Clueless Critic

Growing up in the 80s and 90s has been a great thing as it was easy to keep track with technology and technological advancement. Things did not seem to be very hard to follow and you were able to find things that stay the same for years and years.

But in the last decade, things seem to change drastically from day to day, and if you don’t keep track, you will be mocked of being “ignorant” by others who obviously are up to date!

So I made a small list of things I’m sure my kids will never know existed and probably they will never believe such things existed once:

Rotary Cell wired phones: It’s not enough that numbers were not saved, you actually had to turn wheel from side to side to dial a number! And you had to read the number for an actual phone book in case you didn’t know the number by heart.

Rotary cell TV: I can’t believe that we actually had one of these TVs at home… It was a Toshiba colored TV and I believe we had 4 or 5 channels on it, and we had to move the “wheel” to switch between the channels

VCR Tapes: The good old days where you had to tape a certain TV show on one of those tapes (120 minutes or 180 minutes) to watch it later, and it was re-writable too J (Matter of fact, I still have a bunch of VCR tapes at home and a VCR player as well )

The good old days of having a film in the camera! In those happy years, you had to be really sure that you want to take a picture something or someone, because let’s face it, you had only 36 pictures (maximum) per film and if was expensive to develop the film… I kinda miss those days to be honest!

This is the grandfather of the touchpad keyboard! This is where you had no way to correct a mistake unless you re-type what you wrote on a different paper. I don’t think I would have lasted 10 minutes with something like this because there is no “Auto Correct” which, sadly,  I can never live without !

 Our kids will never know the relation between a pencil and a cassette, that id they ever see a cassette in the first place! In case you didn’t know the correlation between these 2 items; the pencil was used to rewind or forward the cassette in case the cassette player was not working or that the tape got stuck in the player! Creative thinking!

 

The floppy disk that had the capacity of saving 3.5 Mega Bytes in total!!!

This was a great invention, thinking that you can carry the information you need in your pocket and take it anywhere you want!!!! I remember that my friend bought the 1GB USB in 2004 for the amount of 100$ and she was super happy about it!