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Modern day children trying to operate a Sony Walkman

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At the age of 6-7, in the age of PS3s and HDMI cables, my nephew found my N64 laying in a box at my parents house and hooked it up via the composite connectors and was playing Starfox with no intervention from me.

I grew up in the early era of CDs where cassettes were still a big thing. My dad had one of the old Sony stacked entertainment centers that he had replaced the record player with a Sony CD player (a 1-disc player, larger than an Xbox). At the age of 8, I found some of his old records, and hooked the player back up myself, and was listening to The Beatles on vinyl.

Once you understand some basic mechanics, it's not hard to figure out what fits where. There's a whole shitload of people out there who can't even hook up a modern PC, and this is in an age where everything is either color-coded, or just USB.
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I hope my nephew similarly takes my N64 off its shelf and enjoys the games I missed out on as a child.
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I'm surprised the people in this video didn't try to do the old, "Can you tell me how a pencil eraser and a cassette tape are related?" gag. :)
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Bic pen! You're supposed to use a Bic pen for that!
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TheFeniX wrote:At the age of 6-7, in the age of PS3s and HDMI cables, my nephew found my N64 laying in a box at my parents house and hooked it up via the composite connectors and was playing Starfox with no intervention from me.

I grew up in the early era of CDs where cassettes were still a big thing. My dad had one of the old Sony stacked entertainment centers that he had replaced the record player with a Sony CD player (a 1-disc player, larger than an Xbox). At the age of 8, I found some of his old records, and hooked the player back up myself, and was listening to The Beatles on vinyl.

Once you understand some basic mechanics, it's not hard to figure out what fits where. There's a whole shitload of people out there who can't even hook up a modern PC, and this is in an age where everything is either color-coded, or just USB.
Case in point: everyone in my family but me. I was always the one hooking up everyone's VCRs, DVD players, and game consoles to their TVs, especially when a composite or S-video connection was involved; color-coding and shapes are apparently mystic arts understood only by a select few. Needless to say, I was always the one hooking up our computers, too.
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My dad's business had these pens that were the perfect diameter and had rubber grips. I would thread the pen through carefully, then spin the cassette on it like a clacker.
Executor32 wrote:Case in point: everyone in my family but me. I was always the one hooking up everyone's VCRs, DVD players, and game consoles to their TVs, especially when a composite or S-video connection was involved; color-coding and shapes are apparently mystic arts understood only by a select few. Needless to say, I was always the one hooking up our computers, too.
There's a large section of people that just aren't "handy." And I'm not talking about in the physical work set. Without a manual sitting in front of them (or even if there is one), they literally won't even attempt to figure something out themselves. Considering everyone in my family (with the possible exception of my sister) was of the mind "Try it yourself, then look for help," it was the weirdest damn thing when I got into IT. People would rather call out for a $120 minimum trip charge than to even attempt maybe.... check to see if the speaker cable (which was green) was plugged into the mic port (which was pink), rather than the speaker port (which was green).
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