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Today’s Schoolchildren Guess What ’80s and ’90s Technology Does

by Robert Quigley | 10:42 am, January 7th, 2011

Cyberpresse researcher Jean-Christophe Laurence showed a group of modern-day schoolchildren from Quebec various gadgets from the ’80s and ’90s and asked them to guess what they were for. They’re often able to figure out eventually that it’s an older form of a tech that they currently know, but Laurence gets some great, creative responses along the way.

Of a floppy disk: “this goes into an iPod.” Of a ColecoVision game: “a deck of cards.” Of an 8-track player: “Oh! I thought it was a bomb!”

(Cyberpresse via MeFi)

  • Yumycupcake

    they are so dumb im in 5 th grade and i know what they are

  • anonymous

    I like how they figured out how to do the scratching noise with the record player almost immediately. =P

  • Tjhpp9

    as kids we are given a hard time for not understanding old tech like this…while adults and elders struggle to even handle an internet browser…goes both ways here people

  • Clintstoner13680

    I agree, this is sort of funny, but these kids can’t be expected to understand what a floppy disk is since none of them have ever seen a computer that would accept one

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_Z4CJFSWSF6NJQ2QO56FEBHKHJM K

    But some of these are just plain idiotic.  ”A deck of cards?” or “a carpet?”  I can understand them not knowing how to work a record player, but not knowing it’s called a “record”?  Of course, I say that because I would not know how to work an 8-track player, but I still know it’s called an “8-track”.  I wouldn’t call it a “cassette.”

    Or.

    A DECK OF CARDS

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_Z4CJFSWSF6NJQ2QO56FEBHKHJM K

    I agree with that – cd case makes sense, looking at it.  But a lot of them were just idiotic.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2W4JFKL274VUEBB3UQOT7P4WLY Hoolin Kin

    i thought its right the kids are now make lot of things and new generation is creative…http://www.mixam.co.uk    magazine print london

  • Thc

    No one seems to notice or care that it’s in a foreign language.  

  • Great_big_abyss

    It was french, from Quebec.  Not exactly foreign

  • Missed the Point?

    Congratulations… your intelligence peaked as a school child.

  • Anonymous

    It seems like a lot of what they knew came from television or other media.

  • Alphahelix

    Just so you know, considering you obviously can’t read french, it says they are in second grade. Congratulations for comparing yourself to second graders retard. 


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