Our Children Will Never Know The Link Between The Two…

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  • Junk

    To heck with children, I wonder how many CURRENT site visitors have no idea what the link is!

    I can still feel how they spun together…

    • Jyotsna Kandpal

      Really man… even I think many visitors won’t even have an idea about what the link refers to…. I loved that winding the tape back but it used to bore me too…. lol

  • Adam Myles

    ahh the good old days of having your tape deck eat the damn tape, how many minutes/hours total in life were wasted winding the tape backup, HOPING it did not distort the sound during the best parts of your favorite song…

  • Beggingquestions

    umm, I give up?…

    • Anonymous

      seriously?? how old are you??

      • lame sauce

        considering CDs have been the norm for the last 15 years or so….how old are YOU?

        • Anonymous

          i knew what’s the connection between these 2 things..

          if you said that CDs have been the norm for the last 15 years or so, the person who didn’t know these may be 15 years old or younger..

          • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000049574720 Neal Lehman

            So a 3 year old 15 years ago would still understand this connection?

          • Anonymous

            maybe not

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_R5WN56O5Q3XIWDEYNTFOHFHIFQ Mike p

    I always had better luck using my pinky finger to be honest….

    • http://www.makeuseof.com/answers Tina

      Worked better, but also hurt more.

  • Guest

    What are those?

  • http://twitter.com/Mickeelp Mickeel Pramono

    Haha, I still remember when I used to rewind those things, when I’ve nothing to do.. XD

  • TrickAAAY

    reminds me of copying them with two jam boxes. now all you gotta do is snag songs off the interwebs. kids these days are spoiled… and FYI, I was born in 81 and graduated in 2000 (woot!)

  • Anonymous

    Reynolds ball-point pen’s blue cap used to be the perfect fit..

  • jay78

    For me I remember a butter knife worked better than the pencil.

  • EUDOXIO

    Be Kind…. Rewind! xD

  • Qemi

    BIC Pen forever.

  • http://twitter.com/mocax Moca Xu

    omg… but i always used me pinky… :(

  • Jecca

    FTR, I’m 26 and I get the connection. Now, MY kids may never get it but don’t count out us 20somethings! I also know that “Beta” was before VHS and that my parents played their vinyl records on a record player (and yes, I have seen them and no, I don’t collect them to be “ironic”).

    • Audio Nerdess

      Just wait….FYI Beta was actually a superior tape format to VHS quality but lost in the consumer market mainly due to marketing.  Beta technology is actually still used and was principally used as the broadcast master format of the programming you watch on TV in both analogue and digital form professionally for over 10 years.  

      • http://www.makeuseof.com/answers Tina

        Thanks for the clarification!

        It was kind of the same situation we recently saw with Blu-ray and HD DVD.

  • Some

    REWIND!

  • http://twitter.com/Kimaloo Kimberly Hollowell

    Ahhh… I cannot tell you how many cassettes my Walkman ate when I was kid. Glad I always my “emergency repair pencil handy.” lol

  • http://twitter.com/bfred_it Federico Brigante

    True, so what? I’m sure you don’t even know what’s that thing your grandpa kept in the basement. It’s life.

  • Nimoth

    Darn, why did I never think of this tool? Would have left me with intakt pinkies now. But isn’t the pencil too slim?

  • Scott_T

    also using the eraser to clean your heads

  • http://twitter.com/abdelhafidcom cherair abdelhafid

    gosh , we used to turn the damn tape with those ugly pencils … i’m pretty sure our children will never ever find out about this magical way …. 

  • Peter

    I’m still using them in my Volvo….

  • Artem Oganesyan

    The only way to rewind with dead batteries in player )) really nice to remember

  • Guest

    wow I’m 18, I’ve never used one, and I still know what the connection is.

  • Rhyous

    My wife and I got a kick out of this.

  • LovesToSpooge

    Who cares?!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1656207163 Shreya Dahal

    Im 17 and I remember how I used to do it with my little finger..

  • 15 year old

    I’m 15 and I got it…my pinky finger always worked better though.

  • http://profiles.google.com/mr.carlos.medina Carlos Medina

    I remember rewinding with my pencil to save my walkman’s batteries xD

  • Luingar

    I’m 20, and though it took me a while, i got it. I’m pretty sure i’m at the very border of people who will get it though ;_;

  • milamber

    If you want a better “test” ask anyone under the age of 21 to change the film (roll) in a camera. :D

  • Zero_moonknight

    Oh those spoiled children who don’t have to waste their time winding their magnetic tapes back up. It’s almost like a whole generation cursed the damned things, and came up with a better product. I wonder what other terrible things our children have to go through because of our innovations.

  • Steve

    I’m such an old fart that I remember “record albums” that really were albums, books with pocketed pages for 10-inch 78RPM disks. The disks were _not_ vinyl, but a brittle hard rubber composition that would shatter if dropped. The first vinyl LP I bought was monophonic, because my family didn’t own a stereo player. I didn’t find out until a few years ago that I was born in the year that the ENIAC was dedicated.

  • Seraphensemble

    Why didnt any one ever invent a mini crank winder for the thing. Guess that wouldnt sell now huh?

  • Vegasboomhaur

    my tape deck had a REWIND button….

  • http://twitter.com/yang_yang_li Yang Yang Li

    I know what it is, but those pencils don’t work

  • John

    Keep in mind there are clueless people in every generation.  Even in the cassette days there would be people who didn’t use them (or fix them!)

  • http://acrankinesssingularity.blogspot.com ferricoxide

    Then again, how many of “our children” would even recognize the item at the top of the image, let alone how the two items relate.

  • Guest

    I’m 14 and even I could tell from the first look at what you use this for you obviously had to write a letter on what to do with that gizmo to the apple store Right?

  • http://www.facebook.com/EmilyRubiksVernon Emily Rubik’s Vernon

    I rocked out to a walkman cassette player until 2004! I loved it!

  • Covenant Eldar

    I used the cap of a pen

  • boweser is spikey

    *facepalm*
    i always used my thumbwho new a pencil would be faster