That comment is gold sir!

My network sucks, calls always drop😅

You can still slam the phone, you just can’t if you are broke.

That's why flip phones were so satisfying, you could angrily shut the phone closed.

Yes that's the only way to deal with anger.

I do remember that statement being told to us. I would love to know how they feel looking back on those words. Thank you for watching Akire!

I had that argument with my 2nd grade teacher when I did not want to memorize my math facts. I actually did memorize them and now I never use a calculator.

I get lazy so I always use a calculator.

I have fat fingers, there’s a good chance I’ll make a mistake putting the numbers in. So, it’s good to have a general idea of the answer you’re expecting.

Yep, we've really been dumbed down, haven't we?

Oddly, that's what I like about being older. So many cool memories.

Exactly! I feel sorry for the generations who didn't get to have these same experiences.

I mean, old and blessed aren't antonyms. 👌

Me to

With dating, almost everyone text and almost never talk on the phone. I missed talking on the phone. I was really good at it. Im super bad at texting. I remember when I thought if I get a girl to talk on the phone with me, I willwin her over as and she will be 100% my girlfriend. It feels like I had a superpower that doesnt working anymore. Like magneto from xmen in a city who doesnt use metal anymore. It is still great in a long term relationship to be a likable talker though.

you must be joking, the internet in the 2000s was just as worse then it is now

facebook, twitter, and myspace still existed in the 2000s. but society wasn't as crazy as it is today, that's for sure.

Specifically prior to 2008. I swear, everytime I look back on it, the difference in the world between 2007 and 2008 is like night and day in terms of culture and tech.

More time to do homework without constant distractions. And socialize! I remember "computer labs" from high school. Also, physical card catalogs. Hmm! Rotary phones, we had two or more, were loud. I would get up early, I live in Massachusetts, and listen to the local tv or radio station for "cancellations". Then, go back to bed, then get up, breakfast, shovel the snow, get hot chocolate or tea, and catch up on homework(possibly missed). Then, relax.. My now, late grandfather would do "slide shows" a precursor to "Power Point" .

The iPhone, really changed the game. Before that you’d check MySpace for a few minutes before bed on the desktop lol

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I wholeheartedly agree with this comment! 👍

Watching this video made me realize there were better times

We all would the standard of living was so much better then now a days every month is a struggle to eat and pay rent

@@michaeldhondt368 Facts. Studio apartment in 2000. 600 a month. Studio apartment in 2023. 1500 a month.

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The beautiful sound of "you've got mail" was gratifying. Like u entered another world

and the sounds the dialup made as it connected

Lol

😂I still don’t know how to stream! And I buy magazines because being on my device too much bothers my eyes!

I sill use CDs

And in 10 years, you'll be saying that about today. As much as I love the 90s, I try to stay present and be happy with what I have and who I have in my life.

@@the_kombinator more like in 10 years gen alpha will say that about today. If you pay attention to older generations people tend to long for/get stuck in the simpler days of their youth sub 25ish. Think Walt Disney for example. The disney land park Main Street was designed around his own memories of longing for the simpler times pre automobile.

@@Bonanzaking For me personally, it was grade 8. I loved it. I would take a day in late 95 or early 96 again. Not that my life is shit, far from it, with many, many good memories over the years... That just seemed like the last time I could get away with care-free behaviour, where I literally could care less and loved every moment of it. I tend to enjoy what I have now though, becuase in 20 years I'll be missing today, so why not enjoy it now?

1992 was a great year. 🙂🇦🇺

Ted Unabomber Kaczynski thought the same thing about technology.

Yes, I do mean the card catalog. Kids really don't know the Dewey Decimal system either. They rely on the computer system. Thank you for watching Kerri!

although it's used kids now days don't know it we used to be taught it in schools now it's all computer

it's always fun finding those cards in the back of older library books, like, did Johnathan Fletcher return this book on September 21st 1976?

@@RhettyforHistory Libraries: You look up a book on the computer, it tells you the Dewey number to find it.

I loved the card system and cabinets but i didn't know the new system still uses the dewey number. Great information.

Some people used the phonebook as toilet paper along with the sears and jc Penney and other department stores catalogs in outhouses. Others used them if they were short to put in the seat of a car or truck so they could see above the steering wheel. People in prison would use phonebooks taped together for body armor so they wouldn't get shanked. Still others used the phonebook to prank call people. The list goes on and on lol

We had one delivered the other day, it was so thin compared to what it used to be. And most of the book is just local businesses and older residents in the region.

@@paigealexandrabattley they just need to go away entirely. You can look up the number on your phone now.

