Technology sure has come a long way over the last few decades.
How about this for a visual comparison. Earlier this week, we showed you a video of a frustrated toddler trying to use a magazine like an iPad. Below is a "Sesame Street" clip from thirty years ago originally posted on YouTube, which depicts a bunch of frustrated school children trying to explain what a computer is.
One young pupil describes the bewildering machine as "something that you write on and press buttons on." Given that this was pre-Internet age, we have to say, the kid's limited explanation isn't totally inaccurate.
Some of the students' other answers are pretty cute, though rather ambiguous. Without computers, all these classic clips would be lost to us forever.
Watch for yourself:
Here is the 1-year-old that thinks magazines are just broken iPads. It's obviously impossible to know just what's going through the mind of the child in this video from Jean-Louis Costanza. But given how she interacts with an iPad with ease and seems frustrated by magazines, it definitely gives the appearance that she wishes that issue of Marie Claire had multi-touch capabilities.
But with the iPad, you can't smell the perfume samples!
How about this for a visual comparison. Earlier this week, we showed you a video of a frustrated toddler trying to use a magazine like an iPad. Below is a "Sesame Street" clip from thirty years ago originally posted on YouTube, which depicts a bunch of frustrated school children trying to explain what a computer is.
One young pupil describes the bewildering machine as "something that you write on and press buttons on." Given that this was pre-Internet age, we have to say, the kid's limited explanation isn't totally inaccurate.
Some of the students' other answers are pretty cute, though rather ambiguous. Without computers, all these classic clips would be lost to us forever.
Watch for yourself:
Here is the 1-year-old that thinks magazines are just broken iPads. It's obviously impossible to know just what's going through the mind of the child in this video from Jean-Louis Costanza. But given how she interacts with an iPad with ease and seems frustrated by magazines, it definitely gives the appearance that she wishes that issue of Marie Claire had multi-touch capabilities.
But with the iPad, you can't smell the perfume samples!
[via Business Insider]
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