's built right into the desk lamp. 😄
I write rent checks, too. This place doesn't give us any other options.
@@miriambucholtz9315 same thing with the place I live too.
i have a checkbook with checks & envelopes & stamps to pay bills when they predict the internet will crash
No idea where my checkbook is located. Haven't written a check in years. Good riddance (I'm 71). OBTW, I like this channel for the quick memories but I would hate to be living in the past.
Same here
Ah, the good ol’ days. My favorite old days is when tv was free & all you needed was a rooftop antenna & photos came from a Polaroid camer
Dudeee... if polaroid cameras made a resurgence, that'd be amazing.
I always enjoy this channel because of the nostalgic things from the past. I have to say that even though I use my Android phone, laptop, flat screen tv & DVD player all the time I still miss the simpler times of the past before all these things were invented.
I don't miss them so much as I don't want to be a prisoner to my cell phone. It's is relied on too much for basic tasks. My iPhone doesn't always work right even as a simple phone. It's reliant on the kindness of strangers providing wifi or the construction of cell towers. Plus the battery dies. It always needs uodates/bug fixes. Thgese things are far from perfect. I don't want my life so dependent on them. Plus you look like a junkie needing to have it nearby and to constantly scroll like you have a heroine itch.
By the time the turn of the Millennium happened I was already an adult and in college. It just amazes me how much everything has changed since the early 2000s! Actually I remember going to a "Y2K Party" on New Years Eve 1999 and being excited for what the 2000's would bring (no I didn't believe it was the end of the world lol). I obviously figured technology would evolve, but wasn't expecting how quickly it did and to what extent! To me it feels as though we're not even in the same world we once were, which feels incredibly surreal. Like payphones for instance were so ubiquitous that I figured they'd always be around. At the time only wealthier people could afford to have a cell phone. Then suddenly it was like everyone had one, even kids! When the iPhone was introduced, that's when everything went into overdrive. Now the payphones are gone and everyone has their noses buried in what is essentially a handheld computer. Speaking of which, to this day I still use a desktop computer, as I'm a photographer, digital artist and musician. When I first got it and set everything up, I remember showing it to my nephew who was only 10 years old at the time. He pointed at the computer and asked "What the heck is that??" When I told him what it was he didn't believe me. To him a computer was a mobile device you could walk around with and fit in your pocket. Talk about being absolutely mind-blown! Kids don't even know what cassette tapes or a Walkman are! Such a surreal crazy time to be alive! 😖
Remember everyone on the news keep saying it's the end of the world for Y2k, telling us to stockpile food & candles. My mom bought into it. I laughed.
I was a university student in Y2K. I didn't think anything major would happen. I was home for winter break on New Years, didn't want to be alone just in case lol.
I've never heard it called a cpu tower before. I call it a computer. The other connected bits are not a computer.
Hi, CPU is what they were called in my early working years, stands for Central Processing Unit.
@@legiontheatregroup Which is the microchip at the heart of the computer.
I'm only 23 and grew up using everything featured here. Most of which I actually still continue to use to this day. The computer in my office/den is from 2001 (HP) running Windows XP. I still have my original AOL account. I prefer to use paper maps over GPS, or I still print out the directions from my computer just by habit. And the only smart devices that I own is my iPhone 7 and iPad 1st gen. The vast majority of the property I own is from the 1920s through the 1970s.
So . . . you're clued-in!
Congrats, as most that are of your age are to never be.
You are an old Soul! My nephew collects and uses old tech from the 70's on. Very cool.
so what you're telling me now is you're using your grandparents old devices. gotcha.
@@thinline8504 No. I buy everything myself secondhand.
You sound pretty cool. Not following the pack. Be your own person. Ignore the fads.
U may have outdone urself here such a fantastic trip down memory lane, didn't think i would ever miss such simple times and took them for granted
urself?
@@Capecodham I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathroom.
Ah, I sure miss those good ol days! thank you!💖👍!
This was one of your best. I think if something was left out it was concerning mail. I do enjoy your efforts to remind many of their past. I'm almost 75 and I have lived thru time to see so many changes. I remember the first automated typewriters. We used a ticker tape and from their reel to reel MTST machines by IBM. They stood 8 to 9 feet tall and took a huge amount of room and a ton of AC. I remember when that was reduced to IBM Mag Card machines. Damn, we thought we died and went to heaven. Leaving that, I went to typesetting on a machine where you didn't get to see what you were getting. You had to use codes and measurements. Now we have what you see is what you get. I still keyboard over 70 wpm even at my age. I have seen these and many other changes all in the space of 3/4 of a century.
dot matrix printers. i typed punch cards for programming class in the 1970s
@@lovly2cu725 The first computer "peripheral" I ever used was an IBM-29 80 column card puncher.
