Rotary Dial Telephone: These phones required users to physically rotate a dial to select each digit of a phone number.
Walkman: A portable cassette player that revolutionized how people listened to music on the go.
VHS Tapes: The dominant format for watching movies at home before DVDs and streaming.
Boombox: A large portable cassette player with built-in speakers, often carried around on shoulders.
Arcades: Dedicated spaces filled with stand-up video games and pinball machines.
Payphones: Public telephones that required coins or a phone card to operate.
Rolodex: A rotating card file used to store contact information.
Cassette Tape Cases: Used to store and organize cassette tapes.
Polaroid Cameras: Instant cameras that produced a physical photo moments after taking it.
Floppy Disks: Used to store and transfer small amounts of data between computers.
Pagers: Small devices that displayed short text messages or numeric codes.
Fax Machines: Used to send and receive documents electronically over phone lines.
Typewriters: Manual machines used to create printed documents.
Answering Machines: Recorded messages from callers when the phone was unanswered.
Beepers: Simple devices that alerted the user with a beep or vibration.
Portable TVs: Small televisions that could be carried around.
Scratch ‘n’ Sniff Stickers: Stickers that released a scent when scratched.
Trapper Keepers: Popular school binders with colorful designs and pockets.
Slap Bracelets: Bracelets that snapped around the wrist when slapped against it.
Rubik’s Cubes: A 3-D puzzle toy that became a global phenomenon in the 1980s.
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