I still like having a telephone book. Prefer them for that matter.

When I was in 4th grade (1994) I had a beta fish. One morning it was gone and disappeared. Swore my mom flushed him. About 3 or 4 years later I was using a old phone book to find blockbuster video number in the yellow pages and BOOM! there was my fish from 4th grade. He musta hopped out his tank and landed on that phone book. Got closed up and no one noticed 😅

Our library recently got rid of all fees for overdue books. And they also automatically renew if you are late. They send you an email to inform you.

I miss that “KA-THUMP!” that the old electric library date stampers made when the librarian would insert the card. Also the smell and sounds of flipping through the card catalog.

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That was a big game to play. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories.

Your comment says a lot about your age. Was never such a thing to save my homework to a floppy disk because all of my homework was on actual paper. Yes, we had a computer class, but everything stayed at school or on the computer.

1Meg floppys? I thought they were 750K or 1.44M

I remember the fish and shark game as well and don't forget number munchers that game was very hard and challenging and they had other math games as well there was a space math gane as well Apple computers were decent back than but who knew they would be on top decades later

Yess 🫶🏽

OMG I was born in 1954. He must think my parents were Fred and Wilma Flintstone

@@cag19549 Born 1988. Think the only thing that I found genuinely strange from my parents era was rotary phones. Heavy metal base with a spinner to wind each number in and a real bell that rang loud shaking your eardrums as metal on metal does. Record players are also really fascinating in their analogue simplicity.

​@@cattysplat I didn't even find those strange as my grandma had one for the longest time. Born in 83

Just tell him how primitive you think the present is. In the eighties, we thought Xpengs and self driving cars would be the norm by now. And every single home would be a smart home. (I find it strange that people are amazed by smart home tech, when I think the AI should be way more advanced than the clunky 2010s crap we still use!)

The term "Olden Days" was popularised during the tech boom between the 1950s and 60s where everyone could start affording tech. Sure people did have cars/hoovers/fridges/tvs etc etc before then, but it was only the rich. The 1950s and 60s made having a fridge freezer common as muck, same goes for record players, toasters, electric kettles, hoovers, washing machines, tumble dryers, televisions and the like, ownership of these staple household devices really boomed during that time. So the term 'olden days' was used back then becaise no one had the tech so to speak...It wasnt called the technological era for nothing. We currently live in the "Digital Era" because everythings going wireless/no need for any physical things to play music, films or indeed actually having physical cash as we all go contactless. Anyway, the term as originally stated is used by kids today as the 1950/1960s boom is now over half a century ago! Sure some tech is similar like the vinyls to the CD but a CD could hold more songs and even now the CD is obsolete with the likes of Spotify. Back then a phone was a phone, not some touch screen PC that now has more computing power in your pocket, than all the entire computers needed to land a ship on the Moon back in 1969!

No recollection. I remember the Playboy magazine, though.

P sure highlights is still around

You forgot Mad Magazine and Cracked.

My school uses Highlights comments

I loved the mini page.

Very much so, I think!

Thank you for watching Robin and I hope you have a Happy New Year as well!

Agreed

The pace of life is faster than it used to be. Consolidation of tools and information makes us expect more situations where instant gratification is the norm.

Yes, I agree, I would prefer to live in the 80's.

You'll be ahead of the game when the grid goes down someday. Lol

@@Lili-xq9sn lol True. 😉

I do miss the grip-feel of the landline phones.

@@pchound5962You can still get that kind of feeling. A smart phone is like holding a brick to your ear but fortunately they still sell flip phones they mimic landline phones much better

We still have the local phone book issued each year. Getting steadily smaller. My county's down 20 pages or so of numbers from the '22 one. Not many years left for "the phone books" in get. I would hang on to some, folks

93 for me, I mostly collect osts from animes and older video games. Found Eiffel 65 Europop for $3 at thrift store a decade ago.

You missed some fun times. 90-94 was a very rapid period of change. 1996 or 97 was a world away from 1989.

​@@haloslayer255 Me discovering the magic of used CD warehouses as a middle school kid around 1995. Was a blast.

Buy several cd players too. You'll need backups for your backups 🙃

'97 for me, but I grew up in such a small town that tech was nearly 10 years behind the big ol' cities.

I don’t know why but my son loves his WalkMan

I had two WWII wired telephones in the 1970's , one was in the house and the other in my Treehouse. you had to Crank it to power it.

nothing wrong with that. I love vintage things, too. They are just amusing.

You should make videos about your things 😁

@@985Mindy I actually did something like that when I first turned 18. And boy the guys like it.

I still read for entertainment sometimes.

