30 Incredible Technologies From The Past That Just Look Odd Today

[left-of-center2012]

A British Couple Sleeps Inside A "Morrison Shelter” Used As Protection From Collapsing Homes During The WWII 'Blitz' Bombing Raids... March 1941


In 1955, This Tiny Electric Narrow Gauge Train Was Installed In New York’s Holland Tunnel To Monitor Traffic Speed


Orgone Accumulator, A Device Sold In The 1950s To Allow A Person Sitting Inside To Attract Orgone, A Massless 'Healing Energy'. The Fda Noted That One Purchaser, A College Professor, Knew It Was "Phony" But Found It "Helpful Because His Wife Sat Quietly In It For Four Hours Every Day."


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[NRaleighLiberal]

1. anyone remember these??

[left-of-center2012]

2. 8 track

Not real 'old' ?

“mid-1960s to the early 1980‘s”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-track_tape

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. I know, but, my, did they come and go fast!

I had a used car as a teenager with one - one 8 track (Yes Relayer). Then the car died. And my experience with 8 track ended!

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

5. In the early 70's I had an 8 track player in my 48 Ford van

And an 8 track player/recorder I bought when in the Navy. I recorded the songs I liked and had several tapes for travel in the van. Hitch hikers always commented on my music selection.

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. First one I ever bought was Quadraphenia

and owned many until cassettes made them obsolete.

[left-of-center2012]

9. According to the link I posted from Wikipedia ...

They were available from the '60s into the '80s.
Maybe not in automobiles that long

[underpants]

3. Love Bored Panda and thank you for posting this

[Karadeniz]

6. There were some other good posts there...beautiful birds, fossils, and a cat demo for

Bathing a baby!

[lastlib]

8. A few years ago, I found a picture of the first computer hard drive....

...from IBM. It was the size of two refrigerators and weighed one ton--and held 5 megabytes of data. Built in 1956, I showed it to my thirty-something co-workers; the first question they asked was, "how much music could you store on it?" I had to remind them that digital pictures were still a good decade away then.

Of course, those "youngsters" had never even seen a slide rule. I had to bring one of mine from home to show them--and remind them that it got men to the moon and back.

[NBachers]

10. "March for Science" in San Fran a few years back- a guy was walking, holding one up as a totem.

A slide rule . . .

There were many imaginative posters and outfits, but I had to give this guy big credit. He was holding it out before himself like a bishop with a cross.

Here's my contribution: