Today's Generations Can't Identify This! 

75 yo and I do remember all of these. Today you would be hard pressed to find a manual crank car window.

I am totally enjoying this. I was born in 1958 so this is totally my era.🤣

My dad liked slide rules. My nephew found a box of my 45's and did not know what they were. He's getting a nice refurbished 45 rpm player and a carry-travel box with 45's for xmass. And now you made me feel old !

My 2009 RAM pickup has roll down window cranks rather than power windows.

I’m 55 and I remember all of them. I drive a 58 F100 and still crank the window. It’s a three on the tree.

Proud boomer here, I'll be 73 in August. I have that same black plastic Rolodex, except the tabs are purple, and a black rotary phone. There's also my push button land line phone that I use during power outages. What I loved about the View Master was, it felt like I was taking the picture when I pushed down on the lever. I also have 45s and LPs, plus the corduroy brush to clean the dust off the records before playing them. Most of those things you listed could be, or was, fixed if broken, unlike all of the "throw away" crap they make today.

I'm a 50-year-old Gen. Xer and I didn't learn about reel to reel audio tape until I worked in radio in the mid-90s and I have been fascinated with it ever since!!

I went to college in 1984-1986. One of my on campus jobs was as a sound technician for the campus library in the Instructional Materials Division. I was charged with making sound recordings for the Music Department Recitals of Senior Students. When I started we used Reel-To-Reel tape machines of fairly high quality. Towards the end I was using High Fidelity Video Tape recorders. They had specifications similar to CD recordings. Sound from 20-20,000 Hz and THD of almost 0%. The microphones were so sensitive I could hear people in the lobby while the mics were pointed at the stage. Those were the days.

I’m 77 and I remember each and every one of these items. And they are presented in a great way - not a crass voice saying how much better things are now! When my Mom moved from where I grew up, the wall phone in the kitchen (yellow!) was still there and the curly cord was almost permanently twisted! I love my technology but I still mourn a little about these early items - dialing a phone number really took patience 😃🫢😃. My son and DIL back in 2019 had a white ViewMaster made of photos for their engagement! What fun!

Hand cranking windows also meant you didn't get caught out with an open window and a flat battery, talking of which, the starting handle on motor vehicles, meant that with the aid of a capacitor, you could always start your car even with a flat battery. The viewmaster was invented to teach Americans the friendly planes in world war 2 why are you being selective with your historical facts, or is it the usual slapdash non research, or critiscism that you cannot take. You are obviously suffering with Selective Memory. Poleroid camera offered the chance to take pics that your local chemist wouldn't develop.

My first record player, listening to Davy Crockett, the smell of mimeograph machines and magic markers, watching teaching films shown on a projector in elementary school with a caring teacher. These would definitely be some of my favorite memories!! It was absolutely a much simpler, caring, and wonderful world!!!

If your house was anything like mine, instead of a plastic knob for changing the TV channel, you had a pair of needle nosed Vise Grips.

I think slide rules are amazing devices. They require you to have a better understanding of the calculations you are making than you get with an electronic calculator. You had to know where to place the decimal. They are only precise to 3 significant figures, but that is sufficient for most applications. I believe that we are poorer because some of these technologies became obsolete. I know a teacher who says that some middle school students can't do simple math without a calculator or tell time on an analog clock.

And God forbid that your finger slipped while dialing the number you was going to call

They also had viewmaster projectors! My grandparents had one and I fondly remember the adventures in National parks or some Hanna Barbara cartoon. There were also cameras that could take pictures that could be processed into viewmaster disks.

One thing that today's generation could never do? Find a book in the library using the Dewy decimal system card file.

I'm 73, and I remember all of these and more. The portable phonograph (GE Wildcat Stereo) that I kept in my locker in 1969 while training in the Navy, the Western Electric 302 dial telephone I still use, the Kodak 120 roll-film camera I took to Alaska in 1970, and we used a hand-cranked mimeograph machine to print the plan-of-the-day for the crew on the USS Shasta(AE-33) in 1976. I even used a Parker fountain-pen in 1975.

