Throwback Technology: An Amusing and Nostalgic Retrospective

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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.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Welcome back to the come on.
You know that's why.
Anyway, how's it going?
Um, I just want to get this offmy chest.
Why in the world, every time Igo to the grocery store,
supermarket, whatever you wantto call it, I get a bad card,

(00:30):
like the front, I don't know.
Driver's side wheel is alwaysmessed up.
I'm just pushing my way throughthe supermarket, I'm hitting,
hitting tomatoes and cucumberswith my whack broke shopping
cart.
Does that ever happen to you?
Whatever, anyway.

(00:51):
So I'm gonna do this.
Shout out to the wall.
Tools had to change my brakes.
My brake pads were down and Igot me a like all my tools at
the wall.
So I got me a the wall impactwrench and it worked like a

(01:13):
charm.
Took those little nuts off, didwhat I had to do.
This is my shout out to thewall.
I'm hoping that, uh, they'llpay me for this little
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The wall hey, I want 1.5 millifor advertising your tools.
Hit me up, anyway, to getstarted.

(01:37):
So, hey, talk to a coworker.
I'm on.
She bullies me every day.
She's so cool.
We were talking about likenostalgic, retro things that we
did back in the day that nolonger exists, like these kids
oh, pardon me and these peoplenowadays like well, kids

(02:01):
Probably will not haveexperienced.
So we had a conversation and itwas fun and, uh, we're talking
about things that we did back inthe day.
Although I'm slightly older shemakes fun of me because of such
, but I don't know it was.
It was fun, reminiscent aboutthe stuff that we did that they

(02:23):
don't Do today, or, like thesekids 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 thefinger and if you messed up a
phone number, well, first of allyou had, like you had to know a

(02:45):
phone number.
We don't Nowadays, I don't evencare 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 facenowadays.
But if you messed up a phonenumber with a rotary phone, you
had to start over.
All right, if you get one digitincorrect, go back to the

(03:07):
starting line.
That's how it worked.
And remember how we transitionedto like daytime, like daytime
to cell phones.
That was a big deal.
But then it was those plans.
It was like the cell phonedaytime minute plans.
I get 206 daytime minutes.

(03:28):
It was like how do theydetermine those?
No, they had the businessanalytics.
It's like, hey, man, if yougive them 206 minutes, we will
bust our profit margin and gothrough the roof.
And remember, you have to callafter 9 pm or 7 pm.

(03:52):
And then they adjusted it so itwas like hey, call me after 9.
So you don't dip into mydaytime minutes.
The nighttime joint was free.
Stop burning my daytime minutes.
But yeah, we were talking aboutthat.
What else were we talking about?
We were talking about likecredit cards.
Back in the day they had theold like credit card swiping

(04:14):
machine joints where you had togo like and nowadays we
transition, you just tap yourcard right and you have metal
credit cards now.
So those little things wouldn'twork.
We were talking about theinternet.
Remember, you had to sign intoAOL.

(04:37):
Remember, to dial up so itwould use the phone line.
So you couldn't use the phoneif you were using the internet
on your computer, because it'slike, hey, you pick up the phone
and you get that annoying soundthat I just did.

(05:00):
That was crazy.
Remember that.
Remember floppy disks, copyingsomething and carrying disks
around and stuff like that.
So like, back to the phones.
Remember, like phones are a bigdeal and they were a big deal.
Remember back in the day, likeyour kid and you were like

(05:23):
sneaking on a phone.
If you told somebody like tocall you, hey, call me at 730.
And they're like, they wouldcall you or your parents would
pick up and say I'm going tospeak to Derek Derek's going to
bed.
Who are you?
But remember like you wouldtell them hey, don't call me

(05:53):
back, don't call me back.
Or like the cord phone, youknow what I mean If you were on
a phone call and then someoneelse in the house would pick up
the phone and they could hearyour conversation.
Remember that, remember, that'swhat we talked about.

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Remember like TVs, if, like likethe knob on the TV you had,
like you had as many channels asknob, like stopping points on
the knob and after knob brokeyou would use pliers.
Like turning the TV knob, likeit's pretty much Johnny Carson

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on every channel.
Remember VCRs, oh my God, likeyou couldn't like if you were
recording something you couldn'tchange the channel because you
had to keep it on the samechannel to record or whatever
you were recording.
That was crazy.
We were talking about likecassette tapes which they should
bring back, cassette tapes ifthey ever left.

(07:05):
I don't know, that was crazy.
Remember like Record in it, likerecording, it was a skill to
record like a song on the radioand Like press that record
button, remember that, that reddot, remember you would have to

(07:27):
like Kind of rewind on one sideto fast forward on the other
side of this day.
That was dope.
That was dope.
It was like if you could recorda song, especially like if you
could make a mixtape, you hadskill, you had straight-up skill
with the cassette tapes.

(07:47):
But those were the days andthen like, remember, like, like
if you like somebody, you makethem a mixtape, songs, just like
you know, whatever Joe to seeand other stuff, joe to see,
that, no, joe to see, was likeCD time.

(08:07):
I don't, I don't remember, butI Remember recording songs on
cassettes.
Remember like having bootlegmovies, like straight up,
straight up, straight up, likeyou had to go and Purchase them,
like you had that one dude.
You meet them, you know, on thecorner of whatever and whatever
you pay five bucks and get liketwo bootleg movies.

(08:28):
The bootleg movies were crazy.
It was always people standingup 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 couldtalk to you and all that stuff.
Yeah, we were talking about oh,oh, you know what.

(08:50):
Going back to the phone, likephones, phones, communication,
like that was back in a day aswe transitioned, like that was a
big deal.
Remember, remember like voicemails, like remember like you
would have a you, you like putmusic in the background, or your
voicemail would be like a dopedrill, like hey, I'm my name

(09:12):
Steven, you know, just call meback when you get a chance.
You have like your favoritesong or dope, dope track, quote
unquote in the background.
That was crazy.
It's crazy.
And my, so my coworker, shelike she's younger than I am, so
she doesn't she, she didn'tLike I was talking to her about

(09:36):
pages.
Like you remember pages when youcould type words.
Like you would send a page andI don't know like 33 would be a
hard or something, but you couldtype Numbers that would make
words.
That was crazy back in a day.
All right, back in the day.

(09:57):
Hey, like what else?
Like we were talking about she.
She means well, she.
She mentioned like erasable CDs,like how one CDs first came out
.
You would you can record stuffon them, but you could erase
stuff.
And then they came out witherasable CDs.

(10:18):
I do not remember erasable CDs.
I Mean I believe, like I knowthey existed, I believe it, but
I don't remember that.
We were talking about likeNapster and Lime wire, how you
like download music and stufffrom Napster.
Remember Napster, napster washot for hot minute.
Then it was gone.
But yeah, yeah, what else IDon't know.

(10:47):
We just talking about stuffthat like Was hot back and they
like those cassettes.
Remember, like, remember likegetting the tape.
And if you'd have to likerewind a tape with like a pencil
or like sucking the film withthe pencil by, like doing like
stroke thingies or whatever, putthe pencil in the thing,

(11:09):
cassettes would go we're dope,you get a tape.
We call them tapes, tapes, youknow, get a tape.
Remember like waiting for thehottest, newest tape.
You know that, but, yeah,almost shed a tear.
Those days are gone.
Now we're doing I don't evenknow what we're doing just doing

(11:30):
stuff on cell phones.
Anyway, fun stuff, that's allthat.