Funny .. I watched it again last night. Laughed when I saw the reference.
Yeah, me too. I'd completely forgotten about it.
Funny .. I watched it again last night. Laughed when I saw the reference.
I remember when you actually had to look up the store's phone # in a book, and then call them to find out if they were open. If the phone rang and rang, they weren't. And if someone answered, they were.
I'm too young. I was born in '96 but all I can remember is the old Windows 98 computer that we used to have.
Nearly every technology in your life basically didn't exist a few years before you were born. The internet, laptops, CDs, DVDs, MP3 players, LCD screens, mobile phones, wireless headsets and everything else, digital TV, ATMs, USB periphrals, colour printers, microwave ovens, the list is endless.
Wait, what? The internet (maybe you're specifically thinking about the web), CDs, LCD screens, mobile phones, ATMs, color printers, and especially microwave ovens were around long before 1996. I'll give you mobile phones, laptops, and LCDs because they weren't ubiquitous, though.![]()
Wow. I never thought I'd see that film referenced anywhere. I chuckled, I admit.
I was late to the computer game, relatively. I grew up listening to mom's old 45s that he had collected.. ...
Wall posters.
Nearly every technology in your life basically didn't exist a few years before you were born... microwave ovens, the list is endless.
Microwave ovens were invented in the 40's (a spin-off of WWII radar technology), were available in the 50's for home use (albeit expensive - $1,295), and by 70's were becoming quite common in American kitchens.
Microwave ovens were invented in the 40's (a spin-off of WWII radar technology), were available in the 50's for home use (albeit expensive - $1,295), and by 70's were becoming quite common in American kitchens.
You could say that personal computers were invented the 70s, but really it wasn't until the mid 90s they became standard fixtures in every home (like a TV). I'm really talking about every kid growing up with them, not reading about them or envying the rich neighbours having them. Like car phones were around in the 60s and even Nokia mobile phones were still too expensive for most people before the mid 90s so they were mostly business/yuppie gadgets. It wasn't really before the late 90s before kids started growing up with computers or mobile phones as commonplace technology in their lives like TVs.
By 1975, sales of microwave ovens would surpass that of gas ovens for the first time. By 1976, more people owned microwaves than a dishwasher, now in 60% of American homes (or about 52 million).
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"Anyboy got a pencil?!? I need to fix this tape again."
I'm 30 and remember listening to my parents records when i was younger they had a turntable that had a radio built into it and it was "Solid State".
Then when i was younger we had a cable box that was push button LOL back when you had to pay extra to get the disney channel.
My first PC had a 486 processor in it and it was a packard hell and my parents had an older PC and they were using AOL on DOS. And then the first Tech show i watched was a Cnet show that had ryan seacrest on it.
We had Macs at my school and i was pretty geeky i used to read the manuals that they had laying around for it. And also people interacted more we didn't have twitter and facebook etc. People actually talked and read books and stuff.
I also remember getting AOL discs in the mail and i was digging thru some items at home and found a AOL 3.5 floppyOne day it will be considered an ancient artifact. And when i was a little geek i found a Stash of Omni magazines
I thought and still think they were really cool. And i used to have a Poster of Carl Sagan in my room LOL
I actually miss going to blockbuster and other video stores when i was growing up my family used to rent my NES games from them and later SNES.
I remember when....
.... if you wanted to dial a number on a phone, you had to move your finger in circles.
I remember when....
.... if you wanted to dial a number on a phone, you had to move your finger in circles.
I still do that with my iPone.![]()
I remember my favourite game (Monkey Island 2) coming on 15 disks! What a pain, you had to change between pretty much every screen.
Copy protection (DRM) was always more fun in the 90s. Some sort of wheel that came in the box that you had to line up and read a code from or having to find a particular word in the manual.
I... I remember my favourite game (Monkey Island 2) coming on 15 disks! What a pain, you had to change between pretty much every screen. ...
That was an awesome game i played that and day of the tentacle but i never finished it though![]()