@@IBM29 I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathroom.
Compugraphic 7500 - the big blue dinosaur.
@@lovly2cu725I started out on a keypunch machine
Even though I mainly use a debit card for purchases now, I still keep a record of my transactions in a checkbook. For me, it's actually faster to look up my balance on paper than it is to look it up on my phone.
wish we could go back in time miss those days
I’d never come back !
Same here.
Me to🤠
Me too! Let’s go!
I’m in 🙂
I still write paper checks and use a small, old-fashioned alarm clock.
😂😂😂 I bet they hate you at the grocery store 😂😂😂
@@jennifer7330 No checks at grocery stores, only through the mail; so they love me.
@@Tomatohater64 ❤
@@Tomatohater64 I don't know why they'd have a problem with something like a certified check. I've never used them, but I'm told they're good as gold. They ensure that the money they represent is actually available.
As a huge Star Trek fan, I remember a week before the last episode of TNG aired I bought a bunch of blank VHS tapes. Right after the final episode, the station ran every episode again, in order, one per day, through the entire series. Lucky for me the episode aired JUST in time for me to get home from work and hit the record button, as I didn't have a VCR with an automatic recording timer. It took me months but I managed to get every episode, and I spent a couple of hours labeling the tapes. I couldn't afford cable, so I used them quite a bit, but got rid of the set in 2005 after my machine quit and the box of tapes sat unused for a couple of years. It's a shame because they included all the 90s commercials as well, like Rush Limbaugh on Pizza Hut and Tia Carrere stealing a roller blader's iced tea.
That would be shame because you could upload the commercials to TH-cam and monetise from them.
@InTeCredo Maybe but TH-cam was barely a thing back then and people certainly weren't making money off it. At the time they were just taking up shelf space and some of them were beginning to wear out anyway because I watched some episodes more than others.
@@InTeCredo I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathroom.
@@saminaneen what's the relevance of that comment?
@@saminaneen Gender has always been a spectrum (not a binary) and there have always been transgender people. Mental illness has nothing to do with it. If anything, bigoted ideologies like homophobia and transphobia are mental illnesses. I can't wait for the future when outdated, ignorant, inane attitudes like yours are a forgotten relic of the past.
I actually asked my brother sometime in the last year, "Is that a local call or long-distance?" in reference to calling someone on my cell phone, lol. Also, MySpace was far better than Facebook, change my mind.
At first MySpace was better, that is until they f***ed the system up.
@@white-dragon4424 I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathroom.
I loved MySpace.
Nothing can replacement my Friday nights in the 80s. My husband and I would rent some horror or action movies, we would rent a kids movie for our son, and then have some wine coolers while we sat and watched.
It's all about LiveJournal =)
I had an original Netflix account. Hopin' that your next DVD wasn't cracked or broken was part of that whole experience!
Or it getting lost in the mail and having to wait for a replacement
It was actually very rare to have one break. That was the first test the founder of the company conducted before starting the business...seeing how well DVDs could be mailed and whether they would be damaged in the process. What was laughably ironic was that Blockbuster Inc. had a chance to buy Netflix as a fledgling company, but the BB executives laughed them off because they didnt see how such a company could make money without charging late fees, which at the time was a huge chunk of Blockbuster profit margins. And we know how that turned out!
@@paul16451 I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathroom.
@@saminaneen huh? Whats any of that have to do with Netflix?
@@paul16451 It's a bot looking to stir everyone up. I got it too. Ignore it.
All these gadgets and social media platforms are things that these companies have tried to convince us we need, when we really don't.
it's all part of the NWO conditioning and control process.
Exactly. And I refuse to do banking online. Why would I make it easier for scammers to hack my account?
@@BookZealots and he said, "you don't need to balance a checkbook" YOU DO. So you don't run out of money.
To make such a bold statement you need to define “need.” Otherwise you just sound like another provincial Luddite. You probably have lots of things other people believe you don’t need. And just what the fuk are you doing on the social media website “TH-cam?”
I still write checks or pay with cash. Online banking is not a convenience; it's more of a hassle.
There's something very nostalgic about the old wooden phone booth with the seat and bi-fold door that you would find in soda fountains, diners and the like.
