35 things that aren’t very old, but old enough you’d have to explain to a young person what they were

Reddit is running a great question:

“What’s something that isn’t very old, but is old enough that young people may have never actually seen one in person?” says Colonel_K_The_Great over on Reddit.

And here’s 35 of the very best answers:

1

Until today, my daughter had never seen a film negative.
–crackhappy

2. Palm Pilot. That strange little in between time when people used to carry a pocket organized and a cell phone.

3

A payphone. A family friend who is 12 picked up one recently and said that it made a weird noise. So I guess they also wouldn’t have ever heard a dial tone as well?
–crave_you

4

Printing out directions from Mapquest.
–FourthAge

5

AOL free trial CD
–CoconutMochi

6

Arriving at an airport and being able to board within 20 minutes.
–Creon11

7

An overhead projector used for those translucent sheets. Seriously all my schools have projectors now.
–abby1371

8

Napster
–SpaceGandalf116

9

Credit card-carbon imprinter
–r1ngr

10

Dial-up internet services.
–Ryuuhoshi

11

An iPod classic with the click wheel.
–yeahscience62

12

modem card
–solidstatemasterrace

13

Degaussing a crt display
–angrylawyer

14

Had an encyclopedia. Kid asked what that was.
–uReallyShouldTrustMe

15

A TV station signing off for the night.
–jondoughntyaknow

16

Floppy disks. I actually still have an old Dell that takes them, but I have rarely ever seen them in the wild.
–Heavy_Cheese_Gunner

17

Netscape internet browser.
–supertecnoboff

18

A t.v. with no remote control.
–Gamilon

19

Smoking section of a restaurant.
–nugjones

20

Card catalogues at libraries.

–paleo2002

21

An MP3 cell phone in the days before a smart phone.
–Slaughterhouse451

22

TV news without text scrawl.
–AcidicOpulence

23

Not really a physical thing, but I had to show a friend how to properly address a letter the other day.
–NotAdamSiska

24

Zune….RIP
–plainasplaid

25

VHS cassette rewinder.
–wiccandoit

26

Disappointment when you go to Blockbuster on a friday night and all the new release movies are taken.
–dinosaregaylikeme

27

The cockpit of a jumbo jet. I was allowed to tour the cockpit of a huge jumbo British Airlines flight. This was 1999. A few years later and this never would have happened.

It was a neat experience. The cockpit wasn’t fancy — basically cramped and that light military green colour. In between the two pilots was a fruit basket. They asked me about school and future plans. We were over the Atlantic during the night and they showed me another jet that we were following. Very kind pilots and stewardess.
–neuropathica

28

MTV when it showed music
–nojuan87

29

MySpace
–Naweezy

30

Cassette tapes. Obsolete now, but everyone in my generation used them. Case in point, we watched Guardians of the Galaxy and my kids didn’t understand how his Walkman worked.
–zerbey

31

Computer mouse with a ball instead of an optical mouse.
–CawLife

32

A rotary telephone
–raging_dingo

33

The teacher rolling in the big TV/VCR combo and realizing it was gonna be a good day.
–CallHimTheBosun

34

Tamagotchis.
–iwantamalt

35

A private life.
–Megahuts

Source: Reddit