Can You Hear Me Now?
Before touchscreen and push buttons, people used this type of telephone by turning a dial for each digit.
What is a rotary phone?
Before streaming playlists, people played these large, flat discs on a turntable.
What are records?
This handheld device lets you change the channel without leaving the couch.
What is a remote control (tv remote)?
Before email and word processing programs, letters were written on this machine and sent through the mail.
What is a typewriter
Before Cell phones, one had to look out for this enclosed structure containing a public telephone.
What is a phone booth?
In those famous Verizon commercials, "Can you hear me now?" was used to test strength of this.
What is a cell phone signal?
Popular in the 1980s, this portable cassette player let people listen to music through headphones, while on the go.
What is a Walkman?
Before DVRs and streaming, people used this machine to record programs/tv shows onto VHS tapes.
Bonus: VHS and VCR stand for these two phrases.
What is a VCR?
Bonus: What are "Video Home System" and "Video Cassette Recorder?"
Before email attachments, this machine sent copies of documents over a telephone line.
What is a fax machine?
Prior to the Internet, there were these pages that contained peoples addresses and phone numbers.
What are the White Pages?
Unlike a cell phone, this wireless phone only works within range of a base connected to a landline.
What is a cordless phone?
Instead of buying records or CDs, people now use services like Spotify and Apple Music to list to millions of songs online.
What is music streaming?
Before cable and streaming, viewers adjusted these two metal rods on top of a small black-and-white television to improve the picture quality.
What are "rabbit ears?"
Before email and instant messaging, people used this service to send brief, urgent written messages over long distances.
What is a telegram.
The slang term that describes a secondary, more private Instagram account that someone shares with only selected friends.
What is a finsta?
Lily Tomlin's character, Ernestine famously said,"one ringy-dingy, two ringy-ding...," while operating this cord-and-plug telephone device.
What is a telephone switchboard
Introduced in 2001, this pocket-sized Apple device was advertised as holding "1000 songs in your pocket."
What is the iPod?
Although televisions were available in the late 1940s, they became a major fixture in American homes during this decade.
What are the 1950s?
Launched by Google in 2004, this email service gave users far more storage than most competitors at the time.
What is Gmail?
On TikTok, this personalized stream of recommended videos is commonly abbreviated "FYP>"
What is the For Your Page?
Dial zero, give a telephone operator the country, city, and number, wait to be connected, and watch the minutes, because every one of these cost money per minute.These are the steps we once were required to use in order to do this.
What is place an overseas telephone call?
Short for "high fidelity, this term described stero systems designed to reproduce recorded music with clear realistic sound.
What is hi-fi?
A television viewer from the 1950s might be amazed that today, "What's on TV.?" can be answered with "Whatever you want - whenever you want" thanks to this.
What is streaming services?
Before Gmail, people used dial-up services such as CompuServe and this famous announcement told users, "You've got mail."
What is AOL/America Online
People once had to finish a roll of film and wait for their pictures to be developed; today this device lets them take and instantly view photos.
What is a SmartPhone?