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35 Obsolete Technology Things To Prove How Much The World Has Moved On And Changed
All it takes is one good vintage image to make you stop and reminisce about your youth. That’s the power of a good photo—it opens the door to a deep yearning for the ‘good old days’ and reminds you of how things used to be. A simpler time and, arguably, a better one, too.
The ‘Retro Tech Dreams’ Twitter page hits hard with a heavy dose of nostalgia. The account documents and shares pics of vintage technology, computing, and the web that might strike a chord with those of you Pandas who were kids back in the ‘80s, ‘90s, and 2000s. As you continue scrolling, upvote the photos that got you daydreaming about your childhood.
Meanwhile, here we are, dusting off our GameBoy Color (we had to change the batteries, but the Pokémon Yellow cartridge still works perfectly fine), missing playing Snake on chunky Nokia phones, and yearning for Windows XP (look, nothing will convince us that Vista or Windows 10 were better). It’s awesome to take a trip down memory lane. Even if just for a little while.
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devotedtodreams 3 years ago
Wow, this takes me back... There was a time when I'd add one of these to nearly every Word document I created! XD
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Serial pacifist 3 years ago
The casing was just to keep it attached to the belt. Nokia didn’t need shock protection. Concrete needed shock protection from Nokia.
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Mani Lacao 3 years ago
Build a pool, make the Sim go into the pool, remove the ladder, watch creepily what happens
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devotedtodreams 3 years ago
I seem to dimly remember days when there were no ads on YouTube... Those were good days. (Thank God for YouTube AdBlock extensions!)
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 3 years ago
I am so glad for flatscreen LCDs and broadband internet. Someday these guys are going to tell their grandchildren how they gamed.
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BasedWang12.7 3 years ago (edited)
my dad refuses to get a new computer so he doesn't lose that specific Jezzball
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ShaZam Beaubien 3 years ago
I hated that page. I always got stuck thinking about what category my question was in ... So
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 3 years ago
It was fun, but towards the end it was so bloated and glitchy I just wanted it gone.
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LynzCatastrophe 3 years ago
Just yesterday I found my sisters old one in a box on a shelf. I have plans.
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TotallyNOTaFox 3 years ago
I still have thousands of hours of free internet useage in disk form left from the 2000s
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Brian Michael 3 years ago
Arguably a perfect game, complex enough to have to strategize later, easy enough where you didn't have to overthink the meta and just enjoy the game.
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2x4b523p 3 years ago
Reminds me of black&white portable TV with about 5” screen size my brother bought with his saved pocket money. He let me borrow it when I was ill so I could watch TV in my bed. It felt so surreal being able to watch TV outside the family room. Choosing which channel to watch for first time ever (there were only three but still lol…).
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Beautys solace 3 years ago
and getting a dos prompt after something went wrong.... after all the disk swaps
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Will Cable 3 years ago
I know Sinclair brought out a pocket TV and you could use the battery from a Polaroid Instant camera (if slightly trimmed) to make it work
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Rob Chapman 3 years ago
The people that bought that desk in the 80's are still trying assemble it.
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Confused Duck 3 years ago
5RP2E - EH3K - BR3LG - KMGTE - FN8PY This is the CD key for Half Life 2 - don't ask me why I still remember it
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Beautys solace 3 years ago
running a radio staton, using winamp to run the stream with lame mp3 encoder
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 3 years ago
Looks like something from a 2000s Final Fantasy spinoff game.
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Will Cable 3 years ago
As I typed before a while ago, when you are trying to choose between typing Disc or Disk and type D**k instead while thinking about which final letter to choose.
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JoJo Anisko 3 years ago
I had 1978 Toyota Corolla that when I traded it in (in 1996), had 56,000+ miles.
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Ralph Kretschmer 3 years ago
I don't miss any of these old technologies. What I miss is the stable world and that Everything seemed to get better.
Peryton 3 years ago (edited)
Stable on the outside but filled with hidden systemic discrimination and violence. Where people were abused and hurt and it was tucked away. Luckily as painful as it is the truth is coming out.
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Ralph Kretschmer 3 years ago
I don't miss any of these old technologies. What I miss is the stable world and that Everything seemed to get better.
Peryton 3 years ago (edited)
Stable on the outside but filled with hidden systemic discrimination and violence. Where people were abused and hurt and it was tucked away. Luckily as painful as it is the truth is coming out.
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