Fun fact: fax machines are still widely used in many industries, the majority of car dealers still use them to send signed contracts to banks and the DMV.

@thorodinson3597

2 ай бұрын

That is mainly for security, because hacking/wire-fraud requires physical access to one side. It's the same reason (the silo based) US nuclear launch system still uses 3.5inch floppy disks, and an entirely separate phone system, today. You would need to break into an ICBM silo, undetected, just to get that site's half of the launch "code."

@michaelcencarik5955

Ай бұрын

As a pharmacy tech I can confirm. Doctors offices and hospitals still widely use them as well.

@xerxesYt123

Ай бұрын

its just that fast to send a document that is also printed. Still beats the friction of email where you need to find it in your inbox, maybe in spam, then downloading the file, then opening the file to print it, selecting the size of the paper, and waiting for the printer to finish printing, before you can sign it.

@mattferrigno9750

Ай бұрын

Yup, they can't be hacked

@Brent18222

16 күн бұрын

We still use them in hotels for credit card authorizations.

The funny thing about the PSN "hack" is that the admin password was actually "12345".

Ahaha my first internet was AOL and Blockbuster was my Dealer they had CD connection lol I’d show up every 90 days to grab my free 90 day trial for the internets

@K12127

2 ай бұрын

Right. We had aol for free for years lol

@TheCommanderTaco

2 ай бұрын

Same but my discs usually came from Walmart when they had them on the sides of aisles to grab for free. We would get the free trial then my mom would usually call to end the subscription once the trial was over. They would then offer us a discount for so many months. If we could afford it my mom would take the offer then cancel once that discounted period was over. Wait so many days and repeat lol. Of course not everytime they would offer us the discount option and I think one time they did get mad at us for only using them with the "free limited time" offer lol ( that may have been At&T I don't remember). Was annoying though in the early days having to ask for permission to go online only to be told my mom was expecting a call from my Aunt who never called that day lol. Struggles kids of today will never know.

@Cplayz08

Ай бұрын

@@TheCommanderTaco We are truly blessed to just be able to turn on a macbook or whatever in starbucks and have an instant internet connection.

DSL still works over the phone lines

I'm 44........and the way the world has changed since I was born has been CRAZY!! I'm glad that I've embraced the changes that have been made and necessary 🤣🤣🤣

@Midala87

Ай бұрын

Honestly, I don't think anything changed that drastically. Everything was in incremental changes so there really wasn't any additional learning curves. Some older people had issues, but they probably would have had issues boiling water.

the tooth tunes had us by a chokehold

@jpabon41

2 ай бұрын

They still exist too 🤣❤️ I want so bad

@TheCommanderTaco

2 ай бұрын

​@@jpabon41 Arin tried one of them recently on their at grumps channel and was hugely disappointed it didn't use conductive technology lol.

Fax machines aren't gone. They are still used in finance and medical businesses, as well as international business correspondence since there is almost no delay.

Austin’s attempt at beatboxing 😂😂😂

You glossed over the fact the "Radium Girls", which is what the women who painted radium dials, would also play with Radium by painting their teeth and using it as makeup

A suggestion for the next video i thought when you'll were talking about faxes would either be 1. Go through old videos ( commercials and such) and see what ideas of "tommorows world" are closest to having come through ( a ranking video). To my knowledge the closest so far has been the tech from back in the future lol. Or 2. Have a VS match and have Matt and Austin guess what era the idea from the tech is. What was going on in said era that may have made people think this is how the future will evolve lol.

I miss BBS gaming..Trade Wars, Circus Maximus. Those were good days. Also met a lot of shady friends on BBSes. 😅 We had bowling nights.

about 5 times in this video i had the thought "What are you angry about?? those were great!!" ... "oh right, these are Never come back tech. wtf??"

I love you guys skateboarding!!! Great job This Is editors and the whole team!!

Wow I completely forgot about ChaCha. Core memory unlocked from that reference.

Wasn't expecting a Devil's Lake, ND call-out. 😂😂😂

Lmao at 9:11 😆 we got those too and the urban legend was if youre being tailed and the driver tailing you keeps flashing their car lights at you, they are a gang member about to etc etc etc lmao

I loved the N64 controller...

Worked in a TV studio for a few years and when I left in 2012, they were still using mini disc for some of the audio. As for the incandescent lights, we used 1k, 2k, and 5k lamps and when the 5k goes, you would know it. I do have a small collection of broken lamps with bubbles on the glass.

MiniDisc was awesome. It never skipped, you could rewrite tons of times. Just pick some songs or albums in the morning and let it write while you're putting your pants on.

Sony beginning to charge people money for PlayStation Plus drove me away from PlayStation. I still own a PlayStation 1, 2 and 3 and I never bought a PlayStation 4 or 5 for that main reason. Alot of people dislike the N64 controller too much it's not the greatest controller but it fits comfortably in the hand and I've spent alot of hours enjoying them

N64 had the best controller ever! navigating an entire 3D world with just one stick and being ergonomic at the same time? Best ever!

my stepdad had a mini disc player in his car until 6 yrs ago the best bluegrass mixtapes you ever heard

Ya know these two always take shots at PSN on ps3. I remember those days. It worked just fine for me. I dont care how well it works now. I already paid to much for the games/ console I'm not paying for a stupid network as well.

