Crikey

WTF, dude, get out of my pocket!

Pockets have come a long way

Wait... My phone can play cassettes and cd's? Freaking awesome!

nah, the speakers from that boombox are not in my pocket.

The single CD amongst all that analog media seems so much like an anachronism that I had to look it up. The CD standard was published in 1980 and it was commercially available in the US in 1983 but it took until 1992 for CD sales to surpass cassette tape sales.

I've lived both, am fully addicted to my phone, and genuinely believe we were better off then.

Even ignoring the joke with the dude fitting into your pocket, I cannot fit full over-ear cans I to my pocket... This is just lies.

My double standard is that when I see someone with a boombox playing music in public, I'm chill and open to it. When someone does the same thing on their phone, I must work to enhance my calm.

Is it the sound quality? Maybe in part. But there's more to it.

Missing:

A game console
All the maps in the world + compass
Gigantic notepad
Calendar
Entire stack of catalogs
Newspapers
Thermostat
A whole fucking supercomputer
An entire building-sized stack of photo albums
Flashlight
An sycophant assistant who makes shit up just to keep you happy.

When I was young, I had a bucket list of all the fun gadgets I wanted - a camera, a video camera, a nice stereo system, a portable stereo system, a car stereo, lots of records, a TV, a VCR, a computer, etc. Making a Christmas list was easy, even if I knew I would never get 99% of it.

Now I get asked what I want for Christmas, and I have no idea what to say. My phone includes nearly everything I've ever wanted, including stuff I never thought of. Give me my phone, my guitar, a sandwich, and a bottle of water, and I'm pretty much set for life.

I dont have a human being inside my pocket.

Huh, you have a dude in your pants now, congrats.

how big are your damn pockets?

That lucky guy gets to own his things!

Me, from the the future, explaining this meme to people in 1987: We developed new textiles that support giant pockets with incredible durability.

I prefer the things on the picture. Look how many cool gadgets you could have, now you're just computer user.

I don't where the dude fits.

You cannot fit three sets of headphones in your pocket without them fucking up your phone or your wallet.

You absolutely positively 100% cannot fit a VHS player inside your pocket.

I wish I had a boombox with a cassette player in my pocket.

Print me something

TBF, the stereo speakers probably sound better and are certainly capable of being much louder than my phone speakers. But yeah, miles better in every other capacity.

Is think this is the most pedantic comment section I've seen so far

Hmm

Want to really feel old? It's been that way for around 20 years now.

The forgot the encyclopedia set and a couple thousand books and a few hundred video tapes.

Except for my lack of self awareness, which I wear dripping down my sleeve.

I'm fairly certain that 80's Joe Burrow can't fit in my pocket

Baggy pants are back, baby!

Wish I could (even excl the dude), but women's clothes and phone sizes don't match

I'm more than 50% sure I briefly worked with this guy.

Pretty sure I cannot fit 3 VHS tapes in my pocket. Pockets have not really gotten bigger

jokes on you, I still wear jnkos.

Kinda miss having discrete tech devices to be honest. In the era of non-replaceable phone memory trying to juggle space to hold it all on one device sucks.

There's no way I can fit this dude in there!

When I went on a trip in the early 2000s, I took a phone, a satnav, an MP3 player, a camera and for longer trips a netbook with a UMTS stick (3G modem you could plug into a USB port). Plus all the associated chargers, cables and other gubbins. I felt really cool and modern with my huge, clunky tech bag. Now that seems quaint and outdated. I wonder if people will feel the same about smartphones in 20 years.

Only if you are paying for data access.

Yes and we’re all the better for it!

Ah yes I remember wearing 3 personal cassette players, and a disc man at the same fricking time.

Have you seen the size of pockets back then?

The funny part is that my phone always falls from my pocket

Alarmed by the intimation that the bloke has been cremated or compacted somehow.

You forgot books and magazines