KIDS REACT TO OLD COMPUTERS, etc. - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: staxquad
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 27, 2014, 09:10:02 pm
content: (kids want performance)KIDS REACT TO OLD COMPUTERSKIDS REACT TO WALKMANS (Portable Cassette Players)KIDS REACT TO ROTARY PHONES

author: old gregg
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 27, 2014, 09:35:54 pm
content: thanks, I'm feeling so old now...Do kids know what a CD is ?Give them a VHS or a nitendo, even worse a game boy

author: SirNick
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 27, 2014, 09:40:44 pm
content: I found my old Gameboy a little while back. I have no idea how I ever played that thing. The LCD screen has theslowestrefresh time... any motion is just a total blur.

author: mamalala
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 27, 2014, 09:55:36 pm
content: That's hillarious! Thanks for sharing!Funny how fast things change. I mean, really, it's not _that_ long ago that this stuff was rather common.Greetings,Chris(Feeling old now, knowing and having used all that stuff....)

author: IanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 27, 2014, 11:36:22 pm
content: Quote from: wilfred on May 27, 2014, 11:16:19 pmI still find that perspective fascinating. When I was their age (say, about 1970), then looking back to the 1940's was to envisage a completely different world. Yet that was only looking back 30 years. Today, when I look back 30 years to 1984 things don't seem that much different at all. The only big difference I could really point to would be the lack of digital devices and the internet. Broadly speaking, houses, cars, planes, trains, pop music, television and so on were all there and all much like today.

author: mamalala
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 27, 2014, 11:43:53 pm
content: Quote from: IanB on May 27, 2014, 11:36:22 pmYes and no. Sure, there have been houses and cars and planes and stuff back then. But like computers or phones, they changed quite a lot. cars got lighter, safer, faster, more efficient. Planes got bigger, more comfortable, etc. Houses got more efficient, way more comfortable, etc.After all, you can easly shrink a phone or computer, so that is a rather obvious change. But for stuff like cars, houses, etc., there are limits. Unless you can shrink humans, then you can make that stuff much smaller as wellMusic and TV changed a lot as well. Back then, to have your music available to people was quite an effort. Today you can make your own and publish it. Not just because you can simply put it somewhere on the net, but also because all the equipment needed got much cheaper, smaller and more performant. As for TV, we now have much better image quality, color, much more channels, extra services, etc. But then, i don't have a TV, because in my opinion that is a device intended to make people stupid.... at least as far as 99+% of the available promgrammes go. I enjoy watching a good movie, but that is not TV.Greetings,Chris

author: denelec
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 28, 2014, 12:04:31 am
content: Quote from: IanB link=topic=31775.msg452319#msg4523[/quoteEach period was defined by new technologies that transformed our lives:1800-1900: Steam engine and telegraph1900-1960: Internal combustion engine and electricity1960-2014: Semi-conductors, telecommunications and computers2014- : ?What will be the next big thing? Biosciences? Micro-electro-mechanical devices (MEMS)?Since our intelligence is limited (unlike our stupidity), will technical progress slow down in the future?Maybe we will bio-engineer our descendents for superior intelligence?

author: staxquad
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 28, 2014, 12:14:25 am
content: Quote from: denelec on May 28, 2014, 12:04:31 amI'm inclined towards the "Children of Men" scenario as the next big thing."In 2027, two decades of human infertility have left society on the brink of collapse."

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 29, 2014, 01:13:40 am
content: One of my kids recently came into my office/lab/mancave and asked 'what is that?' while pointing at my stereo set. I told him that it was a stereo set. He said he found it was very outdated and he had no use for something like that.... Am I a bad parent for not telling it can be used to play music very loud?

author: vk3yedotcom
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timestamp: May 29, 2014, 01:23:40 pm
content: Is it any coincidence that the kid at 0:28 on the first video has a T-shirt with a cassette tape graphic?

author: sacherjj
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timestamp: May 29, 2014, 02:54:52 pm
content: They need to combine the first two videos and make the kids load programs in the Apple with a tape drive.

author: staxquad
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timestamp: May 29, 2014, 03:01:47 pm
content: Quote from: vk3yedotcom on May 29, 2014, 01:23:40 pmProbably because the second video preceded the first by over a month; the kid probably thought it would be cool to wear "old technology" after being exposed to it and seeing the shirt somewhere for sale.

