It’s rather interesting how fast the world is changing. As all of the new technology steamrolls through the standard inventions of the industrial age kids today have no idea what life was like without today's creature comforts.

For starters, rotary phones, remember those? Now we push buttons or say the numbers and wait for prompts inside mazes to get where we need. Way back we actually dialed a phone number and waited on the line. I could go on here, for example, phone books and busy signals but we'll move forward.

Computers had just white text over black or green wallpaper when we were kids. Aside from a Commodore my first computer was a 286 that took a 7 1/2 floppy disk. Now for just starters we zip from site to site, pay bills and send email. The internet was just a vision back 30 years ago. Even the desktop computer is somewhat passé today as tablets and smart phones take over.

Many growing up today in the 2010s really don’t even utilize a CD player anymore let alone a record player. Instead of downloading a song for 99 cents from our couch we had to go to Sam Goody, Strawberries or somewhere and buy the actual cassette, 45 or record-album.

Yes there was a day when you had a decision to make at the electronics store. Were you going to buy a black and white or color TV. I had a 13” black in white in my bedroom as a tween and it sufficed. Remote controls in the 70s and early 80s had switches and a cord that went into the TV. VCRs are another relic, now most people use DVRs.

On a more serious note, today’s teens and 20 somethings thankfully don’t have the worry about nuclear war like we did growing up during the cold war. The 80s was close to the end of it but pointed nukes were still a threat.

Then there are things that sort of go full circle generation after generation. Clothing styles and hair are probably the most noticeable. The trends maybe renamed but the essence is still the same. We didn’t wear “skinny jeans” in the 80s but we wore jeans just as a tight. The neon colors are back like they were back in the early 90s. Music, that too goes in cycles.

It was rough back in our day and we liked it!

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