Tech That Should NEVER Come Back 😅 

Fun fact: fax machines are still widely used in many industries, the majority of car dealers still use them to send signed contracts to banks and the DMV.

The funny thing about the PSN "hack" is that the admin password was actually "12345".

Ahaha my first internet was AOL and Blockbuster was my Dealer they had CD connection lol I’d show up every 90 days to grab my free 90 day trial for the internets

DSL still works over the phone lines

I'm 44........and the way the world has changed since I was born has been CRAZY!! I'm glad that I've embraced the changes that have been made and necessary 🤣🤣🤣

the tooth tunes had us by a chokehold

Fax machines aren't gone. They are still used in finance and medical businesses, as well as international business correspondence since there is almost no delay.

I miss BBS gaming..Trade Wars, Circus Maximus. Those were good days. Also met a lot of shady friends on BBSes. 😅 We had bowling nights.

Austin’s attempt at beatboxing 😂😂😂

A suggestion for the next video i thought when you'll were talking about faxes would either be 1. Go through old videos ( commercials and such) and see what ideas of "tommorows world" are closest to having come through ( a ranking video). To my knowledge the closest so far has been the tech from back in the future lol. Or 2. Have a VS match and have Matt and Austin guess what era the idea from the tech is. What was going on in said era that may have made people think this is how the future will evolve lol.

Pagers never went away either - they're still used in a LOT of hospitals around the world. Cell phone signals are notoriously bad inside hospital buildings, and even wifi is unreliable and drops connections (and is SLOW AF on top). So in order to keep in contact - especially for emergency cases - they still use Pagers for their rock-solid signals and short, to-the-point messages with zero other distractions, unlike phones or tablets. Whilst LED light bulbs ARE great in that they don't output so much heat (although they still DO heat up quite a bit) and they do save on electricity - they're still as much of a fire hazard because of the control boards failing or cheap versions from China that don't have adequate heat dissipation features. Plus, unlike incandescent bulbs which were just some glass, some metal and some inert gas that was harmless - all things that can be easily recycled or disposed of without damaging the environment - LED bulbs are ALL plastic and can't be easily recycled, are damaging to the environment when dumped, are damaging to the environment when produced .... honestly the downsides to LED bulbs FAR outweigh the downsides to incandescent bulbs, but oddly nobody seems to understand or care.

Fun fact, they actually still use pagers in hospitals. It's because they are more reliable at getting a signal and will always work no matter where you are, whereas mobile phones often lose their signal due to electrical equipment or the thick walls and ceilings around them.

Lmao at 9:11 😆 we got those too and the urban legend was if youre being tailed and the driver tailing you keeps flashing their car lights at you, they are a gang member about to etc etc etc lmao

about 5 times in this video i had the thought "What are you angry about?? those were great!!" ... "oh right, these are Never come back tech. wtf??"

I loved the N64 controller...

I love you guys skateboarding!!! Great job This Is editors and the whole team!!

Wow I completely forgot about ChaCha. Core memory unlocked from that reference.

N64 had the best controller ever! navigating an entire 3D world with just one stick and being ergonomic at the same time? Best ever!

I miss ChaCha and Yahoo Answers. Obviously there’s no real need for them anymore, but it was fun responding to dumb questions with dumb answers. And just being helpful to the community in general

Ya know these two always take shots at PSN on ps3. I remember those days. It worked just fine for me. I dont care how well it works now. I already paid to much for the games/ console I'm not paying for a stupid network as well.

As a young person, I want to use a pager, mini disc, desk drum phone and other old tech. It is so much more fun than modern phones that pretend to replace everything

Wasn't expecting a Devil's Lake, ND call-out. 😂😂😂

Worked in a TV studio for a few years and when I left in 2012, they were still using mini disc for some of the audio. As for the incandescent lights, we used 1k, 2k, and 5k lamps and when the 5k goes, you would know it. I do have a small collection of broken lamps with bubbles on the glass.

Matt mentioned Devil's Lake, North Dakota. Devil's Lake is why I have Thalassophobia. I got pulled into said lake as a kid by a boat while fishing with my dad and brother. the boat was super close to shore, grabbed my line, and pulled me in. Devil's Lake is dark as fuck and gets deep pretty close to shore in some parts. We were by said part of shore. Boar pulled me in, I didn't know how to swim yet, so I started to sink. It was nearly pitch black in the water and I was 7. The boat owner and my dad both jumped in and came after me, and both got me out at basically the same time. It felt like forever but was over in about 20 seconds. Ever since then, deep, dark water triggers me and gives me panic attacks to the point where I will sometimes throw up. Went to a therapist, was diagnosed with Thalassophobia after a few months and even now, a few decades later, I still can't do deep water, even on boats or in video games, TV shows, movies, etc. Thanks Devil's Lake!!

