Top 20 Products That Don't Exist Anymore
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- These products are long gone. For this list, we’ll be looking at the most notable merchandise you can’t find on store shelves anymore. Our countdown of products that don't exist anymore includes Pagers, Netscape Navigator, Walkman, Pontiacs, VCR, and more! Which of these do you miss the most? Let us know in the comments below!
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Love your lists🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
@@danielsantiagourtado3430 how much is watchmojo paying you
the fact that you played one my favorite Ne-Yo songs made my day lol
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Rover cars
Keypad phones
Google+
Keek
Argos catalog
Bulky TVs
Let's not forget Robinson's juices before 'every fruit in every drop' took over
Fax machines, for better or for worse, are definitely still around in a lot of businesses
Hospitals use them all the time for records
Because the signed document has valid signature on the other side while email does not (it can have digital signature, but that is for no use if you need printed document). Until the laws change or all documents gets digital there is no way fax machine is going "out of business".
yes , I am a banker and use one very frequently
It's almost impossible to find a fax machine in Denmark.
Law offices still use fax machines.
Loved Kudos. And believe it or not I still have a VCR because I have some great stuff on VHS tapes.
pagers are still HEAVILY used in the medical field
I was looking for this comment
I know. They still use those in hospitals. That's what happens when you hit the doctor emergency option on the call button in the room.
Pagers 📟 work even in basements and sub-basements, thanks to RF extenders. Believe it or not, many if not all hospitals have some sort of RF Antenna(s) that acts as it's own network to support pagers.
These sort of lists really do make you feel old
No it doesn’t it makes me feel grateful that I got to live through some good times
@@WatchMojothe movie "pretty woman" was from 1990,NOT 1980
Well, being 50... I know I am old 😂
Pagers and fax machines are still used every single day in the medical field, in major hospitals in major cities, so i don't think they qualify as not existing anymore
Both only exist, pretty much in that field and nowhere else. The only other people who still use pagers, are drug dealers.
Damn with the rise in popularity of boba teas, I think Orbitz has a real shot at coming back.
I was thinking the same lol
there are also some coconut milk drinks with gelatinous chunks in it
Exactly...Orbitz was before its time
I was just about to type that.
Not gonna happen.
I miss Walkmans and Pagers, and start to feel my age when younger people don't know what they are! 😂
I used Internet Explorer a few times, but I was more familiar with what Netscape evolved into, and that’s Mozilla Firefox. As for the eponymous animal, I think it’s a red panda. Regardless, I like the way Mozilla Firefox rolls out.
I have a tape player, a CD player and a VCR
I miss my black Motorola pager (we call it Beeper in my country) and I wished I had a Walkman even though I was 9 or 10 when I saw a Walkman ad
Try having an eleven year old ask you what a collect call is.
Me too. And I'm not giving them up any time soon. 😊😅
As a 90’s Kid, I Loved watching VHS tapes on My VCR, Good Times!❤️📺🎶👍🏻
I will never forget being in class in college one day, and someone who i didnt really know yet leaned over and saw me on my laptop, and asked me if i knew Google had their own browser? "Its called Chrome, its a lot better than Internet Explorer.". God that feels like a lifetime ago.
Chrome and Opera still exist. I dont know anyone using Safari though.
Netscape and Microsoft Internet Explorer walked so that Google Chrome and Apple Safari could run.
I'm surprised your list did not include the laser disc, DVD's predecessor. They were the size of a vinyl album, and the disc players were about as moody, user- friendly, and reliable as an 8- track player with bi-polar disorder. Lord, do I feel old after watching this list. I remember every single item here.
BetaMax, too
because the they already did a video about them 2. it was called 20 inventions that flopped.
Ok. I'll have to watch that.@@treatwomenright33
I still have my vhs/ dvd player and I still collect VHS tapes
Pagers are still around and still have some important critical use cases. Most of their infrastructure has been consolidated into a few companies now. They have better range and penetration (buildings, remote locations) when compared to cell phones. Mobile networks are not as robust in an emergency compared to pagers and a traditional land line.
Medical personnel and people who work in certain classified environments still rely on them.
Still see pagers used in places like cruise ships that do international travel too.
They definitely shunk in use case, but still possess a vital role.
