100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About

Being somewhat young, there are a few things the oldies thought was the norm back in the day. Geek Dad from Wired.com has made up a list of some of the forgotten things us younger generation may not know about or have never experienced.  Below are just a few of them to get your appetite, so follow the link to read the entire list.

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.

Computers and Videogaming

• Wires. OK, so they’re not gone yet, but it won’t be long
• The scream of a modem connecting.
• The buzz of a dot-matrix printer

The Internet

• NCSA Mosaic.
• Finding out information from an encyclopaedia.
• Using a road atlas to get from A to B.
• Doing bank business only when the bank is open.
• Shopping only during the day, Monday to Saturday.

Gadgets

• Typewriters.
• Putting film in your camera: 35mm may have some life still, but what about APS or disk?
• Sending that film away to be processed.
• Having physical prints of photographs come back to you.

Everything Else

• Taking turns picking a radio station, or selecting a tape, for everyone to listen to during a long drive.
• Remembering someone’s phone number.
• Not knowing who was calling you on the phone.

You can read the entire list of 100 at Geek Dad.