"When I was in second grade, a kid on my bus was showing off a sheet of paper with movies listed on it. His parents had just gotten a VCR, and him and his brother were being allowed to get 1 movie each because they were over $100 per tape. Video stores weren’t even a thing for another year or two."
Midge, probably the specific GPS devices is what they are referring to here. Picture a Nokia 6xxx with a slightly larger screen. Cr#ppy black/white pixelated stuff. Those are long gone. We all have the GPS in our phones and cars now. :-)
#4 Cordless phones - flash forward A COUPLE OF YEARS? More like 20 years
#10 IR is used in many smartphones today as a universal remote controller
#18 GPS industry is HUGE even today
Long story short, whoever wrote this article knows very little about technology
It is just entertainment, ... chill.