Well, they're good for hospitals and doctor's offices. But, nobody wants them at work any more.
@@matthewjahnke6956 restaurants and hotels use them extensively for smooth operation. Trust me, I worked at a hotel with a restaurant not too recently.
Example: we had pagers for most communications, even if the messenge was just "call" 📟 we also handed them to waiting people when the restaurant was full. "We'll beep you 15 min till your table is ready, sometimes it's earlier, please be avaliable"
Pagers do still exsist... they can play quite an essential part in some emergency response services
Here in Australia we still have payphones (phone booths) but they’re not actually “payphones” because they’re free to use I think they still serve a purpose what if you really need to call someone and your phone battery is dead if you know the person’s number you can call them using a payphone
Only free if ringing a landline
@@fourwingsweepa1705 it’s free regardless of the number. Telestra converted them to free as it was actually cheaper to run them for free than to collect the money from them.
@@fourwingsweepa1705 Wrong I’ve rung my dad’s mobile number using a payphone didn’t cost me a cent
Microsoft Word still has the floppy disk icon as the save button
🥲
The legacy of the floppy disk lives on.
Pagers in the 1950s!!!! WOW, that blew my mind!
Chicago had car phones in the 1950's and much larger Video tape recorders existed in 1950's but were used by TV broadcasting stations.
Internet Explorer failed dramatically in part because of it's lack of safety features. Firefox had so many more built in protections from pop ups, viruses in ads and scripts, it just became a no brainer to use Firefox or Chrome.
Another big mistake that Microsoft made with IE (or Internet Exploder) was not being compliant with web standards. This made developing websites a real headache for webmasters. You'd have pages with scripts that ran fine on every other browser but didn't in Exploder, so you'd have to either use browser detection to reload to an IE-friendlier version (which was extra work), post a message that the site runs best on X browsers (remember those days?), or just fugehtaboutit.
@@gj8683 Oh jeez, I hated that! My schooldistrict's site said "Only runs on IE." I called them and said "No way am I using IE and running the risk of viruses!"
I remember Microsoft Explorer when I had Microsoft as a kid. I used to be on that service all the time doing whatever. I wish they still kept it.
Explorer is now called Edge.
I miss VCR’s and I still remember my moms pager number by heart
When it comes to vcrs . I remember watching multiple Disney movies on them . I still see a lot of them in antique stores as well. I remember having to rewind them as well.
@@Reaperguy67did you have a cabinet full vhs tapes?
I loved VCRs. Ofc I didn’t know they would be extinct after a point in time. We had a bunch of vhs tapes but the first vhs tape I bought with my own money was Titanic
@@Reaperguy67yea. I remember my uncle rewinding his porno tapes when I was kid. Patrick Bateman style
@@matthew_natividad no I don't . I wish I did.
I kinda miss the VCR I was born in the late 90s so I remember using them for a while and there was just something about those Disney movies that were actually good and just a lot of the movies that are nostalgic for me were on VHS. Definitely not the most convenient experience but I liked it
Yeah disney movies on vhs are better for some reason. They have that nostalgia. They aren’t the same watching them on dvd. I remember rewinding them while playing them when I was a kid. Idk why, I thought it was so cool.
"Be kind, please rewind". 😊
@@alyzu4755There are two reasons the need for that well-known reminder no longer exists, the second being the dwindling number of physical video rental places. With video on-demand and mutiple other streaming services, almost any movie you want to see is at your fingertips, no need to drive to a video rental place and have to go back there a few days later to return it.
The smell of those plastic cases you got the Disney VHS in, or the ones that you bought to store your important home movie VHS tapes in will live forever ingrained in my olfactory memory.
Man, going to blockbuster every weekend, picking a VHS to watch with my dad and sister and taking turns rewinding them is such a core memory for me 😭
Floppy disks did not just go into usb drives, CDs came after the floppy disk in the 1990s, then came the USB drive in the 2000s.
They used the 3.5" floppy for the clip. Before the 3.5" there were 8" and 5.25" diskettes
You’re skipping zip dives. Those came after floppy. Then CDs.
I can never help commenting on these videos, I remember so many of these things. My Walkman was my lifeline as a teenager and I miss Kudos bars.
I wish I try Kudo bars it sound yummy
@@melissagrant4178they were so good!
