Remember back 20 years...
A typical Friday night might have evolved around visiting the local video store to pick out a movie or two to watch over the weekend. Sometimes you would be lucky if you were able to rent the hot new video of the week.
You might rush home at night to watch your favorite television shows. Sure, you could tape it on your handy VCR but it's was so complicated and the tape quality usually sucked. So, you would be sure to get home to watch in time. You'd have to (hold your breath now) watch the commercials!
Arranging for outings with your friends would require a phone call.
Ordering a pizza? You'd have to talk to an actual person on the phone at the pizza place.
To listen to music you'd have exciting choices like FM radio or whatever CD you could afford to buy.
If you ventured out into an area you were unfamiliar with you'd have to pull out a map.
Pictures from last weekend? You had to get them developed. Developed! (Explain THIS to your little ones.)
You actually READ the newspaper and there were NEW stories in every edition. Your primary source of information was the newspaper and the evening news.
Had an important job and needed to be in contact with work? Wear a pager. When you goes off you can find a pay phone and call in.
I'm not even getting into the fact that no one really got on the internet. The internet existed but remember dial up and message boards? No pretty graphics then. See something you want to print? Dot Matrix printers! Hysterical!
The world is getting smaller. Our choices in EVERYTHING is getting fairly infinite.
Medical advances are progressing so much that some say we are within years of figuring out how to live forever. (Does anyone really want to live forever? Not that I really want to die but I do see living forever a little tiring)
Can anyone else remember changes in the last 20 years that have changed dramatically? What changes are going to occur in the next 20?
originally posted on 07/01/11
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