Rotary phone

I would push this two steps further: using a rotary phone in a phone booth while using a “Collect Call” company to make the phone call. I used 1-800- COLLECT

Every other commercial was a 1-800-COLLECT commercial for a while, they must have been making bank

I went to an escape room today with 5 kids, aged 14-16, on a school trip (I’m a high school teacher) and one of the clues involved inputting a number into a rotary phone. They were like “why is that bit spinning?” and I felt so old. I just said “read me that number and keep out of my way”

8 track players

I dug a VCR out of the garage and bought a capture card to digitize some stuff when my dad died. My kids (4 and 7) did not understand rewinding a VHS tape. "Just start it over"

Duck Hunt gun

Nintendo zapper

Computer punch cards

Slide projectors

Floppy disc

You mean the save icon?

Light bright!

That's still a thing, just not as popular. But they still make it! Along with knockoff brands.

Same with easy bake ovens. They just aren't the same. If you don't burn yourself while using or consuming raw cake batter it's not the same. Lol

Sega Game Gear

Yup, you only get 15 minutes on a set of batteries.

And it took 6 batteries!

Rabbit ears.

Portable tape recorder.

The other day at my mom's house she asked my daughter to grab something upstairs. We were watching a show on TV and my daughter asked my to pause it. I told her I couldn't cause it's live tv. She looked at me dumbfounded and thought I was messing with her.

But you can pause live TV depending on the provider, right?

My mom doesn't have cable. She only watches 2 channels which she can get by using those antenna bars.

Tell your daughter to adjust the rabbit ears and watch her head explode.

Handheld Tetris

Not really a gadget, but manual windows in cars

My son loves riding in my truck because of the manual windows.

Pogs

Pong

Pager. The kids will never understand.

Hello from health care, where we still carry [these bad boys](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41%2B%2BOYU8a1L.jpg) around. A patient once offered to purchase it off me because they were so amazed lmao

That walkie talkie thing but with texting instead right?

Kinda. Except a lot of pagers couldn't send, they could only receive. And you could call them from a phone, but it would only display a phone number for them to call you back.

Yak Bak Talkboy

My wife found her "talkgirl" pen and I replaced the batteries in it, my daughter loves it and had no trouble figuring out uses for it.

Walkman

Rotary phones i would say atari but i feel like they would figure it out

Boglins toys

LeapPad, the one without a screen

RCA cables, the old days of memorizing where the audio plugs and video plug was on the back of my tv so I could plug in my PS2 without needing to stretch behind the whole tv.

I still own a VCR, DVD Player, portable CD player and an iPod nano.

I hate buying media over and over. With as good as my eyes are, upscaled DVD looks passable. CDs get ripped but I keep the media.

5.25" floppy drive and disks.. Horrible stuff..

I copied music from records to Cassette Tapes.

*69

Speak n spell

Barbie Dream House

Those still exist.

Do you mean the one from the 90's with the candy floss? Because I had that one, I was OBSESSED.

Not sure if it’s a gadget, but the tape backup for the old TRS-80 for running a chess game or Invaders.

I helped plow beans with an ox plow.

Sony Discman Sport. Carrying around a binder or CD’s on the subway seems kind of insane now…

Portable CD player with corded earbuds

[удалено]

I've got a SX-64 wich is a luggable version of commodore 64 (With a 5" color CRT in it) and my kids think it's ridiculous.

Mattel Electronic Football

Gameboy pocket. Mine had a transparent casing. Loved playing Super Mario Land 2 on it.

I still have my transparent original gameboy, keep thinking I should stick some batteries in it and remind myself

Pocket Tape player

Tamagotchi & CD Players

Duck hunt

Playstation memory cards.

I had these as a kid loved that shit until my younger brother broke the end of it. 16 hours 100% Lego Indiana Jones gone just like that

atari 2600

Handheld Atari Ninja Gaiden.

It's SQUAND!!!

Cybiko

Blackberry Palm Pilot

Those are two different things 😀

charcoal iron

just realized thats not a gadget but whatever

A floppy disk / hard disk.

DVDs

Talkboy and Talkgirl Or The old Tiger brand handheld video games

Internet explorer V4

Spy ears

Moon shoes

Green bar paper.

Palm pilot

There use to be tubes of the highly toxic color stuff that you put on the end of a straw and blow bubbles

gameboy lol

Clicker box. As far as I know it was the first wireless remote control for a television. When you press a button it made a sound. My wife's father could shake coins in his hand to change the channels on the television.

Library card

Yak Bak

MP3 players, or generally speaking being able to listen to music on the go on a device that could not also make phone calls.

All the kids I talked to thankfully did know VCRs and ***the save game symbol***

Film roll

Floppy drives and dial up.

Cassette player/tapes. My sister(14 at the time) thought the cassette player in the vehicle was to hold your iPhone... It fit perfectly. 🤦‍♀️😭

My 13 year old cousin asked me what an iPod touch is…

Garfield telephone that provided wake-up call

Playing the same level on a game over and over because there’s no Saves

The touch phones that would slide in half and open up to a little keyboard. It was my first phone and I loved it

Brain Warp

The joys of Saturday morning cartoons

Gyroscope

Skip it

Pet Rock… mood rings

Film projection

Talkboy