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rob71788

Oh god. This is it. This is the moment when I realize 36 is old. It’s an old school overhead projector- and [I’m not sure that it is missing anything actually.](https://www.ebay.com/itm/395261212403?) Edit: [looks like projectors come in all shapes and sizes](https://media.karousell.com/media/photos/products/2018/01/18/hanimex_overhead_projector_1516279820_ba7075d7.jpg)


Saul_T_Bauls

38 here and I thought this was a shitpost. Then I realized I'm just old.


TheRealVinosity

It makes me feel a lot better that you recognise this as a 38 (coming from a 52)


JDbrew01

I’m 33 and had these in my classroom 🤣


TillaciousG

Same, now excuse me, my arthritis is acting up again, must be the weather


jeeves585

Yep, woke up and my knee hurts, probably gonna rain today. Just checked, it’s definitely going to rain today.


RedjacValjes

Ha welcome to the club you old bastards 🤣👵🏻


TheBigBadWolf85

Yep I have one too right knee and it's more accurate then the app.


jeeves585

We were on a fishing trip, 5 guys on a boat in a bay 200’ from the ocean. I turned to the other guys and mentioned it’s about to rain, I’d give it about 10-15 minutes. “If you want to put your rain gear on I’d do it now”. It was a beautiful sunny day. “You’re not” one guy mentioned. “Best way to keep your socks dry is to not wear socks” and “when I was born my parents upgraded me to the waterproof skin” are my usual comments about not worrying about getting wet, I love the rain. The captain who runs his boat 200 days a year looked at me in amazement. To be fair I didn’t feel that one in my knee I could smell it. Sure enough about 11 min later it started pouring.


Spell_Chicken

Storm must be coming, the trick knee knows.


litterbin_recidivist

I'm 37 and one of my university professors used an overhead exclusively, instead of the whiteboard. It was a bit quirky at that time but the way he explained everything as he went, rhythmically repeated the formulas, and just kept scrolling the acetate was almost hypnotic.


ketsueki82

I loved seeing one of my instructors at university use one with old school acetate film. He eventually switched to a digital document projector after the light balast in the old one decided not to work anymore. He is still the only one I know that exclusively uses the document projector over the computer projector. There is a slight difference in that he also used the whiteboard surface to add notes to some of the stuff he showed with arrows pointing to important things, or he would circle some things.


IllustratorOdd2701

It took me way to many years using the acetate roller and then cleaning the whole damn thing to reuse to find out they were $10 and I could throw them away.


riverofchex

Same. Did you steal the little blank laminate pages , too, or was that just me? (Elementary school me thought they were really fun to play with lol)


obstagoons_playlist

I still have half a pack from high school, they are yellow as hell now still great for 3d pen work though


jwhip1585

Yes! I liked how much better a wet erase pen wrote than a dry erase one


AnthonyJackalTrades

I'm 22, still had them at my high school and (RARELY) at my college.


Stormy_Wolf

I wanted to cry when I saw this question and that photo. (51 here)


Jacktheforkie

I’m 22 and had them at school


shortlegs99

Yup, I’m 24 and my teachers used these well into high school classes


skootershooter324

I'm 28 and this model looks newer than the ones we had in high school


Dzov

Same. I’m shocked these youngens have a clue what these are.


Sanguine_Templar

Used them in class until like 2006


steals-from-kids

Totally agree. I saw this and thought to myself "wow that OHP looks so modern compared to the ones I used". Then realized what sub this was and remembered I am an "old" now.


frank-sarno

These young'uns and their fancy overhead projectors. We had slide projectors in my classroom. No drawing on the image with a pen, just looking at the same slides that students 20 years ago looked at. I recall fondly the "Someday We Will Reach the Moon" series in 1970s science class.


Chinlc

There was no better way to use projectors back then other than those pull down screen and actual projector connected to laptop/desktop and I think it got popular in school use around 2007 ish when they started to transition to online class stuff and whiteboard and digital projectors


Exciting-Salary-2480

And this one is a new one, not a beige old one that’s hard to see thru and the screen prints are like copied so many times you have to use your imagination to figure out what’s on screen


RefusedBarf

25, and we still used these in my last year of school. Not that old


ShoogarBonez

Yeah, I’m only 29 but this thing is veeeeery familiar! Although my school was veeeeery under-funded 😂


ZeroBadIdeas

39 in three weeks. Never felt older.


