I still use rabbit ears on my HDTV and tune in the local digital stations and use it as a back up in case my Internet goes down, then I got some channels to watch. Plus, sometimes I watch the local news that way.
10 more things 1) Getting mimeograph handouts from your teacher 2) Taking long road trips (especially driving across the country) 3) Using a slide rule 4) Looking at retail catalogs (a super big thing right before Christmas) 5) Riding in a car without seatbelts (you actually use to have to pay extra for them) 6) Letting your kids go trick-or-treating by themselves 7) Putting a coin in a pay phone to make a call 8) Playing with "dangerous toys" (clackers, jarts, ...) 9) Lighting fire crackers and shooting off bottle rockets 10) Seeing a TV test pattern as a TV station stopped broadcasting for the day.
Re the Halloween thing... persistent scare stories said drug-addled hippies used to hide razor blades in apples and hand them out to trick-or-treaters. It never really happened of course, but all the moms back then were dumb enough to believe it.
LOL - #1 - visual memory from the hand-out scene in Fast Times at Ridgemont High Last retail catalog I saw was 2010 Sears, before phonebooks stopped migration
But if you already want and get an Internet account, you can watch TV by streaming it over the Internet. That's what I do. If you have a high-speed Internet connection, you don't need a cable subscription.
On rotary phone, I once knew a guy who actually sued the Bell Canada, because he loved his old rotary phone and they were charging him for digital dialing. he won and no longer did anyone in the Bell Canada network had to pay for digital dialing
A rooftop antenna or rabbit ears work just fine in many locations. They even pick up HDTV, digital subchannels, color, and stereo in spite of what some antenna marketers want you to believe. I like mine as a backup source for when bad weather interferes with satellite reception or greedy TV broadcasters try to shake down providers for more money and withhold their programming. It seems to me that cable/satellite extends broadcast range so their advertisers can reach farther, they should pay the providers for that instead of the other way around.
Ahh the good old days. I was born in 74' and grew up right at the beginning of the end of the Good old days. I want too go back to being 3 years old lol.
This is true. I was 10 in ‘74 and much of the seventies still had traditions and consumer technologies connected to previous decades. The good old days! It was 1977/78 when there was a big shift with electronic games, Star Wars, Disco/Punk/Techno (let alone Rap) coming in. The end of the seventies were so different from the beginning of the decade it was like two different decades.
We had a set of encyclopedias in the late 60s and early 70s. I think it was Encyclopedia Americana. I remember they were very expensive but I did use them a lot for school assignments.
Had these in the 90s too. Im only 37 and definitely remember bring taught how to use one and looking up various bits of info. THIS was right before Google really started to take off.
My children were born in the very late 90's. They each had the American Heritage Dictionary and we had a complete set of encyclopedia. We had no TV or video games and they all know what the Pledge of Allegiance means. They all turned out just fine.
I remember how excited I was when I got my first electric typewriter. You could even back up five spaces to correct a mistake. I thought it was great. Little did I know…
Wow, I forgot all about carbon paper. Fingers inked constantly. My parents got Pong (and an eye patch) in the early 70's so my younger brother could treat his lazy eye. My mom collected S&H Green Stamps, then off to the redemption center.
I have a rotary dial phone that's nearly a hundred years old. My electricity go out I can plug it into the wall. But we no longer have landline service. I still had the old fashioned original number on the face of the rotary
@@CAROLDDISCOVER-2025 I use my landline alot. It can be on hold for 2 hours and never drop a cal. My old rotary would work at the cottage when it was 20 below.
@@rooky55 I have landline in a decade or so. Not only do I have my grandparents old rotary phone, I have two or three of them that belong to my parents. I have a telephone Tower in the backyard. Not a cell phone tire but a telephone Tower. Some people call it a pedestal. It has a few dozen phone connections. If I want to I could just connect to one of them I suppose. This means I can listen in on my neighbor's conversations if any of them is still have landlines. But I don't have to pay for long-distance calls either. Just a note. I don't plan to connect to that telephone pedestal.
Still and with it all... We did have a better social enviroment and i would add to all your points... We also lost a more productive youth. We craved back then the day we could turn 14 to get a real part time job and our first paycheck. All while going to school. Now is all about living from others, mostly parents way past even the so called legal age
I got my first "real" job at sixteen in December of 1966 and started paying FICA taxes which included Social Security and Medicare. Amazingly in 1966 I made $66 dollars! Before that I worked on farms, mowed lawns and raked leaves etc. where I was paid in cash. The minimum wage was just one dollar per hour!
I feel that in your haste to label old things obsolete, which they are, you forget that's all we had available. And several devices were the stepping stones that brought us here.
@@MrPoyo09 Just because something is old doesn't necessarily prove it is obsolete. Some older things outperform and even outlast newer things. There is no profit in making things that way anymore.
I miss the chain-smoking in the office workplace. Ahh, to go back and be able to have one of those beanbag ashtrays on your desk and smoke 2 packs before lunch...
When cable took over the cartoon market, TV stations expanded their newscasts into Saturday mornings, and "E/I" programming took the remaining hours leading into sports or infomercials.
@@TKaePetras And here we are seeing it again with regards to the streaming services. When services such as Netflix first starting going digital instead of just mail-in DVDs, there were no commercials. Now, they have friggan ads everywhere.
Great and informative video! An interesting look at 70s trends and technology that are now so strange. Brought back so many memories watching this video! Time flies. Worth watching!
