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# Throwback Thursday: Obsolete Technologies That Will Baffle Today’s Kids
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/throwback-thursday-obsolete-technologies-that-will-baffle-todays-kids/
- Published: 2015-03-26T11:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-03-26T11:00:00.000Z
- Description: Time is a changin' and so is the technology. Join us for a little stroll down memory lane and pay tribute to some of the finest technology no one born. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2015/03/throwback-thursday-obsolete-technologies-that-will-baffle-todays-kids.html]
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- Tags: Music Business, Music Tech, Ajay Rochester, American Society of Composers, Anfield, Artist, Australia, Authors and Publishers, Belgravia, Brooklyn, Business development, China, The Daily Telegraph, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:28

[![Floppy-disc](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb080f573d970d-150wi "Floppy-disc")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb080f573d970d-popup?ref=hypebot.com)**Time is a changin' and so is the technology**. Join us for a little stroll down memory lane and pay tribute to some of the finest technology no one born after 1990 will even recognize.

*Guest Post by *[Alan Cross](http://alancross.ca/?ref=hypebot.com "Alan Cross")* on [A Journal Of Music Things](http://ajournalofmusicalthings.com/obsolete-technologies-that-will-baffle-todays-kids/?ref=hypebot.com)*

Back in my day, kids, we used to have one of these if we wanted to listen to our music on the go.

[![Sony Walkman](http://ajournalofmusicalthings.com/wp-content/uploads/Sony-Walkman.jpg)](http://i2.wp.com/ajournalofmusicalthings.com/wp-content/uploads/Sony-Walkman.jpg?ref=hypebot.com)

We needed one of them because our phones looked like this.

[![Rotary phone](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/ajournalofmusicalthings-com/wp-content/uploads/rotary-phone.jpg)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/i2-wp-com/ajournalofmusicalthings-com/wp-content/uploads/rotary-phone.jpg?ref=hypebot.com)

And no, our phones didn’t have one of these built in, either.

[![Camera](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/ajournalofmusicalthings-com/wp-content/uploads/camera.jpg)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/i2-wp-com/ajournalofmusicalthings-com/wp-content/uploads/camera.jpg?ref=hypebot.com)

After a while, though, our music did go digital when we started using one of these.

[![IBM PC](http://ajournalofmusicalthings.com/wp-content/uploads/IBM-PC.jpg)](http://i2.wp.com/ajournalofmusicalthings.com/wp-content/uploads/IBM-PC.jpg?ref=hypebot.com)

But we had to transfer our music from device to device with one of these babies.

[![Floppy disc](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/ajournalofmusicalthings-com/wp-content/uploads/floppy-disc.jpg)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/i2-wp-com/ajournalofmusicalthings-com/wp-content/uploads/floppy-disc.jpg?ref=hypebot.com)

And don’t get me started on…

[![Game Boy](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/ajournalofmusicalthings-com/wp-content/uploads/game-boy.jpg)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/i2-wp-com/ajournalofmusicalthings-com/wp-content/uploads/game-boy.jpg?ref=hypebot.com)

…or these.

[![VHS tapes](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/ajournalofmusicalthings-com/wp-content/uploads/vhs-tapes.jpg)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/i0-wp-com/ajournalofmusicalthings-com/wp-content/uploads/vhs-tapes.jpg?ref=hypebot.com)

If you need to feel any older, head over to the Daily Telegraph for more from [this gallery](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/picture-galleries/11289860/Obsolete-technologies-that-will-baffle-modern-children-in-pictures.html?ref=hypebot.com).

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