Kudos were so good.. I miss them too!
We constantly use pagers in hospital because the signals are more stable in areas with heavy interference like MRIs and OR equipment. 👉👉
"Beat Up Martin"
.... EAT UP MARTHA....
lol... i laughed way harder at that than i should have!
Just another reason PDAs died.
Floppy discs originally were those 5 inch 💾 Floppy that really were,"floppy".they were replaced by the 3 & 1/4 inch solid plastic ones but the name stuck.
I remember seeing Tab once and wanted to try it. But a lot of times when I want to try something, it's only available in a bundle, and I normally don't want to buy 6 or 12 or something I might not like.
I grew up in the 70's and all of my friends' moms drank Tab. It was absolutely disgusting, lol!
You’re not missing anything tab was like flat Diet new Coke
As stated, you are absolutely NOT missing anything. I'm 48 and remember drinking it on occasion because my parents kept it in the house. Nasty stuff!
Tab was gross.
@@jengentry06 absolutely, I'm surprised it was on the market as long as it was.
I would love to see the return of the original Sony Walkman.
Agreed. I had one with a button to press to find radio stations. I would listen to it at night as I was getting sleepy.
I was today years old when I learned about Delia's catalog... then again, I've never been considered fashionable. and I was the class of 2001 so I survived the 90's as a kid/teen.
I've never heard of it either. Maybe it's because I'm a guy, it seems that all the models in Delia's Catalog are female.
I was an IT freshman student in 2003 and the 3 1/2 inch floppy disks were still around during that time. Then came USB memory keys/sticks.
I used to own a pager (we called them beepers) and I honestly thought that they were the dog's bollocks. 😀
That thing going off made you feel so important 😂
I used to love getting Delia's catalogs and I think there was a place called Alloy as well.
Netscape never died, it evolved in to FireFox
And how many people use Firefox today?
not many. most use google@@jeffb.6642
@@jeffb.6642 Oh, about 360 million users and still in active development. Sure, it's not the giant it once was but it's still loved by many (like me) who doesn't wanna use browsers from shady companies like Google or Microsoft. It's open source code is also used in many other software products like the Tor Browser.
I still do
@@jeffb.6642I do..
In the UK British Telecom has one street phone for every mile or two of populated areas, as an emergency situation back up. The nearest one to me is near a cemetery. 😁
There are also a few independent phone booths, but they are usually online phones, rather than landlines.
My hometown used to have quite a few BT street phones, now the last 2 street phones smell terrible as often some drunk pees in them at night and leaves open cans behind, ugh.
Yep in australia we have public phones every 500 mtres,near shops, then they dissappear,you have to hunt em down, but they are free to use nationwide and give 20 mins of free wifi. I think sms is 10 cents.
Fax machines are heavily used in medical settings at least in Australia.
PB Crisps were awesome. I was so sad when they were discontinued.
I wish I could have try them
I still have and LOVE my 99 Pontiac Firebird!
8:46 man it's so cool to watch really old movies and then new movies back and forth. Just to see how times have changed. Like watch a movie from 2020s, then from 2010s and then from 2000s and then even earlier ones like 90s or 80s and damn. We have progressed so much in such short time.
Netscape had the best logo of all the internets.
Loved PB Crisps. I preferred Netscape Navigator back in the day to Explorer since IE had more bugs in it that a bait store back then. Had three Walkmans, including one with digital readout. Had a discman as well, but it was never as good as the Walkman since you couldn't clip it to your waste. My mom loved Tab but when they changed the formula in the 80s with the "Tab's got sass" campaign, she stopped drinking it. I remember when our family got out first VCR. Bulky, metallic with a plug in remote that died pretty quickly. It cost a couple of hundred dollars, as the replacement we got. Then when I got my own VCR, the price of VCRs went down and became more affordable.
Netscape Navigator never went away either. It's source code was released and it eventually became Firefox and the lesser known Seamonkey suite. Seamonkey provides the classic Netscape Navigator experience and includes the mail client as well.
I still use an MP3 Player. I use the Sony AN series....love it. Yes, Smart phones can have music on them; however, I don't like having to stream music, as when internet goes down, so does your music. Plus, I like being able top listen to what i want, when I want. So MP3 Players are a must have for me.
