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10 Modern Technologies We Lived Without in Primitive, Pre-Millennial America
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| 05/08/2014
| PAULA BOLYARD
Posted on 05/08/2014 8:12:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
How times have changed... I still think of VCR’s and VHS tapes as “modern technology”, but my niece who is 8 years old was over at my house and found a box of VHS tapes in the garage. She had never seen one before and didn't have the slightest idea what they were, when I tried to explain, she just looked at me strange and said “Why didn't you just watch those movies on Netflix?”
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posted on
05/08/2014 8:42:21 AM PDT
by
apillar
To: chrisser
Besides all of the above, there was actually a time when cars didnt all have air conditioning, power windows and locks, and/or remote entry key fobs with alarms.
My first car was a 1971 Pontiac. No AC. Had those little triangular shaped vent windows up front. No carpeting, just black rubber material like a truck interior. No emission controls. Meaning I could actually work on it without first having to remove 600 miles of cable and tubing. Crank windows and key locks. AM radio. My first major upgrade was installing an FM converter.
And I was damned happy to have it.
To: pgkdan
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posted on
05/08/2014 8:48:54 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: SeekAndFind
How about the evolution of ski equipment - remember cubco bindings and leather boots and 6 foot skis?
How about photography, from kodachrome to digital in just a few decades - amazing.
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posted on
05/08/2014 8:54:18 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: 1Old Pro
TV’s
Just 10 years ago a state of the art Sony 30 inch weighed 200 pounds - now a 50 inch weighs 30 pounds and can be hung on a wall with incredible hdtv
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posted on
05/08/2014 8:56:19 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: 1Old Pro
The most amazing change since the early 80’s has to be the internet, thanks to algor
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posted on
05/08/2014 8:57:03 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: Buckeye McFrog
I got a TI-99 computer one year for Christmas. If you still have it, might be worth some money.
To: Buckeye McFrog
If you think about it, air conditioned vehicles make all the annoying cell phone blabbering while driving possible. Ever tried talking on a cell in a moving vehicle with the windows down? Inaudible on either end of the conversation. Would people sit in the heat in their cars blabbing, in traffic or in their own driveways? Doubt it.
To: envisio
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posted on
05/08/2014 9:04:48 AM PDT
by
pgkdan
To: SeekAndFind
What about the button on the car floor to turn on the headlights?
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posted on
05/08/2014 9:07:16 AM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: P.O.E.
I meant to say high beams
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posted on
05/08/2014 9:07:46 AM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: 1Old Pro
I didn’t even have Cubcos! My first bindings were the “bear trap” type.
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posted on
05/08/2014 9:08:03 AM PDT
by
SkiKnee
To: SeekAndFind
To: truth_seeker
I’m just barely old enough to have been exposed to the stress fax machines caused in the office ... “we’ve lost a whole day, everything’s moving too fast!” lol. Same with FedEx overnight. Little did they know.
To: TexasFreeper2009
Almost the whole history of mankind was without electricity. That’s amazing when you really think about it.....
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posted on
05/08/2014 9:12:43 AM PDT
by
kjam22
(my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
To: SeekAndFind
Mankind has had the wheel for ten thousand years. Mankind has had luggage since somebody first sewed a sack together out of an animal hide. So tell me this:
WHY DID NOBODY THINK OF PUTTING WHEELS ON LUGGAGE??!?
(Sound of hyperventilating)
To: Buckeye McFrog
I bought a ‘70 Hemi Cuda in ‘71 when I returned from Vietnam...
Here is a 426 CI engine sitting in a small car and you could raise the hood and still see pavement beside the engine block...
Today, you could get a huge Cadillac with a 6 cylinder engine and not be able to see anything but cables, hoses, wires, and filters under the hood.
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posted on
05/08/2014 9:15:20 AM PDT
by
Boonie
To: SeekAndFind
"White Privilege"
How did we ever live without it?
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posted on
05/08/2014 9:15:38 AM PDT
by
Dagnabitt
(Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
To: Buckeye McFrog
"My first car was a 1971 Pontiac. No AC. "
We used to call that AC the 255 model. Two windows down and going 55 miles an hour....
To: SeekAndFind
Okay, I can’t have been the only kid to have to climb up on the roof of the house to adjust the TV antenna when it got stuck as Dad was down on the ground telling me if it was good.
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