I think they should bring back phone booths. Some calls should not be so "public". LOL
Our town's little corner variety/soda fountain store, that we kids practically "lived" in, had one of those phone booths. Right next to the comic book rack. Miss the 60's...and that little store...
@@SpotTheBorgCatAgreed. It sucks that all past existing phone booths are defunct now :(
I still balance my checkbook every month. Just did it, as June 2023 closed.
I still use an alarm clock in my bedroom.
Finally, Netflix still mails DVDs, and I'm a current subscriber! But not for long. They're discontinuing the service in Sept.
The young people all have to follow the crowd. Not to criticize today's generation. Young people have always follwed the crowd. They are inherently insecure.
Paper maps are still great and are used for an overview of an area when you are exploring new areas. Google Maps etc only take you from point A-B
still sell them at Barnes & Noble
paper maps have greater and more accurate detail.
Yeah...I used paper maps planning my first post-college road trip back in 1992. Me and my then-girlfriend took the $1000 we had saved for this purpose (it was plenty at the time!), rented a car (a Pontiac) and drove it over 4000 miles from Palo Alto, California to Yellowstone National Park, and then drove the northern route back through Idaho and Crater Lake, Oregon (the only rainy days we saw) and then back down the coast. Used the copier and highlighters and knew exactly where we were going the whole time. My only mistake was underestimating how long it would take to drive from Reno to Salt Lake City, but we did manage to do that in a single day anyway.
@@paul16451 I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathroom.
Get paper maps from AAA or visitor centers. But Google Maps is helpful for finding places and planning trips. GPS tends to favor the quickest routes (interstates and freeways); a paper map is good for finding alternate routes if there's a traffic jam or you'd rather "shunpike."
The good old days when you called someone, you knew exactly where they were, in their home where the phone was.😅
Where I lived we didn't have a FotoMat but I worked in the electronics department of a local store and I remember filling out many of those envelopes for people to have their photos sent out and processed!
That's true, you never asked someone 'Where you at' when you called them at home.
Since I still don't own a cell phone and have no intention of ever owning one, I still own and enjoy using many of the "obsolete" products mentioned in this vid. :)
Same! Most people look at you like you've got two heads when you say you don't have a cell phone. It's a shame so many things are made more difficult in life if we don't have them. You often can't make an account some places without them now. I often will ask strangers to call me a cab, since the lack of pay phones. I have landlines and am happy with them.
If you watch people eating at a restaurant you will see the same behavior with cell phones that people used for packs of cigarettes. The keep them right by their side and are constantly picking them up. Cell phone addiction has replaced cigarette addiction.
Good luck trying to get a Drs. Office to give you directions there. The receptionist has no clue, and is always like, Just use your phone 🥴
@@TheMormonPower It's good for that but I also have GPS on my car.
I do indeed have a cell phone, however prefer the simpler flip phone, but forced into the newer computer type of cell phone because that's all that available these days. And I never turn it on unless for an emergency or going shopping and my sister wants things I have to pick up and bring home. On the other hand, people go around with those stupid things glued to their ears and or always texting which causes traffic accidents, etc. Sometimes it should have been better off if cell phone technology didn't get introduced into society in the first place.
I remember back in the summer of 1984 . I was working in Saudi’s Arabia . I had to wait until around midnight to call my then fiancée. That call was back then a million dollars to me . 38 years later and we are still happily married. It was worth every penny 😊
That’s so awesome. Good on both of you.
@@luke125 I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathroom.
@@saminaneenstop copying and pasting your ignorance, troll!
@@saminaneen Exactly
I was stationed in Saudi Arabia in ‘87 and remember calling my wife and family in the wee hours as well. Those calls kept me sane during that 90 day TDY.
I recently received a phone book in the mail for my local surrounding communities and still get local newspapers on Saturday that include store ads. Also, my land line phone is still in use.
Land lines are much more reliable. No dropped calls. No worry about "bars".
Books and bookstores. Yes, they still exist, but not to the extent that they used to. I always bring a book with me when I eat out alone. I'm almost the only one not glued to my phone.
I've never felt SO old, SO fast, and SO outdated, within 10 minutes of time.
He exaggerated the "obsolesence" of many things for the benefit of the younger audience.
😂
I still use a checkbook, and we also use a land phone. I only get about 2 annoying calls on my cell phone a month, where the land line rings about 5 times a day. Worth the extra cost, as I don't give my cell phone number to many people.
The exasperating government should outlaw those robot calls all day long. We had to turn off the ringer altogether. But it's part of the government plan for complete surveillance and social control on the innocent public that discourages landlines and encourages android and apple. Watch out people, tyranny is no fun!
