Icons us old folks get

_binary_jester_
_binary_jester_ Posts: 2,132 Member
edited December 2024 in Chit-Chat
Back in the day because I actually used them, but now may not apply. I stole the idea from an article and thought it was funny.

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Does anyone really use one of these anymore? Does it really apply to paste? Maybe the future icon should be a kid eating glue.

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Yeah. i remember the phone you actually had to dial. I guess there are still payphones, but who uses those either?

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Ahh the memories. I remember loading my operating system via floppies. I think it spanned 7 floppy discs? Now new workstations and laptop don't even come with a floppy drive. What is a new icon for save now? Flash drive?

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What kids knows what this unless he uses it to set ants on fire?

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Reel to reel - even movie theaters don't use reel to reel anymore...how is this supposed to represent a voicemail?

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Eventually everything will be a flat screen. Ironically I still use rabbit ears though.

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I never even used one of these.

So should they be replaced? And more importantly with what?

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  • Yanicka1
    Yanicka1 Posts: 4,564 Member
    Funny!!!!

    I remember when my computer didn't have a hard drive

    Damn I feel old
  • ScatteredThoughts
    ScatteredThoughts Posts: 3,562 Member

    Damn I feel old

    Me too. I remember saving programs on a cassette tape in high school. :P
  • _binary_jester_
    _binary_jester_ Posts: 2,132 Member

    Damn I feel old

    Me too. I remember saving programs on a cassette tape in high school. :P
    My Trash-80 used a cassette tape.
  • parys1
    parys1 Posts: 2,072 Member
    I had 8 tracks :embarassed:
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member

    Damn I feel old

    Me too. I remember saving programs on a cassette tape in high school. :P

    Not just TV! When I was in junior high and high school, my friends and I always kept a blank cassette in our stereo or boom box (does that word mean anything to anyone? I always feel silly saying it.) and listen to the radio. We'd have the tape set to record, with "pause" down. As soon as a song came on that we liked, we'd unpause it to record. I still have some of them and even have a "boom box" to play them! lol It has a CD player, too, though. And no more double tape decks.
  • AubreysMommy30
    AubreysMommy30 Posts: 64 Member

    Damn I feel old

    Me too. I remember saving programs on a cassette tape in high school. :P

    Not just TV! When I was in junior high and high school, my friends and I always kept a blank cassette in our stereo or boom box (does that word mean anything to anyone? I always feel silly saying it.) and listen to the radio. We'd have the tape set to record, with "pause" down. As soon as a song came on that we liked, we'd unpause it to record. I still have some of them and even have a "boom box" to play them! lol It has a CD player, too, though. And no more double tape decks.

    LOL! I Remember that! I used to hold my tape recorder up to the stereo to record a song I liked then would cuss out the DJ for talking for the first 30 seconds of the song!! Ahh.. memories.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member

    Damn I feel old

    Me too. I remember saving programs on a cassette tape in high school. :P

    Not just TV! When I was in junior high and high school, my friends and I always kept a blank cassette in our stereo or boom box (does that word mean anything to anyone? I always feel silly saying it.) and listen to the radio. We'd have the tape set to record, with "pause" down. As soon as a song came on that we liked, we'd unpause it to record. I still have some of them and even have a "boom box" to play them! lol It has a CD player, too, though. And no more double tape decks.

    LOL! I Remember that! I used to hold my tape recorder up to the stereo to record a song I liked then would cuss out the DJ for talking for the first 30 seconds of the song!! Ahh.. memories.

    Barely any stations even have DJs anymore!
  • doorki
    doorki Posts: 2,576 Member
    my atari 800 XL had a tape deck to load games. You had to choose wisely because it took about 45 minutes for the game to load lol.
  • _binary_jester_
    _binary_jester_ Posts: 2,132 Member

    Damn I feel old

    Me too. I remember saving programs on a cassette tape in high school. :P

    Not just TV! When I was in junior high and high school, my friends and I always kept a blank cassette in our stereo or boom box (does that word mean anything to anyone? I always feel silly saying it.) and listen to the radio. We'd have the tape set to record, with "pause" down. As soon as a song came on that we liked, we'd unpause it to record. I still have some of them and even have a "boom box" to play them! lol It has a CD player, too, though. And no more double tape decks.
    Best thing when they created cassette players that could skip songs. My kids know this as instantaneous, not literally fast forwarding.
  • doorki
    doorki Posts: 2,576 Member

    Damn I feel old

    Me too. I remember saving programs on a cassette tape in high school. :P

    Not just TV! When I was in junior high and high school, my friends and I always kept a blank cassette in our stereo or boom box (does that word mean anything to anyone? I always feel silly saying it.) and listen to the radio. We'd have the tape set to record, with "pause" down. As soon as a song came on that we liked, we'd unpause it to record. I still have some of them and even have a "boom box" to play them! lol It has a CD player, too, though. And no more double tape decks.
    Best thing when they created cassette players that could skip songs. My kids know this as instantaneous, not literally fast forwarding.

