Redundant technologyMusic on vinyl records, mobile phones the size of house bricks and pornography printed on paper. What hideously out of date stuff do you still use?
Thanks to boozehound for the suggestion
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 12:44)
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kids nowadays...as a primary teacher I was covering "old words" with a yr 4 class, eg what do we call a wireless now - a radio, etc. I gave the kids the word "gramophone" and asked them what the equivalent updated word was; "dvd player?", no "playstation?", no... one kid offered the oldest thing he could possibly think of; "video??". Nope.
I gave them the answer; its an old record player - cue queries of "what's one of those then?". When I explained what a record player did, one of the kids thought his Grandad might have one...
Two things dawned on me: one, that I could have used "record player" instead of "gramophone" as the example of an old, little used word. Secondly, I am old (at 33).
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 9:19, 1 reply)
Not only that but "Wireless" is back in a big way!
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 9:33, closed)
yes, that really confused them tooThey thought that the "modern word" for a wireless was wi-fi....!
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 11:13, closed)
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