That’s funny- it’s the opposite for me. My landline number got so many telemarketing calls it drove me nuts! Life is so much more peaceful now that I got rid of it….
Same here. I keep a land line just so I can use that number when I apply for something or have to give some business or company a number. I never answer it and don't have the voice mail set up. Frees me from most of the annoying sales calls and scam artists. I go through about once every 3 months and clear out the call history without even looking at it, lol.
@@lorinichols9996 I installed Robocaller years ago, and most of the calls are stopped after 1 ring. If a call does go through and I dont recognize the number, I just let the machine answer after 3 rings.
Sometimes I think that progress if you want to call it that, like with the computer, phone, social media has caused more devious behavior because it seems so anonymous and dark.
More tech. Less God. Simple
More deviant behavior , too.
With the rise of the Internet comes anonymity, people are 'safe' to be complete assholes and spew hate.
The picture of the line to use the payphone is amazing. Makes you sad a bit to see people so upset with their current phones.
My first job was in a photo processing lab. I learned everything from develope and print, making enlargements, splicing individual rolls of film for printing on a Kodak 2610 printer.
i have panoramic film that needs to be processed
I knew a guy who would print up an extra copy of the more private snaps for a book that they kept in the shop, those were different times..
@@bobpike8050 Yes, they were. I worked at one photo shop where the county Sheriff's Department had an account. I was the one who printed the crime scene photos. Lucky me! I've scene it all.
@@lovly2cu725 I would do it for you, but, alas, I don't have the equipment.
Came here for the nostalgia. Stayed for the depression. (still love the channel though)
Depression is next week. You know... "use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without".. and "will this ****ing dustbowl ever go away?... that fine stuff gets through *everything*. :("
I still use and much prefer my iPod - 50,000 of my favorite songs and NO ADS
still have an alarm clock and still have a land line
I miss my iPod. When playing music on it I wasn’t worried about a call interrupting my music.
I still have a land-line phone & get my Internet through it (only 7 MB/sec but good enough for watching TH-cam). Ironically I was an Alpha tester for the Internet back in 1969 when in High school. I sent an "e-mail' to nearby SFU using a Teletype machine hooked up to a land-line phone with an acoustic modem.
teletype had them at AT&T
I worked at a radio station that used a teletype machine. That's how the AP and other sources of news came across.
So dial-up is still good? Interesting. I used that in the very beginning, I can't believe I'm older than the internet, LOL.
@@tonycollazorappo I think he meant he has ADSL internet, these speeds (7Mbps) is in that ballpark... That's over regular phoneline copper wiring...
Back in the good old days!! Simpler, no school shootings, we played together as one. Regardless of race, sex or political views. Thank you my friend. As always, a pleasure to watch.😊
Reality call, it misses you. The first school shooting occurred in 1754 (probably the year you were born, and have happened very regularly since then. I also guess you chose to forget segregation was a thing until the eatly 1960's, and racism has not gone away(willful ignorance like yours keeps it flourishing). Open your wyws, the way it was, was never thew way it was.
That was definitely not the case back then, I don't know what time you're thinking of, but we've had all of those issues in the past and usually a lot worse
Just twenty years ago, we saw and related to people as individuals. This dividedness comes and was created from Karl Marx theory and totalitarian Communism. They aim for global control, starting with chaos.
@@TRIPSTTR , I grew up in the 70's and 80's. I apologize for having, according to you, only going back 20 years. Please forgive me for the wrong response. I'm human. I'm also heavily medicated and in the hospital. I hope you have a great day 😊🙏
I still use checks and have a separate alarm clock.
Also, the "family computer" in our house was really just "Dad's computer" because he was on it 99.99% of the time.
I don't use checks for I do have alarm clock, I don't like looking at my cell phone for the time at night. I also wear a wrist watch to avoid looking at my cell phone during the day.
@@tonycollazorappo I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathroom.
@@saminaneen I miss the days when people could use a bathroom without having to prove what gender they were.
@@kenbrown2808 Nothing has ever or will ever come of your life, repetitive babbler.
Wow you actually were able to write 2 sentences.
Infowars people see you in your box as a liar and cheap propagandist. Here is an example. Anyone with any decent knowledge knows that the DoD and NIH had been working on this mRNA jab for over 15 years. An idiot like you of course does not know.
@@saminaneen I've never seen any confusion at the rest rooms here. Are you in an institution of medical facility?
I also remember all of these things,and I still write checks and have land line and alarm clock
With the selection they have for the price, Netflix DVD-by-mail is the best deal going and I am sad to see them ending it.
