Now back in *MY* day…
While reading my daily geek.com, I came across this article they blogged about. For those of us in our middle years it is really quite interesting. To get you started, I have reprinted two or three from each section, but to read them all you will have to click the title or end of the article to go to the source. What really makes me feel old is the inclusion of 90s things like the Playstation… 😮
Oh, be sure to click the link at the source about the young teen trying out a Walkman for a week, the MP3 player of the 80s.
UPDATE: I just visited Worthy Christian Forums, and apparently someone posted this same article, but with 37 more things (plus more in the replies)! At a glance, I could see they weren’t just tacked on to the end and I’m too lazy to figure out which are new, so CLICK HERE TO GO TO READ ALL 137 THINGS
Audio-Visual Entertainment:
1. Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something.
8. 8-track cartridges.
Computers and Videogaming:
19. The scream of a modem connecting.
22. Using jumpers to set IRQs.
33. Having to delete something to make room on your hard drive.
The Internet:
38. Using a road atlas to get from A to B.
44. Filling out an order form by hand, putting it in an envelope and posting it.
56. When Spam was just a meat product — or even a Monty Python sketch.
Gadgets:
58. Putting film in your camera: 35mm may have some life still, but what about APS or disk?
69. Vacuum cleaners with bags in them.
Everything Else:
70. Taking turns picking a radio station, or selecting a tape, for everyone to listen to during a long drive.
81. Han shoots first.
86. Finding books in a card catalog at the library.
(beginning of actual article follows below)
100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
By Nathan Barry
July 22, 2009
8:00 amThere are some things in this world that will never be forgotten, this week’s 40th anniversary of the moon landing for one. But Moore’s Law and our ever-increasing quest for simpler, smaller, faster and better widgets and thingamabobs will always ensure that some of the technology we grew up with will not be passed down the line to the next generation of geeks.
That is, of course, unless we tell them all about the good old days of modems and typewriters, slide rules and encyclopedias …