In your children's life time will they be seeing things like the 10lb cell battery packs, VHS and BETA tapes, phones with cords, records and tapes in museums or have they seen that stuff at home, or at the grandparents homes? Did they have comments about those things of the past?

We actually still have a VCR and tons of tapes, childrens tapes. The kids can play them and I don't have to worry about them ruining a DVD. They have seen a record player and records at my Mom's house and thought they were cool. My 7 year old girl is a very curious child and is always asking about certain items and if I had that when I was a kid. There has been times that she has asked if I had things like television and electricity. My 9 year old son can't believe that the only video game that I had at his age was maybe ping pong (Atari...remeber those?) It is fun to see what the kids think about stuff from the past.

Rotary phones always make me laugh, I imagine my children looking and scratching their heads.

I loved Zach Morris cell phone, and wanted one just like it- kids now a days probably say "he looks like dorks" HAHAHA

We have VHS tapes but not cassette tapes 

 

Easy we have phone w cord and cordless, vhs and cd playa, cds and tapes   Which Grammy has difficulty using I might add lol ....We have Albums and CDs , we have cassettes,  and a TV w Ears  in my comp space ... They've seen  us hand wash dishes, and use dishwasher... Theyve seen  40s crank windows  as thats in our home >> AND cameras  require  flash bar too ... All at home  .... Not Museum

Well, DS will be seeing a lot of that stuff and home - DH is not into new technology and likes the old stuff better, which keeps a good mix of old/new in the house.

VHS, we still use...Records, the only way music is listened to in the house...Tapes, listened to in DH's car...phone cord, our phone in the our room has it...ice crusher, we use one from the 50s just because I loved a similar one when I was growing up.

Some stuff will still only be seen at a musuem.

What is a Beta tape?

My 3 year old son won't be seeing any beta or vhs tapes, but last year when my husband decided to dispose some things, our son saw records (the ones used for turntables) and he thought they were plates!

What about the old BOOM boxes, I am talking the old school breaking BOOM boxes - cassette tape and all baby . . .

we have vhs tapes but our vcr died so all the vhs are in a box in the closet, dvds are harder to destroy but we still plan on making simon his own copies so we dont have to worry about the originals being scratched, he got a hold of a vhs not to long ago at grandmas and destroyed it in less than a minute. cassette tapes and records oh yeah he will know what they are we have a lot of both and just finally got a stereo that we can play both on (it also has cd and a ipod dock hehe). video games he will always have a mix of old and new since we collect them, currently he has the n64 hooked up on his tv we figured its a older system but you can still pick them up cheap if it breaks (cant with some older systems) and it uses carts which are almost impossible to break. he will always be around a good assortment of old and new.

i had to laugh when i saw rotary phones mentioned, we had one in our kitchen that was rented from the phone company. my dad had to have one because he always fat fingered the buttons on push button phones (no rotiry for him now so he fat fingers numbers all the time), well i would have friends come over and they would ask to use the phone then have no idea how to use the rotary phone. oh the days when phones had a switch on the side to flip between pulse and touch tone hehe.

We have the Boom Boxes and cassettes  and a Record player .... not good sound as stereo though lol ...

Reminds me of a statement Dr McCoy made in a Star Trek film that I quote loosely, since I don't remember it exactly. "They perform surgeries here, they're not doctors, they're butchers."

By the time your young children have children, the technology we have now, will be as obsolete as those we fondly converse about now.

Just for the record, Sony's Beta system was a rival to VHS and a superior system; but they failed to perceive the market right and allowed the cheaper and more easily duplicated VHS sytems to overcome them.