There are some things in this world that will never be forgotten, this week's 40th anniversary of the moon landingMoore's Law and our ever-increasing quest for simpler, smaller, faster and better widgets and thingamabobs will always ensure that some of the technology we grew up with will not be passed down the line to the next generation of geeks. for one. But

    That is, of course, unless we tell them all about the good old days of modems and typewriters, slide rules and encyclopedias …

    Audio-Visual Entertainment

    Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something.

    Super-8 movies and cine film of all kinds.

    Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo. See what happens when you give a Walkman to today's teenager.

    The number of TV channels being a single digit. I remember it being a massive event when Britain got its fourth channel.

    Standard-definition, CRT TVs filling up half your living room.

    Rotary dial televisions with no remote control. You know, the ones where the kids were the remote control.

    High-speed dubbing.

    8-track cartridges.

    Vinyl records. Even today's DJs are going laptop or CD.

    Betamax tapes.

    MiniDisc.

    Laserdisc: the LP of DVD.

    Scanning the radio dial and hearing static between stations. （Digital tuners + HD radio b0rk this concept.）

    Shortwave radio.

    3-D movies meaning red-and-green glasses.

    Watching TV when the networks say you should. Tivo and Sky+ are slowing killing this one.

    That there was a time before 'reality TV.'

    Photo credit: smin via flickr

    Computers and Videogaming

    Wires. OK, so they're not gone yet, but it won't be long

    The scream of a modem connecting.

    The buzz of a dot-matrix printer

    5- and 3-inch floppies, Zip Discs and countless other forms of data storage.

    Using jumpers to set IRQs.

    DOS.

    Terminals accessing the mainframe.

    Screens being just green （or orange） on black.

    Tweaking the volume setting on your tape deck to get a computer game to load, and waiting ages for it to actually do it.

    Daisy chaining your SCSI devices and making sure they've all got a different ID.

    Counting in kilobytes.

    Wondering if you can afford to buy a RAM upgrade.

    Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it'll load this time.

    Turning a PlayStation on its end to try and get a game to load.

    Joysticks.

    Having to delete something to make room on your hard drive.

    Booting your computer off of a floppy disk.

    Recording a song in a studio.

    Photo credit: ghbrett via flickr

    The Internet

    NCSA Mosaic.

    Finding out information from an encyclopedia.

    Using a road atlas to get from A to B.

    Doing bank business only when the bank is open.

    Shopping only during the day, Monday to Saturday.

    Phone books and Yellow Pages.

    Newspapers and magazines made from dead trees.

    Actually being able to get a domain name consisting of real words.

    Filling out an order form by hand, putting it in an envelope and posting it.

    Not knowing exactly what all of your friends are doing and thinking at every moment.

    Carrying on a correspondence with real letters, especially the handwritten kind.

    Archie searches.

    Gopher searches.

    Concatenating and UUDecoding binaries from Usenet.

    Privacy.

    The fact that words generally don't have num8er5 in them.

    Correct spelling of phrases, rather than TLAs.

    Waiting several minutes （or even hours!） to download something.

    The time before botnets/security vulnerabilities due to always-on and always-connected PCs

    The time before PC networks.

    When Spam was just a meat product - or even a Monty Python sketch.

    Photo credit: Chris Devers via flickr

    Gadgets

    Typewriters.

    Putting film in your camera: 35mm may have some life still, but what about APS or disk?

    Sending that film away to be processed.

    Having physical prints of photographs come back to you.

    CB radios.

    Getting lost. With GPS coming to more and more phones, your location is only a click away.

    Rotary-dial telephones.

    Answering machines.

    Using a stick to point at information on a wallchart

    Pay phones.

    Phones with actual bells in them.

    Fax machines.

    Vacuum cleaners with bags in them.

    Photo credit: ansik via flickr

    Everything Else

    Taking turns picking a radio station, or selecting a tape, for everyone to listen to during a long drive.

    Remembering someone's phone number.

    Not knowing who was calling you on the phone.

    Actually going down to a Blockbuster store to rent a movie.

    Toys actually being suitable for the under-3s.

    LEGO just being square blocks of various sizes, with the odd wheel, window or door.

    Waiting for the television-network premiere to watch a movie after its run at the theater.

    Relying on the 5-minute sport segment on the nightly news for baseball highlights.

    Neat handwriting.

    The days before the nanny state.

    Starbuck being a man.

    Han shoots first.

    "Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father." But they've already seen episode III, so it's no big surprise.

    Kentucky Fried Chicken, as opposed to KFC.

    Trig tables and log tables.

    "Don't know what a slide rule is for …"

    Finding books in a card catalog at the library.

    Swimming pools with diving boards.

    Hershey bars in silver wrappers.

    Sliding the paper outer wrapper off a Kit-Kat, placing it on the palm of your hand and clapping to make it bang loudly. Then sliding your finger down the silver foil to break off the first finger

    A Marathon bar （what a Snickers used to be called in Britain）.

    Having to manually unlock a car door.

    Writing a check.

    Looking out the window during a long drive.

    Roller skates, as opposed to blades.

    Cash.

    Libraries as a place to get books rather than a place to use the internet.

    Spending your entire allowance at the arcade in the mall.

    Omni Magazine

    A physical dictionary - either for spelling or definitions.

    When a 'geek' and a 'nerd' were one and the same.

    My thanks go out to all of my fellow GeekDads for their contributions to this list.

