I got to thinking today about the pace technology moves at and the speed with which things I grew up with have become obsolete or disappeared entirely.
I thought it might be fun to start a thread about the types of things we can expect to tell our grandchildren about that they'll think were super-primitive or ridiculous (and how we'd describe these things so they'd understand). It could be something that's already in the past, or something now that will disappear in 40 years.
I'll start:
Back in my day, we had these phones that were plugged into the wall, and you worked them by poking your finger into holes and rotating a dial that had to rotate all the way back before you could dial the next number. And you had to write down all your friends' numbers so you wouldn't forget them because the phone wouldn't remember them for you.
Also back in my day, we had these buildings full of paper books, and if you wanted to find a book, you had to go to a card catalogue, which was like a set of drawers with alphabetical lists of topics written on cards. And if you couldn't find the topic you were looking for on those cards, you were pretty much screwed.
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Back in my day, we had these phones that were plugged into the wall, and you worked them by poking your finger into holes and rotating a dial that had to rotate all the way back before you could dial the next number.
You're neglecting to mention that back in the day, you had to rent the phones from the phone company - you couldn't buy one.
BIMD we had one black and white 12" diagonal tv with bunny ears, a tiny speaker, and dials for channels that you had to go to the tv to use. and when the olympics came on from germany, your parents marveled (and you listened) to how incredible it was that you could see a picture live from the other side of the world.
BIMD you would get a news paper from Scotland weeks, and sometimes months, later, and it would still be considered news.
BIMD, you could feed a family of 4 at McDonalds and get change from a $5.
BIMD, you had your choice of 3 tv channels.
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BIMD - if you wanted to listen to a bunch of your favorite songs consecutively, you had to invest a couple of hours with a dual tape deck ghetto blaster first. Oh, and you had to buy the tapes.
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If you wanted to have a song by your favorite band and had no money you had to work for it. You would use the old rotary dial phone and keep calling the radio station over and over again, no call waiting, no answering machines, line was always busy. When you finally got through you would request that they play the song and then you had to wait by the radio for HOURS until they maybe played the song. Then with lightning reflexes you would hit record on your cassette deck and record the song in all it's grainy, crappy sounding goodness.
If you didn't have a cassette deck your only option was playing the song in your head.
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Back in my day...
