Modern kids can't figure out a Walkman

[WhoIsNumberNone]

Speechless...

[forest444]

1. Well hey, at least they appreciate REM.

So all is not really lost.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

3. In fairness, it's probably their mother who appreciates REM...

[forest444]

4. You're right.

What are the little brats listening to these days, I wonder. It isn't still Justin Bieber, is it?

On second thought, I don't think I want to know.

[onehandle]

2. I think there was a bit of acting going on there.

If not, then these kids needed a lot more time with this when they were toddlers:

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Fitting a tape into a player has more to do with coordination and logic than technology.

[valerief]

5. Now give them a rotary phone. nt

[Fritz Walter]

6. Turn off their wifi, hide their chargers

We'll see who has the last laugh!

[erpowers]

7. Do Not Completely Buy It

I do not completely buy the idea that young kid do not know how to use a Walkman. I do not believe it is that hard to figure out how to open a Walkman and how to put a tape into the Walkman.

[CTyankee]

8. It really is easy...even I had no problem and I am hopeless with such things usually.

Once you get how the thing is inserted in his player-case it's fine. They kept wanting to turn it the other way for some reason...and one of them wanted to take the tape ribbon out, OMG. I like how his mother said "you DEFINTELY don't want to take out the ribbon..."

[Leith]

9. In Their Defense

I used to put the tape in the wrong way all the time. And that was a Walkman that was mine and that I used all the time.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

10. I can't say for sure

but this looks to be one of the later slimline style Walkmen, and those often had kind of a funny loading system. They had slots on the underside of the lid that you slid the cassette into, which appears to be the case with this one.

[mockmonkey]

15. I agree

It looks like the kind that loads under the lid. I would buy CDs and then copy them to tape to use at work because portable CD players were too bulky and they went through batteries like crazy.

This old guy admits he sometimes calls his ipod a Walkman, much to the amusement of others.

[Scootaloo]

11. Modern adults probably couldn't work a telegraph or crank washer on their first shot

Obsolete technology goes out of use.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. I have a classic non-electric typewriter....

You have to pose your fingers like claws over it to maintain an even pressure on the keystrokes.

You can tell by the sound if you are hitting the paper just right.

[mucifer]

12. II think it might take me a while to figure out a Victrola

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. Then the damn thing would eat the tape.