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71 Photos Of Old Technology That Was Once The Height Of Innovation And Now Looks Delightfully Clunky
If you were lucky enough to grow up in the 90s, you might remember Beyond 2000. We watched in awe at the magic that awaited the world in the decades to come: cutting-edge innovations and seemingly over-the-top predictions of how people would live and work in the 21st century.
We saw mobile "porter office" devices, featuring touch-sensor keypads, handwriting notebooks, and speech recognition. We heard that homes and offices would one day have voice-controlled automation. We simply could not believe it.
Fast forward to now, and we have all that and more. But we've experience our fair share of dinosaur tech to get here. Chunky computers, brick-sized mobile phones, portable cassette players and game cartridges are just a few of the gems the kids of today will never know.
Thankfully, all the nostalgic memories are being kept alive by a community dedicated to sharing pics of Retro Tech. The page provides an epic trip back in time and Bored Panda has put together some of its best posts.
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#1
Got This Thing For Free
Saved it from being trashed. Everything is working except the cassette deck.
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#3
Asked My Grandpa If He Had A Cd Player, Gave Me Something Better
I have tested it and it plays my music CDs amazingly, the original Nickel-Cadnium batteries even hold a charge longer than 2 hours. I'm very surprised on how well this was preserved in my Grandpa's office room closet. All I am missing is the manual.
#4
I Still Game On A 21 Year Old Portable Gaming Console
#6
Nokia 7210 Prototype I Found At A Flea Market (Still Fully Functional)
#7
I Found My Old Pager From 1996
UnclePanda 8 hours ago (edited)
I worked for a largish health organization when these came out and all the middle managers were given (forced to have) one. There was only one chirp sound early on, which meant that every time a beep occurred in a meeting, everybody had to stop and check. Many of these were medical people on call. Imagine 20 people around the table, all bobbing their heads in synch like a flock of drinking bird toys.
#9
Seiko Smartwatch (1982)
#11
Vintage “Printomatic” Mechanical Lever Voting Machine
Still has a primary election from 1998.
#12
Play Those Fancy New Cassette Tapes On Your Trusty 8-Track Player!
UnclePanda 8 hours ago
The Jam-A-Matic! IIRC, it kind of worked but the sound was poor and it was prone to eating tapes.
#13
Found This TV At Goodwill For $3. I Knew It Wouldn’t Pick Up Channels, But It Fired Right Up!
#15
They Don’t Make Them Like They Used To
Giraffe Sitter 10 hours ago
Toshiba made excellent laptops back in the XP days. I miss that old thing.
#18
My Office Is Coming Together
Beak Hookage 43 minutes ago
I love the aesthetics of this one. Uh, I mean I'm digging the vibe. It's so lit. R-right, fellow kids?
#20
The Executive Decision Maker Makes My Decisions For Me
#21
Who Remembers Vacuum Tube Banking??
#23
An Ancient Diagnostic Computer, And It Still Works. 1991 As Far As I Can Tell
#25
Finished Stage 1 Of My Screen Altar Today
#26
Old Phone
#30
I Found This TV On Fb Market Place And Used A Bunch Of Adapters To Play Games On It And Wanted To Share Somewhere
#33
My Early-2000s Sony-Inspired Crt Room — The Displays, Games, And Switching Setup
#40
My Family Bought Some Property And Found This In A Ditch. No Clue How Long It Was There, But It Doesn’t Look Terrible
Grape Walls of Ire 8 hours ago
My dad still has his Apple IIe with its whopping 64KB of RAM! With the original box.
#41
Found A Fully Working Win98 Computer In A Abandoned Building
#42
Mac Plus Crooked Screen
Bill Swallow 7 hours ago
Rotate the deflection yoke on the neck of the CRT about six degrees counterclockwise as seen from the back. Be extremely careful, because the capacitors and the CRT itself *will* be packing a pretty hefty charge that would like nothing better than to flow through you to ground.
#43
Massive Hdd That Stores A Whopping 16mb Of Data
#44
Thought You Guys Might Enjoy This. I Set Up My Ps1 As My Main Cd Player, Sounds So Crisp. Highly Recommend It
#46
1953 Numechron Tymeter Clock
Bill Swallow 7 hours ago
Different case, but our kitchen clock when I was a kid used the same movement / display.
#48
Got This Whole Set For $120 Total
Lily bloom 8 hours ago
Commodore 64! My family's first computer. I remember having a drawing pad for it that was awesome
#60
My Computer Speaker I Made When I Was A Kid
When I was 10 years old I got a free tube radio with burned circuits and ripped apart. Using some resistors, some LEDs, and an old computer speaker circuit, I managed to make a volume-controlled speaker using the original buttons and speaker.
#64
Sony Walkman Wd-60 Evaluation
Found this in my attic, used to be my dads. Seeing all sorts of different prices online. Anyone know if it’s got actual value and could anyone provide a ballpark price? Thanks
Lily bloom 8 hours ago
Search sold listing for comparable condition or for parts if unable to determine
#70
Was Downsizing Our House And Came Across The Box For My Single Days
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