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Who remembers or even knows what this is?

MCheetah · Accepted Answer

Everyone 30 and older should know these. nd yeah, I used to make mixtapes by recording stuff off dual-cassette radio. I'd wait all day for certain songs to play on weekends when I was like ten years old. It was like catching Pokemon! And I'd HOPE no dumbass DJ would talk all over the song at the end or cut it off early.

You know when all of this changed? 2007. That's when the first commercially popular smartphone, the first iPhone, came out, when YouTube became big enough to be a major source of daily entertainment, and when Facebook replaced MySpace as the top social media site (social media only being three years old, at the time.)

Also TV kinda rushed its own demise in 2009 by forcing everyone in America to go digital, making all CRT-TVs useless (without a BS converter box, which many people were unwilling to buy) and saying people had to either go to cable TV, buy an expensive-at-the-time digital flat-screen TV, or not watch anything at all. MANY people said "f*ck you" to all of those options and just started pirating television online and only watching YouTube and Hulu, instead of broadcast television in America. I did own a digital flat-screen TV at the time, but the switch-over to all digital broadcast television was such an unnecessary pain in the ass, that old people never bothered to do so, and young people like myself were just forced to watch everything online. Really only 35 to 50 year olds actually complied with the switch to digital television and everyone else just gave up on broadcast TV, including me. So screw them for killing themselves with that crap!

ArrowheadSW · Accepted Answer

Oh my gosh yes. Those cassette tapes. They had a tendency to develop slack and other issues, and sometimes sticking a pen in the hole and twisting it helped. Man those sucked. They'd get tangled up in the cassette player and sometimes you'd have to throw them away. When CDs became a thing, it was much better. Now it is mostly fully digital, although CDs are still used.

musicbrain5 · Accepted Answer

Cassettes, and yes I would use a pen or pencil to wind back the tape that cheap decks would pull out, haha. I still use cassettes with a 4 track recorder.

Film projector. I have one of those in my house too, haha! Unfortunately it doesn’t work properly and I’m looking to get it fixed/restored.

Merry Go Round. I never liked them, they always made me sick.

Overhead acetate projector. I have one in my classroom still, and I occasionally use it. Sometimes plain old acetate sheets are easier to use than the SmartBoard.

Nomina · Accepted Answer

All those things can be googled with image reverse.

SnowedIn · Answer

Totally! Always had a pen for tapes. And all the other stuff.

Titanic1912 · Answer

I was born in the mid 90s. I know all of these. All I had were cassettes growing up, I hated riding on that merry-go round, the pen and the cassette is what I can easily relate to when my fast forward button and rewind button on my cassette player quit working, I never saw a video projector and the screen protector was used a lot in chapel so we could follow along with the words to the hymns.

HippieVeganJewslim · Answer

Those are wee cassettes used to play audio. Then, they got made into compact disks, which got made into Lord-knows-what! There are those merry-go-rounds on my island and I remember overheads when I was in elementary and middle school. I'm only six and twenty years young!

HaveNoName · Answer

I still have my prized collection of 800+ tapes that i listen to sometimes as I could not find those albums anywhere...

And YESSSSS... the utility of a pen or pencil with hexagonal edges... A blessing !!!

DancingQueen16 · Answer

I remember the one from the last picture because my elementary school teachers would sometimes use those

Googlemyahoo · Answer

Or tape to cover the holes on the casette so you could record a copy on blank tape.  Scientists indicate that because playgrounds have no merry go rounds has contributed to kids turning out gay

Mangospacho · Answer

I used a finger if there wasn’t a pen around but that was the way to rewind the tape if there was no tape player around to rewind it. I think I actually had that tape holder on the second pic.

Guy13 · Answer

I had a professor still using that contraption. Both his TA convinced him that laptop 💻 projection would be better. We set him up. It was a struggle.,

NathanDavis · Answer

I still have cassettes... lol but no player

Massageman · Answer

Pen was the emergency rewinder for the cassette.  Heck, I remember Winky DInk!

blackgaletiger · Answer

The tape cassette brings back frustrating memories when the real would come loose and my dad will tell us to use our pinky to rewind it.

spartan55 · Answer

All of the above. You forgot a rotary dial phone... 😂 😂

Likes2drive · Answer

Yeah I remember all those and still have hundreds of cassettes, I don’t think many people would know much about 8 track tape players though but vinyl has become popular again

loveslongnails · Answer

My parents had a bunch of those and a cassette player too. LOL

nawtee_me · Answer

For me it is the 8track tapes.

exitseven · Answer

It is a cassette and a bic pen. You use the bic pen to wind the tape.

douride2 · Answer

Cassettes & yes always have a pen or pencil around to wind them in.

Havthrills · Answer

Absolutely remember all of those. Pencil or pen was perfect for rewinding tapes.

Anonymous · Answer

It's a pen from olden times when people used to write on paper. I don't know what the other things are. Why, have they just been discovered on an archaeological dig or something?

Surely · Answer

What about a foot headlight dimmer button?  Know and used them all!

Jccowen77 · Answer

I used to use worn out cassette tapes as window scrapers in winter. Worked great.

mrkdvsn · Answer

I just used my finger and fingernail to advance or rewind the tape

WhiteSteve · Answer

Hitting home for me😂

Lucy68 · Answer

Unfortunately yes

Jamie05rhs · Answer

It's called a tape. Duh

Staximus · Answer

Isn't all that stuff before your time?

Preeti161101 · Answer

Tape 📼 recorded cassatte

Guardian45 · Answer

Daniela you're making me cry...

KrakenAttackin · Answer

Ha! Oh yeah, I remember 8-track.

Nazgol · Answer

Was born in 1990. So yeah😆I know

krin_m · Answer

Most certainly!

roy_ricky09 · Answer

Oh yeah

EaterPeter · Answer

Cassette tape

BLP11520 · Answer

I remember all those

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