I own a 71 Chevelle, rolling down windows is a joy

In my country they had a series of broadcasts where they transported a family to the 70's for a weekend in a house.... Lol... Teenagers of 2010 in their parents shoes. In one of the episodes such a black phone came in.... The teenagers couldn't work with it. (just like a cassette player) But... what surprised me the most was that without a laptop a tablet or a smartphone, those teenagers still enjoyed that weekend with their parents and some asked for a repeat...😊

Love this! I'm 67 and remember all of these. I never used a slide rule but knew other classmates that had them in the 70's. My first handheld calculator was a Texas Instrument four function with red LED display. Got it for my senior year in 1975. I also loved my Sony reel-to-reel deck that I bought in college. And I think every kid had a Viewmaster. I didn't know what 3-D was but the images sure looked cool.

Reel to reel tapes where known as SAM (sequential access memory). All 3 of our cars have window cranks. Laser printer can still print overhead projector pages that can kept for long term usage and not tossed. We still have a rotary phone in our home on the land line. And it can make calls when electricity goes out including cell towers if the phone lines are intact. There's a low voltage signal on the lines that carries the signals. I understand some Polaroid cameras are still available. ??

I used all of these except the slide rule. Never had a need. I also learned a hard lesson about Polaroid cameras. One year, there was a train derailment in our town. I took two pictures, but they didn’t turn out. I realized at -20 F, the Polaroids do not develop. I took a third picture and waited until I got home and warmed up the camera before pulling out the picture.

Boomer here and at 67 I remember it all and miss it.

I am over 65 and I have used, owned and lost every one of these items! I miss those days!

Polaroid instamatic cameras were so amazing when they first appeared on the scene. Also remember the big tvs and the "remotel" also known as your kid.

I will be 82 next month. I can remember when each of these were new. There were three TV networks. ABC, CBS, and NBC. Cars had vent windows in the front doors. They had just gotten rid of running boards. There used to be two or four party phone lines. This video could have been hours long. I have lived through the age of change. Oh God!

Today's Generation (most) don't know how many stars are on the US flag, they don't know how many minutes are in quarter of an hour. Just to name two

I remember the first time the”remote” control on our TV wasn’t that remote because it was attached to the TV with a cable . At least you couldn’t lose it so easily. We have a modern version of the rotary dial telephone which still works the same except the dial doesn’t make the sound the original ones did as the finger holes returned to the numbers. The rotary dial also returns too quickly and quietly. It does still “ring ring” though (two rings in UK as opposed to the one longer ring in USA). It’s nice to hear someone call them “records” instead of Vinyls for a change. We never referred to them as the material they were made from. Oh well, I’m off the play my ‘plastics’ otherwise known as ‘ Compact Discs’ and maybe some ‘nothings’ otherwise known as digital music.

I grew in Avalon Ca and at the time our phones didn't have buttons or even rotary dials. You picked up the hand set and a human voice said "Number please" We were the last of the AT&T-Bell systems to switch over in 1978ish.

“a sense of achievement “ for rolling down a window!😂😂😂😂😂

I have my grandmother's Viewmaster and reels. They include the recently deceased Queen's coronation!

I’m 61 and I remember all these things and still have a battery operated View Master that you could experience in the dark with its built in lighting.

You might be surprised to know, but you still can get new Veiwmasters today .😁

I remember in high school, we had the delight of using a VTR (Video Tape Recorder) that was reel-to-reel, using 1" tape!! First unit was a black and white AMPEX machine and later we got a color version...that was high tech stuff! The 1" tape was hand placed into the tape route through various rollers, pulleys and guides, around the spinning video head and then to the take-up reel. Fun days recording football and basketball games. The machines weighed around 80 to 100 pounds.

Today's Useless Generation cant identify a roll of toilet paper or how to use one without referring to an app.....

I was in grade school when Elvis was big and my favorite. My mother would take me to the music store and we would listen to my choices in the listening booth. I had my own portable record player and record box for my 45s. I was a nurse in the 70s and used a small pocket slide rule to convert medication doses between the dose per tablet when it was different than the order for the patient. This was not the wisest idea and later medications had doses in bottle compatible with orders.

My daughter was looking through stuff I had from back in the day in another room. Then I heard "DAD! THESE ARE SO COOL!! CAN I have them?" I walked in the room and she had my old 45's and LPs from the early '70's out on the floor. I knew then that I had lost them. LOL

Yup, I remember using each and every one of these items. Though I only used a slide rule in a 2-week series of classes that taught the basics of using a slide rule. The instructor was an old school engineer that had used one for decades. He always called it a slip stick.

