As our daily lives become more and more digital some things fall by the way side as they are replaced by newer, “better” devices.
This simple observation started as a discussion among colleagues and nerds in a bar one evening. We filmed a series of videos showing not only the handling but also the socio-cultural practices that came and went with our obsolete technical equipment. It became an unexpected youTube success and for reasons unknown to me, it became popular especially in South America. We still get lots of comments, nominations and interview requests from there and the website was exhibited at an annual art exhibition in Mexico City in the summer of 2013.
But technology moves on: Due to a change of Googles APIs, our highly customized brand channel on youTube became obsolete itself But we quickly built a standard channel to keep the videos online.
You can download the awesome Mooo-Theme by Robert Menzel for free at http://soundcloud.com/mooojvm/mooo-theme.
The phonograph was a device for reproducing sound recordings, mostly music or talking books.
The pocket calculator was a small sized electronic device used to perform the basic operations of arithmetic.
A rotary telephone was a telecommunications device that transmits and receives sound, most commonly the human voice.
A Mouse was a human controlled pointing device that detected two-dimensional motion relative to its supporting surface.
Fax was the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material to a printer or other output device.
The floppy disk was a magnetic disk storage medium.
A typewriter was a mechanical device with keys that, when pressed, caused characters, numbers or punctuation to be printed on a medium, usually paper.
The instant camera was a type of camera that generates a developed film image.
A radio receiver converted signals from a radio antenna to a usable form.
A radio receiver converted signals from a radio antenna to a usable form.
The incandescent light bulb produce light by heating a metal filament wire to a high temperature until it glowed.
Morse code was a method of transmiting textual information as a series of on-off tones that could be directly understood by a skilled listener.
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