@maxnum1sgameclub263

2 ай бұрын

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@LegendaryFenrir

2 ай бұрын

Agreed. I switched to PC full time 8-10 years ago and never went back to PS. PS3 era for PSN was about as good as it got. The hacking still happened after they started charging for what was once free.

faxing still exists it hasnt gone away at all. I have to fax shit all the time at my job

i remember getting a book at walmart (like a giant magazine) it was a phone book but full of websites it was so cool but crazy that something like that existed

While I agree that Incandescent bulbs are silly for light nowadays, they are still very useful and hard to replace for some applications such as providing heat for livestock and to keep pipes from freezing. I have tried a number of heat mats and heat lamps but most of those are very poorly made and seem to be way more likely to randomly short out and catch on fire while costing much more. I have had several heat mats and lights actually catch on fire, once a heat lamp even started a decent fire in a shed that could have been really bad if it had not been raining at the time and that lamp was even on a GFCI outlet but still caught on fire. In my many years of using incandescent bulbs for the same sort of thing I have never had one actually catch anything on fire even when a fixture would come into contact with water and short out. And for a heat source they are really more energy efficient then many alternatives as they come in much lower wattages for applications that do not need much heat, while many of the alternatives either just waste way more power then is needed or have to be setup with a thermostat in some way. You would think that 300-500 watt heat mats and lamps would have built in thermostats, but many do not or they are so bad that they are not actually usable, so to get something that actually works properly you have to buy and setup a actually good external thermostats that adds extra cost, complexity, and another thing to potentially fail and short out. I kind of hate to see the loss of incandescent bulbs many as they are so useful as a small low wattage source of heat.

I miss ChaCha and Yahoo Answers. Obviously there’s no real need for them anymore, but it was fun responding to dumb questions with dumb answers. And just being helpful to the community in general

I'm still rocking my Minidisc players. Got a Professional Studio Deck hooked into the house stereo, and a few portables lying around for going out of the house.

I love how they shat on the vision pro but I KNOW Austin is reading a script/notes on those vision pros lol

I guess we are getting a "i wore the vision headset 24/7 for blah blah" main video soon 😂

As a young person, I want to use a pager, mini disc, desk drum phone and other old tech. It is so much more fun than modern phones that pretend to replace everything

I still have my mini disc players and the quality is amazing. They just never took off because they were so expensive and they broke so easily.

10:28 “fun” fact Hasbro, who now owns the Tiger Electronics name, etc. has brought back these accursed things to retail.

I really miss that dial up sound. One of the top ten hits of them growing up days.

The only good use for incandescent is Lava Lamps and Easy Bake Ovens.

dialup is still a thing especially out in the country theres still companies that do dialup also pagers still exist doctors use them for fast response

So if people wearing those google glass things at inappropriate times were called "Glass-holes" what do we call people doin the same with the apple thing, A(for apple)-holes? and is Austin being one in this video? ;)

@Mr_Mcfeely

Ай бұрын

App-holes

I had a NYC messaging service back in my professional acting days. You would call and actually get a person. I remember when the changed to an automated system. I thought that was weird at the time.

some kid "mom i want a gameboy for my birthday please." some mom "we have gameboy at home! *pulls out tiger electronic game*" xD

I had a 300 baud modem, with a commodore 64. I did aol, and the sierra network. I also helped run several local Bulletin Board Servers (BBS)

Kinsey should keep texting 187 to Matt... she is the real star

I have been to decked lake in North Dakota and it was really hard to get internet any were right outside of the downtown

Only thing I truly miss about the PS3 PSN era is actually Playstation Home. Yeah it was kinda weird and not ever fully fleshed iut but was a good way IMHO to add to your psn friend list

@LegendaryFenrir

2 ай бұрын

Agreed 100% I spent so much time on home. It was VrChat before VrChat. I'm confident they would get so much more marketing success if they brought it back. It was loved so much, there's a community who's been restoring it and have a functioning online build of it.

Every time Austin says apple or Tim Cook take a shot.

Lmao I love the DL, ND shoutout. I live 166 miles from there lol

My grandfather still had dial up when I went to visit him my freshman year of high… in 2012

8:25 used to be able to text a pager at least a good one😅

My favorite old tech was KGB. This was before Google, you would text any question to KGBKGB and within the hour someone would text you back with the answer. (That's how I learned why the older sister wasn't in Poltergeist 2).

@brien1254

2 ай бұрын

I remember that

I love Mini Disc. They still use them in Asia

The Tiger Electronics LCD games DID come back! There's a handful available at Gamestop at present.

