Things you had/used as a kid, that is outdated for your kids

[Borg]

The newspaper thing got me thinking even more about things my kids really don't have any idea about. Things that I used/had as a kid, but technology has passed it by and it is just flat out funny or weird to them.

Rotary phones

LP's and turntables

8 track tapes

cassette tapes

boom box

polaroid intant cameras

waterbeds


(I'll edit this as I think...but, man, in one short generation, there is a ton of things that my kids think are funny and weird)

[RC Vikings]

Typewriter

[Borderline Divine]

Not so recently

but along this same vein: One night we lost the TV remote. Hey, it's just gone! Search failing, I walk to the set and push the power button. My at the time 14 year old says "How'd you do that?"

Ah the fun I had explaining to him the days of black and white, aluminum foil on the rabbit ears and three channels.

[thesaint258]

The newspaper thing got me thinking even more about things my kids really don't have any idea about. Things that I used/had as a kid, but technology has passed it by and it is just flat out funny or weird to them.

Rotary phones

LP's and turntables

8 track tapes

cassette tapes

boom box

polaroid intant cameras

waterbeds


(I'll edit this as I think...but, man, in one short generation, there is a ton of things that my kids think are funny and weird)

That reminds me of this video of kids trying to figure out what some older products are.

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSHeKfZG7c"]YouTube - Il était une fois... les technologies du passé.[/nomedia]

[DrumNFeather]

Speak N' Spell.

[Sullyute]

Pong

[RC Vikings]

Dictionaries

World Book Encyclopedias

Playboy magazine

[SteelBlue]

Jockstraps in PE as required attire. My Junior High actually made us line up and pull one of the straps low through the bottom of our shorts to prove we were properly dressed each day. Do jock straps even exist anymore? That was one weird piece of attire. The assless chaps of the sports world.

[Borg]

Jockstraps in PE as required attire. My Junior High actually made us line up and pull one of the straps low through the bottom of our shorts to prove we were properly dressed each day. Do jock straps even exist anymore? That was one weird piece of attire. The assless chaps of the sports world.

speak for yourself. we've come a long way in the world of jock strap fashion.

[wally]

speak for yourself. we've come a long way in the world of jock strap fashion.

Take your gayness elsewhere, Borg.

[wuapinmon]

speak for yourself. we've come a long way in the world of jock strap fashion.

Since "vagina" means "sheath" that jock cover is very interesting.

[Brian]

crank phone calls caller ID killed the crank call star
satisfaction with watching crappy TV shows because there were only 3 channels.
lawn darts. Thanks lawyers
walking to school. Thanks creepers.
hand crank to start car
big goody comb in the back pocket.
church janitors
reel to reel tape players
Transferring your LPs to cassette so you could strap on a 1 pound sony walkman and go skiing.
Always having the cassette recorder next to your alarm clock radio in case a song worth recording came on.
Flash cubes for cameras.
Video store that consisted of a few VCR players to rent and 20 movies.
super 8 projector.
shoulder mount VCR camera
hip wiggling workout machine.
grass trimming w/o a weed wacker. (hand held shears for the whole yard. Every week...)

[BigFatMeanie]

The newspaper thing got me thinking even more about things my kids really don't have any idea about. Things that I used/had as a kid, but technology has passed it by and it is just flat out funny or weird to them.

Rotary phones

LP's and turntables

8 track tapes

cassette tapes

boom box

polaroid intant cameras

waterbeds


(I'll edit this as I think...but, man, in one short generation, there is a ton of things that my kids think are funny and weird)

My kids asked me what a boom box was the other day. I described a boom box to them and showed them how people used to carry boom boxes around on their shoulders. They, with their iPod nanos, laughed themselves silly at the thought of carrying a boom box on one's shoulder.

[Sullyute]

crank phone calls caller ID killed the crank call star
satisfaction with watching crappy TV shows because there were only 3 channels.
lawn darts. Thanks lawyers
walking to school. Thanks creepers.
hand crank to start car
big goody comb in the back pocket.
church janitors
reel to reel tape players
Transferring your LPs to cassette so you could strap on a 1 pound sony walkman and go skiing.
Always having the cassette recorder next to your alarm clock radio in case a song worth recording came on.
Flash cubes for cameras.
Video store that consisted of a few VCR players to rent and 20 movies.
super 8 projector.
shoulder mount VCR camera
hip wiggling workout machine.
grass trimming w/o a weed wacker. (hand held shears for the whole yard. Every week...)

We had a Betamax VCR as a kid and only had one video store that rented Betamax videos. The selection of videos dwindled and dwindled until my parents finaly bought a VHS.

[Sizzle]

Laser Discs