I’d get sleepy with the lights turned off to use this.

[-]

kalitarios@reddit

my current job (when I go into the office) still has one of these. I work remotely now, but they had one in there and nobody knew what it was, so I had to tell them.

[-]

My school district either had the 3M brand or the Elmo. My computer teacher in MS has a glass transparency unit that hooked up to his Apple. He would use it to show us how to use Claris Works. It was kept in a special pelican case. My 8th grade math teacher had a scientific calc for the overhead as well.

[-]

grandchester@reddit

Everyone brings the overhead projector up. What I remember are the slide shows or filmstrips that play with an audio cassette that beeped to go to the next slide. I can still hear the sound of the changing slides in my head.

[-]

WHRocks@reddit

You forgot the ditto worksheets. I can still smell them.

[-]

crazyk4952@reddit

Why was the ink always purple?

[-]

WHRocks@reddit

Not sure, but my kiddo asked me if that's why the Pokemon, Ditto, is purple. My mind was blown lol.

[-]

blacktrufflesheep@reddit

Sometimes, the kid selected to be in charge of changing slides at the beep would get confused and turn the dial the wrong way.

[-]

SpaceBowie2008@reddit

That is AI. Don’t fall into this trap of losing vigilance. AI is going to make all media soulless. Corporations want this to happen so they don’t have to pay actual artists. Also, don’t post obvious AI slop.

[-]

user08182019@reddit

What is AI?

[-]

Suitable_Garlic_1186@reddit

And the CRT and VHS in a rollable cabinet..

[-]

meatsaballz@reddit

My classes had the version with the seemingly infinite scroll attachment so that teachers could rewind to last Wednesday and be like, “See, we covered this.”

[-]

Kinetic_Silverwolf@reddit

My high school chemistry teacher had one of those so that he could write out long equations.

During prank week we borrowed the spray water bottle he used for cleaning that infinite scroll and replaced half the water with flat Sprite.

[-]

detourne@reddit

I've even taught using one.

[-]

Rubik842@reddit

I used one of these back in the day with a VGA device sitting on top to VJ at parties. I still have the PC I did it with.

[-]

guiltypleasures82@reddit

Lol when I worked as a teacher in 2005 I still had one of these.

[-]

One-Earth9294@reddit

Yeah people overestimate school budgets if they think old tech gets phased out that quickly.

[-]

ES_Legman@reddit

We had them in uni as well and I hated when lectures used them because it made them so boring and dull

[-]

Weirdingyeoman@reddit

I don't know what it was but these things would put me to sleep within minutes.

[-]

djsynrgy@reddit

Anything that dimmed the room lights. These, film projectors, TV carts; all used to knock me TF out.

I mean, they still do, but they used to, too.

[-]

Far-Ad-9798@reddit

Rip Mitch

[-]

S_A_R_K@reddit

I had a pre calc teacher that used this every single day. 5th period, right after lunch. Not good when you typically got high during lunch

[-]

reannuh@reddit

Also had a pre calc teacher that used this but our class was first period… and the room was always really warm. Also not a good scenario 🙃

[-]

Professional-Car9621@reddit

To me this reminds me of the late 80s- early 90s

[-]

Crazydiamond450@reddit

I hated sitting by them, they were so hot

[-]

Any_Stress_5987@reddit

Yes this was in use while I was in highschool.

[-]

kimchiman85@reddit

Same

[-]

Derp35712@reddit

I remember when some guy pull out his dick and put it on it.

[-]

mareimbrium53@reddit

I actually now own one of these! I won an old one in a raffle. It's great for drawing something small you want to trace onto something bigger like a banner.

[-]

Urbanmech1@reddit

I remember misspelling again as agian in front of the entire class. Still traumatized

[-]

mattchewy43@reddit

My first job was with McDonald's. I started in January 1997. Eventually I got into management and as late as 2009 our operations director would use these in meetings. I remember one time I had to give a presentation and got to make my own "slides".

[-]

Smokeythemagickamodo@reddit

I always liked those precious few moments when the teacher had to align the transparency card thing.

[-]

makeshift101@reddit

Was always fun when you got to go up and mark on it instead of the teacher

[-]

GravyPainter@reddit

One of the halogen lightbulbs in these blow up when i was sitting right next it. I ducked under my desk because it so loud.

[-]

CorkFado@reddit

cries in film strip

I also remember the anthem being played on a 45 RPM every morning over the intercom in elementary school.

[-]

59apache01@reddit

I was the one who had to change the bulbs in those things. I had one teacher who would use this instead of the chalkboard.

[-]

smellmyfingerplz@reddit

Even in college we still had a those in math classes

[-]

hayekd@reddit

This reminds me how annoying it was to copy down everything for notes to study. I could never write quickly and neatly enough! When I returned to school a few years ago and you could download presentations my grades went up. Finally I could focus on the presentation and not on copying every little bit of info.

[-]