Things that have changed

[_Roobarb]

Sport

Sport.

Then...

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and now...

http://images.athlonsports.com/d/24358-1/soccer-players-crying-8.jpg

http://images.athlonsports.com/d/24338-1/soccer-players-crying-1.jpg

 

[Queersetti]

Kids today have no idea what a cassette tape and a #2 pencil have in common. They certainly don't know what a cassette tape is, and maybe not a #2 pencil!

I read recently that there is only one manufacturer still making cassette tapes, and that there only customers are companies that produce audio books for the blind.

 

[about_average]

Apparently a lot of kids don't know the "tick" noise a smartphone keyboard makes is based on the sound that typewriters make.

Hanx Writer
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hanx-writer/id868326899?mt=8

Bottle caps.

I have one of these in my kitchen that I use several times a week for opening bottles
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tvuFvpyRL._SL500_SS100_.jpg

Inner tubes.

Not only can you still buy inner tubes, you can also still buy tire flaps.

 

[CaptainKirk]

Rotary phones.

And I wonder if kids today know that phones used to be connected to actual wires and cords... and weren't really 'mobile' until the mid 80s.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I have a 24-hour clock so it's correct only once a day.

 

[Adre]

Superman is still around, but the phone booth he changed in is harder to find.

 

[Adre]

Cream rising to the top.

 

[RobDownSouth]

When I was a junior in high school I knew I wanted to work in journalism as an adult and that I would major in that in college.

Another male classmate and I decided it made sense to take typing class as an elective in our senior year. We knew there weren't any typing classes in college, and I felt like I needed to have that skill when I got there anyway.

My academic counselor tried to talk me out of it. He said I should take it during summer school. I think he thought I was just trying to find an hour in my school day to goof off, because in those days, only girls knew how to type.

Nonetheless my friend and I took the class, and we took it seriously, although being the only two males in the room we did opt to sit in the back.

Today, of course, kids are getting keyboard skills before they enter elementary school.

Before Jeb Bush gutted Florida's education program, they had an absolutely wonderful progression...they taught basic keyboarding skillz in third grade, and by fifth grade kids were doing advanced powerpoint presentations for book reports.

Contrast that to Georgia, where they didn't introduce keyboarding until 5th grade and never really taught powerpoint. phooey.

 

[Typo Fu Master]

*spits*

Why, back in my day we didn't NEED metal detectors in school ...

 

[evesdream]

Kids today have no idea what a cassette tape and a #2 pencil have in common. They certainly don't know what a cassette tape is, and maybe not a #2 pencil!

http://www.digitalmomblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/the-cassette-tape-and-the-pencil.jpg

Rotary phones.

And I wonder if kids today know that phones used to be connected to actual wires and cords... and weren't really 'mobile' until the mid 80s.

And either huddled over the receiver in a corner of the living room, or with the cord trailing behind you aaalllll the way from the kitchen (or wherever) to your closed bedroom door....and the click when you realized one of your parents or siblings had been listening on another line in the house!

Oh, and standing by the phone glaring or sighing impatiently at whichever family member tried to use it while you were waiting for a call.

 

[evesdream]

When I was a junior in high school I knew I wanted to work in journalism as an adult and that I would major in that in college.

Another male classmate and I decided it made sense to take typing class as an elective in our senior year. We knew there weren't any typing classes in college, and I felt like I needed to have that skill when I got there anyway.

My academic counselor tried to talk me out of it. He said I should take it during summer school. I think he thought I was just trying to find an hour in my school day to goof off, because in those days, only girls knew how to type.

Nonetheless my friend and I took the class, and we took it seriously, although being the only two males in the room we did opt to sit in the back.

Today, of course, kids are getting keyboard skills before they enter elementary school.

While coordinating an after-school literacy program, we were agog and frankly in disbelief when a child told us that his teacher is no longer giving her classes instruction in how to write cursive, since they ''aren't going to need it anymore''.

 

[Vanadorn]

I had dug out my out tape recorder and gave it to my daughter to play with - you know, record her voice, play back, the sort of crap we did as a kid.

It was funny because she then asked me how to "erase" it. I told her just rewind and tape over it. She didn't get it and I had to explain exactly how the tape works.

I do have a working VCR in my basement and 140 or so VCR tapes still.

-V

 

[CandiCame]

My little brother thought that the save icon was a robot. Like an autobot.

http://www.geekchamp.com/upload/SymbolIcons/ActionIcons/e105-Save.png

Because he's never seen a floppy disk.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

COCA COLA

Its not as good as in the 50s. They change the formula every year it seems.

 

[CandiCame]

While coordinating an after-school literacy program, we were agog and frankly in disbelief when a child told us that his teacher is no longer giving her classes instruction in how to write cursive, since they ''aren't going to need it anymore''.

Cursive was always stupid.

But why would you need a class to learn how to type? You're born knowing how to type. You push the button with the letter on it. I remember being 5 or 6 in computer class with those stupid games "type this sentence before the cat drowns" and I was like, "Fuck that cat, I wanna play Oregon Trail".

Seriously fuck this shit, I can push a button without instruction.

http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/B002U0L1BU-lesson.jpg

 

[CandiCame]

When the 1st live-action TF movie came out, that same brother didn't know what Soundwave was. I sat him down to watch the cartoon before we went to the movies.