There were still several college instructors on the campus I worked still using overhead projectors when I retired about 4 years ago. I Was still using a rotary dial phone until 6 years ago when I switched to a cell phone to save money.

Perfect title for your video. You are right. It was the journey to the destination. Wall phones with the twisted cords. Wow brings back memories. Life didn’t seen simpler but of course it was. Thank you.

Same age as you, Ron. I was taught how to use a slide rule when I was in my high school senior calculus class. Of course, in the next four years, personal electronic calculators made those obsolete. Thank goodness!

Wonderful video!! I remember all of them, the wonder of discovering how to make them work was fantastic. Thank you

In school I remember the over head projector, . I also remember the 16mm movie projectors from school. And later when I worked in a school on the custodial staff, The Principal had a lot of old things in the school basement put out to be disposed of. One of the items was a 16mm movie projector. and when I left to go home in the evening the projector was still sitting out with the other things so I took it home since it was put out with the rest of the junk, Because it was still good and working.

I was born in 1968, you’re bringing back so many good memories, thanks!

I remember taking apart the first color TV we got, i think i was around 11 or 12 at the time, and i took all the tubes out of it trying to figure out how it worked. When i replaced the tubes still none the wiser i didn't replace them in the right spots. Then my dad came home from work and turned on the TV. Let's just say he wasn't very happy with me, after the TV repair man left. lol

Remember this.... NASA sent Astronauts to the moon on the precise calculations done with a slide rule. This week I bought a rotary dial desk set telephone at a yard sale. Just to have one again. The phone system does not support it so I cannot make a call with that cool old phone.

I learned computer programming with the punchcard of the IBM 1401 (from back in the 1950) My first year teacher of Computer Science took us back that far.

The slide ruler is still in use for making industrial x-rays from welds. You slide to thickness, that distance, to type of film. Then you know how long (time) you shot ( making an x-ray picture) is. We also still use a letter box with lead letters a,b,c,...,1,2,3,.... Lead absorbs radioactivity and thuxs you see the text on the film material.

I have a TEAC A-2300SX open-reel tape recorder - my first piece of high-end audio equipment - sitting about 5 feet away from my PC as I was watching this. Still works, sounds as good as the day I bought it (I think sometime in the late 1970's?). I'm a retired electronic technician, and my first tech job at age 20 was working for a small mom- &-pop radio & TV shop, at the height of the 8-track tape player craze; if there's an audio format who's grave I'd dance on, it's 8-track! HATED 🤬 that format! - The floating tape heads that selected the tracks were NOTORIOUSLY unreliable, especially the low-cost crap 🤮 marketed by places like K-Mart.(which was probably 90% of the ones we saw come through the shop!). They were notorious for "eating" the tapes as well. When I decided to buy a tape recorder for myself, I wanted the physically most RUGGED , RELIABLE tape deck I could find, hence the TEAC (who also made broadcast & professional audio open-reel decks like some of the ones you pictured). I was NOT disappointed, both sounded great & fantastically reliable. As you said, threading an open-reel deck was a bit of a ritual, considered a sign of a "serious" audio enthusiast. 🤓 I certainly remember having a "Viewmaster" as a child, & how life-like the 3D images appeared. Although I long ago discontinued landline phone service in favor of my cell phone (as I told the Comcast rep when I dropped it, "Why should I pay for something which amounts to a 'TELEMARKETING BOTHERING SERVICE"? 😡 I know I probably have at least a couple of rotary dial phones probably gathering dust in closets around here. And although I have several modern HD & 4K large-screen sets around, I can think of at least 3 color CRT sets I still have in working condition, including 2 Sony Trinitrons; a 20" one I bought for my parents (which I eventually replaced with a 32" Sony HD set for them)., & a 5" Trinitron color portable that had been modified as a hospital TV, & ran off 12 VDC, Used it as a portable TV until the end of analog TV broadcasting. 🙂 (And it still works!). But probably the most remarkable vintage TV I have is the first TV my parents ever bought: a 1953 - vintage RAYTHEON (yes, one of the largest defense electronics companies of today!) 21 - inch (a GIGANTIC screen for that time!) black & white TV, in a huge floor-standing, early-American styled cabinet. My Mom kept the cabinet in remarkable shape, it still looks good. Even MORE remarkable is that if I hook it to a VCR or other signal source, it STILL delivers a picure! 😲 (Although no sound; I haven't bothered to try to troubleshoot the audio problem so far). Probably the reason it still delivers a picture is that it was the ONL;Y TV my parents ever bought (every newer TV they had after that I bought for them!); I know it went through at least 2 CRT's(!) 😮in it's active life, & I remember that it was in the shop one time for a FULL YEAR 😵 (we lived without a working TV for that time!) - my Dad just wouldn't break down & buy a new set!. 🥺 I also remember watching Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon on it! 😀