I had (still do) an iPod Nano-got it for Christmas in ‘09.
I only recently retired it last summer when I (finally) got an iPhone and unlimited access to Apple Music.
First time hearing of Orbits but I wonder how it'd do today now that boba tea is pretty popular and it seems similar with the tapioca balls.
So nice to remember old times :) Born in 1985. Pagers were cute,really nice,floopy disks ,Netscape,Internet Explorer :) Of course VCR 😁 Beautiful cartoons,shows :D Great video😁
@@norbertofontanez5550 yes,we are older😂
Same year!
@@AnitaNewport cool😁
the "floppy" disks were originally called hard disks because the floppy disks were the old actual flexible floppy disks from the 80s. when the original floppy disks were phased out, the hard disks eventually started to be called floppy disks.
There were even bigger disks before the floppy disk.
That's not true. That was a popular misnomer because people didn't know what hard drives were. 3.5" floppies often said "floppy" or "flexible" right on them.
Remember the T-Mobile Sidekick? It was so cool to have back then.
The VCR is CZcams's great grandfather! Alot of CZcams content comes from videotapes that was converted to DVD then uploaded to CZcams. Funny thing is everyone's last DVD that was purchased most likely is scratched while their last tape still works in 2023
Pagers havent actually gone away. There are STILL companies that deal with them.
You still still see phone booths here and there here in the US.
True-but most of them don’t work anymore.
I've still got my Walkman and Discman and use them every now and again. I also still have my ipods. Though my latest ones battery doesn't hold very much anymore.
I kinda prefer having a separate thing for listening because listening on the mobile and doing other stuff on it pulls a lot of power. I've noticed with old phones that after a year or so that my battery drains so much and the added drain from everything doesn't help. I don't have the money to get a new phone whenever my current one starts to act up and usually only do get a new one when it is barely living 😅 I'm thankful that there are mobile plans but if your doing it tough, keeping up with a phone can be hard, especially because it's such an important tool for running your life unfortunately.
Australia still has payphones here and there. I have one two blocks down from my house. But years ago, they were made free to use because most people have mobiles and the ones that are still around are there for incase of emergencies, as I think emergency numbers are the only numbers that work on them now I think 🤔
I still have two iPod Nanos and the batteries even still work passably. I don't think I still have a Discman, but I might. I do still have a Walkman, a couple of cassette boom boxes, and TONS of cassette tapes. AND a couple of VCRs with a fair number of tapes. AND a Sega Master System, a Genesis, a TurboGrafx 16, a Colecovision with accessories, and Intellivision & Atari Flashbacks.
In the UK you can buy combi boxes from mail order companies that are a VCR/DVD/ computer disc/ digital television receiver boxes, likewise you can get record player/ cassette player/ radio/ CD player devices.
DVD replaces VHS, true and untrue. For PRERECORDED movies & TV shows, DVD became the new standard. However, for "time shifting" to watch your TV shows at a later time, VHS remained king. It was DVR-type units, usually from your Cable or Satellite TV service, that killed VCRs later on in the 2000s.
I’m surprised that VCRs aren’t made anymore, despite there’s demand for VHS converters! Even Walkmans need to make a comeback, since there’s a resurgence in analog formats like vinyl records and cassettes! Also Kodak still makes cameras, they’re licensed to Vivitar! And dedicated MP3 players are still made by small scale manufactures for audiophiles!
Well the good news is they may make a comeback. I mean, it worked for the record players with a cassette player on the side. So don't be surprised if they do make a comeback.
@@michigangirl5072 I want to see portable cassette players like the Walkman being reintroduced by Sony!
Beta max won
@@First-Last_name Betamax lost to VHS because Sony didn’t license the format to many manufacturers! VHS won because they had Panasonic, RCA, TDK, Toshiba, Samsung, Fujifilm, etc.
@@Markimark151 only in USA. Beta was the choice in Asia and other markets.
In countries like Japan VHS failed and betamax won😕
When I open a file my computer still recommends internet explorer as an option. I guess internet explorer hasn't been made aware it doesn't exist anymore 😅
Mp3 players are still right at Walmart, I literally just bought one. Many people don't wanna use their phone as an Mp3 player.