Yes I still got some rabbit ears for my old TV and it still works I got a Kodak camera I haven't used in 20 years I got a brother typewriter that I had in college that's been over 50 years now😂
Born in the fifties. The innovations I've experianced in my life time is unparalleled. Second only to the innovations experianced by my grandfather born in 1900. I can't imagine what my grandchildren will see in their lifetime.
Beta Max was actually a better format than VHS but Beta Max tried to force the entertainment industry to come to them to put out a movie whereas VHS licensed out their technology which made it cheaper and easier.
Rabbit ears went the way of the dodo when we started paying for cable TV. And since it was pay TV, there were no commercials! Then soon enough, there were commercials. And premium channels. Then as we paid to watch commercials, they came up with streaming services. So after spending hundreds of dollars per month, we can settle for whatever they offer. Frankly, I’d rather have 3 networks on VHF, a few UHF channels, and no bill every month.
Then put an external aerial and disconnect the cable. Who said the free tv was gone? it never was. Its only digital now, in most countries anyway but your tv can probably decode it.
At least with encyclopedias you don't have to give you're personal details away everytime you want to look something up. (Yes, I'm talking about bloody Cookies. Even selecting decline activates them !)
I find reading old encyclopedias, a fascinating thing! We had 1901 American Enclopoedia, 1964 Britanicas, and I have one early one volume book of recipes for shop and home published in 1857! Lost knowledge, but also downright misinformation owing to the state of current understandings. The 1901 edition had Wright brothers style planes flying in space as an illustration on their inside covers for example.
Todays rabbit ears tuned to a high definition TV station will actually deliver the best picture as it is not nearly compressed as what your get from cable.
i literally just turned 23 a couple days ago, but anytime i see or watch stuff from back in the day it gives me a weird feeling of nostalgia and wanting to go back. i always tell people older than me that they had it the best! life seemed so much simpler back then. the way people talked and dressed , like it’s so crazy to me that everything has changed so fast. if only time machines were real, i’d go and see all of this for myself. thanks for the video! love daydreaming about wanting to grow up in those times.
Ahh the old "rabbit ears"... Okokok, stretch out your right arm... more ... more... ok now lift your left foot... PERFECT! Now hold that pose while I watch the show! 😉
Don't forget having aluminum foil scrunched up and trailed all around in crazy places! Or having to go up on the roof to adjust the antenna after wind spun it wrong! 😂😂😂
In late 1979 we got a new office manager. She took one look at my carbon paper arrangements, asked me what in the BLEEP I was doing, and banned carbon paper from the office. Immediately. As could have been predicted, my work output sped up by many orders of magnitude when I no longer had to correct errors on the carbon copies.
The 70s was much better! Food taste better, we looked out for one another, the teacher's cared about the students: almost like our parents, the music was a trillion times better: more meaningful lyrics, the social scene was better: with block club parties, house parties, discos, live performances, Maxwell Street in Chicago, creating new dance moves, skate parties. Even the gangs fought differently: a fist fight could end in just that, not a murder. The prices of goods and services didn't cost as much! The quality of goods was better. Who remembers: Zenith, Magnavox, and U. S Steel! Bring back the days of Yah and Na!
Agreed! We may have "more" in 2024, but it surely isn't all superior. Human connection and interaction has plummeted, while our televisions are filled with medicines they think we need (we don't), food they think we want to eat (no thanks, I like to make my own), and activities they think we should be participating in. I would happily give up 5 "new" things to get just 1 "old" thing back. GenX-Vintage 1968 here.
Im glad that smoking was stopped in publuc places but tv was free then and I think that it still should be even with cable. Never heard of key parties. Miss the drive in movies. Leisure suits ugh. Miss the Sears and Penneys catalog. More people worked in stores then and now there's self checkouts. I hate those. I miss those old Saturday morning cartoons 247 cartoons watching when they want. No. Children should be outside going to the playground or riding bikes. I miss parks with swings.
I remember the first time a co-worker came in for a meeting and DEMANDED that no one smoke! We laughed her out of there, and made her phone in from her own desk. Still alive... I LOVE CHANGE!
When I was traveling for business and would arrive back home, my wife would insist that I leave my business clothes out in my garage, hanging up to air them out, so they wouldn’t smell of cigarette smoke… For the last 10 years or so of my career, I no longer had to do that due to the ban on smoking in offices and public spaces.
I'm still using rabbit ears to watch digital TV. In my attic I have a UHF antenna aimed at all but one station in my area. The rabbit ears are aimed at that station. Works like a charm.
I miss those years too . For people born about then , it is doubtful they will remember that you could own what you received . Recording devices were essentially done away with . Now you have to PAY , but not OWN . And when a streaming service decides the public doesn’t need to see it anymore , the program is scrapped . I am really hoping google doesn’t start doing this . Because streaming services like Netflix do this kind of poop all the time . 8:28 ) carbon paper ! Omg ! That is one handy tool . Besides making copies , you could use it over and over again . And you don’t need a pen or pencil . Any stylis will due . The idea was to transfer ink to paper or anyother serface you wish . My friend used it to transfer pictures to t shirts , and then paint those pictures in . Creating your own images was a thing The carbon washed out so the outline of the image was what you were left with . The ability to RECORD has been taken away from us again . Again 11:16 ) we used to go to the LIBRARY to do this research for school , but sometimes we hunted for girls , and boys too . And that’s where the encyclopedia came in handy , because do you remember the night club and disco scene you saw earlier ? Theoretically that was another option . That was all done away with . You are not allowed to hunt for your man or girl anymore . It makes me sick . Atari isolated you from other people . No one goes outside to play anymore . No socializing with your nabor !