    在這個世界上，有些事情是永遠不會被忘記的。但是，這周的登月40周年紀念，摩爾定律以及我們對于更簡單，更小型，更快更好零件等東西的需求將始終確保有些伴隨我們成長的技術將永遠不會傳給下一代的。

    當然，除非我們告訴他們這些已成為美好時光的歷史，告訴他們所有關于調制解調器和打字機，計算尺和百科全書…

    視聽娛樂

    1、將錄像帶插入家用錄像機中看電影或者錄制東西

    2、超8電影和各種電影膠片

    3、在隨身聽上用錄音磁帶放歌。看看當你給今天的青少年一個隨身聽會發生什么。

    4、電視只有一個頻道。我記得當時英國開通第4個頻道時引起了巨大的轟動。

    5、標準清晰度，CRT電視占據了客廳的大半空間。

    6、沒有遙控器的旋轉撥號電視機。你知道的，就是那些用孩子們來當遙控器的電視機。

    7、高速配音

    8、8軌錄音帶

    9、黑膠唱片。甚至今天的DJ們都是用的筆記本電腦和CD.

    10、Beta制大尺寸磁帶

    11、微型碟片

    12、激光碟片：DVD的密紋唱

    13、用收音機鍵盤搜索頻道，聽到頻道之間的靜電聲。（數字調諧器+高清收音機就是基于這一概念）

    14、短波收音機

    15、3D電影和紅綠眼鏡

    16、只有當信號允許時才能收看電視。Tivo和Sky公司正在解決這個問題。

    17、真實電視的產生經歷了很長一段時間。

    計算機和視頻游戲

    18、線，雖然現在還有，但不久將會消失。

    19、調制解調器連接的尖叫聲。

    20、點陣式打印機的吱吱聲。

    21、5和3英寸軟盤，壓縮磁盤盒無數其他數據儲存形式。

    22、使用跳線裝置來設置IRQ

    23、DOS操作系統

    24、終端訪問主機

    25、黑屏上只有綠色或者橙色通道。

    26、通過調整磁帶界面上的音量設置來加載游戲，等待暴長的時間。

    27、串聯SCSI裝置保證都得到不同的ID

    28、以千字節計數

    29、買一個升級內存前得考慮是否買得起

    30、吹掉紅白機卡帶上的灰塵，希望其能夠正常加載。

    31、在機器上弄上一個游戲站，希望能夠加載游戲。

    32、操縱手柄

    33、刪掉硬盤上的東西騰出空間來

    34、從軟盤上啟動你的計算機

    35、在錄音室里錄歌

    互聯網

    36、NCSA瀏覽器

    37、從百科全書中查找資料

    38、使用道路地圖集從A到B

    39、只有當銀行開門時才能辦理業務

    40、只有在星期一到星期六才能購物

    41、電話簿和黃頁本

    42、用枯萎的樹制作的報紙和雜志

    43、得到用實字組成的域名

    44、用手填訂單，裝信封，寄出。

    45、不能每時每刻都了解你的朋友們在做什么和想什么

    46、使用信件來通信，尤其是用手寫的那種。

    47、阿爾奇搜索

    48、Gopher搜索

    49、從USENET上串聯和解碼

    50、隱私

    51、單詞都沒有數字在其中

    52、糾正詞語的拼寫，而不是TLA

    53、下載東西需要等待數分鐘（或小時）

    54、長時間開機和聯機將造成僵尸網絡/安全漏洞

    55、電腦網絡產生之前

    56、當垃圾郵件只是肉類產品--甚至是巨蟒描述。

    小器具

    57、打字機

    58、往相機里裝膠卷：35MM的膠卷還在使用，那APS或者磁盤呢？

    59、將膠卷送去沖洗

    60、然后將紙質照片送還給你

    61、炭黑收音機

    62、迷路。隨著越來越多的電話擁有了GPS功能，確定你的位置僅僅是按幾下鍵盤的事情。

    63、轉盤撥號電話

    64、答錄機

    65、使用棍子在信息圖上解說

    66、付費電話

    67、在背后有鈴鐺的電話

    68、傳真機

    69、內有袋子的真空吸塵器

    其他的東西

    70、依次搜索電臺，或者在長途中為了讓大家有聽的東西而去挑選磁帶

    71、記某人的電話號碼

    72、不知道誰在打你的電話

    73、需要去到Blockbuster商店租電影

    74、只適合3歲兒童玩耍的玩具

    75、LEGO僅僅是平方米大小的區塊，有陳舊的車輛，窗戶或者門

    76、需要等到電影院首映之后才能在電視上看到電影

    77、需要靠晚間新聞5分鐘的體育版塊來了解棒球

    78、整齊的書寫

    79、保姆國家之前的日子

    80、星巴克是個男的

    81、HAN是第一個開槍的

    82、"歐比旺從來沒有告訴你的父親怎么了。"但是他們已經看到第三季了，所以沒什么大驚小怪的。

    83、肯塔基州炸雞塊，而不是KFC.

    84、觸發器表盒記錄表

    85、不知道計量尺是干什么用的

    86、通過圖書館的卡片找書

    87、有跳水板的游泳池

    88、銀裝素裹的赫爾錫酒吧

    89、將KIT-KAT的包裝撕掉，然后將包裝紙放到手里，擊掌，發出嘭的一聲。然后沿著銀箔紙滑下，抽掉第一個手指。

    90、馬拉松酒吧（在英國是用來嘲笑別人）

    91、需要手動來開車門鎖

    92、寫支票

    93、在開長途車是凝視窗外

    94、溜冰鞋而不是刀片

    95、現金

    96、圖書館是借書而不是使用互聯網的地方

    97、在商場里花掉你所有的津貼

    98、Omni雜志

    99、紙質字典---關于拼寫和定義

    100、GEEK 和 NERD 是同樣的意思