I used 1980s technology for a week

I'm sure you expected a lot of Gen-Xers (like me) to comment. Fun video!
The only thing I can say in defense of the 80s: Everything you showed was leading edge to us at the time. We were integrating things into our lives that my parents never dreamed of and sometimes couldn't relate to. Later, in 2000, I thought my Motorola Razr was the the slickest! And bi-directional broadband internet was a Godsend. (yeah, in the late 90's cable modems were only one direction: download. You still needed a phone line for the upload.)
I can't wait for the time when we look back at A.I. with LLMs, RAG, and think about how archaic it was. Thanks for the video! That must have been a lot of work.

Capturing from old media is getting…really difficult. Most of the linear editors are dumping the option, so you're at the mercy of whatever freeware you can find that (hopefully) still works on your machine. Good luck finding a newer machine that has native firewire support.

Beautiful Stuff

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Starts sweating profusely

Bro you look like a turd, get a haircut or something

11:40 based

Here's your mistake.
Back then we had technology, sure – but it was a TINY part of our lives. If you wanted to recreate what it was like in the 80s, you should have barely used that stuff at all.
Back then I'd use my computer a couple of hours a week. Maybe play Atari with my friends for an hour or two once a fortnight. Listen to my walkman when I was in the back of the car on a long trip. Only yuppie weirdos had portable phones, the rest of us used a rotary dial one on the wall. We maybe used it for a total of 10 minutes in a week. At night I'd turn my boombox down low and tape songs off the radio. We'd watch TV for half an hour after dinner. On special occasions we'd rent some video tapes. That is the absolute total of technology we used. At one stage I got a plastic digital watch. That's it.
Mostly we just hung out with friends, played sports, rode our bikes, read LOTS of books, did road trips, went to concerts, went to the beach or camping or fishing. We'd play board games, cook, race cars, play pool and so much more. Life was fun and busy. Not an existentially horrific dystopian hellscape populated with douchebags like today.

for me, the world has gone to fast… we had more time. Time to record a cassette while sitting and talking with friends. Time to think, which song I want to have on my tape for driving in car, maybe for vacation, and by listening this tape later I feel this time again… time for driving and rent a movie, maybe meet there people, I haven't seen for times and have some real small talks, not even on Smartphone nor Internet and we didn't need updates on our technics every day nor we don't needed flatrates for 24/7

I honestly think that kids from the 80s and 90s had the best time to grow up. They didnt had a so many bad news piling up on them, no sensory overload, new cutting edge technology that ACTUALLY felt different to the previous innovations. It ws just grand

Next up "A week with Tech from the 90s" xD

Calm down and get some foam panels for better sound. Sounds like you're in a warehouse.

Even as a Gen Z i found my passion in vintage tech while most tech today looks minimalist and boring and breaks within months tech back in the day lasts decades. Heck my mum has a fridge from 1970 and only this year did the light in the fridge die only the light after 50 years the only thing that broke was a light im pretty sure that fridge will outlive my whole family. I have old Apple computers even when they have as 40+ years worth of dust in them they still run. Were as computers today die after 2 years of dust. Plus the look of old computers credit to Steve Jobs the Macintosh, iMac G3, iBook G3 and iMac G4 all look spectacular and function equally so.

Awesome Video

Not smart enough to set the VCR time

I haven’t had to read a map in forever, my gps has made me such a sloth in certain ways.
I miss going to a video rental store, or even the grocery store and sifting through the different titles, now only random stuff is available, you don’t really get all titles without having every streaming service

The best of the 80s where the people we shared it with, times full of adventure!

3:44 i was so expecting that xD

That Motorola phone with 30 min talk time, was not designed for chit-chat and gossip conversations like today. It was designed for work, and if it took you two minutes for a business call, you didn’t have your ducks on a row. Glad to see someone your age is experimenting with technology I had in my 20s and really enjoy it.
Some of those things are still doable today. We just got spoiled and used to having things done yesterday.
Unfortunately, you couldn’t test a pager, or a 14.4/33.6 modem, because there’s no service for the pager, and analog phone lines have disappeared, except on real fax machines. Great job.

Walkmans are still one of the best inventions ever.

14:20 foreshadowing

to be fair cellphone were not very popular till mid 90 around here… we had a pager fad for some time and after that cellphone were begining to downsize to nokia sized phone. Good video !

Im commenting this before the 5 min mark, and i am confused why he didnt get a NES yet…

Why do I feel nostalgic about a time I never lived? (Born 2001)
But I did have a walk-man that could play CD's and I had a huge radio/CD/Casette player station. My first phone I got at 12, I think, had buttons. It was passed down from my dad, my sis had one from my mom that could slide open (not a blackberry though).
I liked the time back then, I would ring my friends doorbell to ask if they wanted to come out and play, we'd stay out till it got dark running around unsupervised in a small forest. I had no obligations, no job, no anxiety about my performances in that job, no bills to pay, no hard decisions to make. Life was good. Unfortunately, I am unable to be without my phone nowadays, it sucks sometimes