I don’t know anybody that has cable. Just about everybody that I know, including myself either stream or utilizes flat antennas for digital television locally.
Ten more things from the 70s: 1. The CB radio craze. 2. Parents were expected to beat their kids whenever they were in the mood. 3. Kids as young as 12 smoked cigarettes and nobody lost their $h1t over it. Cigarettes were stinkier back then too. 4. No smog checks-you could drive your hotrod around with a big ol' belt-driven supercharger poking up through the hood. 5. Teachers and school officials thought learning disabilities were a fairy tale. 6. Ice cream trucks. 7. FIREWORKS!!! Saint Ronald Raygun ruined that for us. 8. Radios and TVs built before 1973 still had vacuum tubes in them. Drugstores had tube-testing machines so you could bring the tubes from your radio or TV and test them to find out whether they were burned out. 9. Landfill space was limitless. When you got tired of looking at something, you'd just throw it out, and it was out of sight, out of mind. 10. A lot more kids still built model cars and model airplanes. Video games killed that hobby.
In ‘73 I joined the Navy . On ship a carton of smokes cost a blistering $ 1.17 . That’s how I developed a 3 pack a day habit . Also at the enlisted men’s club on base any “ well “ drink was . 50 cents . Needless to say that became a habit also . At least , by the grace of God , I am 32 years sober and smoke free . Praise my Lord .
Thank you for your service ❤ Congratulations on your recovery, and thank you for staying! They were 55¢ in the cigarette machine (I was 11 years old). I've smoked pretty much ever since. I've used (and sometimes abused) it all and put everything else down, but I just can't shake em 🚬
@@Rox1SMF I understand . But I will say , to the dismay of many , that my belief in Christ and putting my habits into His hands made it so much more easier to quit . May you find God’s grace as I found it .
It's a damned good thing I'm an honest person by nature, because there were times when I had fat stacks of slips with all that CC info locked in my desk!
I supply teach and asked a Year 5 class recently if they had an atlas in the room I could refer to. I was met with universally blank looks. They had no idea what an atlas was!
As a pre-teen, I used to walk to the local Howard Johnson and buy cigarettes from the vending machine for my dad. No one ever gave me a problem. Gen X’ers were different.
GenX were born different, raised different, and most of us figured it out as we went along. We learned our lessons the hard way. We were the Generation that F'kd Around and Found Out. I'd love be back in those days.
I had a complete Brittanica set & update subscription in the mid-80's. They were great looking books (bount in genuine imitation leather), and were great for the kids, but they were very expensive: roughly $1500 to start, plus the annual update subscriptions. I don't miss that at all!
I have an antenna next to my 55" LED TV. The OTA digital signal is clear and clean. I watch some of the shows that run old programs from the '50s, '60s, and '70s.
I was 10 in the 70s and my dad would give me ten bucks and send me across a four lane highway to buy him a carton of Salems! 😂 I’m surprised I survived the traffic on that 4 lane highway! Yep those were the good old days of parenting!😂
I remember when most of these things were started. None of us miss them. We have been waiting for "the world of tomorrow" for seven decades. We just got to the shore of the world of whatever this year! I'm looking forward to my grand children one day seeing a world of tomorrow. There are a few things from the 70s you forgot... Laser discs Mobile LP players Light purple ink ditto sheets CB radio Colecovision LED video games Super wide lapels Manual typewriters Winston/Salem coupons. And A.S.C.I.I. is pronounced "Askee". Also, I have some observations... There's literally a chat app called "Telegram". We all survived the 70s specifically because asbestos, cigarette smoke, smog, pollution, and lead paint COULDN'T kill us. Survival of the fittest. Our rampant SUVs are literally large, low-mileage cars of today. Madame C.J. Walker had the first electric car in the 19th century. Kids playing outside every day is a lost tradition. We called the credit card carbon impressors "cha-chunk thingies". IBM started as a typewriter company.
@@questerperipatetic4861 Yes but white wash killed germs re paled insects, and has several other advantages over paint, reason it is still used on farms in milking parlors and chicken houses. Works wonders on getting rid of carpenter bees.and also will not mold, and will kill mold.
Things rarely heard of these days now who remembers doctors made house calls mucho businesses were honesty done knew costumers by name were mucho friendly treated us nicer volks did work mucho often not using machines as we now do more work was done properly
I actually pulled off a highway and the gas station register wasn’t taking credit cards since I had no cash they actually pulled out that old credit card reader. Never heard anything sp assume it worked!!
If it is the thing from the 50ies, that's no reader its just a contraption to press your card against carbon paper so it prints its info there and with your signature with copies they later take to the bank to get the money. Of course that needs cards with embossed digits, the card i have now doesn't have those anymore. Countries whose cash hasn't lost value much, have been slow to go cashless. It seems it won't be long now for America to hurry up there...
How about getting a paper paycheck from the boss! And then standing in long line to cash it! And how about getting TWO newspapers delivered to your home? One in morning…one in evening.
Did anyone, besides me, ever put the carbon paper in backwards - giving you a perfect mirror image on the back of your paper while leaving the second page blank? You usually only do that one time!
I worked at a store and several times the company that processes credit card transactions on line went down and we had to pull out the old slide thing a ma jig and do things the old fashioned way. They still work, but when the system came back up we just manually loaded the info in.