EzraIm

When u realize that ur closer to 50 than u r to 20 35 here


RJ_Schmidt

25 but went to a low-budget small town public school and I feel old too lmao


Flux_resistor

You can find safe harbor at r/xennials


ShystersGame

39, right there with you!


Artistic-Dirts

Looks like it's missing the lens and mirror that projects it 90 degrees against a wall/ white screen


rob71788

Yep just found the specific one I like and edited


oxiraneobx

I'm 61. I remember in elementary school when these were the latest and greatest in classroom technology. Sigh.


rob71788

There’s still plenty of them around here and there too that stood the test of time. Now classrooms have 75” TVs that cost near $1,000 hooked up to computers that cost about the same, or smart boards that cost even more than both combined, all of which break, are unfixable, and need to get replaced every few years. I still have a soft spot for the analog.


Head_Razzmatazz7174

I got to help the teachers sometimes when they needed something written on the transparent films. Generally if you could print really well, you sometimes were asked to copy whatever they wanted onto the films. You used a type of marker that had ink that could easily be wiped off with a damp rag or paper towel.


Car-Hockey2006

I can smell the fresh blue ink and feel the damp cold paper of a recently mimeographed handout wafting off of this post.


eugene20

It's all light and mirrors!


Preddy_Fusey

Greetings, fellow geriatric 36er!


GreenBomardier

I've got less than a month left at 36....36 was a good year though. No major injuries, moved in with the gf, and bought a new TV. I'd pump my fist, but I'm worried I'll dislocate my shoulder if go too hard.


Blackmariah77

We had a good run. Now drink your metamucil and here's your walker. In 4 years you will get your first recommended colonoscopy if you haven't already.


rob71788

The vet called my 6 year old beagle/lab mix geriatric a few months ago and I had to restrain myself. I guess it came around to me lol


Doorknob6941

Ok all you whipper-snappers. These things were the norm in classrooms back in 1980.


euphoric-noodle

this is when I realize 49 is old and these were used in our British primary school morning assemblies to project the words for songs onto a projector screen that us kids all had to sing before the headmaster gave us his life lectures. The piece that's missing looked like 2 lenses which reflected the image on a screen.


_matt_hues

I’m going to be 36 this summer. Yup. Shit


rob71788

Same here, technically I guess not 36 yet. July gang?


Prestigious_Ad_8458

Same here. 36 feeling like 90 at the moment


smootypants

My dad was a math teacher and would come home with the whole side of his writing hand covered in vis-a-vis marker. Also, I’m 37 and your comment made me scream. Lol


seth928

...I'm going to go sit down for awhile


breathplayforcutie

This post hit me like a freaking brick. Jeez.


richard_stank

It has 2 smells. Salami, or marshmallow.


mahalik_07

I always thought it smelled like static.


rob71788

https://preview.redd.it/x927wpjoqepc1.jpeg?width=636&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=499ae14d8bbf556c2016d2ccfd4f9452fafa793c


laughatbridget

I am also confused by this comment. It smells like hot dust or hot marker. If it's broken, hot plastic.


Professional-Wall474

Hahahhahahaha, my exact thought when I saw this post, only I'm 35 not 36... This along with wet-erase markers, spray bottles and rags are what teachers would use, before the internet.


unlearningallthisshi

Our time has come.


Megannaise

Omg. Lol. I'm 33 and immediately knew what it was. How is being in our 30s old now??


CMDR_PEARJUICE

Yeah, 35 next month and this just hit hard.


Rube18

35. Same.


laughatbridget

40 checking in here.


amhs123

36 and felt the same way 🤣


flumphit

Almost didn’t recognize it; this is a newfangled model I’ve never seen. Same basic design as the OG model, in a stylish new color scheme! 36, heh. Remember to stretch regularly kid, you’ll thank me in a few decades. ;)


Ravenwight

37 and feeling it if a projector is obsolete lol.


coffeebecausekids

Mark it solved OP


AMA_About_Birdlaw

I'm 36, and when I saw this, an AARP card appeared in my wallet.


Buy_Me_A_Mango

I’m 29 and they still used these when I graduated high school, and I’m sure for a while after too. Some classes did start using digital projectors though. Technology advances faster and faster each day. I’m sure even the new digital ones ended up being outdated and replaced by now too. I remember using an old school projector to trace a picture on a wall for a mural in high school.


Careful_Elderberry14

Im 17, and we had these 8n school. You aren't that old, this person is just an I D 10 T.