I still prefer reading and having physical books. Thank you for watching!

i'm gonna get a little tmi maybe but I was locked up for 11yrs and i read a book about every 2-3 days. At the end of my sentence I had read atleast 1,000 books. I have been out of prison now since 2017 and I haven't read one book since being out. I just can't focus on books when there's so much more going on. Also the year I got locked up was the year the first iPhone released. When i got out I got slider phone and was blown away by it even though it was a few years older then what was out at the time. Now I own a S22 Ultra, have a pretty nice gaming rig, have an iPad Pro and a 55 inch 4K TV, oh how times have and myself have changed.

Plenty pf people read books, whether digital or physical books.

Reading books and writing physically really keep the brain active and agile, plus satisfying. I’ve never valued local library as much as I do today - one of the few public spaces where you are welcome & warm without being expected to part with money (and sure, free Wi-Fi and computers)

Loads of DVDs, blu-rays and 4K blu-rays are still released every week. There is nothing stopping you from buying them and are worth having if you are into the bonus content that comes with them.

I still listen to vinyl, CD's and cassettes. Vinyl is the only one that I see still sold brand new in the stores. I have daughter that has started her own collection of newer ones. Thank you for watching and sharing what you love!

@@RhettyforHistory cd's are also still sold brand new in stores

@@RhettyforHistory got well over 2600 DVDs/blu rays in my physical media collection a lot are freebies from my pa whose husband is the manger of a large recycling centre DVDs and blu's aren't their biggest sellers so after 3 weeks or so they go into the land fill so for all you physical media fans check your local recycling centre out first they may only ask for a couple of quid as a donation but you can have as many as you can get into a normal shopping basket

I was in Niles, MI over the weekend and there is a used record store. The store also had some other music formats.

For me it was Fortran. I saw the movie "Tron " when I was 17 and became interested in computers. I took Fortran and that interest died a quick death.

@@stevis8264 For me, it's "upgrades" FORCED down our throats by this stupid "cloud-based" software BS. Every "upgrade" sacrifices basic functionality for bells and whistles we don't need and aren't even given any information about. SOFTWARE SHOULD BE ON DISKS. Consumers should have the OPTION of having hours added to their workday because of stupid decisions by R&D departments. I teach exclusively online because I've had four heart attacks. I am tied to tech, and these days, I HATE it.

I remember my COBOL and FORTRAN program printouts being 12 feet long. One misplaced comma would ruin a whole process.

I took that class as well, and one 5.25" floppy disk was $4.00. I didn't see it as a nightmare though, but it did take some focus to get through.

I had those dang punch cards! A whole stack to say one sentence! I hated that "computer " class!

Thank you for watching and sharing your feelings and thoughts.

@@RhettyforHistory Thank you for making the video, it brings back a lot of memories. Honestly, you rock.

Like the 1962 Cuban missile crisis ? The cold war ? Nam ?......You are just young

@@forbesmathews89 LOL, I'm older than you think and yes, I remember them well and I'd still take them.

@@pipkinrahl7264 75

When we moved to rural Missouri in 1970, we had a rotary dial phone with an 8 party line. The monthly cost was about $4.00

My family had a rotary phone until the mid-1990s, it was super heavy. I finally broke it and we got a cordless phone after that.

Plus if you needed to hang up on somebody you could really slam down the handset. Now it's pushing a button

@@LassieFarm With a satisfying "ding!" as it used a real bell and clanger inside the phone.

Yes, yes, yes.

Thank you for watching and sharing some of your experiences.

But computer labs aren't obsolete. Schools and colleges still have those. It's just that versions of the computers have been updated a lot from "big-back" to "flat-screens".

I really don't get how such a basic skill is not taught anymore. Cursives are designed to be written faster than single letters and give a significant advantage in written tests.

@@alexanderfo3886 I learned Gregg Shorthand, otherwise known as 'Steno'/'stenography'.

Calligraphy is alive and well.

Those are niche uses. Cursive lacks a compelling general use case.

@@alexanderfo3886 Most people don't write anything longer than to-do lists or a short note on a sticky these days. They type. Cursive is obsolete. The major general use cases for the general public was just writing letters and school papers. Typing superseded them.

Incorrect,modern technology IS THE BEST AS IT MAKES LIFE WAY EASIER

@@stephensnell5707 spoiled.

Thank you for watching and Happy New Year to you!

Thank you for watching and I'm happy to know you enjoyed the video.

Oh my gosh, yes! I was born in 81 those magazines were awesome especially during the early 90s late 80s all the toys and games and yeah 😀

Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories.