I wasnt supposed to be online either at home lol. In 9th grade I got Sony T610 phone, and was able to plug it into the computer and use it as a modem to hook up to Kmart Bluelight internet. What a time to be alive haha

@hed1fsu

2 ай бұрын

How long until you got whooped for that tethering bill? Haha

Wait, people used AOL disks/floppys/etc as actual item they were meant to? Hell I just ended up using them as toys(throwing the disks/etc) as we just got them so much that had to do something with them :). They made nice Frisbees after all XD. Gave us kids something to do when weren't technically supposed to be online in the house on those nice days to play outside.

MiniDisc was fire and could record too!

agreed Matt! I never want the AVP to came back.

So I actually have a few radium clocks at the house lol

I actually own a fax machine. It's a combo fax/scanner/copier/laser printer, even though I've never used it as a fax machine and don't even have a land line to my place anymore. I got it for free, and the laser printer is so much better than using an inkjet printer.

Ayyo, Kinsley knows Ultraman!!

If we're building a shrine to shrek lets make it the original shrek.... RIP Chris Farley...

I still carry a pager every day for work. Machine goes down, one of us gets a page worth a brief description and a location the factory. Works great. 🤷‍♂️

N64 controller was one of the best of its time. I will die on this hill!

Pagers are still being used particularly in hospitals.

I sus a "I wore the thing for a week" video coming.

We got so crazy with pagers, we would send messages and then have to decode them with the three letters from each number lol, ridiculous

I loved the N64 controller! Playing games like Star fox, Mario64, and Pokémon Stadium was fun 💯💯🤣

That Laguna Seca shirt is awesome

That headset got Bluetooth power😅

6:30 I just realized I lived my childhood surrounded by radium 💀 I remember my room was space themed and my bed sheets were glow in the dark then I had the glowing stars on my ceiling and a space wallpaper that also glowed in the dark

@hed1fsu

2 ай бұрын

Hahahahaha naw you didn't. It was gone by the 60's.. if that. They knew about radium girls long before stick on plastic glow stars hahaha. It was only in sealed watches and such the last decades.

Lol keywords! Never actually used one to search, but it seemed like they were in every commercial at one point.

Real snazzy jacket Kinsey!

As a little kid I loved the n64 controller lol

I still have a brand new in pack transformers theme teeth tune brush 😂

Fax machines are still used

Jokes on This Is, Australia is still mostly connected via dial up :D

Tiger electronics games I loved playing them. In Rochester MN hospital during my appointments when I go I get a pager letting me know when the doctor is ready for me. I never want to see Dial up internet again dealing with that in the 90s was frustrating. Fax machine are still used today I know many places that still uses them my apartment complex I live the lady in the office for the place uses one. Hospitals still uses them and the adult family home I been in used one.

AOL is still out here working!

Don't care how weird the n64 controller was so weird I loved it

I used to have hundreds of free AOL frisbees, I mean BB targets, I mean demo cds lol!

Funny enough; AOL Desktop is still around. Paid subscription, but looks just like the old program. Had to get it for some time for my mother cause she was so bent on ONLY using AOL cause it's all she knew.

Fax machines are still used to this day 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’ve got like 7 minidisc player/recorders 💽 and at least 3 N64 controllers 😅

TIGER GAMES WERE AWESOME!!! N64 Controller was awesome, not our fault you got little girls hands

Hahaha austin wearing the apple vision pros for the whole video, why???

Looked for Matt's music. anyone have a link?

I still use aol for my email and I get weird faces every time I give my email out lol

Holy shit! Ultraman reference! I knew Kinsey was the coolest on the team. I have an Ultraman podcast called The Science Patrol and would love it if you gave us a listen.

Cyber Austin looks like he belongs in a Kraftwerk video.. Or Daft Punk (Please come back)

Please make Austin wear all the random clothes you can buy on temu when you search for cyberpunk clothes and also the Vision Pro and the Razer Zephyr all at the same time… I swear this isn’t a fetish.

Putting Devil’s Lake, North Dakota on the map!! 📌

I feel really bad for the people who got my insecure 16 year old self's messages. Asking about average pp size and a bunch of other questions just trying to get affirmation. The girl I was dating at the time told me she thought 10 inches was average and I instantly felt ashamed.

I recorded the ending song of final fantasy 9 on a mini disk and I still have it, I just don’t have anything to play it on 🤣

Germany was Like Fax was never gone

Austin wearing the Vision Pro throughout the whole video could be the newest definition of c-r-i-n-g-e

@tylerpopejoy1157

2 ай бұрын

I was thinking he lost a bet with matt 😅

@pgsxx88

2 ай бұрын

I think you just updated the definition with this comment 🎉

@iekon1

Ай бұрын

Nuh uh

@Mr_Mcfeely

Ай бұрын

Super cringe you spell out your words like a high-school cheerleader.

tape was awesome! you were payed to sit and wait while now.....

This is the first time I’ve heard about the PS3 online thing. I’d rather spend $0 for ten years on PS3 than $600 for ten years on PS4 & PS5

Tiger electrics handhelds have come back in recent years

AOL still exists and has the same interface for old people.

It's sad how they still teach these as ICT gadgets in Africa 😢

N64 controller was made for vortigaunts from half life

I enjoyed the mini disc era

You should have put the apple vision AI eyes on.