I Never even got a chance to try P.B. Crisps, I want Planters to bring Them back, I know I would Love Them!😭😋❤️👍🏻
Walkman cassette players are more popular now than they were back then.
You forgot to add Wisk Laundry Detergent to the list of products that don't exist anymore. It was the product known for their "Ring Around The Collar" commercials. But Wisk was discontinued in 2017.
Fab detergent. It was the only detergent that prevented me from getting a rash since I have sensitive skin. Hopefully, Lever 2000 never goes away!! 🥺
While hardly anyone uses the iPod anymore, its legacy lives on as podcast.
Thank you for the update, WatchMojo..!! Fax machine, yup..!! 🤣 Bought a bunch of fax paper rolls on discount back in 1991, and never got to use them. 🤣
Thank you for calling it a VCR and not a VHS player like everyone seems to do nowadays.
Vhs was a brand so it wouldn't of been wrong, I bet you call vacuum cleaners hoovers
@@rayskitten78VHS stands for Video Home System. It's not a brand. And a VHS tape is played by a VCR, which stands for Video Cassette Recorder. It's not called a VHS player. And my vacuum is a Shark, and I call it vacuum or sweeper.
@@herodaresfire4512VHS player is also correct, though.
Like The Offspring sung in "Walla Walla": "You started to run but didn't get far 'cause under your arm was a V-C-R!" 😁
"People didn't like to eat their drinks"
Bubble tea has entered the chat
Bubble tea has actually been around FAR longer than Orbitz-the former was invented in Taiwan in the 1970s.
@@pooky-changaming4089 i know but bubble tea didn't get popular until the mid 2000's here in the west and it was a jab to their statement
I remember the first type of diskman. The battery's would be used up in an hour and the disc would skip. They got alot better though.
#17 😆🤣 had to laugh out loud at that one
I work exclusively in Faxing and it's a multi-billion dollar market space.
Trust that it's not going anywhere and that "when not if" statement was pulled out of somebody's neck
The ironic twist with regards to Netscape is that the source code which was used to create it, was then used to create Mozilla Firefox and also SeaMonkey.
However saying that, I found hilarious that the number one product that doesn't exist anymore according to the video was Microsoft Internet Explorer. It did kill off Netscape Navigator and then ended up being a victim of it's own success when Microsoft Edge took over. Its like the old saying goes "he who laughs last, laughs best", I can only imagine that the people who created Netscape, must have been laughing there asses off when they discovered that their source code when on to create Firefox and SeaMonkey and Internet Explorer was hung up to dry. 😆
Them Microsoft copied the source code from Google Chrome and created Edge 😅
FIREFOX is the BEST explorer there is and ever will be! Especially with it's VPN services. Now, if I could just find out how to get on the Dark Web and I'd be set!
@huntsman1999 that is quite interesting because I wonder if Microsoft had permission to copy that source code. Because if they didn't, they could've got sued for copyright infringements.
@@davidhabertEdge isn’t a copy of Chrome. It’s a copy of Chromium, the open source “base” that Chrome is made from. Edge and Chrome aren’t the only Chromium-based browsers either.
You got to admit fax machine was ahead of its time
Just the fax ma’am just the fax.
I miss just act of renting physical VHS movies back in the day. It was a great time just going to the local videostore and looking for that new release to rent...
9:56 The walkman was so popular it was referenced in Fern Gully the movie.
Soon: 3D TV’s, MS Windows, Intel, Android Tablets, Gas Stoves, Gas Cars, Smart Watches.
Android tablets are making a comeback! Check out the new OnePlus Pad and Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra.
3D TV already doesn’t exist anymore. No channels no new media no new displays or players. Windows isn’t going anywhere soon. Though it may change design or names the operating system isn’t going to die. Intel will buy AMD. Android Tablets seriously shouldn’t exist. Gas stoves eventually go away when we transition to renewable fuels. Same with gas cars. Smart watches will become more smart clothing accessories like necklaces rings and clothing.
