I don't think anyone born in the 80s or later truly understand what a revelation the VCR was, For the 1st time people could record a show and watch it later and better yet FF thru commercials Not to mention the ability to watch a movie at home whenever you wanted. Truly a device that fundamentally changed how people watch and consume entertainment

As I approach 60, I remember something an older person told me in my youth, “The world you’re born into is not the world you died in”…

The floppy disk will live on as the universal icon for "save file."

I remember when VCR's hit the market they were so expensive that not many people could afford them. So to keep their businesses alive, rental stores began renting out the device itself, and not just the movie in question. So everyone could watch a movie they wanted to see by renting a VCR. That was also in the days before the internet existed.

I have used almost every consumer product on this list and I'm not that old. Tech moves fast once it gets going...

Old inventions no longer used: 1.) Common sense. 2.) Critical thinking. 3.) Logic. 4.) Thinking for yourself.

As a kid growing up in the 60's, I remember going to a "Homes of the Future" exhibit and seeing video cassettes and other devices in this video that are now obsolete. I remember thinking about how futuristic everything seemed. My dad told me that recorded videos would never catch on, because everyday people would never be able to afford anything that expensive (projected prices were in the range of thousands of dollars or tens of thousands of dollars), and because everyone was quite happy with TV as it was back then.

I was a secretary in the 1980s. I remember how excited I was when I got a new IBM Selectric self-correcting typewriter and could finally get rid of the little tabs of correction tape around the typewriter. I just couldn’t imagine then that typing could get much better than that.

For you youngsters out there, AT&T stands for American Telephone & Telegraph.

It’s crazy how a lot of these things are actually coming back into cultural relevance. A lot of young people, myself included, are very nostalgic for a time they never even experienced.

I remember using my mom’s nail polish to glue together the cassette tape ribbon which got chewed by our stereo. People would get mad if you borrowed their VCR tapes and forgot to rewind… BlockBuster would charge you extra if you returned a movie without rewinding it. Fun times. 😂

Born in 1968.I remember how all these devices were so state of the art but now are relics.

Magnetic tape is actually still used for a lot of data backup solutions and other things in data centers etc, and it’s advanced enormously over time with some tapes holding up to 15tb

Even though I was born in 01. I still have very fond memories of VHS's. Use to watch them all the time at my grandparents house when I was a kid.

My parents bought their first VCR in 1985 for 900$. We weren’t allowed anywhere near it 😂

I feel so ancient as I have seen and used a number of these.... getting nostalgic again. I hope DVDs and Blu Rays don’t become obsolete as they have advantages that streaming does not have.

Who remembers the $200.00 Texas instrument calculator. Now it’s $5.99. Good morning Rhetty, hope all is good.

I remember when 3.5 in floppies came out. Our reaction was, 'who would ever need that much storage'? Little did we know! LOL!

I feel so privileged to have grown up in the ‘80s and ‘90s, as I was almost the perfect age to experience all of these different technologies. I was born in ‘77 and vividly remember my grandparents having cameras and radios from the ‘40s and ‘50s, my dad was a pharmacist and started buying tech as soon as he started making decent money. So, we always had really nice stereos, double-deck VCR’s, video cameras, gaming systems (we had an Atari with over 100 games), etc. I got my first cell phone in 1995, I had several pagers over the years, and I’ve had internet since 1997. It’s been a wild ride and it’s only getting better! I’m in awe of what iPhones and computers can do these days.

Referring to the AOL part, he said that you couldn't use the phone while you were online. This is very true. In fact, if someone was online and you picked up the phone, you got a very impressionable lesson as to why you shouldn't.

Before digital/iPhone cameras, there was the Polaroid camera. It was so cool to watch the pictures develop. Thanks for bringing back all these memories.

I remember packing all my casettes and CDs as a kid for vacation. And i am proud to be a part of this Generation😌

ugh….. the good ole days. Kids now days will never know how fun it was to be growing up in the 80s -90s. It just seemed like life was so much different then and the World did NOT run off Social Media

I remember getting my first anti skip CD player. It blew my mind, I felt so cool listening to it on the bus

I think if you handed a Walkman to a kid today, they'd figure it out very quickly. The play, rewind, and fast forward buttons have very recognizable icons on them.

