Can you name anything that youngsters of today won't know?

I'm stealing this idea from another forum :oops: I think it can be fun :)

I'll start with floppy disks..... I remember using the 1.4 MB and 720KB, before that it was the 3" 360KB and 1.2MB..... at University, I remember using some early IBM machines that took some 12" floppy disks but that is going back quite a long time :)
A friend recently found some floppy disks. His 9 yr old son asked him why he had models of the 'Save' icon.


I had to show my own sons what a typewriter was a couple of years ago.

It always makes me smile when they complain its 'taking ages for the game to load' on their X-Box 1. Brings back memories of loading games on my Commodore 64. If a game loaded in less than 30mins it was considered fast.
 
Payphone cards - people used to collect those things
Phone books & dictionaries - In actual book format :)
Rewinding a tape
Recording a VHS
TV with no remote
Marbles
Post stamps
I think my daughter won't know what a CD is. Yet alone CD burner. I can't remember the last time I used it.

And duh: wetshaving gear.
I had guests the other night and there was a 8 year old. She went to the bathroom. My wife was with her to show her around. Curios as kids are she looked around and of all things she looked at my razor stand with a razor and a brush. She asked ehat is that? My wife tried to explain it's mine. She says "my daddy doesn't have that but my mommy has a brush like that" :)

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Brings back memories of loading games on my Commodore 64. If a game loaded in less than 30mins it was considered fast.
I remember getting a telephone ring warning when my wife had finished her shift to load up Boulderdash so it was ready to play.
My thoughts:
Respect
Coal scuttles
Paper firelighters
£,s,d
Saving up
Log tables
Slide rules
So & like being used correctly

That's all for now.
 
Sinclair 128 was it the other one? And talking of Mr Sinclair, I remember that funny vehicle he invented that was supposed to take over the world.
Sinclair ZX81 and Spectrum computers, the first with a membrane keyboard and the second with rubber keys. A generous 1kb RAM on the first and 16/48kb on the latter

As for the vehicle which resembled a cross between a Dyson vacuum and a go-kart, it was the C5

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Sinclair ZX81 and Spectrum computers, the first with a membrane keyboard and the second with rubber keys. A generous 1kb RAM on the first and 16/48kb on the latter

As for the vehicle which resembled a cross between a Dyson vacuum and a go-kart, it was the C5

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Yeah, that's it. The C5 still is ahead of its time :)
 
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