'Obsolete' technology that you remember using.

[twistedmic]

The question is fairly simple, what pieces of technology, now considered old or obsolete, do you remember using? I can easily remember having a VCR and having to get new tapes every so often and having to rewind the tape before I returned it to Block Buster. And I also remember using cartridge based games on consoles, listening to audio books on cassette tapes and using rabbit-ears to get a clear picture on the t.v.

 

[XJ-0461]

Oh yeah, VHS tapes... man, I haven't watched one of those in ages. I used to have a massive stash of videos before DVDs became really cheap.

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

Everything the OP mentioned, the Commodore 64, monochrome computer displays, 5 and a half inch floppy diskettes, good old fashioned radial telephones, hard drives that measured total capacity in megabytes, you name it. It has come to my attention that I'm kind of old for this crowd, heh.

 

[8bitmaster]

a computer with windows 98. Good times, when the best game out there was doom 2. Ah good stuff.

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

The Game Boy Color, and everything mentioned above.

 

[The Long Road]

I think VHS tapes are going to be a common theme here because they were still fairly common until about 5 or 6 years ago.

What I remember using was dial-up internet. The sounds... They still haunt my dreams...

 

[smeghead25]

Split-screen multiplayer?

Even older: Split-screen multiplayer for MORE than 2 players?

 

[imnot]

VHS i like those little things.

 

[smeghead25]

Damn, the first didn't show up after a few refreshes... I will think of something else for this spot

EDIT: MP3 players? iPod's seem to be what everyone uses now. I don't actually know anyone who doesn't have one except me. I like my humble little MP3 player. It does all the same stuff just without annoying slow iTunes or a shiny ego-building Apple logo.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

a computer with windows 98. Good times, when the best game out there was doom 2. Ah good stuff.

98? You young whippersnappers don't know what obsolete technology is! Back in my day, we had 95, and we were lucky if we could get any game more complicated than solitaire! (Actually, there was Chip's challenge, which was awesome!)

What else? The original game boy, the sega game gear (got it for 50p in a car boot sale), VHS tapes (which I still use, if only to watch Star Wars), 3 1/2 inch floppy disks....

How, at 20 years old, has so much technology from my childhood become so horrendously dated?

 

[twistedmic]

I think VHS tapes are going to be a common theme here because they were still fairly common until about 5 or 6 years ago.

What I remember using was dial-up internet. The sounds... They still haunt my dreams...

I can actually remember a time before the internet. Though I still remember the painfully long connection times and snail-like speed for page loads and downloads.

 

[ToxicPiranah]

Cassette tapes, VCR, Cartridge style games, Using a portable CD player that if you moved just a little bit it would jump like nobody's business.

 

[twistedmic]

a computer with windows 98. Good times, when the best game out there was doom 2. Ah good stuff.

98? You young whippersnappers don't know what obsolete technology is! Back in my day, we had 95, and we were lucky if we could get any game more complicated than solitaire! (Actually, there was Chip's challenge, which was awesome!)

God, I remember Chip's challenge. I played that game for hours and never got bored with it.

 

[smeghead25]

I can actually remember a time before the internet. Though I still remember the painfully long connection times and snail-like speed for page loads and downloads.

You mean wireless internet isn't actually meant to go at a snail's pace? :O

Damn you Vodafone...

 

[Amethyst Wind]

The Post Office?

 

[Keava]

Betamax tapes, 14.4 and 33.6 dial-up modems, floppy disks both 3 1/2 inch and 5 1/4 inch, cartige consoles, C64 tapes, walkman, pretty much every piece of technology made since 1980.

 

[sgtshock]

I remember renting VHS tapes from Blockbuster all the time. Both of which are now sadly obsolete.

Also, not quite as old, but game patches you had to manually download and install yourself (Steam for the win).

 

[Not-here-anymore]

a computer with windows 98. Good times, when the best game out there was doom 2. Ah good stuff.

98? You young whippersnappers don't know what obsolete technology is! Back in my day, we had 95, and we were lucky if we could get any game more complicated than solitaire! (Actually, there was Chip's challenge, which was awesome!)

God, I remember Chip's challenge. I played that game for hours and never got bored with it.

I currently have it on my laptop, and have been replaying it since my post. It's still brilliant!

I can actually remember a time before the internet. Though I still remember the painfully long connection times and snail-like speed for page loads and downloads

I remember a time before internet access was widespread. I'd have been about 8 by the time I had dial-up in my house. Apparently I was alive before the internet existed, but only for a year or 2

I actually miss the dial-up noise. Is that weird?

 

[Nevyrmoore]

"Then five minutes fingers crossed, hoping not to witness the terror of R TAPE LOADING ERROR..."