DVD's are still relevant, there low overall cost makes them a good option for people who live in areas where the internet is lousy, also useful for TV series as most streaming services have limited options.

I still have some of these items from the past. Even though they no longer in working condition. I love saving obsolete items. I guess I'm a bit of a horder. I'm glad that vinyl records have made a huge comeback.

I'm glad I lived during the time of record and video stores. Browsing the isles of Tower Records or Blockbuster with your friends was part of the excitement.

My 11 year old discovered cassette tapes when he was 8 and he's been collecting them ever since. He loves to listen to older music.

To clarify a couple of things: There was a Sony reel to reel video recorder that was only B&W but there was never a VCR (Video Cassette Recorder) that was only B&W. The first commercial VHS VCR was color. And while most people think VHS means "video home system", that was a change made by some marketing person. VHS actually stood for Video Helical Scan which described the method of transferring the video signal to tape. It described the way the tape wrapped around the video head.

I miss most of these. I was a kid in the 60s. Personally I think the 70s and 80s were the best years. I wish I could go back. Love to raise my grandchildren in those years. Better tech, entertainment and way of life no matter how you look at it better times

I remember my first eight track tape player given to me by my parents as a graduation gift May 1972. It was very basic but it was stereo music being heard for the first time. When compared to the old AM radio I had been listening to it was wonderful. It sounded so great cruising down the road in that old 1957 Oldsmobile Super 88 with stereo music cranking out of those two little wedge speakers mounted on the rear window deck. At eighteen driving my first car listing to stereo rock I felt like one cool cat.

I still use a vcr! It took me forever to find a working one but eventually I found one that an elementary school didn't use anymore. I still have a collection of vhs tapes from my childhood. I just wish there was still a vhs section at thrift stores.

I took a computer class in high school in 1978 and you had to pick up the phone receiver, dial the number and when it started ringing you put the receiver down on the modem that connected to the central server downtown. I also remember going into a music store a couple of years later looking for an 8 track of a Stevie Nicks album and the guy said, "Sir, we don't sell 8 tracks anymore, but we do have that album on these compact discs." Me: "Nobody's gonna buy those stupid things." ~Leaves in a huff~ 🤣 Thirty ish years later, Apple proves me right. 😁

I remember a lot of this stuff from growing up, What a walk down memory lane, Thanks for the nostalgia.

I remember my computer classes in High School (2001-2005). We still used floppies to save our work. Which became a problem when I wanted to do stuff at home and neither the desktop or my laptop had a floppy drive.

I remember always bringing a transistor radio to the beach with friends in the mid-seventies and listening to top-forty music while we sun tanned and smoked cigarettes.

How fast technology has changed. Definitely improved. Will never forget the sound the of the internet dial up. I had a small Sony tv and took it with me on many deployments while in the military. Ha!!

Having seen most of these things come and go, I feel really old now.

Well, you mentioned the gramophone was replaced by the record player almost in passing at about 5:10. Vinyl records were a big deal. People lined their home walls with vinyl records. They were an functional and collection item at the same time. Folks prided themselves on their collection and variety.

Lived through many of these. Took typing class in high school and am glad I had. I got quite a few jobs knowing how to type. You could almost add the iPod to this.

Ah the good old Walkman. How could I have lived with my journeys to and from school without it.

I once had a Panasonic walkman back in 1996. I love that device, the headphone and sound quality was actually good. I would listen to my walkman in buffet restaurants getting in line selecting food items while listen to music. What an experience

My daughter was born in 1986 and was part of the CD generation. Now, she prefers vinyl. She's got a collection that is still growing.

This video is great! It’s hard to believe how many of these inventions were replaced by today’s smart phones! I still have that exact Sony VHS/DVD player shown at 5:18 in my living room! Good job 👍

3:00 pagers are FAR from extinct. They are used heavily in the medical field. Pagers will receive pretty much EVERYWHERE. The transmitters push out a LOT of power and penetrate buildings very well.