I've been a Netflix subscriber since they did DVD-by-mail. I use streaming now, and I didn't realize they were ending the DVDs. That's too bad.
@@pongop I like DVDs cause of all the extras. With streaming, all you have is the film.
@@BakedRBeans Yes, the extras! Deleted scenes and everything else! There are some recent series that I love and wish I could own on DVD, but sadly are only digital.
I will be very sorry to see Netflix eliminate the DVD sorry option, but what gets me is how quick my fellow millennials who love to whine about how much they miss Blockbuster were quick to give up the DVD option in favor of streaming since the most popular titles don’t go directly to streaming after being released and far more options are available streaming.
There are still a few places that do DVD rental by mail. There is also Redbox. But Yeah, I was an early adopter of the Netflix DVD rental. Remember waiting for it to be 'your turn'. You'd prioritize your list but you didn't always get the top one next if it was a popular release.
That was a trip through memory lane.
And the song you sang at Fotomat: Some Day my Prints will come....
Haha!😂
Lolol!!! Post of the year!!!!
Make no mistake folks all this inventive future stuff has screwed you. There are a few things that are convenient I will admit but remember when privacy was held very dear to us? nobody even mentions it anymore. I’m all for catching criminals but when you watch the cop shows now one of the first things they ask the suspect is “ where’s your phone”. your whole life is there on your freaking phone. The future really sucks! it’s not about making it easier for you it’s about you giving them all your private information
What a great look at the past. I was born in 1963. All of these subjects resonated with me.
I don't care, I still have a bluetooth MP3 player. Because when cell service sucks and there is no wifi, it still works. With 16g, it holds almost every song I've ever heard and room to spare. I was on a job at a customer back in 2018 and cell signal in the building was almost not there. I had my MP3 player on the table and one fo the college co-ops I had working with me picked it up and asked "what's this?" After I explained he was like "It only plays music?" But, while eeryone was criping about none of the streaming platforms working, I was still able to rock out while working.
I remember I was deployed to Oman back in 2003. My friend had an MP3 player and I had never seen one before. I was still rocking the discman. I asked him "what's this?'. He explained what MP3 was and I was blown away. I mean, I remember when CD burning became possible and I thought it wouldn't get better than that. I asked my friend, "So you load songs on and off this thing?". He was like "Yeah. This ones pretty cool. It will hold like 30 songs." Man how things have changed.
Thank you Recollection Road for yet another trip down memory lane. I love how your videos remind us "Boomers" (I'm 73 yo) what wondrous things we witnessed and experienced in just our lifetimes.
I miss these simpler times …. Too much technology nowadays
As I sit here watching videos on my IPad…….😢
Machines to save our lives... Machines dehumanize...
Aww, Grandpa😢😂
Technology is a vague description; what are you even talking about?
My parents said the same thing 20 years ago
Thank you for all these things. I'm 39 and I remember VHS, KODAK films and then waiting for paper-pictures, also desktop computer, which we shared with my brother and played games with friends. Also we had to find nearby payphone on the street to give a call to granny.
Since 90s passed 30 years, but the World changed completely! Nowadays children cannot understand how people used the phone with the ring-dial instead of separate digits ;-)
Good old times
iPod Classic was still made up to 2017 and mine is 12 yrs old still works flawlessly. I have no commercials or monthly subscriptions, just my music and many playlists. I love my iPod Classic so much I have a back up, refurbish one from Apple. Nothing on the market is like the classic, also has better sounds than flash based music on crappy portable speakers. Doubt me? That's why kids today think LPs are the thing, richer sounds than flash based. Little do they know they grew up with the best medium, CDs. Alarm clocks are also still viable for folks that don't take their phones in the bedroom. (don't like being awoken by notification sounds thru the night.
I’d only use the phone alarm if traveling, as needed.
RR, just want to say thanks for your valuable work! As an old dog now, you help us old guard to stoke up fond memories of our youth and bygone times. Your channel and NASS (old colorized street scene videos of 1920s onward) are the tops!
Back when you had to remember telephone numbers. Today you just push a button and it dials the contact. Sadly were not using our brains as much everything is done for us instantly.
I made this same comment to my friend last night! I agree with you 100%!!!
@@earleneslay7977 I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathroom.
Planed that way by the powers that be
So funny i still remember some of the old phone numbers from people in my past
@@timhollis3390 Spell correct makes us bad spelers too!
