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.

在这个世界上，有些事情是永远不会被忘记的。但是，这周的登月40周年纪念，摩尔定律以及我们对于更简单，更小型，更快更好零件等东西的需求将始终确保有些伴随我们成长的技术将永远不会传给下一代的。

当然，除非我们告诉他们这些已成为美好时光的历史，告诉他们所有关于调制解调器和打字机，计算尺和百科全书…

视听娱乐

1、将录像带插入家用录像机中看电影或者录制东西

2、超8电影和各种电影胶片

3、在随身听上用录音磁带放歌。看看当你给今天的青少年一个随身听会发生什么。

4、电视只有一个频道。我记得当时英国开通第4个频道时引起了巨大的轰动。

5、标准清晰度，CRT电视占据了客厅的大半空间。

6、没有遥控器的旋转拨号电视机。你知道的，就是那些用孩子们来当遥控器的电视机。

7、高速配音

8、8轨录音带

9、黑胶唱片。甚至今天的DJ们都是用的笔记本电脑和CD.

10、Beta制大尺寸磁带

11、微型碟片

12、激光碟片：DVD的密纹唱

13、用收音机键盘搜索频道，听到频道之间的静电声。（数字调谐器+高清收音机就是基于这一概念）

14、短波收音机

15、3D电影和红绿眼镜

16、只有当信号允许时才能收看电视。Tivo和Sky公司正在解决这个问题。

17、真实电视的产生经历了很长一段时间。

计算机和视频游戏

18、线，虽然现在还有，但不久将会消失。

19、调制解调器连接的尖叫声。

20、点阵式打印机的吱吱声。

21、5和3英寸软盘，压缩磁盘盒无数其他数据储存形式。

22、使用跳线装置来设置IRQ

23、DOS操作系统

24、终端访问主机

25、黑屏上只有绿色或者橙色通道。

26、通过调整磁带界面上的音量设置来加载游戏，等待暴长的时间。

27、串联SCSI装置保证都得到不同的ID

28、以千字节计数

29、买一个升级内存前得考虑是否买得起

30、吹掉红白机卡带上的灰尘，希望其能够正常加载。

31、在机器上弄上一个游戏站，希望能够加载游戏。

32、操纵手柄

33、删掉硬盘上的东西腾出空间来

34、从软盘上启动你的计算机

35、在录音室里录歌

互联网

36、NCSA浏览器

37、从百科全书中查找资料

38、使用道路地图集从A到B

39、只有当银行开门时才能办理业务

40、只有在星期一到星期六才能购物

41、电话簿和黄页本

42、用枯萎的树制作的报纸和杂志

43、得到用实字组成的域名

44、用手填订单，装信封，寄出。

45、不能每时每刻都了解你的朋友们在做什么和想什么

46、使用信件来通信，尤其是用手写的那种。

47、阿尔奇搜索

48、Gopher搜索

49、从USENET上串联和解码

50、隐私

51、单词都没有数字在其中

52、纠正词语的拼写，而不是TLA

53、下载东西需要等待数分钟（或小时）

54、长时间开机和联机将造成僵尸网络/安全漏洞

55、电脑网络产生之前

56、当垃圾邮件只是肉类产品--甚至是巨蟒描述。

小器具

57、打字机

58、往相机里装胶卷：35MM的胶卷还在使用，那APS或者磁盘呢？

59、将胶卷送去冲洗

60、然后将纸质照片送还给你

61、炭黑收音机

62、迷路。随着越来越多的电话拥有了GPS功能，确定你的位置仅仅是按几下键盘的事情。

63、转盘拨号电话

64、答录机

65、使用棍子在信息图上解说

66、付费电话

67、在背后有铃铛的电话

68、传真机

69、内有袋子的真空吸尘器

其他的东西

70、依次搜索电台，或者在长途中为了让大家有听的东西而去挑选磁带

71、记某人的电话号码

72、不知道谁在打你的电话

73、需要去到Blockbuster商店租电影

74、只适合3岁儿童玩耍的玩具

75、LEGO仅仅是平方米大小的区块，有陈旧的车辆，窗户或者门

76、需要等到电影院首映之后才能在电视上看到电影

77、需要靠晚间新闻5分钟的体育版块来了解棒球

78、整齐的书写

79、保姆国家之前的日子

80、星巴克是个男的

81、HAN是第一个开枪的

82、"欧比旺从来没有告诉你的父亲怎么了。"但是他们已经看到第三季了，所以没什么大惊小怪的。

83、肯塔基州炸鸡块，而不是KFC.

84、触发器表盒记录表

85、不知道计量尺是干什么用的

86、通过图书馆的卡片找书

87、有跳水板的游泳池

88、银装素裹的赫尔锡酒吧

89、将KIT-KAT的包装撕掉，然后将包装纸放到手里，击掌，发出嘭的一声。然后沿着银箔纸滑下，抽掉第一个手指。

90、马拉松酒吧（在英国是用来嘲笑别人）

91、需要手动来开车门锁

92、写支票

93、在开长途车是凝视窗外

94、溜冰鞋而不是刀片

95、现金

96、图书馆是借书而不是使用互联网的地方

97、在商场里花掉你所有的津贴

98、Omni杂志

99、纸质字典---关于拼写和定义

100、GEEK 和 NERD 是同样的意思