Elementary schools had them by the mid 80s, at least around here. They kept obsolete computers for close to a decade tho lol I recall throwing out C64s in 1996.

My high school had a connection to the universities main frame But still no internet

@@duanebouchard8736 That's an intranet. Close tho.

In 1990s our lab contained lots of technology. Multiple types and makes of computer networked together, radio controlled devices, programmable robot (like roomba), different printers+photocopy, computer servers, personal floppy disk filing storage and 1 IBM PC that cost thousands with dialup internet (was supervised at all times).

Recently, one of my young coworkers handed me an envelope. He couldn't read it because the name was in cursive. I think he thought it was bad writing. Actually, it was very good cursive writing. I deciphered it in an instant. Oh, they don't know cipher and decipher. Lol.

The real reason the younger generation is not taught to write or read cursive is so they CAN'T READ THE CONSTITUTION and BILL OF RIGHTS of the United States! Let that sink in. This is a deliberate agenda.

I was shocked when my son couldn’t write in cursive. He can barely do his name. They quit teaching it and he’s 22 now.

@@angelashaffer4892 sadly it is no longer part of the curriculum, at least in Texas.

I remember back in high school (1974) wondering why on earth I need to take a typing class, that was for just for secretaries, keypunch operators and school term papers, right? I'd never have guessed that years later would give me a head start over those that didn't.

You're right about that in many ways. Thank you for watching Christian!

I use email quite often on my job. In my opinion, it's the best way to communicate with a lot of people at one time because many people are not comfortable giving out their personal phone numbers.

So many memories….now I feel old 🤣 Happy new year!!!

@@RandomRetr0 gives us a reason to tell our kids "back in the day...." It's a badge of honor for me🤣

Happy New Year to you as well Tammie!

My dad had one of those expensive cameras and always used slides and slide projectors. Once a month we had slide shows.

@@joeheid2776 my dad too ..

I still have some slides as well as 8mm and super 8mm film. Thank you for watching and sharing what you still have.

I wish I had never gotten rid of mine. I’ve tried a couple of times to get it back recently, but when I call AT&T, it seems like nobody there has any idea what I’m talking about.

@@spankynater4242 Just go to Walmat, for example, and buy a landline phone with a docking station. Assuming your home still has phone jack outlets, you can just plug it in and it should work.

You're welcome and thank you for watching!

Those are the types of videos we need on KZfaq, but sadly, KZfaq has silenced (shadow banned or deleted altogether) channels that talk about things KZfaq doesn't want people to know.

Our thoughts are the last form of privacy that we have left.

You might - we have a subscription to nothing. Library cards, 486 computers for my kid to play games on, power wheels and GT snow racers. I haven't had a facebook account (outside of buying/selling) in about 5 years now.

@@agomodern they are out there you just have to look, internettoday is a good one so is somemorenews

I will miss that dearly

I recall having a notebook a few of us would pass between us as opposed to notes. Getting handed it was so exciting.

Yes, I still have mine also. Its even more special now to write a letter to someone.

I remember having a Pen pal too

And now, it’s impossible to get junk mail delivery stopped.

Heck yeah. I'm not quite old enough to have been around when 8 tracks in cars were a thing, but I do remember fuse boxes and rotary dial phones. When I was around 10 yrs old in the late 90s, my parents rented a duplex, built in the early 40s during WWII, and it was a fuse panel with only 3 glass fuses for the entire home, the 4th socket had always been empty and I once stuck my finger in it and got buzzed. There were a couple of rotary wall phones. I do miss having the ability to swiftly end a conversation gone sour by slamming the phone down on the hook.

@@Sparky-ww5re You stuck your finger in the empty socket, LMAO. When I was a kid, we had steam radiators connected to the furnace for heat and a rug of shag carpet. I would drag my feet across the carpet then touch the metal radiator and get a static electricity shock. I would also do the same thing and touch my big sister to piss her off.

omg i feel this in my bones hahahaha!!

I remember my family having a rotary phone when I was a kid they were so loud whenever you would try to make a call it was hard to sneak and try to make a call when you were not supposed to be on the phone so every time I would call someone to keep my parents from hearing me dial the number I would cough to cover it up

They really were good to have in your corner when you went on vacation. Thank you for watching and sharing some memories!

You're welcome and thank you for watching Deb!

You're welcome and thank you for watching Bonnie! I'm happy you enjoyed them!

Wishing you and your family a very Happy, healthy, prosperous 2023, beginning tomorrow!

I'm happy to know you caught the humor. Thank you for watching!

I looooved Olivetti's word processor!

