'Obsolete' technology that you remember using.

[McShizzle]

Party lines

OMG! Party Lines! I totally forgot about these. We had one when I was a kid and lived on a farm. Pick up the phone, and the goddamn neighbours were on it.

 

[Randomologist]

I still use occasionally cassettes and my windows 3.1 PC. I still have VHS tapes and I can remember dial-up, but I've a feeling that older members of the escapist can stretch further back to Betamax and Vinyls, both of which Im too young for.

Also, on cassettes: no-one can ever get bored pressing the Play button halfway-down, and listening to the tape twice as fast in a squeaky voice.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

The Game Boy Color, and everything mentioned above.

I was at a store that was selling a mess of Game Boy Colors... and I saw the exact color that I used to have... I nostalgia'd so hard.

 

[Lyx]

FYI, Vinyl actually is on the rise again, at least among music enthusiasts. Main reason is that mastering on modern records sounds like dogshit (no dynamics) and for unknown reasons, the mastering often (though, not always) is done less "hot" for vinyls - thus, resulting in a funny situation, where the soundquality of vinyl records actually is better than CDs (not because of technology, but because of how mastering engineers mix for them).

 

[zombays]

VHS and Floppy Disks.

 

[zehydra]

tape recorder. You can't buy these anymore, lol. What else...

VCR of course...

hm...

I guess we had bunny ears on our tv for the longest time. My mother didn't let us have a console, internet, or cable until I was in middle school.

 

[Yureina]

Floppy Discs!

 

[crazypsyko666]

A computer without an ethernet or wireless port.

 

[HeySeansOnline]

My old eye toy, god how I loved that archaic piece of crap, now if you'll excuse me I have to go pick up a Kinect, looks sweet.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

I remember the old Cassette tapes and the fun times i spent winding them back up after the cassette player chewed them up.
VHS tapes, rewinding is just not the same anymore
Dial up modems
--space reserved for CDs-- damn you itunes!!!
Sega Mega Drive, it and sonic started my love of games

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

Vinyl records. They still sell 'em, but they're archaic as hell.

 

[Blindswordmaster]

I sill have my NES hooked up to my tube television in my living room.

 

[Blindswordmaster]

Vinyl records. They still sell 'em, but they're archaic as hell.

True, but they have great sound.

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

Vinyl records. They still sell 'em, but they're archaic as hell.

True, but they have great sound.

I will not disagree with that.

 

[GothmogII]

Cassettes, floppy discs, records, tv's without remote (that one is not missed). Dial Up Internet (shudders) though, I do miss the sound of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svmYyeRY11o&feature=related

Also, I remember playing on an Atari 2600. My grandparents still have it, but what always struck me was how classy the faux wood finishing was, not enough electronics these days do that wood finish any more.

Also, does anyone remember using mini-discs? Those were supposed to replace CDs, hah! Not to mention Zip Discs. xD

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

The Game Boy Color, and everything mentioned above.

Remember that annoying little light thingy you'd attach to it to play in the dark?

Ah, those were the days...

Yeah. Staying up playing something only to have it drain the battery faster and not really accomplish anything in the game. That was great.

 

[AstylahAthrys]

My first computer was a Windows 3.1 and I played a Genesis for years before I got my Nintendo 64. I watched tapes and listened to a Walkman and used 3 1/2 inch floppy discs and used dial-up internet in the beginning of it's home use.

It's crazy I remember Windows 3.1 and I'm only 18.