Kids will never know that to fix a VCR you just had to blow into it...they'll never know that you used to have to WRITE OUT all your reports. The death of writing, handwriting scares me the most...
Audio-Visual Entertainment
#Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something.
#Super-8 movies and cine film of all kinds.
#Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo. See what happens when you give a Walkman to today’s teenager.
#The number of TV channels being a single digit. I remember it being a massive event when Britain got its fourth channel.
Computers and Videogaming
# Wires. OK, so they’re not gone yet, but it won’t be long
# The scream of a modem connecting.
# The buzz of a dot-matrix printer
# 5- and 3-inch floppies, Zip Discs and countless other forms of data storage.
The Internet
# NCSA Mosaic.
# Finding out information from an encyclopedia.
# Using a road atlas to get from A to B.
# Doing bank business only when the bank is open.
# Shopping only during the day, Monday to Saturday.
# Phone books and Yellow Pages.
Gadgets
# Typewriters.
# Putting film in your camera: 35mm may have some life still, but what about APS or disk?
# Sending that film away to be processed.
# Having physical prints of photographs come back to you.
# CB radios.
Everything Else
# Taking turns picking a radio station, or selecting a tape, for everyone to listen to during a long drive.
# Remembering someone’s phone number.
# Not knowing who was calling you on the phone.
# Actually going down to a Blockbuster store to rent a movie.
# Toys actually being suitable for the under-3s.
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