Decades ago, before smartphones were a reality, the easiest way to find someone to ask for information or just make small talk was through phone book. Usually the lists were giant books that included addresses and other important contact information so you could find out who or what you needed at that moment.

For those who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, the phone book was extremely commonplace. After all, having one at home was almost a must if you wanted to save your time and make it easier to communicate on the phone.

Though they still meet around payphones are almost extinct today. Even if you haven’t witnessed the long-term popularity of giant payphones, you’ve probably seen a character in an old movie or TV series use one of them to make an emergency call.

Over the years, the pay phone has become obsolete due to the advent of smartphones and technological devices, and we are reminded of its existence only when we accidentally stumbled upon one of them on the street.

Launched in the 1980s, drive it was a real revolution in how people treated media reproduction. The first device was created sony and as soon as it entered the consumer market, it became a popular device among the young people of the time, who used it to listen to music anywhere due to the portability of the device.

Discman was one of the most popular ways to listen to CDs in the past decades, but it was eventually replaced by other, more modern formats until it reached our mobile phones (where we can access platforms like Spotify This Apple Music in the blink of an eye). However, despite being “forgotten”, there are still people who use diskman to remember times that will never return.

Since we are talking about disco, there is nothing better than remembering the famous cd folders. If you were a kid in the 1980s and 1990s, then having a folder full of CDs of all kinds and genres was almost a must. The item was great for organizing your collection of CDs from your favorite artists or even movies that lost their box for some reason. Of course, today they have not completely disappeared, but they are no longer as popular as they used to be.

Given the popularity of streaming these days, it’s hard to imagine that if we wanted to watch a movie at home, we’d have to buy it physically or rent it from a well-known online retailer. video stores. This type of establishment was a real craze in the 80s and 90s, as it was the best place to find VHS tapes – or DVDs in the future – of that movie you couldn’t see in theaters.

Video rental stores left a lot of nostalgia for moviegoers who loved to spend hours analyzing store shelves and different genres of films. The coolest thing is that even in the days of streaming, video stores have not completely disappeared and some establishments there are still resisting.

Another thing that almost no one remembers that one day it became a reality is writing paper. Before the advent of the Internet and the latest generation of devices that are available to us today, communication was mainly carried out by phone or, especially, by letters.

When they were popular, stationery came in a variety of styles to suit every taste and occasion. There were models with prints, with cute or striped patterns – there was no shortage of variety. The papers were so iconic that many people even made collections of them.

A few years ago when a music video for a band or artist was on MTV, has been synonymous with absolute success. The television channel shaped generations in the 1980s and 1990s as it was one of the world’s primary ways to hear about music industry news that had not yet been guided by platforms like Spotify.

MTV’s programming was saturated with music content, with music video programs being the most popular. You were just sitting at home on the couch and getting a flurry of music videos from the artists of the time, which eventually changed when YouTube appeared.

Do you remember pager? If not, let’s refresh your memory: Quite popular in the 80’s and 90’s, pagers were devices that were used to communicate between people and could be said to be the forerunner of mobile phones, or cell phones of the future. So having a pager at that time was like telling the world how modern you are.

Over the years, advances in technology have led pagers to the bottom of many people’s suitcases, making them obsolete today.

Although its popularity in Brazil extended into the early 2000s, the first cups appeared here in the mid-1990s and won a place in the hearts of the public with their high collectible content. Whether with the face of a character from Funny melodies or pokemonthe fact is that tazos delighted children at recess at schools, especially when the right piece was inside the snack.

Considered the father of removable devices, diskette another ancient gem that has sunk into oblivion these days. The device was created in the 1960s, but gained popularity in the 90s when it was used to store or move files on different computers (in case the floppy disk is not of your time, just think that it basically worked like a flash drive) .

The rectangular floppy disk may seem like an obsolete technology today, but its creation was extremely important for the future of data and file storage.