@@DavidLimReportthat’s what I was thinking
I love this video so much. I'm 25 years old so I remember using MP3 players in middle school, and VCRs as a child. But I never understood what made things like floppy disks and fax machines so memorable to older folks. It kinda makes me appreciate more the advanced technology we have today, and why it's so nostalgic for others. Can't wait to join the older crowd reminiscing to my kids and younger people how things were "back in my day" 😂❤
I still have a VCR, to watch all my VHS
I still use MP3 players. They're smaller than a phone and the ones I have store a lot more music than a decently-priced phone does. The small size works a lot better for me when I'm biking, hiking or running. But then again, I'm kinda odd- I prefer to use the Internet on my computer with dual 27-inch monitors instead of squinting at a phone screen. I really only use the phone for texting and making calls.
These rapid fire uploads of failed companies is such an addictive nostalgia ride! #90sbaby
Small thing, you labeled the movie “Pretty Woman” as year 1980 instead of 1990.
I would have put food and non-food on separate lists
I remember some one telling me "5G will never happen it's physically impossible"
other shout outs
Phone books
geo Cities
Giga pets
Rolladex
Card Catalog
Sears Catalog
CB Radio
Massive Satellite Dish
Rabit Ears
CD/DVD burner
Beta Max
Laizer Disk
'CED Player
Air Jordans
Roller Skates
Arcade Cabinet
MIDI files
DOS Games
Turtle Graphics
Xerox
Slap Bracelets
POGs
TV show and Movie trading Cardes
Pull String talking dolls
records
Joysticks
D batteries
Telegraph
Mutoscope and zoetrope
News Papers
Princess Phone
Party Line
Moon Shoes
Honorable mention for Jello 1-2-3
I still have two unopened 12-packs of Tab and a few contemporaneously purchased loose cans. Last one I drank was about six months ago, still hadn't gone flat.
You gotta have a lot of tolerance to choke down something that nasty.
I do too. I have to drink them before they go bad but it will make me sad. Been drinking it since the 70's.
I remember Tab...it tasted terrible
I'd say I miss my Disc Man, but I still have it and it still works perfect! As long as you don't walk, or jog, or run, or look at it the wrong way while using it!
We do have a drink like Orbits, called Boba. Even larger pearls than Orbits!!! People are strange!
"Anti-skip" technology my butt. Didn't work at all
I still miss pagers and was just talking about them yesterday. Kudos were fucking delicious.
Several years ago I was working for a company that pressed tires onto forklifts. We had Cocoa-Cola in New Hampshire as a client. I did a job there and came across a pallet of Tab soda ready to ship. It was bananas. Because, up until that point, I had completely forgotten that it was even a product.
It is hard to compete with Apple's unfair dominance in the market, so when another company comes out with a competing product they fail
Not samsung :)
I remember when Congress held the meeting and had no clue what they were doing with Windows 95. They didn't understand that Internet Explorer was included but you could easily install any other browser.
I often had to use several browsers because of the type of coding that each site had. Not 1 browser could handle all the sites.
It was a lot of work to have all the plug-ins needed
I still own a fax machine. And they still sell inkjet multifunction machines that print fax and copy.
I bought a laser multifunction machine. It was a lot more than the 30 dollar inkjet multifunction machines
Pagers are still around.
The 900 MHz versions are still in use almost everywhere.
Hospitals use them a lot and some hospitals even have their own 900 MHz paging frequency.
There used to be a lot of 150 to 160 MHz voice pagers. I used to own them back in the 80s and 90s
I don't know if any are still in use.
Airpage , the beeper people, had a huge client base for voice pagers back in the 90s in New England
Many companies still use voice pagers on their own frequency.
And almost every fire department in America has a VHF or UHF pager frequency for EMS and fire departments.
I used to be in the fire department and I listen to the calls in my district with my own Motorola pager and base amplifier that I purchased and programmed about 20 years ago.
I am going to see 8f VHF commercial voice pager companies still exist.
I know you can get a digital 900 MHz pager but it would be amazing if they still have voice pagers you can buy and have a commercial service for.
The ones I had you could pay for a private phone number, a whole exchange was dedicated to the company and they sold individual numbers, so someone could call the number assigned to you and get your personal message and it would record and broadcast the message to you 3 times.
The pager was very loud. The beep could be heard anywhere in the house.
The less expensive service had the main number of the pager company and it would prompt you for the 6 digit ID of the person you were trying to page and then record your message and page the person with your message.
They actually had 2 different frequencies, one for the less personal accounts and one for the people who bought the private numbers.