We had a friend way back in the late seventies and he grew pot. Had several beautiful plants and took a few photos. Took them to Fotomate to be developed. Young girl running the place took a look at all the photos that was developed. She saw the plants, called the cops, and the cops waited. Not long here came James and he was on the front page of the Lancaster news couple days later. They were real nice plants.
Aw man that sucks. I remember the user submitted crop photos people would send to High Times where they'd wear masks and I'd always wonder if they took precautions when having them developed. Different world.
Good god! I took me a cab ride to a weed store the other day, bought three joints, didn't even have to present ID. It's so easy now, and blessedly decriminalized.
I still use a landline when working from home. I think I still have more photos in envelopes than in albums
This was really great. I noticed a common theme at the root of many product’s demise: “but then cell phones were upgraded to…”
I still use a Sandisk mp3 player when I'm at the gym, it's more compact and much lighter than my phone.
I still use my clock-radio and landline phone, the former to wake up, the latter for emergencies since I live in an area with a sketchy cell signal.
Sansa Clip here. It’s much more reliable than my iPod was - the first and last Apple product I ever bought. It holds my entire music collection, I can organize playlists how I want them, and unlike broadcast or streaming there are no DJ or ad interruptions.
I miss MySpace the most. Great video!
Phone booths had doors on them so one could speak privately because people didn't actually want others to hear their conversations. Unlike now where sharing everything at high volume is the norm.
You are SO wrong. Phone booths had doors so superheroes could change in private.
Still have and use, VCR/CD/DVD player, rotary dial phone (back up French style) for when power in the area goes out and phone lines still have the low voltage that powers phones when needed, professional turntable, dual deck Scott cassette tape recorder. player, and a desk top PC with burner for adding favorites to my collection.
Back in the 2000s, I would wake up to be105.7 playing on my alarm clock radio every morning. There was nothing like the B105.7 morning show when I was growing up. Great soft rock music, and great radio personalities to make you laugh in the morning. I would also listen to be 105.7 all day back in those days.
Sadly Netflix DVD rentals was the last place that I know of that you could look for and most of the time find. We have come a long way but that is not a good thing either. The old ways were better in a lot of cases.
I remember blockbuster rentals early 2000’s just like K-mart, a long lost memory.
How many of us still use, at least once in a while, many of these?
My 88 year old Mom still has a land line phone and the number hasn't changed in over 50 years. It's reassuring both ways to know when she answers exactly where she is, and with today's rates I can talk to her from halfway around the world for around $5/hour. We gave her a stupid flip phone, but she is fairly intimidated by the "new technology" so it's basically an emergency phone with our numbers on speed dial in case she can't get to her "normal" phone.
Same here!! My grandmother (my last grandparent) died Dec 2015. I have kept her old phone number. It’s one that my mom had when growing up & the ONLY one I still remember (off hand). It was a “party line” back in the day (until everyone that was on there dropped off & they kept the number). I transferred it from my Pawpaw’s name (died Dec 1989) into mine when we moved up to take care of her in Dec 2009. Can’t tell you how it’s been a lifesaver (for me). Except now it’s a cordless phone which dies when the power goes out during a storm or when the battery DIES!!! I know I have a REAL one somewhere in storage from when we moved but can NOT find it. Just turned 60 sooooooooo. 🫤 🙄 ✌🏻
PS edit: I still use my old stereo; cause you can NOT blast it when an “OLD SCHOOL” classic rock song comes on and you NEED to TURN IT UP (to 11) & JAM OUT!!!! Cause you can’t turn or blast your “cellphone”!! 😂 And I’m NOT paying for streaming on a NEW device that I don’t need!! 😎
0:49 We've still got a mini digital camera.
2:13 I've still got a pocket MP3 player.
6:28 We've still got a cordless home landline phone that we use a lot.
8:01 I like having a physical movie collection, rather than having it all digital.
8:15 I'm watching this via a home PC patched through my flat screen TV. The only difference now is that we literally have a PC in every bedroom, rather than having a single computer that we had to share.
Honestly though, I dislike how so many people rely so much on those little phones. I joked the other day to someone that the next thing they'll be doing is getting them physically implanted into themselves like the Borg! I also like having my own space away from people, so I feel really uneasy about the idea of people always being able to contact me wherever I go, and the potential of being harassed.
I still have a huge DVD and CD collection
😂 "resistance is futile; you will be assimilated" yeah, I'm with you on still doing a lot of those things from yesteryear. Landline came in handy when the i-net connection went down and cell phones were useless. Technology, eh?
