Throwback Technology: An Amusing and Nostalgic Retrospective

Ever wished you could travel back in time? Well, buckle up because we're about to take a hilarious detour down memory lane, reliving the joys and struggles of an era that's been left behind by technology. We'll be chuckling over the dialing woes of rotary phones and the lost art of memorizing phone numbers. You'll also get a kick out of our day-to-day battles with daytime minutes and the saga of transitioning to cell phone plans. And who could forget the epic skill required to record a song perfectly on a cassette tape? We'll also be exploring the evolution of our televisions, the internet, and credit cards, reminding ourselves of simpler times when technology wasn't as advanced.

But we aren't stopping there! The second part of our nostalgic journey takes us back to the classic days of communication. Remember leaving voicemails with those cheesy musical backdrops, or communicating through cryptic pager messages? We sure do! We'll also be sharing our experiences with the now-extinct erasable CDs, and the revolution Napster and LimeWire brought to downloading music. And yes, we'll be getting misty-eyed over those good old days of waiting in anticipation for the newest releases on cassette tapes. So, prepare to laugh, reminisce, and maybe even shed a sentimental tear or two as we take this trip together, marveling at how far we've come.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:08

Welcome back to the come on. You know that's why. Anyway, how's it going? Um, I just want to get this off my chest. Why in the world, every time I go to the grocery store, supermarket, whatever you want to call it, I get a bad card, like the front, I don't know. Driver's side wheel is always messed up. I'm just pushing my way through the supermarket, I'm hitting, hitting tomatoes and cucumbers with my whack broke shopping cart. Does that ever happen to you? Whatever, anyway. So I'm gonna do this.

Speaker 1: 0:55

Shout out to the wall. Tools had to change my brakes. My brake pads were down and I got me a like all my tools at the wall. So I got me a the wall impact wrench and it worked like a charm. Took those little nuts off, did what I had to do. This is my shout out to the wall. I'm hoping that, uh, they'll pay me for this little Advertisement. The wall hey, I want 1.5 milli for advertising your tools. Hit me up, anyway, to get started. So, hey, talk to a coworker. I'm on. She bullies me every day. She's so cool.

Speaker 1: 1:44

We were talking about like nostalgic, retro things that we did back in the day that no longer exists, like these kids oh, pardon me and these people nowadays like well, kids Probably will not have experienced. So we had a conversation and it was fun and, uh, we're talking about things that we did back in the day. Although I'm slightly older she makes fun of me because of such, but I don't know it was. It was fun, reminiscent about the stuff that we did that they don't Do today, or, like these kids have no clue of what, like what we did back in a day. So, like rotary phones, like, remember rotary phones. It's crazy. Like you had the with the finger and if you messed up a phone number, well, first of all you had, like you had to know a phone number. We don't Nowadays, I don't even care to know a phone number. It's like, whatever you know, it's just, uh, I don't know you. You click on a person's face nowadays. But if you messed up a phone number with a rotary phone, you had to start over. All right, if you get one digit incorrect, go back to the starting line. That's how it worked.

Speaker 1: 3:10

And remember how we transitioned to like daytime, like daytime to cell phones. That was a big deal. But then it was those plans. It was like the cell phone daytime minute plans. I get 206 daytime minutes. It was like how do they determine those? No, they had the business analytics. It's like, hey, man, if you give them 206 minutes, we will bust our profit margin and go through the roof. And remember, you have to call after 9 pm or 7 pm. And then they adjusted it so it was like hey, call me after 9. So you don't dip into my daytime minutes. The nighttime joint was free. Stop burning my daytime minutes.

Speaker 1: 4:04

But yeah, we were talking about that. What else were we talking about? We were talking about like credit cards. Back in the day they had the old like credit card swiping machine joints where you had to go like and nowadays we transition, you just tap your card right and you have metal credit cards now. So those little things wouldn't work.

Speaker 1: 4:32

We were talking about the internet. Remember, you had to sign into AOL. Remember, to dial up so it would use the phone line. So you couldn't use the phone if you were using the internet on your computer, because it's like, hey, you pick up the phone and you get that annoying sound that I just did. That was crazy. Remember that. Remember floppy disks, copying something and carrying disks around and stuff like that. So like, back to the phones.