Actually, "Rabbit ears" antennas are more efficient at processing the "over-the-air" signals than cable or satellite . . . there is no signal compression with OTA signals = clearer picture in this digital age. I've been a "cord cutter" now for about 10 years and won't ever go back to the high priced cable or satellite services. There isn't anything I can't get with my outdoor antenns for free . . .
I remember that the cartoons in the 50s and 60s showed the subjects in total motion and fluidity, the later cartoons were essentially still pictures with just small parts of their bodies moving. A terrible degradation.
Biggest change for me - Laser scanning your shopping at the supermarket checkout, rather than the operator having to remember the five or six digit number for each item.
Rotary phones remained popular because parents could put locking devices with keys on the first hole that would prevent the children from running up the phone bill. But us kids learned how to dial by clicking the receiver 9×5×6 times for whatever respective number we were trying to dial, and we could complete calls with the locking mechanism in place.
1) leaving your door unlocked 2) let your kids play outside 3) have public gatherings of people that actually belong in the country 4) use public schools 5) letting your kids go to the library
I got some rabbit ears on my smart t.v.! 😁😁😁🤔 I rember having to put a hanger into the broken rabbit ears antenna with foil on it to get good reception! Classic!😁😁😁🤔 I remember in the seventies we used to get our elementary homework sheets copied on carbon paper it was purple copies!!!
I still use rabbit ears on my HDTV and tune in the local digital stations and use it as a back up in case my Internet goes down, then I got some channels to watch. Plus, sometimes I watch the local news that way.
Cool
And it’s less compressed than cable TV. Actually a better HD picture.
Me too
Same here...I watch " Svengoolie" off broadcast TV, and the local news sometimes.
That's the way!🎉
10 more things
1) Getting mimeograph handouts from your teacher
2) Taking long road trips (especially driving across the country)
3) Using a slide rule
4) Looking at retail catalogs (a super big thing right before Christmas)
5) Riding in a car without seatbelts (you actually use to have to pay extra for them)
6) Letting your kids go trick-or-treating by themselves
7) Putting a coin in a pay phone to make a call
8) Playing with "dangerous toys" (clackers, jarts, ...)
9) Lighting fire crackers and shooting off bottle rockets
10) Seeing a TV test pattern as a TV station stopped broadcasting for the day.
Re the Halloween thing... persistent scare stories said drug-addled hippies used to hide razor blades in apples and hand them out to trick-or-treaters. It never really happened of course, but all the moms back then were dumb enough to believe it.
LOL - #1 - visual memory from the hand-out scene in Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Last retail catalog I saw was 2010 Sears, before phonebooks stopped migration
LOL! I recently took a LONG drive across the country. It's still possible and done.
9 is cap i still do that and did my entire childhood in the 00’s
😂 you can do #2. And I do #5 all the time.
#9 is possible as well unless you live in Karen state or area such as a major city.
TV was free back then... understatement of the year.
Yeah, and we got 4 channels.
@@atgdcommish608 Sometimes, those four channels had better choices than what's on the hundreds available today.
@@atgdcommish608 and we were better informed. There were no extreme left or right news channels like there are today.
@@threynolds2 Still the same left and right lies. We just have more sources now to verify and decide who believe.
The closest you have to free TV is the HD antenna. It costs $30 with no monthly fees and It is just as bad as the rabbit ears.
Forget the rabbit ears - TV was Free! That's the huge difference.
But if you already want and get an Internet account, you can watch TV by streaming it over the Internet. That's what I do. If you have a high-speed Internet connection, you don't need a cable subscription.
@@stevenlitvintchouk3131 That's what I do. It's about $100 per month.
TV is still free. SO is Radio.
@@stevenlitvintchouk3131 I pay almost $100 for wifi service so I can stream. So it's not free.
@@jamesslick4790 Include the cost of your internet to stream - not free. Yeah, radio is free 😂😂😂☠️☠️☠️ - no kidding
I miss s&h green stamps. We got some cool stuff
I grew up in the 60's and 70's and early 80's. I miss those years a lot!
we gave up green stamps for e-mail spam
I remember S & H green stamps!😂
Yeah, f'd
We actually gave up so much more
I miss the 70s and 80s so much. 😢
They were better times Ed Ellis
For me it’s the ‘60’s and ‘70’s .
I do too, because I was so much younger then and life was so much simpler and more fun..
Me too😢❤
There were fewer channels to watch but more on TV. then there is now.
"then there is now"
than
"then there is now" ???. . . streaming services provide almost 15,000 channels now-a-days.
Looks like Me TV is all you need.
Yep. And I haven't watched main stream news unless it's local for about 15 years. Good shows sure but Internet is a must anyhow.
@@shawbrosAww 😊
On rotary phone, I once knew a guy who actually sued the Bell Canada, because he loved his old rotary phone and they were charging him for digital dialing. he won and no longer did anyone in the Bell Canada network had to pay for digital dialing
Worked for bell 10 years ago. Up until then we were still charging for touch tone service. $1.99
@@stevo911 Danny Burstein put an end to that!
Rabbit ears still work just fine on today's TVs. Even more so. Growing up we only had about four channels. Today I'm picking up close to 50.
A rooftop antenna or rabbit ears work just fine in many locations. They even pick up HDTV, digital subchannels, color, and stereo in spite of what some antenna marketers want you to believe. I like mine as a backup source for when bad weather interferes with satellite reception or greedy TV broadcasters try to shake down providers for more money and withhold their programming. It seems to me that cable/satellite extends broadcast range so their advertisers can reach farther, they should pay the providers for that instead of the other way around.
