- LPs and record players
- Magnetic tapes
- Laser disc
- Rotary dial phones
- Floppy disks (both 3 1/2" and 5 1/4")
- Dial-up modems
- Cell phones the size of bricks
- Monochromatic computer monitors
- CRT TVs/monitors
- Dot-matrix printers
- Those "photocopiers" where the paper always smelled like alcohol (what are those called?)
- Swiping credit cards with those imprint machines that used carbon paper
- Using a crank to roll down your window
- Taking forever to get an Internet connection because it took so many steps (remember that Trumpeter software?)
- Bulletin Board Systems! (BBS)
- The original Nintendo gaming system!
- DOS
- Rabbit ears
- MiniDisc Players
- VCRs
- MP3 players
- Buying media online (e.g. TV shows, music)
- Streaming video
- Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites
- Cell phones
- E-mail (she'll never know a world that used inter-office memos or letters as forms of writing)
- Web-based e-mail
- Receiving e-mail on your phone
- Instant messaging and Skype
- SMS
- USB flash drives that are small enough to fit in your butt crack
- Cell phones that are small enough to fit in your butt crack
- Free WiFi in coffee shops
- Power locks, power steering, and power doors
- Video game consoles
- Owning more than one computer per household
- Touchpads
- Google (BTW, happy birthday Google!!!)
- VoIP
- Blogging
It's funny how people of my generation look at our parents funny when they talk about things like programming in assembler or COBOL, and having to use punchards for programming. And yet, I'm sure that PK will someday be looking at me funny, questioning all of the "old fart" technology that I grew up with, and laughing at the fact that I once programmed in an "ancient" language called Java.
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