    I remember when they came out with walkmans where you didn't need to turn the tape over.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member

    Damn I feel old

    Me too. I remember saving programs on a cassette tape in high school. :P

    Not just TV! When I was in junior high and high school, my friends and I always kept a blank cassette in our stereo or boom box (does that word mean anything to anyone? I always feel silly saying it.) and listen to the radio. We'd have the tape set to record, with "pause" down. As soon as a song came on that we liked, we'd unpause it to record. I still have some of them and even have a "boom box" to play them! lol It has a CD player, too, though. And no more double tape decks.
    Best thing when they created cassette players that could skip songs. My kids know this as instantaneous, not literally fast forwarding.

    I was thrilled when my mother bought a stereo that could do that!
  • NotGoddess
    NotGoddess Posts: 1,198 Member
    These are funny but do point to anachronisms. I was reading the post before my youngest skipped off to school and asked him what this was:
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    He said 'save button'
    I asked 'Yes but what -is- it? What object'
    He shrugged and said "It's just the save button, silly mommy"

    He's never seen a diskette, let alone a floppy and doesn't make the connection with a physical object.
  • _binary_jester_
    _binary_jester_ Posts: 2,132 Member
    I remember when they came out with walkmans where you didn't need to turn the tape over.
    Auto-reverse and skip - 2 of the best inventions evah! I actually owned the sony sportsman - played music and with its obnoxious yellow shell, served as a flotation device in rescue situations.
  • doorki
    doorki Posts: 2,576 Member
    I remember when they came out with walkmans where you didn't need to turn the tape over.
    Auto-reverse and skip - 2 of the best inventions evah! I actually owned the sony sportsman - played music and with its obnoxious yellow shell, served as a flotation device in rescue situations.

    LOL....I still have that thing. It is indestructible lol
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    I have a Walkman still -- not the big yellow one, though. I used it until a couple years ago when the clip broke and I would have had to carry it on runs. Mostly because I'm too cheap to buy new technology until I absolutely need it.
  • FitSuga
    FitSuga Posts: 259 Member

    Damn I feel old

    Me too. I remember saving programs on a cassette tape in high school. :P

    Not just TV! When I was in junior high and high school, my friends and I always kept a blank cassette in our stereo or boom box (does that word mean anything to anyone? I always feel silly saying it.) and listen to the radio. We'd have the tape set to record, with "pause" down. As soon as a song came on that we liked, we'd unpause it to record. I still have some of them and even have a "boom box" to play them! lol It has a CD player, too, though. And no more double tape decks.

    LOL! I Remember that! I used to hold my tape recorder up to the stereo to record a song I liked then would cuss out the DJ for talking for the first 30 seconds of the song!! Ahh.. memories.
    Lol I did the same thing!

    My husband still uses floppy at work. Lol military is so behind!
  • california_peach
    california_peach Posts: 1,809 Member
    Where is that thing that goes in the middle of a 45 so that it fits on the turn table?
  • HappyathomeMN
    HappyathomeMN Posts: 498 Member
    Where is that thing that goes in the middle of a 45 so that it fits on the turn table?

    The adapter - we used to have about 20 of them, all bright yellow and I could never find them when I needed one. I also used to stack the records so that they would drop when the previous one finished playing. Ahhh, the scratchy sound of the record player needle - Flashdance anyone?
  • SMarie10
    SMarie10 Posts: 956 Member
    My high-school graduation gift was an electric typewriter - it was very cool and I was so excited to get it.
  • california_peach
    california_peach Posts: 1,809 Member
    Where is that thing that goes in the middle of a 45 so that it fits on the turn table?

    The adapter - we used to have about 20 of them, all bright yellow and I could never find them when I needed one. I also used to stack the records so that they would drop when the previous one finished playing. Ahhh, the scratchy sound of the record player needle - Flashdance anyone?

    OMG!! I loved watching the records drop like that. It was so cool. Did those things come in any other color?
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