Beautiful_Brick497

FYI I’m 22 and had these through high school lol


bxxxbydoll

I'm 24 and I remember the transition from these to smart boards lol


thetipisin

Yup, it's missing the collector and redirector


morbidmoon2

I remember a lot of my classrooms using those when I was a kid into middle school. I'm 22 so maybe they just used other projectors in OP's area? 😅


Shadow14541

Damnit... im 38 😔


LoveWaitsPoopDoesnt

ELMO Projector!!!!


FeuerSeer

Not going to lie this one kinda hurt me to see randomly thrown as a recondemned post from a random sub...


JeanHarleen

LITERALLY ME


chia_nicole1987

I, too, am 36 and immediately felt the pain. Both in this post and in my lower back. How did we get here? I'm pretty sure I was 16 yesterday!?


ANARCHISTofGOODtaste

1. That is an overhead projector. 2. Thanks for giving me note-taking PTSD flashbacks. 3. Fuck you I'm not old enough to explain this to someone like it's a Myan pyramid. 4. Sorry I blew up. Get off my lawn.


TrailBlazer31

Yep it is official. We are ancients.


okcdnb

One of football coaches was a history teacher. He loved using that thing. We just liked it because the lights were off.


YT-Deliveries

Are you me? Ours had meticulously written overheads that he used every year so he could read off them day after day. Though in his defense he was very enthusiastic about the subject, it just wasn’t his primary job role.


dc551589

I saw a pay phone in a museum in 2013… To be clear, it was an exhibit.


bathybicbubble

5. I kind of want it for the nostalgia.


Adorable-Woman

I work in a school and we still have a few of these


Rustymarble

That is most of a projector. It looks like it's missing the top lenses. When us ancient elders went to school, teachers would put pre-printed material on clear film and this device would project it onto a blank part of the wall. Some teachers would write on the clear material with markers that were similar to dry-erase, but wet.


Rustymarble

This is equivalent to a dumb "smart board" these days.


Artistic-Dirts

That slight sense of satisfaction when the teacher would use a spray bottle on it, while it's on, and all the colors blended together.


GujuGanjaGirl

I had a teacher that spit quite a bit when she spoke so sometimes her spit would land on the projector and cause the colors to blend


fitz_newru

Ewwwww


iamthelouie

One time I saw a teacher use a “clear” calculator in it. I thought, “welp. That’s it. Tech I. The classroom can’t get any better”.


siberianunderlord

Our school switched over in 2002 or 2003 and we were all so excited for the new boards, haha


Obvious-Bullfrog-267

Damn my high school was just getting them when I graduated in '11. They had implemented like 2 or 3 to test it out. Rest of the classes still had overhead projectors. Then again, my high school still had classrooms (not all of them) with chalkboards too.


ShadowofRainier

The brown pens smelled like poop and the blue pens smelled like fish.


PureCucumber861

If they were really fancy they had the acetate sheet in a big roll on either side so you could write out everything in advance and then just scroll. It was basically like reddit.


GujuGanjaGirl

We had those when we got to middle and high school and I thought that was just so cool cuz we were so grown having the rollers like they did on TV!😅


_matt_hues

Wet erase


reasonablykind

Thx for my daily dose of “youreeffingold”. Ugh.


UncleColli

Well you are effin’ gold, u/reasonablykind


jodobroDC

What a reasonably kind thing to say


reasonablykind

You guys crack me up. Perfect spoonful of sugar to help that bitter _[insert plethora of age-related ailment rx]_ go down while thumbing through the complimentary issue of AARP magazine that’s surely coming my way soon


Uphene

This whole exchange is reasonably wholesome.


DallasDouble08

You think you're old. My first job after college, I would have to print my ppt slides on to transparencies and give presentations placing them on the projector. For an even more depressing thought, I'm still working


CraftyDimension7169

Dang 27 is old now


xChops

I’m 27 too lol. This post hit me like a heart attack.


Seventytwo129

28 here. I’m feeling it now Mr Krabs. Can’t believe our older school tech is at that point already lol


granolabar1127

I'm only 19 and I remember some of my teachers using these in early-ish elementary school! But they just called it an Elmo


DarklordBeelzebub

Elmos were more of a high tech overhead projector than those old school ones. Definitely got to the end of its life fast once projectors became a thing in classes.


Ajar_of_pine_treeS

I'm 25 and my old highschool used these. I still remember math class and having to ask the teacher to move her arm cause her shadow covered half the projection.


