Kids react to: Sony Walkman

[TopWargamer]

 

Ah yes, the cassette. When I was young (like, 4 or 5, somewhere around then) I still remember using cassettes (well more so I remember my dad using cassettes, but I still remember them none the less), but I never had the privilege of using a Walkman, because that was waaaaay before my time. I know the kids in the video are young and all, but man, they didn't even know what a cassette was!

[Nineshadow]

Man,I remember my dad had one of them!It was pretty cool.

I used cassettes for a little while,especially on car radio things.

[DirkaFat]

Good Lord, the first 5 seconds were freaky as schiit

[TechSage]

I feel really old, even though I was born in 1996

[CatCloud]

I had one think i still do, it was yellow!

[Izaya Orihara]

2:30 ... 

[Mooshi]

I know they couldn't help what year the were born, but this doesn't stop me from face palming hard. I had a walkman when I was transitioning between elementary and middle school. Even before I had a walkman, I knew what freaking 8-track was as well as vinyl records..and those were before my time.

 

Kids today make me disappointed that a Walkman is alien technology while they can blindly navigate Facebook or mommy's iphone.

 

 

(That one little girl who got what a cassette was is the only one I am proud of)

[JLCitadel]

It's rather pathetic kids of that age can't read a button and use it. just like idiots who don't know how to use current technology. You can see inside it's clearly empty.

[Nineshadow]

I feel really old, even though I was born in 1996

I feel old and I was born in '99. D: Oh boy.

[Osmium]

I was technically born after all this stuff however I grew up in a "90s" household. Essentially I was a 2000s kid raised in a 90s household. Walkmans(men?) were the best thing ever.

[Osmium]

I know they couldn't help what year the were born, but this doesn't stop me from face palming hard. I had a walkman when I was transitioning between elementary and middle school. Even before I had a walkman, I knew what freaking A-trax was as well as vinyl records..and those were before my time.

 

Kids today make me disappointed that a Walkman is alien technology while they can blindly navigate Facebook or mommy's iphone.

 

Well why is that disappointing? Should your parents be angry you can't do... um... stuff they can do but you can't? 

[TechSage]

I feel old and I was born in '99. D: Oh boy.

Ahh, that was a clutch year, one more year and you wouldn't be a 90's kid. I don't consider anyone >=1997 a 90's kid

[Nineshadow]

Well why is that disappointing? Should your parents be angry you can't do... um... stuff they can do but you can't? 

Because people should adapt to situations!If you find a machine that can save your life but you don't know how to use it you'll what,just say "dafuq is this alien tech?".It's pretty easy to find the logic behind things,and parents expect their kids to do, too.Some do,some don't.

[JLCitadel]

I could hand this to any 12 yearold in my neighborhood and they'd know what it is, or could figure it out. this is just stupid.

[Mooshi]

Well why is that disappointing? Should your parents be angry you can't do... um... stuff they can do but you can't? 

 

There is a massive difference between not being able to do a trade and being ignorant about things. It's as daft as a kid saying they can't operate a tv because the remote went missing. Kids today are way too conditioned for things to be redic easy for them. From games losing their challenge to a Walkman being the hardest thing in the world to figure out...

 

Also "I feel sorry for the people who lived in the 90's" I feel sorry for the kids of today. At least in the 90's, Bieber didn't exist and the only Cyrus around sung Achey Breaky Heart.

 

Like I said, at least one of the kids knew what a cassette was so her parents taught her not to be ignorant on older things.

[Osmium]

Because people should adapt to situations!If you find a machine that can save your life but you don't know how to use it you'll what,just say "dafuq is this alien tech?".It's pretty easy to find the logic behind things,and parents expect their kids to do, too.Some do,some don't.

 

That is a fair point. But I feel like 99.9% of the situations where you don't know how to use a life saving device it is not because you were never exposed to technology of an older time.

[Toggle]

It's sad that today's kids simply do not realize what they have in their pockets. The kids in the video couldn't believe that this was what was big and what could actually do everything that people wanted. A portable music player in the 80's that was affordable was a huge thing. These things still last. One of my close friends still has one that works and until about 2 years ago was his primary way of listening to music on the go. These Walkmen certainly have a longer lifespan than most phones will ever have now. Interesting to see how lazy we have become, as to where our children feel that opening a cassette player putting the cassette and headphones in is a chore. It's kinda strange to see that really, even saddening at points.

[Probenja]

While i am 16 i can't belive those kids don't know what casettes are or even that you have to use headphones to listen to music, or is it just me that i am getting old for this iPad/iPhone generation?

 

I was born in the era of the Diskman (CD Walkman) but i still have a radio and many cassetes and they are pretty awesome. Also i find it funny how they find difficult to use a Walkman. An iPod is more complex than that!

[theawesomejman]

Ahhh the good old Walkman...

 

I remember carrying like 5 CD'S with me, opening it up, hitting play and listening, feeling like it was the most portable thing ever..

 

Definition of swag.

[JustTooDank]

These kids MUST have had iPods growing up....How did they not know they needed headphones?

[Pitou]

still have a box of cassettes

[Rockmandash12]

Ok, I was born in 97, and I feel incredibly old right now

[Danny Mc]

im 16 and i knew what it was, how dont kids know that steve jobs got a walkman from the owner of sony and ripped it off to make the ipod ???

 

they should have atleast 1 child that is remotely interested in technology.

 

And FFS there is no speakers on the thing but there is a 25mm headphone jack that NONE of them noticed

[SpaceSquid]

back in my day, we had to press buttons, nowadays kids just keep swiping on their screens.

[AMD Lover]

Okay, im fifteen and know what a freaking 8-track is. And the 13 and 16 year old. Unless they lived in a box and didnt watch the news i think they were exaggerating a bit.