this is how old we all are...

[sumday]

Or maybe how stupid kids are today.

I'm 27 and of course I grew up using cassettes instead of cds. In a study, they gave a 13 year old boy a cassette and cassette player to take to school and listen to it and play around with it during breaks.

Among other things, it took him 3 days to figure out that there's song on the other side of the tape and that you can flip it around and listen to them. That's comical.

This really shows how ancient we are getting when kids are so unfamiliar with cassettes and other old technology that we grew up using. Or maybe this just shows how slow kids are today. (this kid was American)

 

[Presto]

Wait a second. You were born in 1982. You were a teenager in 1995. How did you manage using cassettes when they were on their way out in the mid 80s?

 

[YourAllAmerican]

(this kid was American)

The kid is Scottish.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8117619.stm

 

[Maniac]

Wait a second. You were born in 1982. You were a teenager in 1995. How did you manage using cassettes when they were on their way out in the mid 80s?

I was born in 1982 and still remember using cassettes all the time. Just because CD's came out in the mid 80's it doesn't mean that everyone started buying them straight away - I still remember listening to tapes well into the 90's...

 

[festeringZit]

Some of us grew up w/ 8 track tapes and 45's.

 

[C.P.]

Some of us grew up w/ 8 track tapes and 45's.

me too..

Don't forget 78's...

 

[oldmanTED]

me too..

Don't forget 78's...

How about the 33's? I'm forgetful these days, but I vaguely remember such a record.

 

[sumday]

I was born in 1982 and still remember using cassettes all the time. Just because CD's came out in the mid 80's it doesn't mean that everyone started buying them straight away - I still remember listening to tapes well into the 90's...

Same here man.

 

[C.P.]

How about the 33's? I'm forgetful these days, but I vaguely remember such a record.

OMT....lol

forgot about those.....to funny...:toast:

 

[quantumleap]

How about the 33's? I'm forgetful these days, but I vaguely remember such a record.

Do you remember some of the turntables had little bumps on the side of the platter where you laid the record and some kind of strobe light shown on the bumps so you could adjust the speed to be synchronized?

 

[barman]

Actually it was the "78s" that were oldest

Then 45s for single songs (one to a side) and 33 1/3s were fairly standard issue by the early 1960s

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

All my Motown was 45's....Temps, Four Tops, Supremes, Smoky Robinson....

 

[8ate]

Aretha..!!! those were the days..!!!!

 

[Dawoofdaddy]

If your teen years were the 1990s, by then most teens mainly were using cds to listen to music.

You were 18 at turn of century...majority of teenagers were still using cassettes then?

Does anyone here still listen to music via 8 track?

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