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Title: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Post by: Parts on August 22, 2009, 05:07:38 PM

Maybe even some here don't know about.  Makes me feel old.
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07/100-things-your-kids-may-never-know-about/

Title: Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Post by: Toad on August 22, 2009, 06:18:47 PM

Yep I remember most of that too

Title: Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Post by: Icequeen on August 22, 2009, 07:01:47 PM

I still live with most of this.

Maybe I should exchange some of my outdated tech with some of these underprivilaged kids. 

Doubt I could get my ex FIL to part with his Hank Williams 8 tracks though. :laugh:

Title: Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Post by: Parts on August 22, 2009, 07:14:41 PM

I saw a microfiche reader at an estate sale today wondered how many people even knew what it was

Title: Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Post by: renaeden on August 23, 2009, 08:07:20 PM

I remember most of these. I still use/do a lot of these things as well. Some old stuff should never die.

Title: Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Post by: Parts on August 23, 2009, 08:44:16 PM

Where I live you can still use rotary phones I have one from the late 1930's still hooked up in my work shop


Here's another the tube testers in the pharmacies :laugh: 

Title: Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Post by: Natalia Evans on August 23, 2009, 09:39:10 PM

My kid will probably see my old game consoles and VHS tapes and VCR and see the laser disc and the discs at my parents house and those 8 tracks and records. And I still have cassette tapes.

Title: Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Post by: renaeden on August 24, 2009, 01:45:14 AM

These are the ones I don't know:
 Super-8 movies and cine film of all kinds.
Using jumpers to set IRQs.
Daisy chaining your SCSI devices and making sure they’ve all got a different ID.
NCSA Mosaic.
Concatenating and UUDecoding binaries from Usenet.

They are computer ones so I am not surprised that I don't know them. Can anyone tell me what these are (I would ask GA but I think he is too young)?

Also
Vacuum cleaners with bags in them. Vacuum cleaner bags are now seen as the the thing to use in vacuums now. The filters on bagless cleaners degrade over time and are expensive to replace. So now the bags are of the disposable sort. :)

Title: Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Post by: 'andersom' on August 24, 2009, 03:20:56 AM

Quote from: parts on August 22, 2009, 07:14:41 PM

I saw a microfiche reader at an estate sale today wondered how many people even knew what it was

LOL, I tried explaining that to my girls a few weeks ago.

Title: Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Post by: SleepyDragon on August 24, 2009, 10:36:07 PM

Quote from: renaeden on August 24, 2009, 01:45:14 AM

These are the ones I don't know:
 Super-8 movies and cine film of all kinds.
Using jumpers to set IRQs.
Daisy chaining your SCSI devices and making sure they’ve all got a different ID.
NCSA Mosaic.
Concatenating and UUDecoding binaries from Usenet.

One thing is certain, there will be explanations of all of those things somewhere on the Internet.

And maybe as a corollary to "37. Finding out information from an encyclopedia" —
"37a. Realising that there are many things that you will never know about, and that you will never need to know about, and being okay with that."  :green:

Title: Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Post by: TheoK on August 25, 2009, 01:41:49 AM

Quote from: parts on August 22, 2009, 07:14:41 PM

I saw a microfiche reader at an estate sale today wondered how many people even knew what it was

I think we still have them in our library when people are making genealogical reseraches.  :thumbup: