This is your brain on tech. Dammit.
Sn 2 Ep 7
If you don’t think our generation uses MacGyver as a verb, the GenX Stories gang will prove you wrong. How? Because we (ironically) recorded this technology themed episode using Eve’s plan D, Mercury retrograde headphone mic. No, we’re not kidding.
From the truth about old school TV clickers, to long telephone cord strategies, to why we absolutely refuse to use TikTok now (even though we love Steve Nicks), this funny chat about the innovations that made us will take you wayyyy back.
Or at least make you turn your phone off and on again to fix it.
Episode Links
MacGyver as a verb
The history of the remote control
A brief history of the walkman
Why vinyl is making a comeback in 2020
Phones (and cords) of the 80s
Pagers were hip in 1985
Evolution of the cell phone
Lori’s first cell phone
Gordon Gecko's phone/brick in the 1987 movie, Wall Street
Ellen asking younger people to use old tech
How does MapQuest work?
The Strand bookstore in NYC
Dreams Challenge TikTok guy