If you were lucky enough to grow up in the 90s, you might remember Beyond 2000. We watched in awe at the magic that awaited the world in the decades to come: cutting-edge innovations and seemingly over-the-top predictions of how people would live and work in the 21st century.
We saw mobile “porter office” devices, featuring touch-sensor keypads, handwriting notebooks, and speech recognition. We heard that homes and offices would one day have voice-controlled automation. We simply could not believe it.
Fast forward to now, and we have all that and more. But we’ve experience our fair share of dinosaur tech to get here. Chunky computers, brick-sized mobile phones, portable cassette players and game cartridges are just a few of the gems the kids of today will never know.
Thankfully, all the nostalgic memories are being kept alive by a community dedicated to sharing pics of Retro Tech. The page provides an epic trip back in time and Bored Panda has put together some of its best posts.
#1 An Ancient Diagnostic Computer, And It Still Works. 1991 As Far As I Can Tell
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#2 Saw This In A Pawn Shop, Had To Let Go But Thought Is Was Cool
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#3 Finished Stage 1 Of My Screen Altar Today
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#4 Old Phone
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#5 Asked My Grandpa If He Had A Cd Player, Gave Me Something Better
I have tested it and it plays my music CDs amazingly, the original Nickel-Cadnium batteries even hold a charge longer than 2 hours. I’m very surprised on how well this was preserved in my Grandpa’s office room closet. All I am missing is the manual.
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#6 I Still Game On A 21 Year Old Portable Gaming Console
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#7 My Desk
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#8 Found This TV At Goodwill For $3. I Knew It Wouldn’t Pick Up Channels, But It Fired Right Up!
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#9 Nokia 7210 Prototype I Found At A Flea Market (Still Fully Functional)
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#10 Cold War Listening Equipment
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#11 I Found My Old Pager From 1996
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#12 My Early-2000s Sony-Inspired Crt Room — The Displays, Games, And Switching Setup
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#13 Found My Early 2000 – City Survival Kit
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#14 Just Found This Calculator
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#15 Rotary Dial Telephones!
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#16 Stacked Surgical And Monitoring Equipment From Abandoned Medical Building
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#17 My Vintage Computer Collection.. Some Serious Old-School Hardware
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#18 Seiko Smartwatch (1982)
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#19 Saved From The Bin: The Pons Franklin Dbd-1680 Bookman III, An Electronic Dictionary
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#20 Vintage “Printomatic” Mechanical Lever Voting Machine
Still has a primary election from 1998.
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#21 Play Those Fancy New Cassette Tapes On Your Trusty 8-Track Player!
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#22 Got This Thing For Free
Saved it from being trashed. Everything is working except the cassette deck.
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#23 Found This In A Rv
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#24 They Don’t Make Them Like They Used To
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#25 Weird Mouse I Found At The Thrift Store
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#26 I Found This TV On Fb Market Place And Used A Bunch Of Adapters To Play Games On It And Wanted To Share Somewhere
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#27 I Think I’ve Started A Collection
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#28 How Do I Use A Husky Hunter
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#29 Got This Whole Set For $120 Total
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#30 Google TV On Old Crt TV… Still Watchable
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#31 I Really Love My iPod
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#32 So The Disk Goes In The Keyboard?
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#33 Grandmother’s TV In 2008
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#34 Cars 2007 TV/DVD
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#35 My Office Is Coming Together
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#36 New Purchases
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#37 Windows Xp Fullbox
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#38 Lovely Oscilloscope
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#39 I Guess This Is Where Things Like This Are Appreciated!
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#40 My Family Bought Some Property And Found This In A Ditch. No Clue How Long It Was There, But It Doesn’t Look Terrible
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#41 Found A Fully Working Win98 Computer In A Abandoned Building
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#42 The Executive Decision Maker Makes My Decisions For Me
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#43 Mac Plus Crooked Screen
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#44 Pretty Nice MD Player
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#45 My iPhone 2g 8gb ( Working Well!)
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#46 Massive Hdd That Stores A Whopping 16mb Of Data
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#47 Thought You Guys Might Enjoy This. I Set Up My Ps1 As My Main Cd Player, Sounds So Crisp. Highly Recommend It
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#48 1953 Numechron Tymeter Clock
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#49 Cool Thing I Found At The Thrift Store
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#50 Did You Know Apple Used To Make PC Mouse This Weird?
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#51 Found On Photo Slide In Grandparents House
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#52 Was Downsizing Our House And Came Across The Box For My Single Days
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#53 So My Friend Gave Me This
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#54 Headphones In A Cassette Case
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#55 Got This Old TV From Someone
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#56 Bought A House, Has A Wired Intercom System
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#57 Thoughts On This Old Unit
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#58 Found At A Yard Sale For $10
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#59 Most Of My Family’s Pre-Touchscreen Phones
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#60 Sony Walkman Wd-60 Evaluation
Found this in my attic, used to be my dads. Seeing all sorts of different prices online. Anyone know if it’s got actual value and could anyone provide a ballpark price? Thanks
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#61 Motorola T900 2-Way Pager Conversion
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#62 My Retro Tech Collection
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#63 Credit‑Card PDA From 1997: Revisiting The Rex PC Companion 28 Years Later
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#64 Ken Cook Sr100 Student Console I Found Today. Very Little Info Of It Online
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#65 Texas Instruments Calculator
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#66 Sony Clié Peg-Nx80v Running Palm Os 5
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#67 Looks Like A Pager But It’s Just A Clock. The Display Is Broken Unfortunately
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#68 My Computer Speaker I Made When I Was A Kid
When I was 10 years old I got a free tube radio with burned circuits and ripped apart. Using some resistors, some LEDs, and an old computer speaker circuit, I managed to make a volume-controlled speaker using the original buttons and speaker.
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#69 Still Works After 15 Years
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#70 Who Remembers Vacuum Tube Banking??
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#71 Sony Px333
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