"No Way! That's Great...WE'VE LANDED ON THE MOON!"
Posted on 07/22/2011 5:55:13 PM PDT by Justaham
There are some things in this world that will never be forgotten, this week’s 40th anniversary of the moon landing for one. But Moore’s Law and our ever-increasing quest for simpler, smaller, faster and better widgets and thingamabobs will always ensure that some of the technology we grew up with will not be passed down the line to the next generation of geeks.
That is, of course, unless we tell them all about the good old days of modems and typewriters, slide rules and encyclopedias …
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Yep, when the street light came on you had to come in.
We played jumprope (I’m a girl), May I, I Declare War, Foxes and Hounds, Hopscotch, Hand Clapping Games, and rode bicycles EVERYWHERE in a way that would be shocking to people nowadays.
Chalk, a ball, and a bicycle. Nothing else was necessary.
I have one.
Not knowing the sex of your baby until it was born. It seems amazing to me (and sort of missing something) that everyone knows what they are going to have in advance. That inital call from the recovery room - It’s a baby boy!
And people rushing in with little blue blankets they just ran out to buy to bring baby home in.
Add to that toilets that work,
showers that give you enough water to rinse off,
being able to do what you want with your own property,
light bulbs that give you enough light to read a book by...
.being able to kill and wolf that is threatening your life or killing your animals...
.being able to keep more than 50% of your income.
a town with no swat team that likes to kill dogs and innocent citizens in their own home.
being able to smoke a cigarette in the park.
free speech, freedom of religion,
( I love manual transmissions and pop in glass bottles,)
Rexall drug store, a drug store that sold only drugs.
Or "You've got questions, we've got cell phone deals".
While working as a DJ we used reel-to-reel tape recorders to play commercials and promos.
Today, I suppose all of that is on CDs or something similar.
And BTW, we actually had live people running the station. Today, there are no announcers, just computers which play the music and commercial CDs and in the case of national talk radio, the entire process is automated as the local station’s computer turns the network on and off.
There. Fixed it.
“Chalk, a ball, and a bicycle. Nothing else was necessary.”
But - I’ll bet you had an EasyBake Oven :-)
(Even as a boy I was secretly jealous of my sister - how cool to create tasty little cakes with a 60-watt bulb!)
Mark
Sometimes it’s fun to say to people when this topic comes up “you know, isn’t it amazing that for a child today, there’s been only one Queen of England in their lifetime.”
It’s a good way to see if people are listening.
Push button transmission in our ‘63 Chrysler New Yorker!
"No Way! That's Great...WE'VE LANDED ON THE MOON!"
Just saw some of those at a Tractor Supply Company this winter. I tried to buy some, but none fit over my shoes.
110 Film
And 126 and disc film and 35mm and Polaroid instant and...
Carbon paper
Still left over in the cc: line on emails.
vacuum tube test stations
There's still one a few miles from my house (or at least was a few months ago) at an electronics surplus warehouse.
Record player.
dart guns
manual dymo labeler
rubber stamps
paper dolls
cordless drills - the kind with a crank
candy cigarettes
I collected and read every one of The Hardy Boys Mysteries.
Making soap at home on the back porch.
If they just listen to pop music stations.....Music with actual melody.
100 things: Is “working for a living” one of them?
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