Material Things of Which the Younger Generation Has No Idea

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So a friend of mine works at a car dealership, a young person came in with an older car and wanted to know why his iPhone charging port is scratching his screen and not charging!

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Movie rental stores.

SETs

Oh, yeah----I totally remember those; they were always disgustingly FILTHY!!

the ozoney smell of old electronics.

I actually quite miss those----too bad they don't still have them!

LOL TOO funny!

Good job, on posting that image----it seems you've really got the hang of it, now!!

I'm probably gonna regret asking this (cuz I should've known)----but, what's that?

Unscoured wool: used by Grannies to knit traditional water resistant jumpers/sweaters, given as gifts on birthdays and Christmas.

Hi C_C, I have an old singer sewing machine too!

Somewhat unrelated--but funny, nevertheless.

The only light in the NYC subways, until maybe the 1980s, was supplied by plain, yellowish, or blue light bulbs LOL.

...This is fairly marginal , but in a car my father had in the 90s , the cassette player had a number of different " musical settings " you could push ~ " Pop " or " Rock " or " Classical " , perhaps a half dozen total ~ You'd get more or less bass , or echo , something like that , depending on what setting you went for .
Did that kid have his auntie's old car to have a car with tech that he misinterpreted so ???

If one had a Ford Thunderbird in the mid 1960s, one would have had many of the features which are standard in 2010's cars--like cruise control and push-button controls. I'm not sure--but they might have been computerized in some fashion.

I used to drive only 1960's era Fords, and none of mine had anything that was computerized. You could lock in the radio stations that you liked by pulling out the buttons on the bottom of the faceplate. When you wanted to change stations, you simply pushed in the appropriate button and there you were. The cruise controls of that era operated on vacuum of of the engine, so they didn't keep you very close to the speed you set.

were you an electronics tech in the military? anyways, it is fairly obscure outside of audiophile circles, but a Single Ended Triode amplifier or class A single-ended triode (SET) is a vacuum tube electronic amplifier that uses a single triode tube to produce a full positive/negative amplitude waveform output, in contrast to a push-pull amplifier which uses a pair of power tubes to generate an amplified waveform. my single experience with this was at seattle's "definitive hifi" back in 1983 when a pair of dorm-room-refrigerator-sized hunks of hot metal took up most of the middle of the listening room, with a pair of spectacularly inefficient magnapan tympani III panel loudspeakers took up the distal end, and just to drive those speakers to background volume level taxed the 50-watt [the most powerful class-A SETs available] mono amps to their limits, generating much heat in the process. but what sound there was, was ethereal and pure, transforming the front half of the listening room into a virtual copy of the recording's acoustic venue. when I was young there were still a number of young audiophiles into this sorta thing, but today's generation seems to not care.

Just reading through the backthread & realized no one answered this one:

Zork was the most popular one ("You are standing in an open field...") but here's a list of others:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_t ... uter_games
Also, the DOS command line experience is alive and well among Linux enthusiasts!