While I agree that Incandescent bulbs are silly for light nowadays, they are still very useful and hard to replace for some applications such as providing heat for livestock and to keep pipes from freezing. I have tried a number of heat mats and heat lamps but most of those are very poorly made and seem to be way more likely to randomly short out and catch on fire while costing much more. I have had several heat mats and lights actually catch on fire, once a heat lamp even started a decent fire in a shed that could have been really bad if it had not been raining at the time and that lamp was even on a GFCI outlet but still caught on fire. In my many years of using incandescent bulbs for the same sort of thing I have never had one actually catch anything on fire even when a fixture would come into contact with water and short out. And for a heat source they are really more energy efficient then many alternatives as they come in much lower wattages for applications that do not need much heat, while many of the alternatives either just waste way more power then is needed or have to be setup with a thermostat in some way. You would think that 300-500 watt heat mats and lamps would have built in thermostats, but many do not or they are so bad that they are not actually usable, so to get something that actually works properly you have to buy and setup a actually good external thermostats that adds extra cost, complexity, and another thing to potentially fail and short out. I kind of hate to see the loss of incandescent bulbs many as they are so useful as a small low wattage source of heat.

I love how they shat on the vision pro but I KNOW Austin is reading a script/notes on those vision pros lol

faxing still exists it hasnt gone away at all. I have to fax shit all the time at my job

lol, I got not just one, but two minidisc players in my rack. and about four portable ones. Was a great format and quite popular here in Europe. My dad produced radio programs from a minidisc alone, just recording, cutting and compiling the radio programs including ads when he couldn't be there live. Later it was easier to do it on computers, but it was quite a few years were minidisc was the best way to do it.

Kinsey should keep texting 187 to Matt... she is the real star

MiniDisc was awesome. It never skipped, you could rewrite tons of times. Just pick some songs or albums in the morning and let it write while you're putting your pants on.

some kid "mom i want a gameboy for my birthday please." some mom "we have gameboy at home! *pulls out tiger electronic game*" xD

You glossed over the fact the "Radium Girls", which is what the women who painted radium dials, would also play with Radium by painting their teeth and using it as makeup

I really miss that dial up sound. One of the top ten hits of them growing up days.

10:28 “fun” fact Hasbro, who now owns the Tiger Electronics name, etc. has brought back these accursed things to retail.

I'm still rocking my Minidisc players. Got a Professional Studio Deck hooked into the house stereo, and a few portables lying around for going out of the house.

So if people wearing those google glass things at inappropriate times were called "Glass-holes" what do we call people doin the same with the apple thing, A(for apple)-holes? and is Austin being one in this video? ;)

I guess we are getting a "i wore the vision headset 24/7 for blah blah" main video soon 😂

I had a NYC messaging service back in my professional acting days. You would call and actually get a person. I remember when the changed to an automated system. I thought that was weird at the time.

i remember getting a book at walmart (like a giant magazine) it was a phone book but full of websites it was so cool but crazy that something like that existed

Lmao I love the DL, ND shoutout. I live 166 miles from there lol

Every time Austin says apple or Tim Cook take a shot.

I still have my mini disc players and the quality is amazing. They just never took off because they were so expensive and they broke so easily.

I wasnt supposed to be online either at home lol. In 9th grade I got Sony T610 phone, and was able to plug it into the computer and use it as a modem to hook up to Kmart Bluelight internet. What a time to be alive haha

dialup is still a thing especially out in the country theres still companies that do dialup also pagers still exist doctors use them for fast response

my stepdad had a mini disc player in his car until 6 yrs ago the best bluegrass mixtapes you ever heard

I remember the joke about the Nintendo 64 controller been designed for people with 3 hands because that is the only way it makes sense

MiniDisc was fire and could record too!

Ayyo, Kinsley knows Ultraman!!

My favorite old tech was KGB. This was before Google, you would text any question to KGBKGB and within the hour someone would text you back with the answer. (That's how I learned why the older sister wasn't in Poltergeist 2).

So I actually have a few radium clocks at the house lol

I have been to decked lake in North Dakota and it was really hard to get internet any were right outside of the downtown

That headset got Bluetooth power😅

I still carry a pager every day for work. Machine goes down, one of us gets a page worth a brief description and a location the factory. Works great. 🤷‍♂️

The only good use for incandescent is Lava Lamps and Easy Bake Ovens.

