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Old technology you have to explain to kids

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by spikechiquet, Oct 14, 2012.

  1. EStreetJoe

    EStreetJoe Well-Known Member

    So am I.
     
  2. KJIM

    KJIM Well-Known Member

    Yes. Every teacher, not just math.

    Libraries. The brick-and-mortar kind. I do a lot of career-type counseling in one area, and when I tell people to go to the library and talk to a librarian or go get XX type of book from the reference department, they ask the web address.
     
  3. EStreetJoe

    EStreetJoe Well-Known Member

    You might know how to use microfilm, but can you look something up on microfiche?
     
  4. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    It's technology in its lowest form, but who uses a shoehorn any more? How about actually locking or unlocking your car with a key?
     
  5. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    Carrying cash in your wallet.
     
  6. KJIM

    KJIM Well-Known Member

    Every day.

    Doing some flood cleanup yesterday, someone found a disk. A 5-1/4 inch or whatever those were. I still have 256k thumb drive and I thought that was old.
     
  7. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    Same here
     
  8. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    I would rather do that than carry a huge plastic thing on my key chain.
     
  9. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    Kevin Nealon has a bit about pay phones:
    You hardly ever see pay phones any more. If you do see one and somebody's using it, you immediately think: that person is up to no good.
     
  10. novelist_wannabe

    novelist_wannabe Well-Known Member

    Speaking of phones, does anyone still use a phone book any more?
     
  11. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    Occasionally. Those online Yellow Pages are not always reliably updated and the results aren't as pinpointed as the hard-copy phone book
     
  12. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    There are still a lot of cars on the road with nonelectric locks.
    I've had my 2000 Nissan Frontier for 12 years now, which is pretty old, but there have to be a lot of cars in the four- to seven-year-old range on the road.
     
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