Lately I have been feeling as if I am getting old. You know the way you felt about your parents when you were younger. I think it is because of the release of the new iPad. It started to make me think back to when I was younger and not necessarily a little kid. But here are some of the things that flashed through my mind:
- Getting cable and it had a box with a lot of buttons, a switch for 3 positions and a long wire to the T.V.
- Having a rotary dial phone on the living room end-table
- Thinking Pong was the shit
- Atari just blew away Pong….whoaaaaa!
- Commodore 64 – I didn’t get one but my friend had one
- My father watching Barney Miller and All in the Family (I still catch them on late night re-runs if I am lucky)
- Cash registers that had BIG clicky buttons and made the sound of a bell
- Cars with little vent windows in the doors
- Cars with air conditioning were for fancy people
- Sony Walkman with a cassette player
- Our first cordless phone (it had a retractable metal antenna and that was top of the line stuff)
- Getting a beeper when I was a teenager (555-5555 911 911)
- Getting my first computer at 18 or so
- Motorola StarTac (the best phone ever!…Tri-Mode)
64k Memory...hahahahaha
I guess you get the point. I am sure everyone feels this way from time to time but it creeps me out! My 7 year old comes home and talks about stuff that I never heard of. I find myself playing Wii with the kids and think to myself “Holy shit!” and I know that X-Box has the new thing that reads body movements through a camera/scanner thingy. I am not ready for that!
I am fairly sure that one day I will find my kids plugging themselves into a computer just like Neo from The Matix. I just hope that I don’t end-up some old curmudgeon stuck on life in the 80′s and early 90′s but I think I already am.
Oh and by the way….Steve Jobs sucks ass for this!
Kiss my ass Steve!
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2 comments
Jotter Girl
March 6, 2011 at 12:19 pm (UTC -5)
There was something magical about those cash register buttons and the sound they made. Rotary phones too. I’m old enough to remember interactive TV with Winky Dink. You put a plastic sheet over the screen of your 13 channel TV set complete with antenna and colored on the screen with special crayons. OY VEY.
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Real Dad
March 6, 2011 at 7:32 pm (UTC -5)
By the looks of your typewriter, I would have figured you a silent movie kinda gal. hahahaha