25 Interesting Facts about Outdated Technologies

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🍿 WATCH OUR OTHER VIDEOS: ►25 Ancient Artifacts That Prove The Past Was More Advanced: https://youtu.be/S2N424XYr0A ►25 Strangest Places In The World You Won't Believe Exist: https://youtu.be/vOAAf1yaAxc Did you know the US Air Force managed our nuclear missile launch instructions on floppy disks until 2019? Yeah, I'm not even kidding.Pagers were still happening in Japan until 2019 too. And then there’s the fact that one of the most iconic devices of the 80s only came to be because of one executive’s love for opera. If you’re here, it means you’re a nut for knowledge, and I’m here to deliver. From the millions of people still using dial-up to the forgotten foundations of today’s monitors, you’re in for a treat. Here are 25 Interesting Facts About Outdated Technologies. Grab your copy of What The Facts now, available on Amazon! Click the link to explore over 500 fun and fascinating facts! 👉👉https://www.amazon.com/WHAT-FACTS-ARE-TALKING-ABOUT-ebook/dp/B0DFNR2KHT/ Please support my channel and get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqJpFqlX59OML324QIByZA/join 🔔 Subscribe for more tips just like this: https://bit.ly/3Ewz99H 🚀 Watch our latest List25 Videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/list25/videos 📨 Have a list idea? Submit it here: https://bit.ly/3Mu3gk1 Author: Hestie Barnard Music: Circuit Rush - The Mini Vandals Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 0:39 - The 1970s File Format That Just Wouldn't Die 1:40 - No, You Shouldn't Shake It Like A Polaroid Picture 2:35 - The Walkman Was Born at 30,000 Feet 3:30 - The Answering Machine Is Much Older Than You Think 4:16 - Fax Machines Are Older Than Telephones 5:09 - The Beeper Era Didn't End When You Think It Did 6:01 - Kodak Invented Digital Photography… Then Hid It 6:57 - Your Favorite Mixtape Format Was Also a Data Tool 7:42 - Overhead Projectors Weren't Made for Teachers 8:28 - Your Old TV Might Have Been Slightly Radioactive 9:26 - Ever Heard of Degaussing? 10:39 - Millions of People Were Still Using Dial‑Up in 2015 11:41 - They Were Still Making VCRs in 2016 12:28 - Record Albums Got Their Name from Photo Books 13:11 - Alexander Graham Bell Wanted You to Say "Ahoy" When You Pick Up the Phone 13:56 - PDAs Came About Thanks to a Block of Wood 15:10 - The First Mobile Phones Weighed 80 Pounds 16:02 - VHS Might Have Won, But Betamax Refused to Leave 16:55 - LaserDisc Gave Us DVD Extras Before DVDs Existed 17:40 - Math… on a Stick 18:31 - The First Keyboards Were Missing Some Pretty Basic Keys 19:10 - One Tray to Hold Them All 19:50 - The Man Behind the Learjet Invented 8-Tracks Too 20:37 - They Tried to Ban Boomboxes in Public Spaces 21:24 - Mapmakers Took Their Work Personally Follow us on Social Media: List25 Discord: https://discord.gg/ZcKZRspW7f Facebook: http://facebook.com/list25 Instagram: http://instagram.com/list25 Twitter/X: http://twitter.com/list25 Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/list25 Mike Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelbestrin Cameo: https://www.cameo.com/michaelbestrin Mike's Other Channel: https://www.youtube.com/dizmelife See more lists on our website: http://list25.com Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research