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its weird being 18, 19, 20 in 2016 because i remember going into kindergarten and seeing those chunky ass giant computers at the desk and then going through school while technology rapidly develops and graduate in a world where people can have the entire internet and more just in their pocket like idk its so strange to me

sorry to add to the post but I remember in 5th grade when they invented the “smart whiteboard” and my school won one for the library and everyone lost their shit because they were so expensive and I graduated high school last year and by the time I graduated every single classroom had one. Watching technology go from glitchy and expensive to powerful and affordable within less than ten years continues to blow my mind

no but also like owning a flip phone was the Coolest Shit™ and you could take photos(???) and it was like so incredible, and it was all fun and games until you pressed the key for THE INTERNET and you knew you’d be charged so you pressed that cancel key eighty times and prayed to god that he’d take mercy on you…and then iphones became a thing and it was like unreal

Going from vcrs and huge roll in tvs to streaming the movie online and projecting that onto the smart board within the span of 5-10 years.

ok but do you guys remember before proper projectors were put in there was the overhead projector that could only read clear plastics and it projected using light and mirrors

Technology

Originally posted by imadeureaddis

remember when you got your first phone, and it had monoton/polyphone ringtones=? OR THE FIRST TIME YOU COULD ACTUALLY PUT A SONG AS YOUR RINGTONE 1:1 that was such a huge thing…..Also the first phones with coloured displays, 100x100px photos……god what a time….

I remember before iPods became a thing and I was in like 5th grade and I got a Walkman CD player (because regular CD players would skip and shit if you moved them too much and walkmans were like A+ technology that you could listen to CDs on the go) and I had like the whole case of CDs I’d take with me everywhere. Then iPods became the new norm and everyone’s mind was collectively blown

My great-grandmother went from being the first house in town to have electricity to emailing her cross-national friends in her lifetime.

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Originally posted by danlikesmovies

When I was a very little kid in the late seventies/early eighties, my analog flipping-number alarm clock had digital numbers fonted upon it, like the manufacturer knew what was coming, but technology hadn’t reached that point just yet.

I was the one who figured out how to set the clock on the VCR, how to hook up the Atari 2600, how to screw around with the cable box and get the channels we weren’t paying for. This is what passed for technological childhood precociousness back in the Plastic Ages. Back when Jem was truly outrageous.

Back when there were nothing but wallphones and square phones upon desks, I was a kid. I was young enough and my nervous system was new enough that I could feel the phone calls coming before the phone rang. I used to pick up the phone and simply say, “Hi, what’s up?” and my friend or my mom on the other end would be all, “Bu-wha?”

Turns out, talking to other people familiar with old tech, when they were young, they did those things too. Some attributed it to sensation (feeling the phone call come over the wires and echoing through the house before resolving upon the telephone’s bell), others attributed it simply to, “I was always on the phone, so chances were good I would be calling my friend at the same time she was calling me, so… that’s just how old analog phone wires did back then, now, can I please go back to eating? You’re so weird.”

The generation younger than mine might be similarly nostalgic for the next era. I was a young adult by the time I heard and became sickeningly familiar with this sound.

It’s as familiar to me as an old television jingle.

hands up if you’ve ever whistled into an acoustic coupler modem to see if you could fool it into thinking it had carrier. o/

just me? ok.

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