I get 83 in Albuquerque New Mexico
Over 120 in Las Vegas . . .
Ahh the good old days. I was born in 74' and grew up right at the beginning of the end of the Good old days. I want too go back to being 3 years old lol.
This is true. I was 10 in ‘74 and much of the seventies still had traditions and consumer technologies connected to previous decades. The good old days! It was 1977/78 when there was a big shift with electronic games, Star Wars, Disco/Punk/Techno (let alone Rap) coming in. The end of the seventies were so different from the beginning of the decade it was like two different decades.
Me too I'm from 76
We had a set of encyclopedias in the late 60s and early 70s. I think it was Encyclopedia Americana. I remember they were very expensive but I did use them a lot for school assignments.
Britanicca
World Book Encyclopedia. Had the 1972 set. A whole shelf on the bookshelf.
Had these in the 90s too. Im only 37 and definitely remember bring taught how to use one and looking up various bits of info. THIS was right before Google really started to take off.
@@klbittick Its the same as a dictionary, but so big it spans several books.
My children were born in the very late 90's. They each had the American Heritage Dictionary and we had a complete set of encyclopedia. We had no TV or video games and they all know what the Pledge of Allegiance means. They all turned out just fine.
Good parenting
They probably turned out better than just “fine”. Our kids these days are so screwed.
good little worker ants for daddy sam
I remember how excited I was when I got my first electric typewriter. You could even back up five spaces to correct a mistake. I thought it was great. Little did I know…
Wow, I forgot all about carbon paper. Fingers inked constantly.
My parents got Pong (and an eye patch) in the early 70's so my younger brother could treat his lazy eye.
My mom collected S&H Green Stamps, then off to the redemption center.
I still have carbon paper - I use it to trace sewing patterns so I don't cut out the original pattern.
On all of our homes that we lived in had antennas on the roof. Rabbit ears were when there was no antenna wiring in that room.
Ha. Mine was on a pole and the wire ran in through a window. Had to go outside and rotate the pole whenever you changed the channel.
I miss rotary dial landline phones ; durable and reliable !
Still have my mom's old French cradle rotary.
I have a rotary dial phone that's nearly a hundred years old. My electricity go out I can plug it into the wall. But we no longer have landline service. I still had the old fashioned original number on the face of the rotary
and party lines
@@CAROLDDISCOVER-2025 I use my landline alot. It can be on hold for 2 hours and never drop a cal. My old rotary would work at the cottage when it was 20 below.
@@rooky55 I have landline in a decade or so. Not only do I have my grandparents old rotary phone, I have two or three of them that belong to my parents. I have a telephone Tower in the backyard. Not a cell phone tire but a telephone Tower. Some people call it a pedestal. It has a few dozen phone connections. If I want to I could just connect to one of them I suppose. This means I can listen in on my neighbor's conversations if any of them is still have landlines. But I don't have to pay for long-distance calls either. Just a note. I don't plan to connect to that telephone pedestal.
Still and with it all... We did have a better social enviroment and i would add to all your points... We also lost a more productive youth. We craved back then the day we could turn 14 to get a real part time job and our first paycheck. All while going to school. Now is all about living from others, mostly parents way past even the so called legal age
I got my first "real" job at sixteen in December of 1966 and started paying FICA taxes which included Social Security and Medicare. Amazingly in 1966 I made $66 dollars! Before that I worked on farms, mowed lawns and raked leaves etc. where I was paid in cash. The minimum wage was just one dollar per hour!
@@bullettube9863 and I bet you still get up early, do a full day of work, and know how to DO things without Google.
I feel that in your haste to label old things obsolete, which they are, you forget that's all we had available. And several devices were the stepping stones that brought us here.
So true Louisa Alba
@@MrPoyo09 Just because something is old doesn't necessarily prove it is obsolete. Some older things outperform and even outlast newer things. There is no profit in making things that way anymore.
I'm so old that I remember the 1950s.
Did they have the wheel yet?
I miss the chain-smoking in the office workplace. Ahh, to go back and be able to have one of those beanbag ashtrays on your desk and smoke 2 packs before lunch...
I can smoke in my office now, but I find myself going outside most of the time anyway. It really is nasty 🤢
When cable took over the cartoon market, TV stations expanded their newscasts into Saturday mornings, and "E/I" programming took the remaining hours leading into sports or infomercials.
As I remember it, when cable TV first came out, it was supposed to eliminate commercials because we paid for cable channels. So much for that idea!
@@TKaePetras And here we are seeing it again with regards to the streaming services. When services such as Netflix first starting going digital instead of just mail-in DVDs, there were no commercials. Now, they have friggan ads everywhere.
I got a Pong game for Christmas when I was 12- wish I still had it!
I remember reloading the ribbon for the typewriters. I do miss a clickety clack of those keys
Great and informative video! An interesting look at 70s trends and technology that are now so strange. Brought back so many memories watching this video! Time flies. Worth watching!
Yes I still got some rabbit ears for my old TV and it still works I got a Kodak camera I haven't used in 20 years I got a brother typewriter that I had in college that's been over 50 years now😂
Darnell: Yes on all! Only i have a quietwriter, Remington brand for a typewriter. I wayyyyy prefer those days to the present.
If there's one thing I learned from this video, its changing social norms!
"Changing social norms" can s**k my d**k
Born in the fifties. The innovations I've experianced in my life time is unparalleled. Second only to the innovations experianced by my grandfather born in 1900. I can't imagine what my grandchildren will see in their lifetime.
