Switched has a new home! Huffpost Tech.

Click here to visit the new home of Switched!

Hot on HuffPost Tech:

See More Stories
AOL Tech

Technologies Your Kids May Never Know

by Evan Shamoon on July 24, 2009 at 10:34 AM


In today's dizzying world of technological growth, a lot of hardware falls by the wayside, left to reside forever in as relics in dusty attics and landfills. To illustrate this fact, the folks at Wired have put together a list of technological ephemera that our children may never know about (and some non-techie stuff as well).

Highlights range from "inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something" (we wonder if kids being born today will even know what handling a CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc is like), to the scream of a modem connecting (which isn't particularly upsetting, even if it does fill us with a bit of nostalgia).

Some of the inclusions are definitely debatable, such as whether vinyl records will ever disappear completely remains to be seen. Ditto on "getting lost" -- some of us have an innate skill for it, and we don't imagine that going away, even with all the GPS devices in the world to help prevent it. [From: Wired]

Tags: history, nostalgia, top, vhs

HuffPost AOL Social News Most Popular