http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/01/25/obsolete-technologies-that-will-baffle-modern-children-in-pictur/walkman/
What the heck are these, asked the kid, am big brother to. You are lucky junior, at least I can relate to some, even though you do not have to relate to, even in India. When I was young, the gap between rich in India and west was 5 years, rural 10-20 yrs. Now it is 5 rural and 1 rich.
Commies have a flying start – backward. Many leftists have started talking 2024 elections, not 2019! The incompetence mania has started to descend, hindutva is no longer political pseudo-BS but genuine wishes of some people. Oh well! Let me relate to most.
Saharabudhe went to Canada and brought back the wonder of floppy. I designed and still have the secret to eye-print good bio metric id-like using it for internet-of-things. The are like pen drives of today – kilobytes not gigabytes.
A Sony Walkman (now mobiles) was essential in walk or run.
The rotary dial let you type the phone number.
A typewriter typed on paper, for mail and forms and contracts!
A camera was a standalone device like the one in phone.
When I returned from slogging in my dpt., I played adventure, the grand daddy of all video-games, on Atari, on game boy, on Nintendo DS or watched as movie on videotape in a beta max. There were no DVD. Offices had clunky PC using floppy disks.
I put my thesis on overheads or slide projectors. There was no videopages or presentations.
There were no radio-internet, only walkies-talkie or pagers.
Instant photo were made by Polaroid.
Phone must have answering machines to escape adster sellers. Made video from camcorders.
Business people sat glued to ticker machines. No email, pictures and true copies were faxed.
Even I know not what bbc micro is.
There was no internet hence googloe or facebook. microsoft and apple were babies, IBM and AT&T ruled the world. Seven sisters barely existed.
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