You could absolutely fast forward AND rewind on a Walkman 😳

More info - the Sony Walkman happened because Sennheiser invented the open-back headphones, which meant that headphones could be made much smaller and still have very high quality. Sony were the first company to take out a licence for "open aire" headphones and the Walkman followed soon after. On the cassettes bit you showed a picture of an "ELcassette" this was a different format that ran ¼" tape at 3¾ ips instead of the ⅛" tape at 1⅞ ips of a compact cassette to give a sound quality equal to an open reel recorder. Open reel recording is still alive and kicking at many recording studios for people who like the sort of audio distortion that are inherent in analogue tape recording and LP records. Betamax was technically much better than VHS which is why it stayed around for longer than people may have thought - Sony also used the same tape for the professional Betacam format, which lasted until quality solid-state digital cameras came around. The same tape was also used in the Sony PCM-F1 format to record digital audio with a converter and betamax recorder - this was very high quality audio and was the best way of recording 16-bit digital audio until DAT came around. But you seemed to have forgotten about DAT and MiniDisk in the video. And, yes, I do remember all of these and was around at the time that this was all "hi-tech". My profession is in Professional Audio, so I was in at the start of most of the audio items mentioned - though 8-track was only popular in the US and never really made it over to Europe; though a professional cartridge, based on the 8-track but with the pinch-wheel as part of the recorder rather than in the cartridge, was popular with radio stations for playing jingles and adverts for many years until digital systems came along. As the cartridge was "never ending" you had to be careful and "find the splice" before starting recording as you did not want to record over the join as it would caud a drop-out when played.

There needs to be a “tech smithsononian” where old inventions can be on display, for people can see the beginnings of all that we take for granted.

A wonderful trip down memory lane. Remember Sunday nights after you went to bed, listening to Dr Demento on your transistor radio with the earphone?! Or ordering things from a catalog? Before 800 numbers, you had to mail your order blank to the catalog company, then wait four to six weeks for your merchandise to arrive. Sometimes, the anticipation was absolutely grueling; and there was no package tracking. Today's age of instant gratification has made so many folks impatient and short-tempered. ☮️

One thing that you skipped over when talking about reel to reel tape. Back in the 70s Teac, Panasonic and others made 4 track quadraphonic reel to reel players. My friend’s dad had one. With 4 speakers at each corner of the room it was incredible! He had Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon recorded in 4 track. During parts of the recording the sound would fly around the room in a circle, in an X pattern and so on giving an unrivaled and as far as I know an unparalleled listening experience. Can’t do that with a CD!

You could even add MP3 Players/iPods as most people either use their phones as one or just stream music entirely. I still have a Discman, buy CDs, and have an iPod touch. I DID sell my turntable and vinyls though. It was fun at first but I’m rarely home nowadays.

I remember a good number of these. I still use my DVDs and CDs - I still buy both!

Did anyone else have the converter for the 8-tracks to cassettes? It was used to play a cassette in an 8-track player. Game changing at the time when cassettes first came out since most people still had 8-track players in their cars. Oh, the 80s…😊

I don't think I can count how many audio cassettes I worn out during my childhood.

I'm a doctor and still use my pager every day! Hate using cell phone texting for messages, I don't hear the phone sometimes when it goes off, but the pager is unmistakeable and beeps for like a minute so I don't accidentally ignore it

I love these videos! They take me back to when I was young. I remember many of these things and owned several. It is fun to see how they evolved. I still have a few of them around the house even tho I don't actually use them much. Thanks Rhett, this was enjoyable as usual.

I really enjoyed this video. At 57 years old, I remember most of what you shared. I had to laugh at 8:30 when you referred to the audio cassette as "durable" are you kidding me? Throughout the early 1980s the bulk of my music was stored on audio cassettes, most of which would eventually get eaten by one of my cassette players. Almost anyone nearing their 60s will remember pulling wads of audio tape from a cassette player and trying to wind it back into the cassette with a pencil. Beta video tapes got a bum rap back in the day. My family's first VCR was a Beta and the picture quality was crystal clear. I think their only draw back was their limited recording time. VHS eventually won that battle but I still believe the Beta offered superior picture quality. Maybe we just got lucky and owned a very good Beta VCR. Speaking of supetior quality, my Mom was in a band in the 1960s, their music was recorded on a reel to reel player she owned until the 1980s. The sound quality was beyond anything else I have heard. Perhaps I am partial to anaog recordings. While listening to the band's rehearsals and demo, every sound was captured with such clarity it almost feels like I am sitting inside the studio. Mom had the tapes transferred onto CD and it never sounded the same. What I would give to have those reel to reel tapes again. Finally, the old transistor radio. Santa Claus got each of us kids one for Christmas of 1971. That was our big gift then, and it was the best gift I could dream of. Santa's budget was a lot less than with kids today, but that little radio was worth a million bucks to me. I carried that radio everywhere I went, except school. Today it sets inside a shadow box my wife made for our living room wall

