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Because the signed document has valid signature on the other side while email does not (it can have digital signature, but that is for no use if you need printed document). Until the laws change or all documents gets digital there is no way fax machine is going "out of business".
Pagers 📟 work even in basements and sub-basements, thanks to RF extenders. Believe it or not, many if not all hospitals have some sort of RF Antenna(s) that acts as it's own network to support pagers.
Pagers and fax machines are still used every single day in the medical field, in major hospitals in major cities, so i don't think they qualify as not existing anymore
I used Internet Explorer a few times, but I was more familiar with what Netscape evolved into, and that’s Mozilla Firefox. As for the eponymous animal, I think it’s a red panda. Regardless, I like the way Mozilla Firefox rolls out.
I will never forget being in class in college one day, and someone who i didnt really know yet leaned over and saw me on my laptop, and asked me if i knew Google had their own browser? "Its called Chrome, its a lot better than Internet Explorer.". God that feels like a lifetime ago.
I'm surprised your list did not include the laser disc, DVD's predecessor. They were the size of a vinyl album, and the disc players were about as moody, user- friendly, and reliable as an 8- track player with bi-polar disorder. Lord, do I feel old after watching this list. I remember every single item here.
Pagers are still around and still have some important critical use cases. Most of their infrastructure has been consolidated into a few companies now. They have better range and penetration (buildings, remote locations) when compared to cell phones. Mobile networks are not as robust in an emergency compared to pagers and a traditional land line.
@@matthewjahnke6956 restaurants and hotels use them extensively for smooth operation. Trust me, I worked at a hotel with a restaurant not too recently. Example: we had pagers for most communications, even if the messenge was just "call" 📟 we also handed them to waiting people when the restaurant was full. "We'll beep you 15 min till your table is ready, sometimes it's earlier, please be avaliable"
Here in Australia we still have payphones (phone booths) but they’re not actually “payphones” because they’re free to use I think they still serve a purpose what if you really need to call someone and your phone battery is dead if you know the person’s number you can call them using a payphone
@@fourwingsweepa1705 it’s free regardless of the number. Telestra converted them to free as it was actually cheaper to run them for free than to collect the money from them.
Internet Explorer failed dramatically in part because of it's lack of safety features. Firefox had so many more built in protections from pop ups, viruses in ads and scripts, it just became a no brainer to use Firefox or Chrome.
Another big mistake that Microsoft made with IE (or Internet Exploder) was not being compliant with web standards. This made developing websites a real headache for webmasters. You'd have pages with scripts that ran fine on every other browser but didn't in Exploder, so you'd have to either use browser detection to reload to an IE-friendlier version (which was extra work), post a message that the site runs best on X browsers (remember those days?), or just fugehtaboutit.
@@gj8683 Oh jeez, I hated that! My schooldistrict's site said "Only runs on IE." I called them and said "No way am I using IE and running the risk of viruses!"
When it comes to vcrs . I remember watching multiple Disney movies on them . I still see a lot of them in antique stores as well. I remember having to rewind them as well.
I loved VCRs. Ofc I didn’t know they would be extinct after a point in time. We had a bunch of vhs tapes but the first vhs tape I bought with my own money was Titanic
I kinda miss the VCR I was born in the late 90s so I remember using them for a while and there was just something about those Disney movies that were actually good and just a lot of the movies that are nostalgic for me were on VHS. Definitely not the most convenient experience but I liked it
Yeah disney movies on vhs are better for some reason. They have that nostalgia. They aren’t the same watching them on dvd. I remember rewinding them while playing them when I was a kid. Idk why, I thought it was so cool.
@@alyzu4755There are two reasons the need for that well-known reminder no longer exists, the second being the dwindling number of physical video rental places. With video on-demand and mutiple other streaming services, almost any movie you want to see is at your fingertips, no need to drive to a video rental place and have to go back there a few days later to return it.
The smell of those plastic cases you got the Disney VHS in, or the ones that you bought to store your important home movie VHS tapes in will live forever ingrained in my olfactory memory.
I was today years old when I learned about Delia's catalog... then again, I've never been considered fashionable. and I was the class of 2001 so I survived the 90's as a kid/teen.
I still use an MP3 Player. I use the Sony AN series....love it. Yes, Smart phones can have music on them; however, I don't like having to stream music, as when internet goes down, so does your music. Plus, I like being able top listen to what i want, when I want. So MP3 Players are a must have for me.
I had (still do) an iPod Nano-got it for Christmas in ‘09. I only recently retired it last summer when I (finally) got an iPhone and unlimited access to Apple Music.