@@gaidhliglass Yes, it does seem like people are being assimilated by these little shits. You see, what used to be people, all the time in the high street, just walking along like zombies staring at their phones, not looking where they're going and almost bumping into things. Even more concerning is that you also see people doing it whilst driving or cycling! Also, even if you do use a "smart phone" more than I do, it's unwise to rely on it totally without having a backup. I only bought mine because a set of car LEDs I was buying needed to be controlled through a smart phone. Worst thing I did, because it was turning them on even when the phone was supposedly off! Now I only buy things for my car that can be controlled by a good old fashioned physical button or conventional remote control.
I would gladly go back to those days, seems like the convenience of technology has made everyone lazy.
Well yes that but also CRAZY!
They are not truly conveniences but rather are sink-holes of ANXIETY.
Baffling complexity destroys reliance on self, producing symptomology of the dysfunctional, with final madness being not far off.
Surprise! : neuroses are up - up - up, suicides too.
(In "Soylent Green" the Edward G. Robinson character "went home,' having finally had enough. THIS is our futures.)
Ah! The New World Order which cannot exist because only of mere disallowed theorizing.
Ever heard of television? 😅
And stupid... Which seems like such an oxymoron, with information at your fingertips 😢
Lazy and crazy
And also made everyone unsociable. Isn’t it ironic that in the age of “ Social “ media, people have lost basic communication skills and courtesy when face to face with others?
I've gotten back to getting disks from Netflix because with all the streaming services, just finding who has some show or movie has become frustrating. And the cost. Ugh I just watched Get Back. What a treat
I know a few people that still have a landline phone in there house, i still own all the dvds and cds i brought over the years. You cant beat a paper map or atlas book when out in a car/vehicle 👍
Before AOL and the internet we had a family computer that was an Atari. Up until a few months ago my parents still had it. They had the complete outfit, including all the floppy disks and magazines. But when my parents were moving, my brother threw it all away. It was such a cool relic.
Huge nostalgia and monetary vibes coming off of this one!! What a shame they got tossed.
I’ve still got my floppies and cartridges, and had picked up a used Atari 800 and Atari 800 XL at a thrift store. Never intend to give it up, even though I now have Atari emulators on both my desktop computer and Android tablet; some programs still don’t run as well under emulation as they do on the real hardware. 😊
My dad and I were going to a wedding using the directions that the father of the groom printed out on Mapquest. We followed those directions to the letter until we got on the road where the church was. If we had continued to follow those directions and turned left when it told us to, we would've ended up in a farmer's cornfield instead of the church parking lot (the church was actually on the right side of the road).
Man, you just made all of us feel old!🤦♀️
20 years ago wasn't even that long ago!!!
My kid doesn’t have a smart phone, he’s 12, so he uses an old alarm clock. The sound will usually wake me up if he lets it go on long enough
I still have some old school cameras where you went to CVS and had to develop them for an hour, leave then come back only to find out the pictures was either blurry, wrong with only bits and pieces of the image/person, you had the flash on and the picture would be too bright with red eye and finally just be dark in general! 💀📸
Well, there goes your photo album memories, really ? Now I’m curious , it was because of the service or the film’s quality?
i do too
i also have a polaroid
@@lovly2cu725 I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathroom.
It was like some kind of circus game. Toss in your money, see what comes out. : )
6:20 I received that exact model clock radio as a wedding gift in 1990 and still use it to this day. The same couple gave me a digital alarm clock as a graduation gift, which I also still use. I’m not a morning person, so I set the alarms on my phone, tablet, and both alarm clocks. I scatter them among different rooms so I have to get up, go find them, and hit the snooze. It still takes me 30-45 minutes to wake up because I can find them all while basically sleep walking. lol
How about paper cards and letters? I loved getting them from friends and family, and rushing home to open them and see what they wrote! Then I'd save them to read again and again, because it was like having part of them with me. Especially my college boyfriend who'd always spray his with my favourite of his colognes!
Love letters, the words of wisdom from my parents and grandparents who've since passed on, correspondence from friends and pen pals around the world, all those are treasures that no email or text message can ever compare with.
This was a great video, thank you for the fun look back!!!
The TVs in bus stations & airports…put in your quarter and watch the TV attached to the chair while you passed time
Now I remember the Kodak one hour Foto in Durant, Ok. Those were really the good old days! Really enjoyed your video!
Do you remember those Kodak disk cameras from the early 80s? And the Kodak 110. I used both. I miss both.