My father bought me a walkman when we were kids and i would listen to his Bon Jovi collection while riding my bicycle in the morning. It felt like you are the coolest kid in town. My fav. song was 'Always' and side A and as soon as it ends i flip it over and Saturday night plays on side B. Those were the days

I liked this video very much. I am personally familiar with all that from the 50’s and forward to today. Loved seeing the old electronics of which I am still guilty of owning.

I loved 8 track tapes, you had 4 chances to get close to the song that you wanted to listen too.

What I find most interesting about old tech, is not how much of it is obsolete, but how much of it is still put to use!

In recent years both the cassette and the Walkman (well, just portable cassette players) are making a comeback (nostalgia craze most likely). Also remember being on call in the 90's in my 1st IT gig and getting a pager.

Rehetty - I only had a portable CD player for a short time , as soon as MINI-disc was Released in Japan , I bought EVERYTHING . I still listen to my MINI-disc today over my Generic Android mp3 player in my Smartphone. when I bought iTouch mp3 , I transfered my CD and mini-disc Libarys to iTouch. I bought the very LAST generation iTouch.

I still have an 8-track collection and a player that I use to listen to them now and again. Some great stuff: Stones, Michael Jackson, Cheap Trick, etc...

I was born in 1968 so I remember alot of these, the Sony Walkman was a big favorite of mine back in the 6th grade.

I feel so old. I was born in the 90s and rocked a boombox until 2006 when I got my own computer and learned how to rip CDs to MP3s.

Great video, I'm 76 years old now, and I owned most of the products in your video. The only thing I never owned was the LaserDisc player, it was definitely out of my price range. Now I do everything and anything on my smart phone, but when I go out I still wear a wristwatch, is easy to look at my wrist for the time, instead of pulling out my phone. One more thing I have a cabinet full of hundreds of DVDs, which are worthless , because I subscribe to streaming service, on-demand content, and I love it.

@Rhetty, thanks for the walk down memory lane. I had a Sony Discman in my car, that used a cassette tape converter - I put it on the passenger seat, and yes it jumped anytime I hit a pothole. I started my first professional job in 1988 and was amazed at how you could send entire documents instantly via Profs (IBM) and faxes. My family had a remote control TV as early as the late 70s...my father would announce a channel change and I would get up and make it so.

I am am a millennial born in 1991. When I was in middle school I remember my dad had a mini disc player in the early 2000s. Also remember my mom had a blue sky pager that matched her sky blue car in the 1990s, she was in the nursing field. My grandma got me a radio with a tape cassette player when I was in elementary school in the early 90s.

0:44 WHOA DUDE!!! You just gave me a flashback to a time long forgotten. FAR OUT!!! hehehe

Rehetty - the really GREAT thing about MINI-disc is you had Storage that was compatable with an Entire CD worth of Tracks , unlike with Analog tapes, and DCC .

As a pensioner, I love a bit of nostalgia, so thanks for the video. I had quite a lot of the items you showed. I'd probably add the atari console to your list, my first introduction to gaming and I've never looked back. At 68 I have both Xbox series X and a good gaming PC which I enjoy daily in my retirement lol

Another great trip down memory lane 🙂 I'm old. 🙄 What does amaze me is the years a lot of these products actually debuted.

I had the blue Walkman cd player, but in yellow. It came with the headphones that wrapped around the back of the head. It fit in a special pocket in my winter jacket. I was very happy when my first flip phone could hold mp3s and replaced it

Rehetty - today in 2022 , I still use a Radio Receiver, but its a DIGITAL Communications Receiver , and I can Listen to any kind of Analog and Digital transmission , including LW, SW, HF, VHF, UHF and SHF, also LSB & USB. it can Listen to Multiple Analog and Digital modes.

My 7-year-old grandson is perfectly capable of operating a Walkman. He uses it to listen to the hundreds of old cassette tapes that his Daddy had when he was that age. I'm in the process of converting the cassettes to MP3, however.

