Roshan
May 3, 2009 / 10:22

Typewriters
Stamps
Floppy Disks
Dial-up Connections

Buffalo Boy Mike
May 3, 2009 / 10:26

Cursive writing is so true. Im going to be teaching elementary and middle schoolers and I hardly know it because I never write anything anymore, they should teach keyboarding starting in kindergarden

elvis
May 3, 2009 / 10:32

The joy of finding a porn magazine before you were old enough to buy one.

The Voice
May 3, 2009 / 10:43

I think radio will still be around. More and more laws are being passed to male it such that radio will be the only thing you will have to entertain yourself whole driving.

But is this really bad? I'm thinking, that I don't know these things:
-Milk delivered daily in bottles to my house.
-How to use a sliderule.
-Latin.

Oh, add to your list the rotary phone.

Race Coach
May 3, 2009 / 10:49

- Telephones with round dial dials
- Crank-open door windows
- Long car trips without iPods, DVDs, etc.
- "Real" greeting cards
- Typewriters
- Music on vinyl

Anonymous
May 3, 2009 / 10:50

DVDs will be gone in 5 to 10 years.

Hobo Joe
May 3, 2009 / 10:59

In the music department: Ya ever sitting around with some drinks and friends and questions like, "What's the first album/CD you ever bought?" or "What are your Top 5 deserted island discs?" and such come up?

Well, someday, the question will be, "What's the first song you ever downloaded?" and music will never have been held in the hands of the youth. No more opening up liner notes pages, etc. Sad.

Toronto Mike
May 3, 2009 / 14:25

I've added a couple more thanks to your comments.

I don't think my kids would understand rotary phones, typewriters or floppy disks, so there's no way my grandkids will understand them.

Elvis, you're so right about porno mags. Porno will be completely digitized by the time I have grandkids. There was nothing better as a pre-teen than stumbling upon someone's porno magazine stash. Today, kids just Google it.

Horonymous
May 3, 2009 / 19:11

Ka-ching of a cash register.
Still wondering why the leafs haven't won a Stanley Cup since before Grandpa was born.
7 Numbers in a phone number.
35mm film
Incandescent light bulb
Not recycling
Fossil fuels
Toronto with a funtional City Council
Why the Subway doesn't start until 09:00 on Sundays.
The folks pulled down the Gardiner tomade a wider bouelvard that's even harder for pedestrians to cross and there are all these condos instead of parks along Harbourfront

Jill
May 3, 2009 / 23:06

phone booths
watching movies on film
paperbags
portable CD players
maybe.....the art of how to read a map
and definately.....why George W Bush was elected for a second term.

elvis
May 4, 2009 / 07:43

Board Games
Cars without A/C
Riding in the back seat without a seat belt - legally!

Andrew
May 4, 2009 / 10:52

A Cell phone that only called people.

The penny.

"Would you like smoking or non?"

TV Antennas

The_Voice
May 4, 2009 / 11:21

For the phonebooth thing, they've been phasing them out for years! There's a sight gag in Superman: The Movie, where he's looking for a place to change (Superman classically changed costume in a phonebooth in the comics, and other mediums), but he finds the only public phone is fully exposed, with no booth.

Wayner
May 4, 2009 / 12:57

airline tickets & polaroids

LEW
May 4, 2009 / 14:51

Mike - I'm a printer, and I've never been able to fold a map!
- Getting up to change the channels (oops - that's your generation)
- A bank teller
- pen pals

Toronto Mike
May 4, 2009 / 19:40

My current car has manual crank windows, no AC and requires a key to start.

When I was a youngin, our television had a knob we had to turn and there was no remote control.

I had a pen pal, our groceries came in paper bags, and our phone number had only 7 digits.

I also remember using a typewriter, buying vinyl, using floppy disks, dialling up to get on the web and using rotary phones. We used 'em because it was all we had and we hated our friends with too many number 9's in their 7-digit number.

I don't remember milk delivery, riding in the backseat without a belt (legally), how to use a sliderule or winning a Stanley Cup.

LEW
May 5, 2009 / 14:31

My Uncle, back in the early 70's had a chess board with a game in progress in a closet - he was playing a guy in France and they made their moves by mail.

Joe
May 5, 2009 / 23:32

How about Beta? And audio tapes.