You forgot to add Wisk Laundry Detergent to the list of products that don't exist anymore. It was the product known for their "Ring Around The Collar" commercials. But Wisk was discontinued in 2017.
@@jeffb.6642 Oh, about 360 million users and still in active development. Sure, it's not the giant it once was but it's still loved by many (like me) who doesn't wanna use browsers from shady companies like Google or Microsoft. It's open source code is also used in many other software products like the Tor Browser.
I remember seeing Tab once and wanted to try it. But a lot of times when I want to try something, it's only available in a bundle, and I normally don't want to buy 6 or 12 or something I might not like.
The VCR is RU-vid's great grandfather! Alot of RU-vid content comes from videotapes that was converted to DVD then uploaded to RU-vid. Funny thing is everyone's last DVD that was purchased most likely is scratched while their last tape still works in 2023
DVD replaces VHS, true and untrue. For PRERECORDED movies & TV shows, DVD became the new standard. However, for "time shifting" to watch your TV shows at a later time, VHS remained king. It was DVR-type units, usually from your Cable or Satellite TV service, that killed VCRs later on in the 2000s.
In the UK British Telecom has one street phone for every mile or two of populated areas, as an emergency situation back up. The nearest one to me is near a cemetery. 😁 There are also a few independent phone booths, but they are usually online phones, rather than landlines.
My hometown used to have quite a few BT street phones, now the last 2 street phones smell terrible as often some drunk pees in them at night and leaves open cans behind, ugh.
Yep in australia we have public phones every 500 mtres,near shops, then they dissappear,you have to hunt em down, but they are free to use nationwide and give 20 mins of free wifi. I think sms is 10 cents.
the "floppy" disks were originally called hard disks because the floppy disks were the old actual flexible floppy disks from the 80s. when the original floppy disks were phased out, the hard disks eventually started to be called floppy disks.
That's not true. That was a popular misnomer because people didn't know what hard drives were. 3.5" floppies often said "floppy" or "flexible" right on them.
Not even remotely true. They're called floppy disks because the storage medium is 'floppy' magnetic film. It has nothing to do with the protective sleeve.
@@rayskitten78VHS stands for Video Home System. It's not a brand. And a VHS tape is played by a VCR, which stands for Video Cassette Recorder. It's not called a VHS player. And my vacuum is a Shark, and I call it vacuum or sweeper.
So nice to remember old times :) Born in 1985. Pagers were cute,really nice,floopy disks ,Netscape,Internet Explorer :) Of course VCR 😁 Beautiful cartoons,shows :D Great video😁
Loved PB Crisps. I preferred Netscape Navigator back in the day to Explorer since IE had more bugs in it that a bait store back then. Had three Walkmans, including one with digital readout. Had a discman as well, but it was never as good as the Walkman since you couldn't clip it to your waste. My mom loved Tab but when they changed the formula in the 80s with the "Tab's got sass" campaign, she stopped drinking it. I remember when our family got out first VCR. Bulky, metallic with a plug in remote that died pretty quickly. It cost a couple of hundred dollars, as the replacement we got. Then when I got my own VCR, the price of VCRs went down and became more affordable.
Netscape Navigator never went away either. It's source code was released and it eventually became Firefox and the lesser known Seamonkey suite. Seamonkey provides the classic Netscape Navigator experience and includes the mail client as well.
I’m surprised that VCRs aren’t made anymore, despite there’s demand for VHS converters! Even Walkmans need to make a comeback, since there’s a resurgence in analog formats like vinyl records and cassettes! Also Kodak still makes cameras, they’re licensed to Vivitar! And dedicated MP3 players are still made by small scale manufactures for audiophiles!
Well the good news is they may make a comeback. I mean, it worked for the record players with a cassette player on the side. So don't be surprised if they do make a comeback.
@@First-Last_name Betamax lost to VHS because Sony didn’t license the format to many manufacturers! VHS won because they had Panasonic, RCA, TDK, Toshiba, Samsung, Fujifilm, etc.
I miss just act of renting physical VHS movies back in the day. It was a great time just going to the local videostore and looking for that new release to rent...
