Comments on: Obsolete technology skills

By: kami

kami — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:14:26 +0000

So true,Who knew piccture taking would be so easy

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:13:15 +0000

wow. some of these skills seem so ancient but they really aren’t because I recall many of them. Times move very fast.

By: blueyes

blueyes — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:04:03 +0000

I dunno there are quite a few things on that list that I still do and can’t see them going away anytime soon either especially the mowing the lawn because I do that every fricken weekend and not just my lawn but my neighbors lawn too because she has MS and can’t do it.

By: Esteban Agosto Reid

Esteban Agosto Reid — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:44:31 +0000

Interesting list of outmoded skills!The dynamic changes involving technical skills and technology is so rapid that the very moment you purchase or acquire the new piece of technology in whatever form it is obsolete.As a matter of fact, most new technologies have what can be classsified or referred to as built in obsolescence.Generational changes with respect to the product life of a new piece of technology are now much shorter and compressed vis-a-vis twenty or thirty years ago.Consequently,promoting a high incidence of obsolescence in design,style, and construction.

By: Stunner

Stunner — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:53:29 +0000

Yep i definitely remember:
Rewinding audio or video cassettes
Formatting a floppy disk, and also loosing my data after saving it on the formatted disk!
Loading film into a camera
Taping songs off the radio onto a cassette tape

Those were the days.

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By: CoolDestiny

CoolDestiny — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:25:02 +0000

When my computer crashed the other day and I lost all my pics of my children, I wished I was still using my old camera with that good old 35mm film. We are so modern now that when there is a power cut we feel like fish out of water.

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By: jdid

jdid — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:46:50 +0000

i still have two normal cameras but dont know the last time i’ve used them. I still set the time on the vcr though. and i’ve even got some 5′ 1/4 floppies lying around.

actually was thinking my first computer back in 92 has 8MB of ram and a 60MB hard-drive which I upgraded a year later by installing a new 120MB hard-drive. Back then I was the man cause everyone else’s computer had 40Mb and a gig was something musicans played

Now I can get a tiny flash drive that holds 8G gigs

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By: Jumbie

Jumbie — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:37:21 +0000

You are right. I use to do most of those things; some I still do (like handwriting letters).

I remembered the first time I showed my daughter to pop corn without a microwave; she was sooo amazed. I recently showed her a manual camera and how to wind the film (for a school trip), that was an insight for her as well since she is good at using my digital cameras.

Ah, the new generation - losing so many nifty skills.

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