Info in the now?
 

I have no idea how accurate the info on this YouTube is but it's kind of amazing how quickly information and technology is growing.

How many people here remember not having the Net? DVD's? Video Stores? Cable TV? Rabbit Ears and Black and White TV?

Personally I remember my parents investing in a set of hard cover encyclopaedia's from a door to door salesman. My brother and I used them to look up facts such as where Amazon River was, when man first put an object into space, How an internal combustion engine worked etc...

I had an interesting conversation with my grandmother while she was fading quickly in a care facility in Albany, Oregon. We were talking as she drifted in and out of sleep. At one point she looked up at the TV just in time to catch a Space Shuttle launch. She told me she remembered when the first family in her town got an automobile. She was amazed that going to space was so common. The announcer noted the names of the crew and she asked "Is that a woman's name?" "Yes" I said. She chuckled and noted she couldn't vote when she first got married.

So in two generations we went from horse and buggy to space. Wonder where we're going to be in 10 years?

As Jimmy Buffett put it-

Do you remember dialing up?
Yes I remember well
Now I just can't go anywhere with out my sacred cell
I think that I might die if I miss anything at all
Text me, send me an e-mail, bring me up, give me a call
I'm ADD on AOL tryin to read the writing on the wall


Right now everybody's on the phone... where will the next generation be?

We had the first TV in the neighborhood...all the kids came over to watch the snow!
The local station had not yet begun broadcasting,later we watched the test pattern( the one with the indian head in the center)for a couple of weeks......xoxoxoo

And how many channels do you have now?

OK, wait, how many channels do you have now that aren't porn?

I really enjoyed that. I also feel very small. And stupid. Heh.

I had a recent opportunity to sit down and talk to a woman that was born in 1905 in my hometown. She’s an amazing woman! Never married and retired as a teacher. And even though it was incredible to hear her description of the area from many years ago, it was her description of current times that intrigued me the most. Her biggest frustration with “technology”, is that they don’t make cellphones with large enough buttons for her to see. I got the biggest giggle from listening to her rant about that.