Oh yes, a trip down memory lane! Thank you for all these fun videos and the hard work that went into making them. I certainly enjoy them and they bring a smile to my face every time!

The dial up sound and AOL brought back memories. As did many others on here. Thanks for sharing.

Rehetty - my father in the 1970's built a Heathkit Color TV and we still had it till 1980. we bought NEW sony Trinitron "digital" tuner model in 1981.

Ah, the memories!! I had a Walkman first, then a Discman!! I also remember playing with my Mum's typewriter as a kid!! I never could learn typing!! Thanks for the nostalgic video, Rhetty!! XXXX 👍💗

Facinating slice of techno history. No wonder so many likes. I remember building a transistor radio back in the late 1950s with my Dad's help. The transistors had to have a heat-sink clipped to the 3 terminal wires to solder them as heat could destroy them. The head boy at my school in 1959 had a PYE pocket transistor radio and it was almost the size of half a brick! I envied the fact that he would listen to cricket scores during "break" in the Playground. What an astonishingly fast evolution to today.

Had the one line pager. Man I don't miss them. Usually had no idea what someone was trying to tell me 😂. Still got 8 tracks, cassettes, vcr, dvd.

My dad refused to replace our VCR with DVD, until the video store had literately no VHS tapes left.

I still use cassette tapes and VHS tapes. I've even been able to record from Freeview to a VHS tape so I don't miss my shows when I'm out. I had an old VHS copy of a movie I didn't even like so I used a bit of sticky tape over the notch to turn it into essentially a recordable tape.

The most complete going down memory lane trip. Always amazed me how one technology replaces another. Loved it.

I think the greatest invention was caller ID. People now days don't know what it was like for years we got stuck answering telemarketing calls or that one guy who talks non stop for 4 hours straight. The dilemma... do I answer and risk getting stuck in a long time consuming conversation, or do I not answer and risk missing something very important?

I bought a used typewriter in 1981 at $19 USD, it helped me to write all the reports and master thesis. I resell it for $15 in 1983.

Wow, what a great nostalgic channel. I was born in the late 80s but I remember a lot of these items from growing up, or my parents or grandparents having them. I am happily binge watching these lol!

The AM. Table radio is one I'd like to mention. It was basically replaced by the transistor radio. The ones with colorful catalin bakelite are cool and very collectable.

Who remembers the six feet long wooden stereo furniture that had an AM/FM radio, turntable that played 45, 33, and 78 and sometimes 16 RPM and also had (sometimes) a new fangled eight track tape slot? There were record clubs that you could specify what kind of recorded music you required. Also book clubs. Pre-Amazon.

Man. this is a great video, brings back a lot of memories!!!

I'm an old guy. I still have quite a few cassettes, DVD movies, record albums, and a Walkman and Discman. Some items you didn't mention are film cameras, the Polaroid Land camera, movie cameras, film projectors, overhead projectors in the classroom, and slide projectors, just to name a few.

I remember using/having a lot of these in my younger childhood. It's crazy how much things change in 20-30 years

Yep! An 8-track mounted under the dash and an FM converter in the glove box. Of course, the surface-mount speakers were placed on the package shelf, inside the rear window. Ah, the good old days!

Thank you from the blast from the past! 👍

In the 70s, most cars only had AM radios. People (including myself) installed under the dash 8-track players. Not long ago while cleaning out my parents' estate, we came across a cartridge-like device that fit into an 8-track player but it was an FM tuner so you could listen to FM radio through your 8-track player. High tech at its finest. 😂

My goodness! As a baby boomer, I have had most of these now obsolete items. Now I am certain that I am truly vintage. 😂

I have fond memories of the 8 track. My Dad had a huge collection and I was allowed to check out 4 at a time to take to my room. Started my love of music listening to The Eagles, Elo, Buddy Holly and The Killer Jerry Lee Lewis to name a few. Great times!

I'm 19. My family was a bit backward. I am studying and working as a computer technician. But I still use a Full Size VHS Camera, a Walkman, a Printing Calculator, a Pager, VHS recorder, Dot Matrix Printer and a black and white portable TV. I also have a radiogram that I'm working on - needs a few new valves. I may be odd but hey - everyone has their little addiction.