I've still got my Walkman and Discman and use them every now and again. I also still have my ipods. Though my latest ones battery doesn't hold very much anymore. I kinda prefer having a separate thing for listening because listening on the mobile and doing other stuff on it pulls a lot of power. I've noticed with old phones that after a year or so that my battery drains so much and the added drain from everything doesn't help. I don't have the money to get a new phone whenever my current one starts to act up and usually only do get a new one when it is barely living 😅 I'm thankful that there are mobile plans but if your doing it tough, keeping up with a phone can be hard, especially because it's such an important tool for running your life unfortunately. Australia still has payphones here and there. I have one two blocks down from my house. But years ago, they were made free to use because most people have mobiles and the ones that are still around are there for incase of emergencies, as I think emergency numbers are the only numbers that work on them now I think 🤔
I still have two iPod Nanos and the batteries even still work passably. I don't think I still have a Discman, but I might. I do still have a Walkman, a couple of cassette boom boxes, and TONS of cassette tapes. AND a couple of VCRs with a fair number of tapes. AND a Sega Master System, a Genesis, a TurboGrafx 16, a Colecovision with accessories, and Intellivision & Atari Flashbacks.
In the UK you can buy combi boxes from mail order companies that are a VCR/DVD/ computer disc/ digital television receiver boxes, likewise you can get record player/ cassette player/ radio/ CD player devices.
When I open a file my computer still recommends internet explorer as an option. I guess internet explorer hasn't been made aware it doesn't exist anymore 😅
Several years ago I was working for a company that pressed tires onto forklifts. We had Cocoa-Cola in New Hampshire as a client. I did a job there and came across a pallet of Tab soda ready to ship. It was bananas. Because, up until that point, I had completely forgotten that it was even a product.
Floppy discs originally were those 5 inch 💾 Floppy that really were,"floppy".they were replaced by the 3 & 1/4 inch solid plastic ones but the name stuck.
I still use MP3 players. They're smaller than a phone and the ones I have store a lot more music than a decently-priced phone does. The small size works a lot better for me when I'm biking, hiking or running. But then again, I'm kinda odd- I prefer to use the Internet on my computer with dual 27-inch monitors instead of squinting at a phone screen. I really only use the phone for texting and making calls.
3D TV already doesn’t exist anymore. No channels no new media no new displays or players. Windows isn’t going anywhere soon. Though it may change design or names the operating system isn’t going to die. Intel will buy AMD. Android Tablets seriously shouldn’t exist. Gas stoves eventually go away when we transition to renewable fuels. Same with gas cars. Smart watches will become more smart clothing accessories like necklaces rings and clothing.
I'd say I miss my Disc Man, but I still have it and it still works perfect! As long as you don't walk, or jog, or run, or look at it the wrong way while using it! We do have a drink like Orbits, called Boba. Even larger pearls than Orbits!!! People are strange!
The ironic twist with regards to Netscape is that the source code which was used to create it, was then used to create Mozilla Firefox and also SeaMonkey. However saying that, I found hilarious that the number one product that doesn't exist anymore according to the video was Microsoft Internet Explorer. It did kill off Netscape Navigator and then ended up being a victim of it's own success when Microsoft Edge took over. Its like the old saying goes "he who laughs last, laughs best", I can only imagine that the people who created Netscape, must have been laughing there asses off when they discovered that their source code when on to create Firefox and SeaMonkey and Internet Explorer was hung up to dry. 😆
FIREFOX is the BEST explorer there is and ever will be! Especially with it's VPN services. Now, if I could just find out how to get on the Dark Web and I'd be set!
@huntsman1999 that is quite interesting because I wonder if Microsoft had permission to copy that source code. Because if they didn't, they could've got sued for copyright infringements.
@@davidhabertEdge isn’t a copy of Chrome. It’s a copy of Chromium, the open source “base” that Chrome is made from. Edge and Chrome aren’t the only Chromium-based browsers either.
I love this video so much. I'm 25 years old so I remember using MP3 players in middle school, and VCRs as a child. But I never understood what made things like floppy disks and fax machines so memorable to older folks. It kinda makes me appreciate more the advanced technology we have today, and why it's so nostalgic for others. Can't wait to join the older crowd reminiscing to my kids and younger people how things were "back in my day" 😂❤
I would have put food and non-food on separate lists I remember some one telling me "5G will never happen it's physically impossible" other shout outs Phone books geo Cities Giga pets Rolladex Card Catalog Sears Catalog CB Radio Massive Satellite Dish Rabit Ears CD/DVD burner Beta Max Laizer Disk 'CED Player Air Jordans Roller Skates Arcade Cabinet MIDI files DOS Games Turtle Graphics Xerox Slap Bracelets POGs TV show and Movie trading Cardes Pull String talking dolls records Joysticks D batteries Telegraph Mutoscope and zoetrope News Papers Princess Phone Party Line Moon Shoes
Pontiac is the one that hurt me the most, I love my Pontiacs wasn’t a model of the brand you couldn’t get a high performance version of other than the vibe and Aztec, all of the had a GTP or GT trim that came with either a V8 or turbocharged or supercharged V6
You wouldn't be allowed to use that name today, ostensibly, because it would offend indigenous people. IMNSHO, it's because the powers that be want to erase indigenous people's from the public consciousness.