author: Towger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 29, 2014, 03:40:12 pm
content: What amazes me is the 7.6M views in 5 days. Dave is in the wrong end of the Youtube business, mix in a few outgoing children and kittens into the videos and he will soon be able to afford a larger man cave with a dedicated fibre connection.On another note, I feel old and poor. I am tripping over my own home grown children and have an Apple IIe complete with monitor, drive(s)? and 'pong' controllers in 'offline' storage for about 25 years. I can't afford and am in need of a (SMWBO proof) man cave.Should I..A: Sell the Apple IIe, unfortunately it is not a Apple IB: Sell the SWMBO/ChildrenC: Retrieve the Apple from storage replace the caps and see if it still works, then make my own version of the video. I don't have any cat kittens, but would rabbit kittens be a good substitute?

author: staxquad
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 29, 2014, 03:49:42 pm
content: Quote from: Towger on May 29, 2014, 03:40:12 pmTheFineBros only have 8,436,540 subscribersDave's got 141,288 subscribersthat 59:1 ratio will probably remainmaybe if Dave cross dresses?57,404,642 views, 13,314,478 subscribers, just terribleMJ Lorton's "Making Money While You Sleep - Full Time Youtube Video Blogg" was interesting (Mentions how much money Jenna Marbles makes from Youtube)

author: FrankBuss
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 29, 2014, 04:13:08 pm
content: Quote from: denelec on May 28, 2014, 12:04:31 amThe bookThe Singularity Is Nearhas some interesting ideas about the future. I think the next big technology will be quantum computers and/or reversible computing. Currently there is a theoretical limit for conventional, non-reversible computing (seeLandauer's principle), which limits the computing power, because of the amount of heat it generates and power it needs. Todays technology consumes still much more per bit, but maybe in 10 years it will reach this limit and the transistor density will increase even more with 3D chips, so heat and power consumption will be a big problem.Reversible computing doesn't have this problem: No matter how much you calculate, the required energy depends only on the number of input and output bits (minus some loss, because the reversible process will be not perfect, but at least 0 watt is the theoretical limit for the internal calculations). Ray Kurzweil compares this to a rock: It does a lot of computations in regard to physical laws. Now some engineer has to built a rock in a way that it does some useful calculation the same way (he calls this "cold computing").Another big thing will be humans merging with computers. This is already happening: You have your smart phone all the time with you, use it for GPS, messaging, Googling etc. Things like Siri will get more advanced, and brain-computer interfacescurrently researchedwill become as normal as a smart phone today. In the end it might be possible to upload yourself into a computer. There are already two major initiatives with big money on the way from the US and Europe to reverse-engineering the brain (BRAIN InitiativeandHuman Brain Project). Reverse-engineering and developing software brains will be another next big thing.

author: miguelvp
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 30, 2014, 01:57:51 am
content: I wonder how many would know how to use this:I wonder if you still get an operator if you dial 0.

author: IanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 30, 2014, 02:33:43 am
content: Quote from: miguelvp on May 30, 2014, 01:57:51 amYou pick up the earpiece and hold it to your ear, then you turn the handle on the right two or three times to get the attention of the operator. When the operator answers, you tell her the phone number of the party you wish to reach*, and then you wait to be connected. None of this newfangled button pressing rubbish......although it appears that with Siri we have reinvented the old, user-friendly way of doing things* For example, my grandparents' phone number was Finchley 5466

author: miguelvp
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 30, 2014, 02:56:37 am
content: Quote from: IanB on May 30, 2014, 02:33:43 amApparently at the beginning before they had thousands of subscribers, you had to give them the name and address and if the recipient didn't have a phone, they will send a courier to ask them to come to the central station to receive the call. The switchboards or exchanges didn't allow too many subscribers in the very early times.But, yeah, I wonder if kids know what a telephone operator isLink, there were dial and non-dial subscribers. complete craziness!http://techchannel.att.com/play-video.cfm/2011/3/18/AT&T-Archives-Switchboards-Old-and-New

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 30, 2014, 04:53:21 am
content: They still exist here and they are in use still on farm lines. I use a similar Ericsson wall mounted model ( made in 1939) as my phone. After converting from local battery to line battery it worked with no problems, though it cannot dial out.

author: TVman
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 30, 2014, 05:01:48 am
content: Well I'm on here and I don't even have an Iphone.I'm glad I don't too.