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not every company had a website?
I was making a cup of tea last night and noticed that Twinnings printed their website on the box. I remember 15 years ago when the internet was “just a fad”. My uncle was ranting on the fact that every piece of info he found on the Internet, he could find just as easily at a library.
Now, if you’re not in the Internet, what happens? People complain about it! Just look at Windstone. When I started to seriously collect in 2005, they basically didn’t have a website. Look at us now!
My daughter won’t have known a world without ebay or google…
Same thing for microwaves. And DVD players. Heck, I remember when the CD came out! Stores were almost giving out the vinyl stuff to answer the demands of technology.
One day, I can tell her which cartoons I used to watch on the black & white TV (I remember the 1st cartoon I watched in color: the Smurfs – my parents weren’t techno-people. We bought my dad his vcr and dvd player).
I guess I was struck by the fact that things move along real fast, and we adapt just as fast. It’s just fun to remember how things were. Just like when my mom tells me how they kept the butter in the well to keep it cool before they got their first fridge.
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmRead my books! Volume 1 and 2 of A Dragon Medley are available now.
http://www.sarahjestin.com/mybooks.htm
I host the feedback lists, which are maintained by drag0nfeathers.
http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmI feel so old when I talk about when I first learned about email back in 97. Thats when I got my account. Now kids are all over the net. My son is 8 and I already think about setting him up an account. 😆 Remember Atari?? Sega? Pong and Contra?
Ha I just learned to email less than a year ago. I love the computer now and it is so much easier to collect Windstones.
Without the internet I would have never met my soulmate, moved to Finland and be painting artwork for bands and things! It did change my life!
I would have also never met all of you amazing wonderful, and sweet people. 🙂I rmember when the first TV’s came out with the little round screen – black & white only. When cars didn’t have air-conditioning and were three speed on the column. When the iceman came around and delivered ice for the ice box – my parents had a refrigerator but some of the neighbors still had an ice box. Also when furnaces burned coal. That’s getting up there.
I feel really old somedays. When I mention things like Gilligan’s Island, or HR PuffNStuff and all I get are blank looks.
*sigh*
I too remember when CD’s came out, and I used to have a bunch of things on record, including Prince’s Purple Rain. Anyone remember Leif Garret and Shawn Cassidy, or am I so dated they are completely forgotten?
Kyrin
Haha, I remember them! TVs had no remotes, rabbit ears instead of cable. Cars had no seat belts, anyone remember curb finders?
Hahaha Ski I remember Pong! LOL
I remember when the Village People was new and YMCA just came out 😛 I also remember when going to the Roller Skating Rink was “cool” 😀wolflodge100 wrote:Haha, I remember them! TVs had no remotes, rabbit ears instead of cable. Cars had no seat belts, anyone remember curb finders?
I remember curb finders!! 😆 HAHAHAHA! Rabbit ears on the TV that needed pliers to change the channel! With two dials… and you had to keep turning them both till you hit a channel.
wolflodge100 wrote:TVs had no remotes, rabbit ears instead of cable.
A few years back, there was a commercial on TV for cable I guess, saying that it was better than antennas. They had stuck a rabbit on a TV. My then-boss’s 17-year-old son didn’t get it. That’s when it struck her that technology had taken over: her son had never see a rabbit antenna!
I do remember Atari, but never played it. How ’bout Pac Man? I sucked at those games!
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmdragonmedley wrote:things move along real fast, and we adapt just as fast.
For those who read science fiction, Vernor Vinge’s Hugo winning novel “Rainbows End” gives some small insight into a possible near-future. Apart from everything else, I particularly love the “chain-saw” method of scanning books en-mass.
I remember all of that stuff, with the exception of ice boxes. 😆 My kids complain that they don’t have the new X-box or whatever…they should have tried board games, books and 13 channels on a black & white tv. We bought my parents their first vcr…it was over $700 and they didn’t see the need for it. Last Christmas my Mom wanted a Bose radio…my how times have changed! 😆
I haven’t heard “curb finders” in years…and now they have cars that can parallel park themselves.
I remember all that stuff except the ice boxes and the coal furnaces, although I’d heard about them. Geez I feel old. 😕 😆
Oh boy…. 🙄
When I was kid, we didn’t have a microwave until I was about 6th grade. Yea, everything by the oven – TV dinners took an hour.
Records (vinyl)were starting to go out and tape was coming in. Eventually CDs came on the scene and soon after that DVD. At the time I wasn’t sure if they would stick around because they were completing with laserdisk. And DVDs were something like $100 and the players were like $1200. Does anyone remember beta tapes (video)? They were finally tromped by VHS, and I remember the player was 3-5 times bigger than the current VHS players and it top loaded.
Internet and personal computers were unheard of. Most people didn’t have cable and you could still buy new TVs that were black and white. It was unheard of for a kid to have their own TV. I remember the roe my brother and dad had about my brother having a 8″ black and white TV in his room that my grandmother was getting rid of. And yes, I remember that having a remote to your TV was a luxury. If I recall correctly they had two frequencies, like UHF and something else and you had to get up and change the channel. Let’s just say channel surfing wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. Ah yes, the rabbit ears! I remember many an hour using aluminum foil to boost the signal.
My brother somehow convinced by dad to buy one of the first Atari’s. It came with Pong and we played for a long time with the joy-stick controllers on a black and white tv. I remember my older realatives couldn’t believe my parents spent $100 or so (maybe it was more)for a “game”. I would never have guessed it would turn into an entire industry.
Cell phones were bricks that had their own box like carriers. Back in the day I think it took a few dollars to make a call – it was more of a status symbol where I grew up. We didn’t get one until my mom won a contest for free one and my dad nearly had a heart attack about how much the contract was for.
If you had a Sony Walkman you were considered cool and you had to have the acid wash jeans and the leg warmers and hair gel to go with it.
It’s funny but my oldest niece will be 10 this year and I don’t think she has ever known a time without cable, cell phones, microwaves, video games, TV’s, or computers.
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