Things that have changed

[Balladeer08]

In the digital age, a broken clock is no longer right twice a day, it does not display at all.


What are other examples of the way things have changed, things the kids would not understand because they way things are now is all they've ever known? Sayings that no longer work, that kind of thing.

 

[Mike_Yates]

War, war never changes.

Or does it?...

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[snugglestruggle]

Coffee Pots

Penny candy is nonexistent

Drive In's, almost all gone

Rocky point Amusement park torn down.

Go carts

 

[Bidin~Time]

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!

 

[sufisaint]

Kids will never know the heart break when your tape player at your favorite tape...the one you got ten for a dollar and never ordered again...

 

[Learnsmith]

I'm thirty. I now carry a device in my pocket that acts as computer, camera, and phone, and has instant access to the sum of all human knowledge. Communities and countries now connect in ways that were unprecedented in my youth. News and dissent now spread at the speed of social media.

And yet I now wear glasses like my dad, with a haircut like my grandfather. I keep to the old ways, wear my dad's old cologne, shave with a safety-razor. Some things are cyclical.

 

[Bidin~Time]

Kids will never know the heart break when your tape player at your favorite tape...the one you got ten for a dollar and never ordered again...

omg I had forgotten about those 10 fer deals!

 

[snugglestruggle]

I'm thirty. I now carry a device in my pocket that acts as computer, camera, and phone, and has instant access to the sum of all human knowledge. Communities and countries now connect in ways that were unprecedented in my youth. News and dissent now spread at the speed of social media. It is all just enough to make me feel old.

So much power in the palm of your hand and yet it is so fragile.

 

[Noor]

french perfume being reformulated by law. I miss the old formulas.

 

[Balladeer08]

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 grew up before there were 4-track tapes, followed by 8-track, then cassettes. I used my uncle's wire recorder. Anyone remember those?

The pencil was to rewind loose tape on the cassette. I often wondered if the sprocket hole was designed that way, or if it was just a fortuitous accident.

I wonder if the kids know what recording tape is.

 

[Balladeer08]

french perfume being reformulated by law. I miss the old formulas.

French postcards being AGAINST the law!

 

[snugglestruggle]

french perfume being reformulated by law. I miss the old formulas.

Be careful how you use it

 

[sufisaint]

No more finding your Dad's stash of playboys in the attic...now you got search the hard drive...

 

[Not Normal]

I grew up before there were 4-track tapes, followed by 8-track, then cassettes. I used my uncle's wire recorder. Anyone remember those?

The pencil was to rewind loose tape on the cassette. I often wondered if the sprocket hole was designed that way, or if it was just a fortuitous accident.

I wonder if the kids know what recording tape is.

I have a Webster Wire Recorder at my studio, though it belongs to a friend. The reel that came with the machine has Bing Crosby Christmas on it. It's a beautiful little machine.

 

[John Doe]

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

And now I feel old.

War, war never changes.

Or does it?...

http://111.imagebam.com/download/CCgDoVdLD-Eqp79JpZD7aA/35787/357860661/changes.jpg

http://viewfromthecouchdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/centipedes-in-my-vagina.jpg

 

[Balladeer08]

I have a Webster Wire Recorder at my studio, though it belongs to a friend. The reel that came with the machine has Bing Crosby Christmas on it. It's a beautiful little machine.

Aren't they just?

Does it still work? Can you still get wire for it?

I remember playing my grandmother's wind-up Edison phonograph as a child. Still know a couple of the songs I learned from it.

Which brings to mind the most amazing feature I recently found on my Droid phone while playing music. In the settings options, it lets you change the speed. But unlike an old phonograph record, this does not change the pitch. You can choose from half speed up to double speed, and the instruments and voices sound the same, just playing slower. Some times it works amazingly well, some times it is just funny to listen to. I can turn heavy metal into a waltz. Bizarre.

 

[Not Normal]

Aren't they just?

Does it still work? Can you still get wire for it?

I remember playing my grandmother's wind-up Edison phonograph as a child. Still know a couple of the songs I learned from it.

Which brings to mind the most amazing feature I recently found on my Droid phone while playing music. In the settings options, it lets you change the speed. But unlike an old phonograph record, this does not change the pitch. You can choose from half speed up to double speed, and the instruments and voices sound the same, just playing slower. Some times it works amazingly well, some times it is just funny to listen to. I can turn heavy metal into a waltz. Bizarre.

He got a few wire reels with it. I was trying to figure out if I could rig a cable to record to the line in. It's got a great looking are deco microphone, so I may repair that and record to it that way.
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh299/knot_normal/20130828_145131.jpg

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh299/knot_normal/20130828_144214.jpg

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh299/knot_normal/th_20130828_143825.mp4

 

[Balladeer08]

He got a few wire reels with it. I was trying to figure out if I could rig a cable to record to the line in. It's got a great looking are deco microphone, so I may repair that and record to it that way.
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh299/knot_normal/20130828_145131.jpg

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh299/knot_normal/20130828_144214.jpg

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh299/knot_normal/th_20130828_143825.mp4

It would be practically sinful not to fix that art deco microphone and use it. Entirely too cool.

 

[patient1]

In the digital age, a broken clock is no longer right twice a day, it does not display at all.


What are other examples of the way things have changed, things the kids would not understand because they way things are now is all they've ever known? Sayings that no longer work, that kind of thing.

You mean like "Dial tone" and "private line" ?

Or "Hand written letter"?

 

[Que]

I had three of my kids with me at the hotel. The two oldest could not do their homework except from their mom's laptop. No other alternatives existed, unable to login with mine, and no books, no paper, no pencils. I had to drive them 30 miles to do their homework.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

typewriter ribbons are gone.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

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.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Cigarette machines.

Phone booths.

Bottle caps.

 

[DesEsseintes]

People sticking to their word and being on time is the biggest thing for me, with the advent of mobile/cell phones. It used to be if you agreed to meet at 1 pm under the clock, that's what you did, regardless of circumstance, because otherwise the other person would be waiting for you. Now you text on the way to say you will be late, or early, or meet somewhere else, or cancel altogether. For today's young people everything is infinitely deferrable, transient, liminal - certainty is seen as a form of authoritarianism. Depressing.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Adding machines.

Inner tubes.