[quote="Retired STR-SG" post_id=81814 time=1537979466 user_id=3047]
Here we go. I remember when:
Color TV was the big new advance.
There were only 2 or 3 channels. (I was the remote control.)
Telephones only had dials - no buttons.
The first transistor radios came out.
The first Sony and Ampex home video recorders came out - open reel tape.
My first two years in tech support I used a C64 to write trip reports.
Top that!
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I think you have us all beat! But like I said - I could go on:
Grades, attendance, etc. were all taken on paper. Computerized gradebooks were not a thing yet. On that same note, the computers we did have at school were beige boxes running Windows 98, before being replaced with Dell Optiplexes running Windows XP.
“You’ll never have a calculator on you all the time.”
“You’ll always need to write in cursive.”
I remember playing games on Cartoon Network’s website, and getting viruses on my dad’s old Dell Dimension. I miss the Internet of the early to mid 2000s.
Chain emails/texts, with a dozen "FWD"s before the actual message.
Cell phones flipped, slid, or just had the keys on the front of the device. My first cell phone was a Sanyo SCP-3100, then an LG Rumor, then an LG Rumor Touch, before I finally got a smart phone. No fancy touch screens, no fancy apps. You could call or text, but if you so much as accidentally hit the internet button, you’d be mashing the END button in the hopes your parents wouldn’t get billed.
Mixtapes were actually a mix of songs on a cassette tape. Even when everyone switched to burned CDs, we still called them mixtapes.
The 10 year anniversary of Pokemon was huge.