I miss going to Blockbuster and looking at all the movies it was a real treat as a teenager and my parents always let me pick out one each week, also miss Myspace it was great you could literally post anything and you never got banned 😊
Still use my IPod in the car and love it. I listen to Classic Rock from the 70s and 80s.
I'd love if my own kids could grow up the way I did in the 80s 💔
The 2nd GE clock radio at 6:20 is still chugging away on my kitchen table. It refuses to die. 😁
I still use checks, and I also keep a weekly balance of my checkbook.
Me too!
@@handle-schmandle go away kid.
Just my two cents. I do use the internet to check my balance. But I also balance my checkbook. I have OCD so I have to. 😊
Oh man, I loved my Palm PDA. ❤ I wasn't interested in mobile phones until they could do calendars and tasks etc. I also wrote a good amount of my first novel on my PDA, with an infrared portable keyboard.
Wow
I remember Redbox. My daughter and son-in-law would always get movies through that.
still outside my grocery store in arizona
Here in Florida as well.
Here in Kentucky too!
There’s still Redbox in my New England town. Don’t know if it’s still operational. 😊
Still here in Texas.
I don't know if anyone's mentioned the wood stove....... had the firebox on the left, the water reservoir on the right, oven in the middle, an ashbox under the fire.
And when you set that thing alight, it made your kitchen toasty warm. We lived on farms all the time. And if the power went out, which it did, we were glad for that stove, and the one we had in the basement. It was a wood heater meant to be used more like a furnace. If we had enough wood corded up and chopped up, we didn't need fuel oil. And when there was no juice, we didn't freeze.
So thank goodness for those wood burners.
Wood stoves will never go away. Some parts of the country that's what is still used.
@@rhuephus And that is why I salute the wood stove. It saved us many a time. And may it *never* stop being used. And where I live now, there's only electricity to power the furnace. It uses natural gas, but it can't run if the power goes out. Luckily, we have a fairly good power company, and they're quick to deal with outages.
Ah! Nostalgia.
Waiting for newspapers or pictures was the greatest things of my youth I miss it
I can’t believe blackberry was a thing just over 10 years ago. Now it’s like the ancient past because things move so quickly. As a late millennial, I remember pretty much all of these, from my early childhood to my teenage years. I loved Friday visit to DVD stores. I was watching some videos some friends took in GCSE and it was before Facebook, and we used MSN and MySpace. And the computer games of the 2000s in primary school 🥹
In the 80s, when you bought a computer, one later, it was already obsolete.
I remember when these obsolete items hadn't been created yet. At 62 it's kind of amazing growing older and peope recognize and treat you that way, old.
Yep I miss paper maps too. So easy when you plan your route to see what attractions may be near by. Don't get that on GPS without a lot of scrolling
Paper maps were great but not if you were the only one in the car and trying to drive and look at a map! Rand McNalley was a friend for many years!
I still use an Ipod, alarm clock, have a DVD/VHS combo player though I only have maybe a dozen VHS tapes now. I don't use it much but I still have a road atlas as well and a digital camera. Fun video!
So do I
I still keep paper maps in case not internet mostly when bad service. Always good to have….you never know
5:57 The alarm clock is still something I use daily as my last alarm every day.
Turn the cell phone off at night. Don't be afraid of missing the "emergency" call at 2 am. They used to have emergencies before cell phones were invented.
My daughter had so many rolls of film that never got developed.
Paper maps are still a good thing to carry for those times when you have no service!
I’ll tell you what’s obsolete, The good old days of the 70’s.❤👏🤩
The good old days when Adam and Eve were still in the garden.
@@glennso47 been down hill ever since
I remember when home computers were starting to become a thing; I thought they were only an indulgence and not necessary.
I wouldn’t purchase one until my son started high school in 2000.
I recently purchased a turntable and speakers, and I’m building a decent record collection again by buying mainly through charity stores.
You sound more interesting than the average trend-following person.
@@hewitc thank you :)
While I do really enjoy this channel, I would love to see more variety and history about the things we grew up with. I like the "remember when this was popular, but isn't now" videos. I find the history of a lot of the things we grew up with interesting. The history of the Charlie Brown Christmas special is fascinating. CBS thought it was so bad that it was going to bomb. They figured it would air once and that was it. They were wrong and the show has become a yearly tradition for many. Blockbuster video turned down the chance to buy Netflix in 2000. In hindsight, it was a bad decision, but at the time Netflix was losing a lot of money. Today their roles are reversed, Netflix is king while Blockbuster barely exists.
Sounds like a very good idea! Lots things have disappeared and I still fondly remember almost all of them (sometimes!