 

[TwinkleStars]

When VCR's were first made, I remember ours had a cord attached to the remote so you could operate it from your couch. The cord didn't go very far and we'd have to sit on the floor to control the blasted thing.

I remember my cassette tapes. I became a wiz at being able to fix them in almost any state of brokenness.

 

[evesdream]

Cursive was always stupid.

But why would you need a class to learn how to type? You're born knowing how to type. You push the button with the letter on it. I remember being 5 or 6 in computer class with those stupid games "type this sentence before the cat drowns" and I was like, "Fuck that cat, I wanna play Oregon Trail".

Seriously fuck this shit, I can push a button without instruction.

http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/B002U0L1BU-lesson.jpg

They both harken back to when people transcribed copies by hand. Cursive enables faster handwriting. The same idea is behind touch-typing lessons - you were memorizing where all the keys are on your qwerty so you could quickly transcribe from documents or speech with minimum errors.

Here's a peeve of mine. Watching the clerks at the local post office key-in data with two fingers, hesitating and scanning the entire keyboard before each stroke as if it's not a tool that they use every single day.

 

[Balladeer08]

Cursive was always stupid.

But why would you need a class to learn how to type? You're born knowing how to type. You push the button with the letter on it.

Seriously fuck this shit, I can push a button without instruction.

http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/B002U0L1BU-lesson.jpg

Yes, anyone can 1 or 2-finger the keyboard. Learning to touch type lets you type much faster. Depending on how much typing I've been doing lately, I vary between 45 and 75 wpm. I could be faster, but I stop to correct all my mistakes. Well, all of the ones I notice. Noobdy is prefect.

 

[kbate]

Film.

The last place in my area that develops 35mm film is going to sell off their equipment when their current batch of developing chemicals runs out.

My kids saw my film camera, but won't ever use one themselves.

 

[Balladeer08]

Here's a peeve of mine. Watching the clerks at the local post office key-in data with two fingers, hesitating and scanning the entire keyboard before each stroke as if it's not a tool that they use every single day.

I use that as an opportunity to exercise my inner asshole: "A little lower. Now to the left. Getting warmer. OOOPS! That wasn't it was it? We have a word a lot like that in English..."

Eventually I am going to succeed at getting thrown out of the Post Office. (We all have our goals)

 

[oggbashan]

typewriter ribbons are gone.

No. They are not. The German typewriter company is selling more typewriters now than they sold in the last decade because no one can hack into a typewriter, nor link to the wireless signal between keyboard and computer.

What has gone:

78 rpm records and wind-up gramophones for use. They were made in South America up to the 1990s because they could be used where there was no electricity. They still make gramophones in India and export them to Europe, but they are collectors' toys, not realistic music playing machines. They will play 78 rpm records but the reproduction is crude.

Punch Cards to program computers.

Slide Rules.

Mechanical Adding Machines.

Video Discs and VideoDisc players - I saw a player and a handful of discs in a secondhand/antique shop last month.

Super 8 Cine Cameras and Projectors.

Almost all film cameras are now obsolescent as digital cameras and phone cameras have improved. Gone with them - developing and printing at home with photographic chemicals, and enlargers.

Home printing sets - make your own Business Cards with moveable lead type!

Rotary (Banda/Gestener) machines for reproducing handouts, school test papers.

Chalk on a blackboard for education.

Subbuteo football sets.

Tiddywinks.

 

[Balladeer08]

Film.

The last place in my area that develops 35mm film is going to sell off their equipment when their current batch of developing chemicals runs out.

My kids saw my film camera, but won't ever use one themselves.

Gads. Kids will never know the joys of working in a darkroom.

Or understand the the brightest light source normally encountered in photography is the crack under the darkroom door.

On the bright side, HDR photography just blows me away, you could NOT do that with film. And as the megapixels have risen, the quality of digital photography has risen with it. And the cost is way down. Film processing was expensive, printing pictures on silver-halide paper was expensive. Digital is WAY more cost effective, and so much faster. 1-hour photo? How about 1 second?

Still, I think the darkroom time gave you more opportunity to reflect on your craft, and the fact that it was so expensive and time-consuming made you plan your shots more carefully.

A lot of trade-offs there.

 

[evesdream]

I use that as an opportunity to exercise my inner asshole: "A little lower. Now to the left. Getting warmer. OOOPS! That wasn't it was it? We have a word a lot like that in English..."

Eventually I am going to succeed at getting thrown out of the Post Office. (We all have our goals)

There's a huge partition between the public and the clerk at our post offices so I can't quite see what's going on. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt so I just stand there and wonder if they're dealing with a keyboard that is completely alien to the outside world - with cuneiform symbols or some suchery.

 

[kbate]

Still, I think the darkroom time gave you more opportunity to reflect on your craft, and the fact that it was so expensive and time-consuming made you plan your shots more carefully.

A lot of trade-offs there.

It might be a nice little niche trade to set up a darkroom that can handle 35mm film to serve the 'diehards'. I don't know if it would be profitable, but it might pay for itself.

Another little niche trade is converting negatives to digital images, my mother has perhaps 6 boxes of old photographs going back to those she inherited from her mother who inherited and so on... so she's got negatives dating from the 1930s to the 1990s. I'd imagine if she has that, so do thousands of others who might prefer a nice set of CDs, or a Thumbdrive or something else with their photographs. I just don't know how much I'd pay for it, (or charge to do it).