They didn't keep track of the number of calls you received.
Back then it was a business tool.
Cell phones back then were a business tool as well.
Typically the bill was 400 dollars a month at a time minimum wage was 3 dollars
In today's standard the bill was about 1000 dollars a month for cell service that you used a couple times a day.
And you couldn't roam the way you do now. Many companies were small local cell companies with 1 tower.
I remember before cell phones we had low band 30 MHz 2way radios that we could active the phone link by pressing the star key on the DTMF pad and we got a dial tone and pressed the number on the dtmf pad including the 1.
Everyone else on the frequency heard the conversation, at least the base part of the conversation.
We pressed the pound key to end the call and disconnect the phone link.
That was in the 70s.
It was the predecessor to the initial cell phone companies that were actually base stations that transmitted a single UHF frequency.
The original Motorola cell phones were actually two way radios and there were three modules the receiver the transmitter and the control unit.
We had to separate antennas on the trunk one for the receiver and one for the transmitter
The original cell phone units were 12 w transmitted and the towers were usually 100 w
You could easily talk from fifteen or twenty miles away from the tower that was up on the mountain
When they started actually creating cell sites they reduce the power of the hand-held cellphones to 4 watts but the towers are still 100 watts to this day.
Theoretically the towers should only need to be 10 W but the company's all transmit 100 watt power for each frequency
It's a lot of radiation
I used to live on the top floor with 24 antenna towers above me and each of those antennas had 10 frequencies in use
My RF field strength meter would peg off the scale every time I turned it on in my apartment
I'm glad I don't live there now
Tell that to the PC, which is still around and thriving.
@@DFX4509B Yes, there are still several PC manufacturers around. I was more talking about phone manufacturers.
How could Apple's dominance be "unfair?" They have a superior product and the support of its consumers. Its what every business strives to achieve.
Please take me back to ANY time before Facebook and social media. I remember when the internet was only used for work and actual research and illegal music. AIM and MySpace changed the game. Also pornhub. After that, the world his been more and more terrible this new generation that grew up on social media are a bunch of school shooters and ignorant crackheads and everything good and fun and delicious about the 90s and early 2000s is EXTINCT
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I miss restaurants: Ponderosa, Bonanza, BeefSteak Charlies.
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I have never heard it being called "appointment television" with VCRs, and I'm an older Gen X'er who grew up with them.
I loved PB crisps! Wish they’d bring it back
Amazing facts!
I remember Kudos they were yummy! I also remember Colombia House and those cd’s for a penny😂
There are still plenty of medical professionals that use pagers as they get a signal in elevators, basements, parking decks, etc
Pontiac is the one that hurt me the most, I love my Pontiacs wasn’t a model of the brand you couldn’t get a high performance version of other than the vibe and Aztec, all of the had a GTP or GT trim that came with either a V8 or turbocharged or supercharged V6
You wouldn't be allowed to use that name today, ostensibly, because it would offend indigenous people. IMNSHO, it's because the powers that be want to erase indigenous people's from the public consciousness.
I used to have a 1976 Grand "Pree" (Prix).
Beautiful gold with white trim.
I still have several VHS movies that were never released on DVD or blu-ray, so I have several VCRs
@8:24 😂 my mother had that exact answering machine when I was growing up 😂😂
Think I was a freshman or sophomore in high school and my class was having a dance. I was tasked with bringing “drinks”, I wanted to bring the strangest soda. I brought a 2 liter bottle of Tab and Moxie. The bottle of Tab was gone within 10 mins of the dance starting. 😂
Discontinuing butterfinger bbs was a crime against humanity tbh
My local library has a public phone, and I just saw a phone booth a couple of days ago. It was a sight to see!
It's a shame you guys didn't use Guardians of the Galaxy footage for the Walkman and Zune.
I wish that 8-tracks had made a comeback with vinyl.
I had that lovely Tab glass. Hated the soda through.💖
I really liked listening to. My walkman at night. Scanning through the radio stations as i got sleepy.
I still have, and actively use, my iPod Nano.❤❤
"Gimme a Tab." "I can't give you the tab unless you order something," "Then gimmee a Pepsi Free." "Kid ,if you want a Pepsi, you gotta pay for it."
What did tell you? 88 miles per hour!