this time to liven up my tail i brought
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slide show bob
nobody do it welcome to watch mojo and
today we're counting down our picks for
the top 10 tech that doesn't exist
anymore this one looks pretty good oh
you don't want to buy that vcr i don't
no actually to be totally honest with
you you don't want to buy any vcr it's a
dead technology for this list we'll be
looking at forms of technology and
inventions that have essentially
vanished from modern day use likely
having been replaced by something better
despite the electronic connotation that
won't be a prerequisite for inclusion do
you have any of these lying around let
us know in the comments
number 10
hd dvd betamax laserdisc what's betamax
exactly long before the days of spotify
netflix and countless other digital
platforms physical media were all the
rage and for each format that the masses
chose to buy others fell to the wayside
one of the more recent battles in the
format war was hd dvd versus blu-ray
both were said to be high-definition
versions of dvd but only one of them
came out on top
now i also was certain that hd dvd would
win out over blu-ray
how old were you then old enough to know
better
it's a familiar story that also played
out in the 1980s when vhs beat out
betamax as the choice for home video
even laserdisc was supposed to be the
next big thing and fizzled quickly
hey so just to warn you uh my dad only
has a laserdisc player and a movie
called fletch lives oh i've seen it like
so many times are you serious no i don't
know what that is
with digital downloads having replaced
physical media these old relics are now
nothing more than a part of history
number nine tabulating machine uh now
let's tabulate the results of the
experiment if we didn't have computers
how would we tally up large sums of data
you'd probably have to do it by hand
ah that's one one bat
two two bats
three
three fabulous flyers
yet in the 1880s herman hollerith found
a way to use punch cards and a machine
to tabulate large amounts of information
much the same way a train conductor
would punch a ticket his machine would
read the punched holes in cardstock and
use it to keep tallies on various pieces
of information originally used in the
u.s census holler's invention quickly
became popular with those in the
accounting field the tabulating machine
eventually fell out of favor with the
invention of calculators and personal
computers okay the computer is
tabulating oh
number eight telegraph machine
ah
the telegraph
s
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morse code is a means by which two
parties can communicate using different
signal lengths and no audible voice the
dots and dashes are typically heard as
sound or seen as flashes of light this
system was thus instrumental in the
operation of the telegraph machine
anchorage stop
repeat urgent request
more diphtheria anti-toxin stop these
devices were quite popular during armed
conflicts as they required both the
sender and the receiver to be versed in
morse code or any other encrypted
signaling being used at the time
as technology evolved the advent of
telephones and eventually the internet
replaced the need for telegraphy and
telegram machines oh he killed her just
like the telephone killed the telegraph
sex business
hey baby i bet you're hot stop number
seven google glass why does everything
have to be smart this is your touch pad
it runs from your temple to your ear
tap the touchpad to wake up glass
in 2013 google began offering a
prototype known as google glass it was
wearable tech that fit much like a pair
of glasses but allowed you to see many
of the google apps through a little
glass window
with a built-in camera the device
suffered controversy over privacy
concerns around the lack of consent when
being recorded the device did eventually
allow other app developers to create
programs to run on the platform but
google killed the public version in
2015. it's since released enterprise
versions of the technology but it seems
the world still isn't ready for smart
glasses google glass we're like google
ass number six
vhs rewinders what's vhs
now here's a piece of technology that
died as a result of collateral damage
when dvd and subsequently blu-ray
replaced the vhs cassette it also took
out the rewinder many folks from the
videotape era will remember rental
stores reminding them to be kind rewind
you see vhs tapes had to be rewound to
the beginning to re-watch whatever was
on it so lo and behold someone invented
a machine that literally did nothing
more than rewind these tapes places like
blockbuster video commonly had several
of these machines on hand since renters
would frequently forget to wind their
rentals back often resulting in a fee
i'm just gonna take my vcr my vcr head
cleaning tape my vcr head cleaning spray
my head cleaning rag and my rewinder and
just get the hell out of here number
five
rf game adapters we need to order an
adapter no go buy an adapter there's
like 50 russian electronic stores in
glendale do you remember having to put
your tv on channel 3 or 4 for your video
game machine to work no seriously that
really was a thing at one time it has to
be on channel 3
early home video game machines used a
special switch that attached to the back
of the tv that allowed game systems like
atari to play on your television even
early home computers like the commodore
and the amiga used these boxes it wasn't
until years later that televisions
started to have extra audio and video
inputs once the video game manufacturers
caught up the game adapter became
obsolete you gotta find the rfp1u with
coaxial cable so you can connect the
video ins and outs bob
english
right sorry number four
slide projectors slides are almost ready
yeah ever wonder where the term
slideshow came from at one time people
would paint images onto glass and
project light through them to show an
image on a wall let's go on slide
seated scribe egypt 2400 bc
in 1936 kodak came out with film slides
that you could develop your photos onto
these small by two inch slides later fit
into a circular machine that would turn
on demand switching slides in the
process the use of photographic slides
and even transparencies on overhead
projectors was quite popular until
digital photos and the likes of
powerpoint came along powerpoint
powerpoint powerpoint though perhaps
retro the projectors themselves are
otherwise relegated to the dustbin of
history
number three carbon paper they're
messing things up with that carbon paper
what do you know about it yeah out of
the way
i was forging documents before your
parents were born
this entry is unique in that it's the
only one on this list that isn't
electric whatsoever carbon paper was a
type of paper that had a layer of ink on
one side and was often used to create
multiple copies of other paperwork the
ink on the other side of the carbon
would transfer to anything underneath it
when pressure was applied from the other
side so if you wrote on the top of the
paper the carbon printed a copy
underneath
it was often employed with early credit
card machines checks and receipts a
savings bond printed on carbon-based
paper paid to a carbon-based man for
something he made out of
carbon
carbon-less copy paper and the use of
word processing applications and real
printers eventually made this black
messy invention
[Applause]
your obsolete
and gave me just a copy of your love
number two daisy wheel printers shaped
like a flower daisy wheel printers used
a combination of new and old technology
the wheel contained tiny slivers each of
which had a single character formed at
the end similar to the metal arms used
on a typewriter when something was
printed from a computer the device would
spin the wheel to the proper character
and a single hammer would push it
against an ink ribbon causing the
impression on the paper
it would switch from character to
character very fast as it typed out
whatever had been printed they were far
superior in quality to dot matrix
printers but eventually faded away into
oblivion with the introduction of inkjet
and laser technology that's not scary it
is if you're a laser printer before we
unveil our top pick here are a couple of
honorable mentions
telex machines text messaging prior to
the digital era
fine then go check your telex
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oh my god look at that
cinerama an early attempt at imax like
quality in movies it was eventually
abandoned because they went to hollywood
with it traditional hollywood crews had
a lot of problems in working in cinerama
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number one acoustic coupler modems
what are you doing
dialing into the school's computer
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the mere mention of dial-up internet in
today's world triggers memories of
terrible connection speeds and awful
noises emitted by your computer
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but even before the internet was a thing
early computers could use modems to
connect to each other the earliest
versions of this technology involved
putting the actual phone receiver into a
machine that would convert sound into
digital pulses it was kind of like
giving a computer a set of ears to use
the phone as technology grew the need to
plug the handset in faded and now the
acoustic coupler is merely a reminder of
how far technology has come i guess i
better get going
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