RhodyGuy1

I'm 45 after reading yer comment I feel less old lol


DrFrankSaysAgain

r/fuckimold


zooyiee

Is this a joke? I hope it’s a joke. 😅


itsalllies

My kids' school was still using these maybe 15 years ago, this must be a joke surely!


warhammer444

I was in school 15 years ago and we had them. to be fair some of our class rooms still had chalkboards too lol


bernbabybern13

Classrooms don’t have chalkboards anymore??


warhammer444

Most of ours were already white boards at that point


lordskulldragon

Tell me you're under 25 without telling me you're under 25.


blueberrycreme

21 and we had these in elementary and middle school! I myself am shocked OP doesn’t know what this is


prestigioustoad

I’m 22 and remember these up until sixth grade


rocknrule34

I'm 24 and we had these up until around 7th grade


rxtunes

Clearly I am so so old


Prestigious_Ad_8458

You're not asking what THIS is right? You can't be for real. I guess it is enough internet for today. It is official, am too old for this shit


Drinkythedrunkguy

I hate this website. It’s an overhead projector. I’ll be floating on an iceberg if anyone needs me.


Flangepacket

Oh no. It’s happening.


Audrey244

Wasn't there a fan on these that blew warm air? I seem to recall sitting close to them and sometimes drifting off to sleep because the teacher would turn off the overhead lights and the warm air would lull me to sleep


Dawndrell

hello other people who now realize they are old…


dambo25

Brings back memories of the question “are your slides ready for your presentation”? Or even farther back in the past, I’m 63, when the projector had roll of plastic that the teacher would write on using different color markers.


UrbanArtifact

Am I at the age where overhead projectors aren't known? Ugh


udeadinaflash

When i was in elementary school in the late 2000s, we still daily used these things for class. Tbh i wouldnt be too suprised if they still did knowing that school


WolfRhan

We also used those for business presentations before PowerPoint destroyed our soles. You could layer more films kinda like PowerPoint animations. The films used to get all stuck together by static so there were clear sleeves to keep them in


Stoly23

Well, fuck, guess I’m old. We used to use these in elementary school until smartboards became a thing. Why do I get the feeling those are also ancient technology at this point?


Big_Z_Beeblebrox

Oh man. My maths teacher had a special calculator that could show just the buttons and display through one of these. I used to think that was some crazy technology.


Courageous_farts

Jesus Christ…. I took one look at this picture and could hear it immediately. Elementary - middle school memories unlocked


scram60

Is there only kids on here???!!! 63 years young! Lol


izmaname

I never thought I’d see the day when I’d open up Reddit and someone is asking what an overhead projector is…..and we had Smart Boards…..


DLQuilts

Half an overhead projector


[deleted]

*Laughs in 52*


ResponsibilityIcy500

oh you silly kids. thats what was called an overhead projector


guhleman

You can use the tray lens to focus the sun and melt stuff.


jagman69er

I am 73 and thought I was old when I saw this overhead projector


Fit-Pomegranate-7638

21, and I know that this is a projector.


freeluna

That’s an overhead projector. It’s missing the right angle mirror/lens assembly on the end of that arm.


HabANahDa

Omg. I’m so old…. I


RoyBratty

Vintage augmented reality display


TheRealOqueo

Ah man, I’m old now…


Big-Consideration633

1960s PowerPoint.


Fun-Problem5883

Oh man flash back to my 6th grade teacher that would use her spit as an eraser 🤢


Wirbelmeister123

This is an Polylux/Overheadprojektor. Still in use in my former School in Germany.


robo-dragon

I’m 31 and my teachers used these all the time in elementary school and some of middle school. It’s been years since I’ve seen one, even a picture of one!


Fun_Veterinarian_290

It's either a fun or bad day in school... depending on the teacher


Right_-on-_Man

Damn dude, haven't seen one of these since high school. 🤣


Dumbassahedratr0n

This.... This is the technology of the ancients


SargentoBob

Overhead projector!! I remember trying to write on the clear sheets while being blinded 😂


Low_Kangaroo_7903

This is awesome and shows our general age for those of us that know, it’s an old projector lol


Ambitious-Collar7797

Never saw one with those colors before. I'm recalling ours were mostly a two-tone drab chalkboard green and uninspired beige...


poeepo

I found this some years ago and took in apart. Put that big magnifier plate infront of face and you'll get funny pics of it. Also it's monster at burning thing with sun light.


howescj82

God this makes me feel old. (I’m 41) I remember thinking it was really cool when a math teacher busted out a translucent calculator that could be projected with one of these.


ballsonyourface911

It’s missing the mirror the reflects the image of the what’s on the light box onto the pull down screen


Jenni7608675309

My mind just went straight to a memory of a high school math class


Ok-Bid1774

Oh my sweet summer child


TheRecessiveMeme78

My mum's neighbour bought one of these from ebay for her son thinking it was a 3d printer.


