One of my 5th grade students brought this to show me today saying “I brought you an ancient item...” He was later heard explaining to the other boys in class that this old machine didn’t even have a charger and ran on “freaking batteries”.

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image showing One of my 5th grade students brought this to show me today saying “I brought you an ancient item...” He was later heard explaining to the other boys in class that this old machine didn’t even have a charger and ran on “freaking batteries”.

YesThatMaverick on March 23rd, 2018 at 04:09 UTC »

This is where it all started for me. I still have mine and it works surprisingly.

ChadeFerret on March 23rd, 2018 at 04:24 UTC »

I mean, it's what, 3-4 times older than they are?

And on a wider scope, the leaps made in advancing of technology in the last 50 years is just incredible.

My grandma had a rotary phone that I messed with when I was five. My parents had a land-line phone with buttons (any Aussies here remember that one specific model of Telstra home phone?).

I had that indestructible Nokia mobile, and now I have an Android phone with more processing power than our family PC from 20 years ago.

c4pta1n1 on March 23rd, 2018 at 06:21 UTC »

What kind of archaic machine would still make use of AA batteries? Oh shit, my Xbox controller is dead.