My grandfather was born in 1898. In his lifetime he saw the first flight and the first Moon landing.
Beta Max was actually a better format than VHS but Beta Max tried to force the entertainment industry to come to them to put out a movie whereas VHS licensed out their technology which made it cheaper and easier.
Rabbit ears went the way of the dodo when we started paying for cable TV. And since it was pay TV, there were no commercials!
Then soon enough, there were commercials. And premium channels. Then as we paid to watch commercials, they came up with streaming services. So after spending hundreds of dollars per month, we can settle for whatever they offer. Frankly, I’d rather have 3 networks on VHF, a few UHF channels, and no bill every month.
Then put an external aerial and disconnect the cable. Who said the free tv was gone? it never was. Its only digital now, in most countries anyway but your tv can probably decode it.
I still use an antenna
I remember dialing for the time you spelled out “popcorn “ and you had the atomic time
You can use an antenna to pick up free digital tv. Those are not a relic of the past yet. You can also use a rotary phone on most telephone lines.
At least with encyclopedias you don't have to give you're personal details away everytime you want to look something up.
(Yes, I'm talking about bloody Cookies. Even selecting decline activates them !)
I find reading old encyclopedias, a fascinating thing! We had 1901 American Enclopoedia, 1964 Britanicas, and I have one early one volume book of recipes for shop and home published in 1857! Lost knowledge, but also downright misinformation owing to the state of current understandings. The 1901 edition had Wright brothers style planes flying in space as an illustration on their inside covers for example.
@@visnuexe Brilliant.
(Wright brothers in space. LOL)
being born in 1960, at 64 years old, there are way more than 20 things I can no longer do, that I could do in the 70's
I was born in 1968, and I agree! Way more than just 20 things!
Ha. At 62 there are things I could do this morning I can't do now.
Todays rabbit ears tuned to a high definition TV station will actually deliver the best picture as it is not nearly compressed as what your get from cable.
i literally just turned 23 a couple days ago, but anytime i see or watch stuff from back in the day it gives me a weird feeling of nostalgia and wanting to go back. i always tell people older than me that they had it the best! life seemed so much simpler back then. the way people talked and dressed , like it’s so crazy to me that everything has changed so fast. if only time machines were real, i’d go and see all of this for myself. thanks for the video! love daydreaming about wanting to grow up in those times.
I listened to a 4-track tape all the way to New York City.
Ahh the old "rabbit ears"... Okokok, stretch out your right arm... more ... more... ok now lift your left foot... PERFECT! Now hold that pose while I watch the show! 😉
Don't forget having aluminum foil scrunched up and trailed all around in crazy places! Or having to go up on the roof to adjust the antenna after wind spun it wrong! 😂😂😂
@@absinthealice 😂😂
I miss Green Stamps.
In late 1979 we got a new office manager. She took one look at my carbon paper arrangements, asked me what in the BLEEP I was doing, and banned carbon paper from the office. Immediately. As could have been predicted, my work output sped up by many orders of magnitude when I no longer had to correct errors on the carbon copies.
The 70s was much better! Food taste better, we looked out for one another, the teacher's cared about the students: almost like our parents, the music was a trillion times better: more meaningful lyrics, the social scene was better: with block club parties, house parties, discos, live performances, Maxwell Street in Chicago, creating new dance moves, skate parties. Even the gangs fought differently: a fist fight could end in just that, not a murder. The prices of goods and services didn't cost as much! The quality of goods was better. Who remembers: Zenith, Magnavox, and U. S Steel! Bring back the days of Yah and Na!
I wish I had he magic wand to do that cherry h
Agreed! We may have "more" in 2024, but it surely isn't all superior. Human connection and interaction has plummeted, while our televisions are filled with medicines they think we need (we don't), food they think we want to eat (no thanks, I like to make my own), and activities they think we should be participating in.
I would happily give up 5 "new" things to get just 1 "old" thing back.
GenX-Vintage 1968 here.
Im glad that smoking was stopped in publuc places but tv was free then and I think that it still should be even with cable. Never heard of key parties. Miss the drive in movies. Leisure suits ugh. Miss the Sears and Penneys catalog. More people worked in stores then and now there's self checkouts. I hate those. I miss those old Saturday morning cartoons 247 cartoons watching when they want. No. Children should be outside going to the playground or riding bikes. I miss parks with swings.
I loved drive in movies! Most drive ins had grills/restaurants and the food was so good!
I remember the first time a co-worker came in for a meeting and DEMANDED that no one smoke!
We laughed her out of there, and made her phone in from her own desk.
Still alive... I LOVE CHANGE!
When I was traveling for business and would arrive back home, my wife would insist that I leave my business clothes out in my garage, hanging up to air them out, so they wouldn’t smell of cigarette smoke… For the last 10 years or so of my career, I no longer had to do that due to the ban on smoking in offices and public spaces.
I called our family doctor a two-faced dog in the 70,s for smoking & pushing healthy lives.
That social norms has a lot to answer for
I'm still using rabbit ears to watch digital TV. In my attic I have a UHF antenna aimed at all but one station in my area. The rabbit ears are aimed at that station. Works like a charm.
I miss those years too . For people born about then , it is doubtful they will remember that you could own what you received . Recording devices were essentially done away with . Now you have to PAY , but not OWN . And when a streaming service decides the public doesn’t need to see it anymore , the program is scrapped . I am really hoping google doesn’t start doing this . Because streaming services like Netflix do this kind of poop all the time .
