Little kids with old technologies

[Al B. Sure!]

at the kid who scratches with the record player

[Docfeelgood]

The black kid knew how to scratch?

[Al B. Sure!]

Does this make everyone feel old? Is that why it was 1-stared?

[Docfeelgood]

I wonder what they would think of a mood ring?

[-Jrabbit]

Awesome! Nice find, Al.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Reminds me of that scene in Back to the Future II where the kids are like "You need to use your hands to play this game"?

[Wezil]

The video was a little tame. They should have expanded the number of items to include more dangerous things.

[Hauldren Collider]

The other day a kid asked me what a floppy disk was. I felt really old then, which is weird because I'm NOT. Kinda surprised he didn't know what they were.

Other anachronisms I've had to explain to underclassmen (a lot of these are a bit before my time):
1. Where "punching in numbers" comes from (punchcards, right?)
2. "Dialing" a telephone
3. Which came first, spam the canned food or spam the junk emails? (this one is my favorite)
4. Why floppy disks are called "floppy" disks
5. Why they are called "screensavers"
6. Why the command to display text in many programming languages is "print"

[Al B. Sure!]

I imagine some of those kids wonder why on some programs the save is represented by a 3.5 inch floppy disk icon.

There's a lot of anachronisms still around in speech or graphical representation.

[-Jrabbit]

1. Where "punching in numbers" comes from (punchcards, right?)

I don't think so. I believe, historically, this phrase has its roots in adding machines, precursor of both the computer and the electronic calculator.



And yes, I'm old enough to remember them. My dad had one.

[Traianvs]

I don't think so. I believe, historically, this phrase has its roots in adding machines, precursor of both the computer and the electronic calculator.



And yes, I'm old enough to remember them. My dad had one.

And so did mine. I actually played with that contraption when I was little. And that's only about fifteen years ago!

[Egbert]

The other day a kid asked me what a floppy disk was. I felt really old then, which is weird because I'm NOT. Kinda surprised he didn't know what they were.

Other anachronisms I've had to explain to underclassmen (a lot of these are a bit before my time):
1. Where "punching in numbers" comes from (punchcards, right?)
2. "Dialing" a telephone
3. Which came first, spam the canned food or spam the junk emails? (this one is my favorite)
4. Why floppy disks are called "floppy" disks
5. Why they are called "screensavers"
6. Why the command to display text in many programming languages is "print"

The other day, a teenage girl asked me "what did you do when you wanted a girl's phone number before mobile phones"?

Umh, get the home number.

Ancient times.

[Al B. Sure!]

I don't think so. I believe, historically, this phrase has its roots in adding machines, precursor of both the computer and the electronic calculator.



And yes, I'm old enough to remember them. My dad had one.

I have never seen that in my life. It looks like a giant calculator. What's with 8 buttons for each number and there being no 0?

[Al B. Sure!]

The other day, a teenage girl asked me "what did you do when you wanted a girl's phone number before mobile phones"?

Umh, get the home number.

Ancient times.

Maybe she meant... "like what? You mean you would write it down? Who carries around a pen and paper?"

[Hauldren Collider]

The other day, a teenage girl asked me "what did you do when you wanted a girl's phone number before mobile phones"?

Umh, get the home number.

Ancient times.

You know, I actually remember using payphones a few times. Hard to imagine anyone using those anymore. I even made a collect call once! I feel like I shouldn't be old enough yet to have to say things like this.