ELMO SLIDES TV
Photo by Nicholas Eckhart TV That’s Actually Furniture While the Blockbuster brand is now part of the DISH network, kids these days will never know what it was like to browse the aisles of a Blockbuster store. Chances are you blew into the bottom of one at least once in your childhood to try and clear up any on-screen wonkiness. All the major video game systems had cartridges. There’s a chance kids today may know from Popples, however, as they’ve been brought back to market a couple times in the past two decades - but, as it so often goes, there’s nothing like the originals! Photo by Jem Yoshioka Video Games On Cartridges These stuffed animals that could roll up into themselves - and the corresponding TV show about them - debuted in the mid-’80s. While Pepsi’s clear cola had fleeting, promotion-driven returns to store shelves in recent years, many adults will remember Crystal Pepsi’s original early ’90s debut and demise. The concept of in-home radios is hard enough for kids these days to understand - let alone building one’s own! Photo by mightyohm Crystal Pepsi
Photo by Average Jane Building A Radio Shack Transistor Radio So many wonderful AIM chat sessions were cut short because of this issue. Photo by kingofkerwood Making Sure You Don’t Pick Up The Phone So You Don’t Cut Off The Internet But the chances of non-’80s kids remembering the R.O.B.? Slim to none. which was compatible with only a couple games on the NES. Nintendo fans from the ’80s may remember the short-lived R.O.B. Photo by rpm1200 Teddy Ruxpinīefore Tickle Me Elmo, there was Teddy Ruxpin. Kids today will never truly understand the joy experienced when you managed to hit record at the exact moment your favorite song came on the radio. Photo by numberstumper Listening To The Radio All Day Long Just To Record Your Favorite Song On A Tape This once ubiquitous Texas Instruments toy is actually still available on sites like Amazon and eBay as a collector’s item. The very last VCR was made in 2016, further cementing VHS tapes’ descent into obscurity. Apparently the Marvel films - with their Walkman-loving protagonist - helped give cassette tapes a retail boost in 2018 for the first time in a long time. If it weren’t for “Guardians of the Galaxy,” kids these days may not even know a cassette tape from Adam. While you may no longer use them to look up a plumber or friend’s phone number, there are plenty of way you can put your old yellow pages to good use. To most kids - and a hefty portion of adults - it’s a mystery as to why phone books are still in circulation. Once a staple in every tech-savvy home and office, floppy disks have given way to tiny flash drives.
Which ones do you remember? Which ones are your most (or least!) favorite? Take a walk down memory lane and see all the things that kids these days will never fully appreciate. Am I right? With their Snapchats and their selfies.
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