http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheFl...erOldPeopleIconsThatDontMakeSenseAnymore.aspx

 

How many of you have seen it in action? Myself as a kid. Hard work, sticky, dirty...!



BTW, the warning means that people tried that way!

 

Another one is Betamax (soon will be VCR).

 

All words associated with CRT televisions and analog broadcasts.

 

I am feeling so old right now! Today, on TV, I saw a person that couldn't think of, "John F. Kennedy" after 4 or 5 clues. I can hope she was an idiot, but I'm afraid she was normal, and that's what scares me. We don't have to reach into the dark recesses of time to find words that modern people don't know.

Speaking of the dark recesses of time, my father used to go buy some, "Ackerman-Johnsons". I never found out what those were. Some kind of fastener, maybe.

 

Floppy - need I explain?

Some guys here are old enough to have one!

 

Sad, but true.

 

Some guys here are old enough to have one!

I just made one of those spurting laughs that made my wife look at me oddly. I mean more oddly that the usual odd look. Thanks for the laugh.

 

Nice page Matt. The last time I used CC (carbon copy) it was with carbon paper between two sheets of blank paper.

 

The AVO 8 multimeter - a thing of beauty.

 

The paper tape reader.
The IBM punch card.

 

Teletypewriters......ASR. KSR. PAPER TAPE, CASSETTE TAPE.... BAUD RATES YOU CAN TYPE FASTER THAN THE MACHINE......

 

Acoustic Coupled Modem.

I still have one BTW. When high speed internet goes down who will be crazy then!

 

Kodachrome

Sadly young people will never truly understand the meaning of this wonderful song.

 

I am surprised no one has mentioned VTVM.

 

Bernoulli Box
Token Ring

 

Kodachrome

I actually won a photography contest shooting Mt. Rushmore from somewhere around 1/4 mile with Kodachrome 25. Windy day with a very long lens on a tripod. Got 2 out of a 36 roll that weren't blurry. Now, it's so much cheaper to take pictures with a PHD and put them on my computer. The Kodak company better have a new business plan!

 

micro mico farads before pico farads

pleas and thank you. ( a most usefull two words in the past, unfortunatly now quite rare)

"yes we have that" now very rare in electronic part stores ( themselvs very rare too).

 

Layaway. My mom used to buy my school cloths on layaway.

 

And AT&T's alternative to Telex, named TWX for TeletypeWriter eXchange.