I still use aol for my email and I get weird faces every time I give my email out lol

Wait, people used AOL disks/floppys/etc as actual item they were meant to? Hell I just ended up using them as toys(throwing the disks/etc) as we just got them so much that had to do something with them :). They made nice Frisbees after all XD. Gave us kids something to do when weren't technically supposed to be online in the house on those nice days to play outside.

8:25 used to be able to text a pager at least a good one😅

Id still prefer old PSN over modern day. It was much more enjoyable experience without getting nickled and dimed. Plus the hacking situation hasnt really changed that much after they started charging for the service....

If we're building a shrine to shrek lets make it the original shrek.... RIP Chris Farley...

N64 controller was one of the best of its time. I will die on this hill!

I had a 300 baud modem, with a commodore 64. I did aol, and the sierra network. I also helped run several local Bulletin Board Servers (BBS)

PlayStation Network worked totally fine on the PS3.

The three-handed thing about the 64 controller The real annoyance that I really had was with the game shadows of the empire but only whenever trying to enter the debug mode and basically I ended up using my nose as the third hand kind of cuz my left hand also was holding the z because it required both shoulder buttons c buttons directional buttons and movements of the analog stick

Only thing I truly miss about the PS3 PSN era is actually Playstation Home. Yeah it was kinda weird and not ever fully fleshed iut but was a good way IMHO to add to your psn friend list

Lol keywords! Never actually used one to search, but it seemed like they were in every commercial at one point.

We got so crazy with pagers, we would send messages and then have to decode them with the three letters from each number lol, ridiculous

I’ve got like 7 minidisc player/recorders 💽 and at least 3 N64 controllers 😅

6:30 I just realized I lived my childhood surrounded by radium 💀 I remember my room was space themed and my bed sheets were glow in the dark then I had the glowing stars on my ceiling and a space wallpaper that also glowed in the dark

I actually own a fax machine. It's a combo fax/scanner/copier/laser printer, even though I've never used it as a fax machine and don't even have a land line to my place anymore. I got it for free, and the laser printer is so much better than using an inkjet printer.

Real snazzy jacket Kinsey!

The Tiger Electronics LCD games DID come back! There's a handful available at Gamestop at present.

As a little kid I loved the n64 controller lol

Pagers are still being used particularly in hospitals.

I still have a brand new in pack transformers theme teeth tune brush 😂

Hospitals still use pagers.

Incandescent still have a place The light spectrum's different so more appropriate for certain artwork and how you supposed to do that thing where you incubate at egg till it hatches with an LED

I used to have hundreds of free AOL frisbees, I mean BB targets, I mean demo cds lol!

I loved the N64 controller! Playing games like Star fox, Mario64, and Pokémon Stadium was fun 💯💯🤣

Don't care how weird the n64 controller was so weird I loved it

Jokes on This Is, Australia is still mostly connected via dial up :D

That Laguna Seca shirt is awesome

agreed Matt! I never want the AVP to came back.

I sus a "I wore the thing for a week" video coming.

Hahaha austin wearing the apple vision pros for the whole video, why???

My grandfather still had dial up when I went to visit him my freshman year of high… in 2012

I love Mini Disc. They still use them in Asia

Fax machines are still used to this day 🤷🏻‍♂️

AOL is still out here working!

Fax machines are still used

This is the first time I’ve heard about the PS3 online thing. I’d rather spend $0 for ten years on PS3 than $600 for ten years on PS4 & PS5

I recorded the ending song of final fantasy 9 on a mini disk and I still have it, I just don’t have anything to play it on 🤣

TIGER GAMES WERE AWESOME!!! N64 Controller was awesome, not our fault you got little girls hands

Love Kinsey! What are her socials?

Looked for Matt's music. anyone have a link?

Funny enough; AOL Desktop is still around. Paid subscription, but looks just like the old program. Had to get it for some time for my mother cause she was so bent on ONLY using AOL cause it's all she knew.

Please make Austin wear all the random clothes you can buy on temu when you search for cyberpunk clothes and also the Vision Pro and the Razer Zephyr all at the same time… I swear this isn’t a fetish.

Cyber Austin looks like he belongs in a Kraftwerk video.. Or Daft Punk (Please come back)

Tiger electronics games I loved playing them. In Rochester MN hospital during my appointments when I go I get a pager letting me know when the doctor is ready for me. I never want to see Dial up internet again dealing with that in the 90s was frustrating. Fax machine are still used today I know many places that still uses them my apartment complex I live the lady in the office for the place uses one. Hospitals still uses them and the adult family home I been in used one.

Germany was Like Fax was never gone

PS3 era PSN was absolutely fine for being free other than the lack of party chat. Now they charge you for playing multiplayer and hacks still happen on smaller scale, yeah no thanks.