Speaker 1: 5:13

Remember, like phones are a big deal and they were a big deal. Remember back in the day, like your kid and you were like sneaking on a phone. If you told somebody like to call you, hey, call me at 730. And they're like, they would call you or your parents would pick up and say I'm going to speak to Derek Derek's going to bed. Who are you? But remember like you would tell them hey, don't call me back, don't call me back. Or like the cord phone, you know what I mean If you were on a phone call and then someone else in the house would pick up the phone and they could hear your conversation. Remember that, remember, that's what we talked about.

Speaker 1: 6:17

Remember like TVs, if, like like the knob on the TV you had, like you had as many channels as knob, like stopping points on the knob and after knob broke you would use pliers. Like turning the TV knob, like it's pretty much Johnny Carson on every channel. Remember VCRs, oh my God, like you couldn't like if you were recording something you couldn't change the channel because you had to keep it on the same channel to record or whatever you were recording. That was crazy. We were talking about like cassette tapes which they should bring back, cassette tapes if they ever left. I don't know, that was crazy.

Speaker 1: 7:09

Remember like Record in it, like recording, it was a skill to record like a song on the radio and Like press that record button, remember that, that red dot, remember you would have to like Kind of rewind on one side to fast forward on the other side of this day. That was dope. That was dope. It was like if you could record a song, especially like if you could make a mixtape, you had skill, you had straight-up skill with the cassette tapes. But those were the days and then like, remember, like, like if you like somebody, you make them a mixtape, songs, just like you know, whatever Joe to see and other stuff, joe to see, that, no, joe to see, was like CD time. I don't, I don't remember, but I Remember recording songs on cassettes.

Speaker 1: 8:13

Remember like having bootleg movies, like straight up, straight up, straight up, like you had to go and Purchase them, like you had that one dude. You meet them, you know, on the corner of whatever and whatever you pay five bucks and get like two bootleg movies. The bootleg movies were crazy. It was always people standing up In the movie theater and all of that. Remember like collect calls. It's like, yeah, mccoy, collect, just just pay for it. Got 35 seconds that I could talk to you and all that stuff. Yeah, we were talking about oh, oh, you know what.

Speaker 1: 8:50

Going back to the phone, like phones, phones, communication, like that was back in a day as we transitioned, like that was a big deal. Remember, remember like voice mails, like remember like you would have a you, you like put music in the background, or your voicemail would be like a dope drill, like hey, I'm my name Steven, you know, just call me back when you get a chance. You have like your favorite song or dope, dope track, quote unquote in the background. That was crazy. It's crazy. And my, so my coworker, she like she's younger than I am, so she doesn't she, she didn't Like I was talking to her about pages.

Speaker 1: 9:36

Like you remember pages when you could type words. Like you would send a page and I don't know like 33 would be a hard or something, but you could type Numbers that would make words. That was crazy back in a day. All right, back in the day. Hey, like what else? Like we were talking about she. She means well, she.

Speaker 1: 10:08

She mentioned like erasable CDs, like how one CDs first came out. You would you can record stuff on them, but you could erase stuff. And then they came out with erasable CDs. I do not remember erasable CDs. I Mean I believe, like I know they existed, I believe it, but I don't remember that.

Speaker 1: 10:27

We were talking about like Napster and Lime wire, how you like download music and stuff from Napster. Remember Napster, napster was hot for hot minute. Then it was gone. But yeah, yeah, what else I Don't know. We just talking about stuff that like Was hot back and they like those cassettes. Remember, like, remember like getting the tape. And if you'd have to like rewind a tape with like a pencil or like sucking the film with the pencil by, like doing like stroke thingies or whatever, put the pencil in the thing, cassettes would go we're dope, you get a tape. We call them tapes, tapes, you know, get a tape. Remember like waiting for the hottest, newest tape. You know that, but, yeah, almost shed a tear. Those days are gone. Now we're doing I don't even know what we're doing just doing stuff on cell phones. Anyway, fun stuff, that's all that.