8:28 ) carbon paper ! Omg ! That is one handy tool . Besides making copies , you could use it over and over again . And you don’t need a pen or pencil . Any stylis will due . The idea was to transfer ink to paper or anyother serface you wish . My friend used it to transfer pictures to t shirts , and then paint those pictures in . Creating your own images was a thing The carbon washed out so the outline of the image was what you were left with . The ability to RECORD has been taken away from us again . Again 11:16 ) we used to go to the LIBRARY to do this research for school , but sometimes we hunted for girls , and boys too . And that’s where the encyclopedia came in handy , because do you remember the night club and disco scene you saw earlier ? Theoretically that was another option . That was all done away with . You are not allowed to hunt for your man or girl anymore . It makes me sick . Atari isolated you from other people . No one goes outside to play anymore . No socializing with your nabor !
I don't one bit. Not even 2.
I don’t know anybody that has cable. Just about everybody that I know, including myself either stream or utilizes flat antennas for digital television locally.
I wonder if the creator of the video liked the Pontiac GTO, the original GOAT?
Ten more things from the 70s:
1. The CB radio craze.
2. Parents were expected to beat their kids whenever they were in the mood.
3. Kids as young as 12 smoked cigarettes and nobody lost their $h1t over it. Cigarettes were stinkier back then too.
4. No smog checks-you could drive your hotrod around with a big ol' belt-driven supercharger poking up through the hood.
5. Teachers and school officials thought learning disabilities were a fairy tale.
6. Ice cream trucks.
7. FIREWORKS!!! Saint Ronald Raygun ruined that for us.
8. Radios and TVs built before 1973 still had vacuum tubes in them. Drugstores had tube-testing machines so you could bring the tubes from your radio or TV and test them to find out whether they were burned out.
9. Landfill space was limitless. When you got tired of looking at something, you'd just throw it out, and it was out of sight, out of mind.
10. A lot more kids still built model cars and model airplanes. Video games killed that hobby.
You could go on a date without a bucket of penicillin.
In ‘73 I joined the Navy . On ship a carton of smokes cost a blistering $ 1.17 . That’s how I developed a 3 pack a day habit . Also at the enlisted men’s club on base any “ well “ drink was . 50 cents . Needless to say that became a habit also . At least , by the grace of God , I am 32 years sober and smoke free .
Praise my Lord .
Thank you for your service ❤ Congratulations on your recovery, and thank you for staying!
They were 55¢ in the cigarette machine (I was 11 years old). I've smoked pretty much ever since. I've used (and sometimes abused) it all and put everything else down, but I just can't shake em 🚬
@@Rox1SMF I understand . But I will say , to the dismay of many , that my belief in Christ and putting my habits into His hands made it so much more easier to quit . May you find God’s grace as I found it .
I still use antenna. 😅 when I feel like watching local news is the best option.
best thing about the 70's was the cars from the 60's were still around
Did you see those GTOs? ❤
We had copy machines in the 70s. Schools still used mimoegraphs and offices were phasing out carbon. I remember using those credit card imprinters.
It's a damned good thing I'm an honest person by nature, because there were times when I had fat stacks of slips with all that CC info locked in my desk!
I worked in my school's office in 7th & 8th grade. I ❤ getting to run the mimeograph machine 👃🏽😂 That AB Dick fluid was something else! 😵🥴
@@Rox1SMF Is dishonestly really that rampant? yikes
You can't call flip flops, thongs any longer. he, he, he.
I supply teach and asked a Year 5 class recently if they had an atlas in the room I could refer to. I was met with universally blank looks. They had no idea what an atlas was!
As a pre-teen, I used to walk to the local Howard Johnson and buy cigarettes from the vending machine for my dad. No one ever gave me a problem. Gen X’ers were different.
Back in my hometown, the so-called OLD COUNTRY, we could buy at any age cigarettes at the pharmacy.
GenX were born different, raised different, and most of us figured it out as we went along. We learned our lessons the hard way. We were the Generation that F'kd Around and Found Out.
I'd love be back in those days.
I miss phone books and encyclopedias.
@janp7660: Both are still available in most public libraries.
newspapers and magazines too
Going from black and white tv to color was something amazing and there was still shows in bkack and white
There wasn’t much on TV, but it was free.
I had a complete Brittanica set & update subscription in the mid-80's. They were great looking books (bount in genuine imitation leather), and were great for the kids, but they were very expensive: roughly $1500 to start, plus the annual update subscriptions. I don't miss that at all!
I remember my grandmother collected green stamps.also remember Linotype machines used in the printing business
I have an antenna next to my 55" LED TV. The OTA digital signal is clear and clean. I watch some of the shows that run old programs from the '50s, '60s, and '70s.
I was 10 in the 70s and my dad would give me ten bucks and send me across a four lane highway to buy him a carton of Salems! 😂 I’m surprised I survived the traffic on that 4 lane highway! Yep those were the good old days of parenting!😂
Ahh the move from big, gas guzzling cars to more fuel efficient cars, to big gas guzzling SUV's and pickups. Progress marches on.
Trucks and suvs are still more fuel efficient today than many of the cars from the past.
What has really changed is the comfort of the seats in vehicles today, I still miss the comfort of my 74 caddy.
The music was groovy, baby.
Rabbit Ears are alive and well. They pick up channels just fine. No special antenna needed.,
Still use an antenna. Over the air channels.