I remember when Congress held the meeting and had no clue what they were doing with Windows 95. They didn't understand that Internet Explorer was included but you could easily install any other browser. I often had to use several browsers because of the type of coding that each site had. Not 1 browser could handle all the sites. It was a lot of work to have all the plug-ins needed I still own a fax machine. And they still sell inkjet multifunction machines that print fax and copy. I bought a laser multifunction machine. It was a lot more than the 30 dollar inkjet multifunction machines Pagers are still around. The 900 MHz versions are still in use almost everywhere. Hospitals use them a lot and some hospitals even have their own 900 MHz paging frequency. There used to be a lot of 150 to 160 MHz voice pagers. I used to own them back in the 80s and 90s I don't know if any are still in use. Airpage , the beeper people, had a huge client base for voice pagers back in the 90s in New England Many companies still use voice pagers on their own frequency. And almost every fire department in America has a VHF or UHF pager frequency for EMS and fire departments. I used to be in the fire department and I listen to the calls in my district with my own Motorola pager and base amplifier that I purchased and programmed about 20 years ago. I am going to see 8f VHF commercial voice pager companies still exist. I know you can get a digital 900 MHz pager but it would be amazing if they still have voice pagers you can buy and have a commercial service for. The ones I had you could pay for a private phone number, a whole exchange was dedicated to the company and they sold individual numbers, so someone could call the number assigned to you and get your personal message and it would record and broadcast the message to you 3 times. The pager was very loud. The beep could be heard anywhere in the house. The less expensive service had the main number of the pager company and it would prompt you for the 6 digit ID of the person you were trying to page and then record your message and page the person with your message. They actually had 2 different frequencies, one for the less personal accounts and one for the people who bought the private numbers. They didn't keep track of the number of calls you received. Back then it was a business tool. Cell phones back then were a business tool as well. Typically the bill was 400 dollars a month at a time minimum wage was 3 dollars In today's standard the bill was about 1000 dollars a month for cell service that you used a couple times a day. And you couldn't roam the way you do now. Many companies were small local cell companies with 1 tower. I remember before cell phones we had low band 30 MHz 2way radios that we could active the phone link by pressing the star key on the DTMF pad and we got a dial tone and pressed the number on the dtmf pad including the 1. Everyone else on the frequency heard the conversation, at least the base part of the conversation. We pressed the pound key to end the call and disconnect the phone link. That was in the 70s. It was the predecessor to the initial cell phone companies that were actually base stations that transmitted a single UHF frequency. The original Motorola cell phones were actually two way radios and there were three modules the receiver the transmitter and the control unit. We had to separate antennas on the trunk one for the receiver and one for the transmitter The original cell phone units were 12 w transmitted and the towers were usually 100 w You could easily talk from fifteen or twenty miles away from the tower that was up on the mountain When they started actually creating cell sites they reduce the power of the hand-held cellphones to 4 watts but the towers are still 100 watts to this day. Theoretically the towers should only need to be 10 W but the company's all transmit 100 watt power for each frequency It's a lot of radiation I used to live on the top floor with 24 antenna towers above me and each of those antennas had 10 frequencies in use My RF field strength meter would peg off the scale every time I turned it on in my apartment I'm glad I don't live there now
Please take me back to ANY time before Facebook and social media. I remember when the internet was only used for work and actual research and illegal music. AIM and MySpace changed the game. Also pornhub. After that, the world his been more and more terrible this new generation that grew up on social media are a bunch of school shooters and ignorant crackheads and everything good and fun and delicious about the 90s and early 2000s is EXTINCT
I still have two unopened 12-packs of Tab and a few contemporaneously purchased loose cans. Last one I drank was about six months ago, still hadn't gone flat.
#17 😆🤣 had to laugh out loud at that one I work exclusively in Faxing and it's a multi-billion dollar market space. Trust that it's not going anywhere and that "when not if" statement was pulled out of somebody's neck
The first car I bought was a Pontiac Grand Am. My dad had one when I first learned to drive and I really liked it, which was why I bought my own. That darn thing was a money pit with wheels. After four years and literally thousands of dollars in repairs I traded it in for a Ford and I've driven Fords ever since. In fairness though I think my Grand Am had been in an accident that the dealer either didn't know about or conveniently forgot to mention. A word to the wise - unless you're good at doing your own car repairs, never buy a car that was sold at an auction.
