100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About

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There are some things in this world that will never be forgotten, this week’s 40th anniversary of the Moon landing for one, but Moore’s Law and our ever-increasing quest for simpler, smaller, faster, and better Widgets and Thingamabobs will always ensure that some of the technology we grew up with will not be passed down the line to the next generation of geeks. That is, of course, unless we tell them all about the good old days of modems and typewriters, slide rules and encyclopedias…

Nathan Barry from Wired.com has posted a list of things that our kids will probably never use…

Audio-Visual Entertainment

• Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something.

• Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo.

• Standard-definition, CRT TVs filling up half your living room.

• Vinyl records. Even today’s DJs are going laptop or CD.

• MiniDisc.

Computers and Videogaming

• Wires. OK, so they’re not gone yet, but it won’t be long.

• 5- and 3-inch floppies, Zip Discs and countless other forms of data storage.

• DOS.

• Wondering if you can afford to buy a RAM upgrade.

• Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time.

• Having to delete something to make room on your hard drive.

The Internet

• Finding out information from an encyclopedia.

• Using a road atlas to get from A to B.

• Phone books and Yellow Pages.

• Newspapers and magazines made from dead trees.

• Privacy.

• The fact that words generally don’t have num8er5 in them.

• Waiting several minutes (or even hours!) to download something.

Gadgets

• Typewriters.

• Having physical prints of photographs come back to you.

• Pay phones.

• Fax machines.

• Vacuum cleaners with bags in them.

Everything Else

• Remembering someone’s phone number.

• Not knowing who was calling you on the phone.

• Actually going down to a Blockbuster store to rent a movie.

• Kentucky Fried Chicken, as opposed to KFC.

• Having to manually unlock a car door.

• Cash.

• Libraries as a place to get books rather than a place to use the internet.

• Spending your entire allowance at the arcade in the mall.

Read full story at Wired.com