'Obsolete' technology that you remember using.

[Snipermanic]

I remember using Windows 3.1 or w/e it was called, to me the games on there (run through DOS) were amazing

 

[Polyg0n]

I learned to use a Dos computer when I was like 6 or 7 so that is the oldest one I remember.

 

[drbarno]

I remember in primary school when we had an IT lesson where we got to put in, save to, then take out...
Floppy discs!

That was one of the most exciting days of my life.
Which is a little sad...

I remember those days, they were fun. That was before I discovered the internet though.

 

[Dexiro]

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

It was like the internet had it's own theme tune

 

[Duruznik]

Let's see... VHS tapes, floppy disks (the smaller ones, mind), walkmen, discmen... that's all I can think of right now. I'm not much of an old timer, compared to some of the folks on this site.

 

[TheLoneSeeker]

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

I lost my copy of the Winter Games on C64 to this ;_;

That and dot-matrix printers. If you didn't have a huge stack of perforated "computer paper" you didn't know nothin' about tech...

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

Manual typewriters. Card catalogs. The Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature. Rotary phones. TV before cable. Mimeograph machines.

In short, you kids today have it easy, and get off my lawn.

 

[Vault Citizen]

Lets see, cartridge based tapes, Cartridge based games and videos are all things I remember using.

Did anyone else get the tape/voice recorder/thing that appeared in Home Alone 2?

 

[Mistermixmaster]

Casette tapes usually with the awesome-as-fuck-back-then Walkman [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkman#Cassette-based_walkman], portable CD players that worked in the same way mostly, VCR and VHS, the NES (arguably the N64 too), the goddamn prone to crashing Windows 95, and of course, everyones favourite... THE 56kbit/s MODEM with it's AMAZING "connecting you to the internet"-sound!

<youtube=p8XKhCfsTts>

NOSTALGIA ATTACK!

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Windows XP, 98, 95. Nothing before that, though.

VHS tapes, cassette tapes.

Oddly, I still buy music CDs. I'm don't really like digital distribution for music. For games and movies, I have no problem with it, though.

 

[Jark212]

-VHS
-Gameboy Color
-Dial-up internet
-Cassette players
-CD Players
-PS1 (at a friends house)
-Floppy discs
-Windows 95 & 98

And tons of TV shows that are long dead. (Street Sharks was awesome)...

 

[Assassin Xaero]

VCR, cassette player, floppies, and I'm wearing a watch, that seems to be on the way too... I rarely ever see anyone with watches now...

 

[tehroc]

Cassette tapes, records, VCR, game systems with wood paneling, rotary phones, CDs, Floppy disks both 5 1/4 and 3 1/2, laserdisk, DOS, dial up

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

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!)

Pfft, you think your tales of wrangling with 95 are impressive? Windows 95 had plug and play[footnote]Which admittedly didn't really work very well at the time, but still.[/footnote] - try using Windows 3.1, where there was none of that fancy schmancy auto-configuration and you actually had to know about IRQ and DMA settings. And before that I just launched all my games via a DOS batch menu I'd programmed myself!

Also there were plenty of quite complex games readily available back in the 95 era, though they probably weren't designed to run inside of Windows and getting them to run at all was always a challenge what with the aforementioned DMA and IRQ issues coupled with direct hardware addressing - the advent of a widely adopted hardware abstraction layer was seriously the biggest single advancement to PC gaming that nobody ever really thinks about these days.

 

[TehTJ]

I still have a VCR, a cabinet full of VHS tapes, old consoles (including the SNES, Game Boy, Amiga and ZX Spectrum, all of which are still hooked up) and a CRT TV with wood panels on the sides. I should probably update on some of these... -_-

 

[the-kitchen-slayer]

I remember...

Dos. Harddrives with less than 52 MB. Windows 3.1, 95, 98, and the terror that was upgrading to XP, which apparently even though everything is still made so it can work on it is "obsolete". I remember using 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 floppy's, split-screen racing games, games provided on CD instead of DVD, external cd drives, CD-R's, Dial-up internet, Cartridge based consoles (non-handheld), save codes for games (the days before the "save file"), and a bunch of other things people have posted, like cassetes, vhs, stuff like that.

~Edit~ and games that didn't have "achievements" or "trophies", where you replayed the game to just, you know... have fun

 

[Darth Crater]

My family still uses a TV antenna, and my PC contains a 3.5" floppy drive that's older than the rest of the parts put together...

 

[BrownGaijin]

VCRs
Floppy Discs (big and little - High Density and Double Density)
386 Computer
CD Rom 4x
Laser Disc Player
56K Modem
Apple IIe - oh wait I mean Apple IIe
MS DOS
Windows 3.1
Satellite Dish (the big one)
Cassettes
8 track
phonograph
8 mm (film)
analog phones (dutdutdutdutdut5,dutdutdutdutdut5, dutdutdutdutdut5...)

Does the original meaning of Artificial Intelligence count?

 

[furmaster3000]

- VHS (Now DvD)
- Walkman (Now Apple Ipod)
- Recordplayer (Now computer with Winamp)
- Horse and Cart (Now car)
- Book (Now E-reader)
- Candle (Now Phillips light bulb)
- Bow and arrow (Now Kalashnikov)
- Fire (Now microwave)

Times have gone fast. . .