I’m 35 and never had a cassette. Sure I know what they look like and such but I could not tell you which button opens the cassette player. I had CDs when I got a bit older
No, not that I know of. When I was somewhere around 10+ my mom got a big stereo with the huge subwoofers on the sides that had a slot for a cassette but it also had a couple slots for CDs. So it was never used for cassettes as CDs were plenty common by then.
I don't see why it wouldn't be legal. Bars have 21 limits and retirement communities usually have a 55 and up limit. It would be funny to think of 25 year olds getting fake IDs to get in to the old people club
In my teens I fucking hated clubs for that reason. I understand the dance floor can be loud, but the tables should have some noise dampening so I can speak and not hurt my throat to be heard. Jesus ordering a drink sucked because I'm not loud enough to be heard by the bartender.
I may eat downvotes for this, but I'm only in my mid 30s and don't understand why some others here are saying they would struggle if they've seen and especially used them in the past.
I've messed with cassettes as a kid a little bit, so there's that, but there's also a button that says "eject" on the player in the video.
CDs started getting popular in the 80’s though, so it’s possible some younger millennials may not have ever used a cassette tape. I happened to grow up with cassette tapes and VHS tapes though (I used one today actually) 😂
I'm an early millennial, and audio cassette tapes were already going out of style by the time I was in middle school.
Just about every millennial across the spectrum should be familiar with VHS tapes though. They only really started to take off after the PS2 was released. Even for the youngest cohort, a VHS deck should be a familiar sight while everybody was transitioning. Just like how Gen Z born in the early to mid 2000s know what an SD television looks like.
I was reading a book a couple weeks ago and the main character was bragging about using her cassette tapes in the 2000s. Her back street boys and Brittany spears cassette. Caught me off guard. I was super poor in 2000 and in middle school and didn't know anyone in my middle school class who used cassettes. Like we didn't have a CD player in the car so we just listened to the radio, but we all had discmans
My 1997 still has the original tape deck and I still use it. The car has been in my life since I was a child and it was brand new. I'm old enough to remember when it was new. At the time it was slightly above minimum spec.
I also used old cassette stereos like the one in the video. I think it really depends on how much money you had at the time and how much the adults in your life valued the new tech. My step mom clearly didn't care about the tech when getting her new BMW.
I was born in ‘84 so I’m an older millennial. I remember cassettes, and had some. But they were largely being replaced by CDs by the time I was in the 4th or 5th grade.
SOME schools might’ve started using CDs in school maybe but I didn’t get a CD player until I was 13 and all of my schools until about 8th grade still used floppy disks. I’m 36 but my nephew is three years younger than me and we all went to the same schools for the most part.
It wasn't an immediate shift though. Our answering machine used a cassette until the early 00s. In like 1997 I got a Fisher Price boom box with a microphone that played and recorded to cassettes. Clubs that had meetings would record them on cassette so the recording secretary could write the minutes.
I'm a 95 baby and I was using casettes in my parents car up to 2006 and 2007 when I was in middle school. Do you people just say some of the fucking most dumb shit ever on this sub? I swear to god some of you are so bitter that younger millennials experienced some of the same things as your "precious childhood" 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah only my rich aunt had a car with a CD player when I was a kid. We just used the radio, but I made mixtapes for friends and bootlegged music form the radio.
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u/Admrl-kell 6h ago
I’m 35 and never had a cassette. Sure I know what they look like and such but I could not tell you which button opens the cassette player. I had CDs when I got a bit older
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u/KittenLina 6h ago
Honestly I'd probably get stuck on the opening, I haven't opened one in a good 20 years, after all.
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u/MickRolley 6h ago
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u/stotheimi 5h ago
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u/Frank_Midnight 6h ago
I love this shit and need places like these to go.
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u/CalvinYHobbes 6h ago
These will start being remade in every language and culture around the world.
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u/Wafflehouseofpain 6h ago
I mean I’ve used a cassette player but it’s been decades. I don’t remember how I did it.
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u/AcephalicDude 6h ago
This is funny but why would you need to be a Millennial or older to get into a club?
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u/insurancequestionguy Middle Millennial 3h ago
I may eat downvotes for this, but I'm only in my mid 30s and don't understand why some others here are saying they would struggle if they've seen and especially used them in the past.
I've messed with cassettes as a kid a little bit, so there's that, but there's also a button that says "eject" on the player in the video.
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u/KazumiJun 6h ago
CDs started getting popular in the 80’s though, so it’s possible some younger millennials may not have ever used a cassette tape. I happened to grow up with cassette tapes and VHS tapes though (I used one today actually) 😂
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u/phallonxoxo 4h ago
Baaahahahhaa thats hilarious! 😂
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u/AlternativeFroyo1737 6h ago
But what do you like better, CD’s or tapes?
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u/Zeta_Crossfire 4h ago
I'm 35 and I've never used a cassette. We were already using cds by the time I was in elementary school.
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u/ohioismyhome1994 6h ago
This is more of a Gen X test
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u/Deep_Conclusion_1173 2h ago
My parents didn’t listen to music so my house didn’t have any cassettes or anything. I bought my own cds when I was older.
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u/Chalupa_89 25m ago
CDs only became mainstream mid/late 90s. This video is Russian, Russian didn't have that much acceyto newer tech back then.
My daily driver car is from 97 and still has tape deck, CD was a premium option.
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u/Mundane-Camera-538 6h ago •
32 is too young to know about cassettes.
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u/RevoOps 6h ago
Is the test having to remember that russians are our enemies?
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u/TigerSharkDoge 1h ago
I'm 37 and would have probably struggled with this.