I remember when most of these things were started. None of us miss them. We have been waiting for "the world of tomorrow" for seven decades. We just got to the shore of the world of whatever this year! I'm looking forward to my grand children one day seeing a world of tomorrow.
There are a few things from the 70s you forgot...
Laser discs
Mobile LP players
Light purple ink ditto sheets
CB radio
Colecovision LED video games
Super wide lapels
Manual typewriters
Winston/Salem coupons.
And A.S.C.I.I. is pronounced "Askee".
Also, I have some observations...
There's literally a chat app called "Telegram".
We all survived the 70s specifically because asbestos, cigarette smoke, smog, pollution, and lead paint COULDN'T kill us. Survival of the fittest.
Our rampant SUVs are literally large, low-mileage cars of today.
Madame C.J. Walker had the first electric car in the 19th century.
Kids playing outside every day is a lost tradition.
We called the credit card carbon impressors "cha-chunk thingies".
IBM started as a typewriter company.
Yeah, well Tom Sawyer painted that fence with lead based!
😂😂😂😂
Lol, no. He used milk paint. 😂
@@rosesperfumelace OMG, you guys are hilarious 😂 😃 😄
It was whitewash, a cheap lime based alternative to paint that didn't last as long.
@@questerperipatetic4861 Yes but white wash killed germs re paled insects, and has several other advantages over paint, reason it is still used on farms in milking parlors and chicken houses. Works wonders on getting rid of carpenter bees.and also will not mold, and will kill mold.
Quite good, thanks.
Things rarely heard of these days now who remembers doctors made house calls mucho businesses were honesty done knew costumers by name were mucho friendly treated us nicer volks did work mucho often not using machines as we now do more work was done properly
I loved encyclopedias!!
Actually with digital broadcast TV I get very clear pictures with my rabbit ears and bowtie antennas
I actually pulled off a highway and the gas station register wasn’t taking credit cards since I had no cash they actually pulled out that old credit card reader. Never heard anything sp assume it worked!!
Love love the story. Pay it forward and it will come back in spades
If it is the thing from the 50ies, that's no reader its just a contraption to press your card against carbon paper so it prints its info there and with your signature with copies they later take to the bank to get the money. Of course that needs cards with embossed digits, the card i have now doesn't have those anymore. Countries whose cash hasn't lost value much, have been slow to go cashless. It seems it won't be long now for America to hurry up there...
How about getting a paper paycheck from the boss! And then standing in long line to cash it! And how about getting TWO newspapers delivered to your home? One in morning…one in evening.
Did anyone, besides me, ever put the carbon paper in backwards - giving you a perfect mirror image on the back of your paper while leaving the second page blank? You usually only do that one time!
Even better if you weren't paying attention and made four backward "carbons!"
Sony demanded royalties on betamax production but VHS was more free to distribute. That is what really killed betamax.
I worked at a store and several times the company that processes credit card transactions on line went down and we had to pull out the old slide thing a ma jig and do things the old fashioned way. They still work, but when the system came back up we just manually loaded the info in.
Nobody carried those huge electric typewriters. They were too big and heavy.
I carried one to college.... The Apple McIntosh came out the next year and made it obsolete.
Actually, "Rabbit ears" antennas are more efficient at processing the "over-the-air" signals than cable or satellite . . . there is no signal compression with OTA signals = clearer picture in this digital age. I've been a "cord cutter" now for about 10 years and won't ever go back to the high priced cable or satellite services. There isn't anything I can't get with my outdoor antenns for free . . .
i use rabbit ear antenna for my tv and i get quite a number of channels
I remember that the cartoons in the 50s and 60s showed the subjects in total motion and fluidity, the later cartoons were essentially still pictures with just small parts of their bodies moving. A terrible degradation.
Biggest change for me - Laser scanning your shopping at the supermarket checkout, rather than the operator having to remember the five or six digit number for each item.
A good friends dad from my childhood, rip buddy, was an encyclopedia salesman. He was our "rich" friend. Crazy
Rotary phones remained popular because parents could put locking devices with keys on the first hole that would prevent the children from running up the phone bill. But us kids learned how to dial by clicking the receiver 9×5×6 times for whatever respective number we were trying to dial, and we could complete calls with the locking mechanism in place.
Thank God for #1!
Nonsense!
I pickup FREE TV (digital) with rabbit ears.
Our first laptop (1984) was a 35lb system that came with a 5" monitor.
It was the Commodore 64SX.
As a ham radio operator, morse code is still my favorite!
1) leaving your door unlocked
2) let your kids play outside
3) have public gatherings of people that actually belong in the country
4) use public schools
5) letting your kids go to the library
I got some rabbit ears on my smart t.v.! 😁😁😁🤔 I rember having to put a hanger into the broken rabbit ears antenna with foil on it to get good reception! Classic!😁😁😁🤔 I remember in the seventies we used to get our elementary homework sheets copied on carbon paper it was purple copies!!!
Is that Tippi Hedren at 1.50 advertising cigarettes?
"The era of free-love was O-V-E-R !!"
(Wanna bet?}
It's now called "the hookup culture "!
The idea of free love goes back to the 18th century movement both in England, France and America!
The amount of people who have died is not one person less than it would have been had the smoking bans never went into effect.
True, but they'd never want to share that intel.
Killed the social life though ...
That is provably ridiculous.
I never saw S&H Green Stamps, but I remember the functionally similar Blue Chip Stamps.
I was born in 1946😊
Me too.
@@iwillopine 👍🙂
All true, but a lot of the images you used were from the 50s and even earlier.