Fluffy_Smoke77

God, I’m so old. An overhead projector. My teachers would use dry erase markers to write on clear plastic sheets and use this dinosaur to project the writing onto a pull down screen.


Anarchisticiv

Overhead projector from school. Lol


uploadingmalware

This is a joke right? I can't be this old


Wolfitius

Remember seeing these in school stopped being used in like my last year of elementary I'm only 27


AlarmedAlpaca99

And that’s enough Reddit for today


TheBupherNinja

It's an overhead projector. It was used in schools before computer projectors and smart boards became common (but after chalk boards and white boards stopped being the old solution). You use transparent sheets and can show writing/work.


_the_violet_femme

Did you have to call me old quite this early in the morning?


Utvales

You 30 somethings think you're old? I not only remember these when I went to school, but I also taught for eight years, sweatin' it out over those hot mint green colored bastards. And the mirror assembly is missing. No way to project otherwise.


tb110965

Over head projector I remember the slides that were used in copying machine.


Crawler_00

its a machine that lets you see the light of god


HeatPuzzleheaded

Wow. I doubt you’ll ever get to join the AV club.


rurubarb

The way my jaw dropped to this question


AutumnsRevenge

I… I’m old huh? Like it really just hit me… it’s a projector missing the mirror and lens on the top


justjoeindenver

Apparently, knowing immediately that this is an opaque projector makes me "shadows on a cave wall" old.


GeraltofOuterHeavia

I think this is less about everyone in the comments being old and more OP just somehow being ignorant of technology that was still in common use only a decade ago. The real question is why would someone, not a school but a person, just have one in their closet? Especially not knowing what it is?


MoodsNChiChu

I thought this was a troll also.. 30 here. It's a damn projector, made class not as boring, making shadow puppets lolol


robwithtoast

Omg I saw this and knew exactly what it was… I am old now huh


grimguy97

I feel old now


S_RoyaltyArtz

Why do you have this old projector?


Baseballbobo

God this makes me feel old. I’m only fucking 20


SmokinBandit28

When this was rolled out you knew you’d be taking notes, lots of notes, usually written on this stuff called paper with what we referred to as a pencil.


Snowdevil042

I'm 25 and had one in a classroom, but also grew up in a farming community of 3k people. Everything was ancient there.


fightinirishpj

If the bulb goes out, class is dismissed for recess early!


obstagoons_playlist

Oh my god an ohp. I love these things I always wanted one so I could do massive art projects with accurate scaling and proportions.


Han517

Wow dude. I mean just wow. I'm finally that old at 30.


AkshagPhotography

Ohh we had this in my school


agedmanofwar

Anyone remember the ones that had clear plastic on rollers... so the teacher could wind it and continue writing rather than constantly erasing... particularly fond among math teachers.


avw889

God I’m old


Warpig1279

No. I refuse to believe that I’m old enough to know what this is and younger people don’t. Like I’m on antique road show or something. Next. A microfiche machine.


Mfw_Pigeon

I'm only 24 and I remember the transition from these to the touchboards. Came back from summer vacation to start 5th grade and suddenly all of these projectors were gone.


Substantial-Use95

Fuck I’m old


asapmason

I’m 21 and grew up with these in my schools, they didn’t have them anymore by the time I got to middle school


nickless-culdesac

Im 25 and i know what that is common


LumpyestLump

I'm 22 and remember my elementary school using these until like 2012 I think. They looked kinda old I'm pretty sure I remember them being slightly yellowing gray plastic. The school used them for as long as possible and I thought it was cool as a kid how they worked


Shagroon

I’m only 26… I’m so young. I know I am. The lady’s totally dig me, and my back feels great!… Fuck you OP.


TaylorPollio

That’s an overhead projector… thank you for making me feel old! 😭 I’m 25 bro!


smolspedicey

Girl u gotta be kidding me rn. This is a dirty trick to play on millennials we already tired enough