100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About Audio-Visual Entertainment Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something. Super-8 movies and cine film of all kinds. Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo. See what happens when you give a Walkman to today’s teenager. The number of TV channels being a single digit. I remember it being a massive event when Britain got its fourth channel. Standard-definition, CRT TVs filling up half your living room. Rotary dial televisions with no remote control. You know, the ones where the kids were the remote control. High-speed dubbing. 8-track cartridges. Vinyl records. Even today’s DJs are going laptop or CD. Betamax tapes. MiniDisc. Laserdisc: the LP of DVD. Scanning the radio dial and hearing static between stations. (Digital tuners + HD radio b0rk this concept.) Shortwave radio. 3-D movies meaning red-and-green glasses. Watching TV when the networks say you should. Tivo and Sky+ are slowing killing this one. That there was a time before ‘reality TV.’ Complete list at Wired.com To be honest, some of these things are sort of sad. Kids need to do some of these things
I really remember a lot of them, from typewriters to laser discs, from pay phones to static radios... even using the encyclopedia and road atlas myself!
alot of todays kids probably won't know about windows 95,98 ME, 2000 and XP and maybe even Vista lol.