Let's post clips of technology that is toally alien to kids these days

[The Great Saiyaman]

Well, these days technology is evolving at such an enormous pace that tech we took for granted when we were kids would be totally alien to modern day kids.

So let's post clips which show, have people talk about or sing about that kind of tech which makes a kid go "Wait, WHAT does it do?"

I'll start with a couple of songs.

Paul Simon "Kodachrome"
The sheer concept that one took pictures by exposing light to a special kind of film which involves no flash memory will have kids baffled.


Stan Ridgeway "Calling out to Carol"
Well the concept of a telephone hasn't changed and kids these days spend more time with a telephone in their hands than doing anything else. So this song should be easy for a kid to understand, until Ridgeway goes "a message from a wire going through a wall."


Bruce Springsteen "57 channels (And nothing's on)"
Play this song to a modern day kid and they'll say "57 channels, THAT FEW?" Not to mention the TV itself, flat screens take up much less space nowadays.


Cornershop "Brimful of Asha"
Show a modern day kid this music video and they will ask "What is that girl doing, what are those?" But the song is also about the UK radio station "45" which played Indian Bollywood music, the singers and bands are mentioned in the lyrics


Frank Black "Whatever happened to Pong?"
With video games having become as big a production as they have, who of us remember the day that two moving digital blocks shooting a tiny block in between them was something which could occupy a kid for hours...