Kids React to Old Computer Technology

[+ ArVaGuy]

Here's a video clip of young kids reacting to old computer technology. The reaction of these kids between the ages of six and thirteen is hysterical. Just trying turn on the processor befuddles them to no end. Much less trying to play a video game. Cute.

 

 

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[maninsoma]

Cute. Brings back some vague memories of my first computer. I don't think it was quite as cryptic as this one, but the monochrome monitor and the need to put in different floppy disks depending on the task I needed to accomplish are still stuck in my brain. I remember eventually upgrading to a better computer that had a 20MB hard drive (what a relief to no longer have to swap floppies incessantly!) for $1,300!

[Boink]

'Kids React To....' is a great series. Similarly, check out 'Elders React To...'

 

[Rod Hagen]

O mi god that was cute and o mi god i feel old.

 

"Do I have to pay for it?"

[+ Gar1eth]

I admit it was nice seeing the comparisons between back then and now. But am I the only one who thinks a majority of those kids are drama kings/queens. Also I'm pretty sure there as a command to make the computer read the floppy drive if the computer was already turned on. You would have used Something like a change drive command and then a command to run or read the disk.

 

Gman

[ctc2001]

am I the only one who thinks a majority of those kids are drama kings/queens.

No, no you're not, but I don't blame them, they are just kids and are still learning appropriate social and life skills.

[+ FreshFluff]

Hey, I learned a lot from my first few computers.

 

When I was just a tiny puff, my family got our first computer, an old TI bought several years after the company discontinued it. The OS was BASIC, so it came with a instruction guide for that language. I set to work learning the language and soon coded some simple games and random number generators. But then my brother would unplug the computer and the RAM was immediately erased.

 

Soon after, my dad's company started loaning out a Mac to employees. I learned to type on that machine, using some app we bought. IIRC with 256K RAM. I'd often have to delete sentences from reports when I got the full message.

[bostonman]

My first experience with computers predates even this just a bit. Mid 1970's, when I was in 5th or 6th grade, my school system had a printer-only computer terminal (no screen/monitor, just the printer) that connected to the mainframe via telephone modem (the old kind, where you dialed a number, and when you got the long "beep" signal, the handset went into a holder where the computer "heard" the beep...BASIC was the most common programming language (though I think the system could use FORTRAN and COBOL as well), which I learned to use pretty well. Aside from obvious educational programs, there were some games (but again, only using typed words, no on-screen visuals), and of course no such thing as the internet. Not even floppy disks yet - I remember there being "punch tape" (like punch cards, but in a slim ticker-tape kind of format) to store data on.

 

By the time I got to high school, we had computers more like what was in that video - though it took me some time to get used to the idea of doing things on a screen instead of everything being directly printed. Imagine that? (I graduated high school in '82 - War Games came out in '83 - and didn't he still have one of those old-style phone modems?) Probably by 1980, we also had one of those at home, and I remember using it for word processing - doing school papers, etc. Those printers still had the custom-made paper with the perforated holes on the edges, to hold the paper in the paper feed - then you had to tear off those extra bits to have "regular" paper for the finished product.

 

I also have a funny memory of computer porn back on those old computers - I remember browsing one of the discs my dad had in his office, and I loaded the program and pressed something, and a dirty "picture" appeared on the screen, in the manner of the "computer art" of the time - all made out of typed symbols to form a picture of sorts. Really more silly/funny than hot in any way.

 

Wow, that was all so dark ages...

[Nvr2Thick]

No, no you're not, but I don't blame them, they are just kids and are still learning appropriate social and life skills.

 

Yes, it's drama. Really. The kids are obviously selected because they're telegenic. They're probably the same kids who interview as child actors and for commercials. While it may not be scripted the kids' reactions are clearly coached.

[bostonman]

Yes, it's drama. Really. The kids are obviously selected because they're telegenic. They're probably the same kids who interview as child actors and for commercials. While it may not be scripted the kids' reactions are clearly coached.

 

I did notice one girl who has a slip-up in the middle of something she's saying, and it does sound like she "flubbed the line" rather than anything she'd say naturally. If this video isn't at least partially scripted, I'd be very surprised.

[samhexum]

Here's a video clip of young kids reacting to old computer technology.

am I the only one who thinks a majority of those kids are drama kings/queens.

Hey, I learned a lot from my first few computers.

Wow, that was all so dark ages...

Yes, it's drama. Really.