Artist Shows How Popular Apps Would Have Looked In The 1980s (13 Pics)

Mixtape!

Mix tapes we made for each other. I still have a shoebox full of them from Ween to Jane's Addiction to Ministry to Death in June and Current 93

This is 1880 not 1980

Word did NOT look like that in yhe 80s. Pick a decade BEFORE it was invented

So, this page isn't so much "what would these apps have looked like in an earlier time" in some fanciful way. It's more like, "Here's a picture of the technology that this new technology replaced." I don't get why anyone finds this so amusing. Like, yeah, word processing replaced typewriters. Video streaming is replacing broadcast television. Cars replaced horse-drawn wagons. Etc.

I learned the first Microsoft Word Program in 1986. It was hidden in the back of a program for the insurance agency I worked for and was called Word for DOS.

I would imagine Netflix as a video rental shop, because it's not just 1 film.

Laser disk.

There are so many applicants for each job you apply to at LinkedIn, that you might as well throw your resume in a bottle to the sea.

(Well, I mean, literally "Pinterest" came from the idea of pinning things on bulletin boards.)

Except asking for your personal datas to allow you to view pictures they don't own any copyright over.

a moodboard!

It loos like a conspiracy board

Again, not quite. Usenet anyone?

I miss snail mail.. but then, its not save to give your full address to strangers now

Try several volumes

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My grandmother has an old set of encyclopedias on her book case. They were purchased when my mother was in school and my grandmother keeps them on the bookcase because she likes them. At a family gathering, my niece, who was like 11 at the time, was looking through them. We explained what the books were and how they were used and she started to look something up and couldn't find it. She kept saying, "WHY ISN'T EVERYTHING HERE? DID THEY JUST EXPECT TIME TO STOP?"

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Not quite. This would need to be a massive scratchpad, or similar, since everyone can contribute. This is not possible in a classical book.

Suddenly the logo makes sense

Wouldn't that be MTV, you know when MTV was good?

More like Youtube T.V.

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This doesn't work. As Hans points out the 3.5 Disk is more like a memory card. The closest to the iCloud would be a main frame computer system. Which the school system I use to work for uses a modern version. Teachers and students don't save things on their classroom computers, it's all saved on the district's main server. Many of the student computers are nothing more than a keyboard, screen, and a little box, with some USB pug holes, and a CD driver. There aren't any programs in them, just like a late 1960's to early 80's business computer system. In a great money saving move, the super attendant told the IT department not to buy a back-up server for like $800-$1000. Then server crashed. Over $10,000 to have an outside company try and recover the information, plus replace the crashed server and buy a backup. Many of the younger teachers lost all of their students grades, because everything was on the server. As well as all their lesson plans, test, work sheets.

Personally, I perceive Facebook as closer to the following children's hobby we used to have in my time. Someone would take a notebook, fill it with questions (1 question per page), and then pass it on for each classmate to answer, and have it returned filled with answers and maybe pictures from classmates and friends.

I don't see no faces in that book.

Another one I've not heard of... not surprising as I am a little tech-apps resistant.

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Never heard of this- in either timeline.

havent thought about slack in years

Um what is this I've never heard of it before :)