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Kids Reacting to an Old Cassette Walkman Is Wonderful and Horrifying

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Haha. Fuck you. You're old

So am I

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I understand it is generational difference, but I just had an urge to punt all of those kids. How can they not figure it out? When I was a kid you just started messing with stuff until it worked. Where is the ingenuity?

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(04-14-2014 11:25 AM)Snowplow Wrote:  I understand it is generational difference, but I just had an urge to punt all of those kids. How can they not figure it out? When I was a kid you just started messing with stuff until it worked. Where is the ingenuity?

I agree. For me "old tech" was typewriters and record players and those old ass stereo receivers. You played around with it ad eventually figured it out. Many of the kids looked helpless and expected to be guided through it like with modern tech. Some of the kids were witty, the one Asian boy figured it out, and that kid with the goofy hair brought up good and relevant points. In my view the Walkman and IPod cost the same price, slightly more. Only inflation boosts the price of an iPod.

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"Too complicated" says one kid.
"And I feel so lazy saying this, but you actually have to do stuff" say another.
What the fuck? I felt old at first, but now I agree with Snowplow, these kids are jackasses. I would finger fuck things until I figured them out or damaged them beyond repair.

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This reminds me how as late as 2006 I was still using cassette walkmans (made bootlegs off the radio).


The other day at the Dentist, I saw this obnoxious mother and her spawn, all playing with devices. Kids had ipads, mom on the iphone. Tap, tap, tap. Cripes, I can't even comprehend what its like to have been born in the 21st century, especially when I barely function in it.

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Wasn't there an article about how someone saw a little girl swiping a magazine cover and asked her mom why the iPad was broken? Does anyone remember that?

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Samirah was promising. She formed more intelligent sentences at 8 than the 13 year olds.

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apple is skynet

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(04-14-2014 03:35 PM)Earth Wrote:  apple is skynet

Oh man, don't even get started on that! I mean I agree to some extent but we don't need to pull out the

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Cassettes sound better than MP3's.

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In 1998 we got a CD burner drive, and in the early 2000s I bought a Philips portable CD player that could read CD-RWs so I could quit wasting all those expensive CD-Rs

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I miss those! Anyone knows where I can get one now?

Yeah the kids on the video are spoilt an lazy. You can also feel this sense of entitlement already showing up in the girls at that young age. What a pity!

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I still see portable cassette players and CD players at walmart in the same weird section they keep the AM/FM radios and desktop tape players

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I don't hang with kids that age anymore. My probation officer won't let.

I kid, I kid.

But seriously - are kids becoming more savvy and aware these days? It seems like the kids in that video are talking like teenagers or something.

Are kids growing up faster these days?

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I also had one of these in 2000, didn't get an iPod until 2007:






Real 2.5" laptop hard drive, and AA NiMH rechargeable batteries so I made those things last forever.