50 Obsolete Things To Show Just How Much The World Has Changed (New Pics)

The POS system went out at our coffee shop. I was newer... and older, and asked the others where the "ker-chunker" machine was. They just stared at me blankly until an elderly customer came up to me and said, "I know exactly what you're talking about".

Gosh it was fun swiping those thiings.

When I first started retail back in the mid 80's I had to use those things.

I have one of those sitting on a console table as a decoration/conversation piece.

We had one under the desk at my old job (2008ish), I dreaded the possibility of being given a card that needed to use it because I didn’t know how! Never happened in my time thankfully.

the 'click-clack' machine!

Oh, the annoying carbon paper page.

Not to mention the carbon that got over everything.

I've used this many times in the Before Days but for some reason it always reminds me of the holiday shopping montage from Christmas Vacation.

A lot of places still have these as backup, for when the credit card machines go down. It actually happens more often than you'd think.

Yrah and then they'd have to call in for a verification number!

I still had to use these 2/3 years ago when i worked in retail. If the internet went down, it was the only way to get payment.

I had the joy of watching a store whose network had gone down try to use one of these.

The clacker! The carbon papers. The tearing up of the carbon papers.

When I worked in retail in the late 70's - late 80's we used those and if the amount was over a certain amount we had to call it in to get an approval number. Fun times ,especially if you were told to cut the card in half.

Back when they couldn't check your credit limit instantly.

Yup

I used to have to carry one in my tow truck in 1995

Yes. And I remember them back when they had carbon copies. It was such a security risk. If you didn't tear them into little pieces when the customer didn't want them, people would steal them from the trash.

I remember watching my parents use these on holidays to pay for things.

I was in the US in 2019 and many shops and restaurants still used them there!

we use only debet cards here. i dont know anyone who owns a credit card. 🤷

When you worked in a store you hated when people paid that way because it took so long to process and call in for authorization. Cash or cheques were preferable.

I had to use one of these in a small corner of an old K-Mart back in 2004. Never again.

Used to use one of these all the time.

😂🤣power went out temporarily about 2years ago when I was managing a newly opened restaurant (during the pandemic)...Found 2 of them in the restaurant basement with the carbon papers!! Saved the day! Because Credit Card Machines today NEED ELECTRICITY. But not the older, obsolete Card Machines! They are, by far, the superior card machine

I remember Belinda Skelton telling a story of how her dad thwarted a robber in pitch black darkness by swiping that thing. It sounded like a shotgun cocking and scared him off.

Duuuude These we’re such a pain

I worked in a ghetto in 2006 and used one of these . Some old white lady plus boss stood over me bc she wanted me take every piece of paper out of the trash after she tore it up !

I hated these things.

Hmm, I think we still have one at work just in case

Knuckle Buster

Seen it in movies

I used to play with it when my mom was standing in line at Marshall's

Man! I remember the pride in having my very first credit card get used in one of these and seeing my name on that receipt, like a real grown-up! 😂😂😂 Funny how excited you are to become a grown-up then you are and it's quickly anticlimactic!

We did not have it

I hated having to use the damn thing

Cha-ching!

Don't they stall use these in the US...

God I hated when we had to use these

I remember working in retail in the 90's and they finally did away with these. We were all soooooo happy because we hated them!