I still have vhs player

I still use my Montgomery Ward VCR all the time. I'm always amazed it's still going. Thank you for watching!

VCRs used to be very common in thrift stores. They had stacks of them that no one wanted until hipsters discovered them. Now they get snapped up instantly and sold at insane cost on eBay.

@@niklass1641 yeah, eBay. Tread careful there. What I call scalpers work overtime there. I'm not sure if any of our local thrifts still sell VCR players.

Happy New Yeats Paul.

@@JaneDoe-ps6ve You Too! 😁🎊🎆

Thank You Paul

Mail call used to be pretty special though. I think many people miss out on that. I understand the benefits of technology with families now though. Sure adds less stress for not being there. Thank you for watching and sharing some of your thoughts and memories!

Young man, the 90s was not a simple time.

you don't even miss the old internet with weird homepages and privacy? i miss the cost of houses lol i don't have rose tinted glasses either the 90's were not the best time of my life had a rough childhood but some of the stuff is cool.

Oh that is a good one Brian! Thank you for watching and suggesting another item to remember!

Our pay phones were rented and only turned a profit after the monthly rental fee was achieved. After four consecutive months of no money in the coin box, the phones were removed.

@Brian Foster Not really, but they were dying off since the mid 90s then phased out during the 2010s.

@@walkerk77I like that you said consecutive and not back-to-back. When people say back-to-back, they sound like uneducated yahoos.

Nah, I still used them fairly regularly until 2008 or so. Now, I know the exact location of ONE, and I know it works too.

Thank you for watching and sharing your memories!

I remember taking a summer school class learning how to make simple programs in DOS.🤣 What an absolute waste of time!

You are so right on the modern printers jamming so dang annoying. Anna In Ohio

Remember going from looking up a 1 sentence description of something in an encyclopaedia/dictionary book the size of my head, to Encarta encyclopaedia with pictures on computer.

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Thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts.

People have always been nasty. The internet just gave people a feeling of safety hiding behind their keyboard to say all the nasty stuff they do and have. Even early on in chat rooms in the 90s there was always some person either trolling or just saying awful stuff. Mods weren't usually present so you just had to ignore it.

Nice is different then good.

Maybe some people were nice to each other, especially if they were all straight white Protestant men. For the ones that weren't those things, there were too many who were not nice. At all.

People were never nice to each other. You're just so naive.

Everyone longs for nostalgia

I do too. My VCR is from Montgomery Ward. I'm always shocked that it is still going strong. Thank you for watching Mary!

Ours is a Sanyo. I still have several VHS tapes including stuff I taped off the TV😁

but cursive is not needed though it's a nice art now like calligraphy or if you are interested in design. To get into college and in college all the papers and work is submitted online, same with note taking it's usually done on the computer, jobs same, jobs require you to know how to use Microsoft suite proficiently and depending on the job the applications and software that goes with that field. I went back to school a few years ago and it's not the same as it was back in the early to late 2000's. I'm looking for a new job and if you want to make above minimum wage it's important to learn those applications or even how to code would be better and i am not even in IT. i'm a project manager for non-profits and small businesses/creators. i'm only telling you this so you can have a heads up on what's going on out in the job market etc. to better prepare.

Yup. And we sent man to the moon and back with slide rules and logarithm tables.

my slide rule case is real leather, and the slide rule itself has a serial number. the cost of it could buy a car

@@duanebouchard8736 ... why does it cost so much? Most slide rules were plastic and manufactured in the millions for high school and college students. Even today you can buy plenty of nice examples from antique dealers relatively cheap.

@@wizrom3046 mine was a Post that I bought for $25 in 1971. It was rather premium with a bamboo core and a hard plastic skin. There were many scales on both sides including trig functions and logarithms. It would cost $180 in today's money. It still works today and I never replaced batteries.

@@lxoxrxexnx ... cafeful! The batteries might leak if you dont' replace them regularly! 😎

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We did that, too! It seems comical now.

Boring? Discovering something new?

​@@citrine65 Yes. I really hate long drives now. In part, I have kids who get car sick easily and in part, I live out in the country and already drive in the prettiest parts of the area just for regular errands.

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Yep we need them now an then. Usually for government departments that apparently don't have email.

They are far from obsolete in doctors offices and pharmacies. Realtors also still use them

Isn't that funny to think about now? Thank you for watching!

agreed!

Oh that is sad that someone stole them. Thank you for watching and sharing your story.

Omfg BASIC. I forgot about it completely

@@jessied3696 10 PRINT "BASIC IS CRAP" 20 GOTO 10 30 RUN 😄

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I still recall some of my shorthand.