I’m only 71 and I remember all of those things, and used everyone too ⚡️

I've still got my Viewmaster complete with Zorro, Roy Rogers and the Pied Piper of Hamelin in which all the models of buildings, people and animals looked like something from a stop-motion animation - it was my favourite as a child. You left out the best reel to reel tape recorder which is Revox. 😉

The long meaningful talks lead to long tangled cords.

I still use a Rolodex, a backup for all my phone numbers in case I lose my flip-phone. You should never have just one copy of anything important.

Rotary phones that you could learn to dial by rapid flashing of the hang up buttons, and the cars... window cranks / standard / lighter / ashtray / a real radio and no tracking. Only things from modern cars to bring back to the past would be anti-lock and traction control. 70's Impala I had monster sized was horrible in the winter. Oh and phone books.

I’m 62. I still have my viewmaster from when I was around 5 years old. The only disk I have left is little red riding hood. 😂😂😂

Nicely done!

Well.. 'Some' of us actually drive vehicles which Do NOT Have Power Windows .. On a Regular Basis (and..own a Viewmaster). And I've Installed & Serviced many of those "old" Rotary Sets.. (and, for the record, I own/use a Slide-rule)

As a Gen-Xer, I can tell you that I am not at all impressed by these objects.

I would rather have less technology than more technology anymore

I still use a Log-Log-Duplwx-Decitrig slide rule.

With roll down crank windows, let us not forget the front portion of the window that you could flip around to direct air flow onto yourself.

Loved using my slide rule - anyone remember log tables?

You didn't mention folding and unfolding a newspaper or a printed map.

Well, all of you young in's will never experience the joy of recording your own voice onto a wax cylinder and then, have it talk back to you as in an altered dimension materialized in real time. For some forgotten soul who'd lived and done that same say in 1897, he was THERE again, in that same way as you just were and, it was ALL MECHANICAL!

my fave is still a rotary phone from back then. i was asked to design an escape room for a friend for pre teens,,,what i did was 20x20 room painted it white put black pedestal with a white rotary phone on it to escape yo8u had to dial 0. 15 minutes time limit. NO CELL PHONES SMART PHONES PERSONAL SMART DEVICES. age range 7 to 12....in 9 months...NO escapes

I have all of these things except an overhead projector, getting film for my Polaroid land camera is pretty expensive, and blank cards for the rolodex are impossible to find (I still have some)

record players had a switch also to change from 33 rpm to 45rpm.

I think the last time I bought a vinyl 45 was like in 1986 maybe 87

3 of my running vehicles STILL have crank windows!!!! I still own and know how to operate a "slip stick" aka slide rule!!!

Clearly, that's a henway.

Why the AI voice?

Yes lot of kids would not know how to use a rotary phone or a slide rule

What you show at approximately 6:30 isn't a rolladex it's a card file .

I miss the high tech products of the 60s they were innocent compared to what we have now and what we need to have now because we spoiled our civilization.

i miss old cabinet tv from 70 and early 80s....can you picture todays thief run with a tv cabinet wieghting over 100 pounds?

old days you used you brain, today not so much and this i think will be a issue in years to come.

I'm 66 and I remember!

I was born in 70 I'm a generation x

I have a multi voltage national brand reel to reel tape recorder .

Or how to Thread the tape through a real tape machine

we had remote controls back then, they were called the kids...as well TV antennas were your brother and sisters...just sayin'

Well, what's the point? Would you as a baby boomer know what a darning egg was, and what it was used for?

You need to change the title to "today's generation can't identify obsolete technologies."

That was good use the first real to real you showed was from the 50s the second one you showed was from the 60s 4 70s and the last 1 you showed was from the 1980s

Dial phone Western electric verity.

Nice video @thememorytraveler ! Thanks for the memories!