Old is Relative

by cainegreene

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Woe is me who remembers TV only in black & white, color TV was a dream until I was a teenager. HD who would have thought? Portable video players never!

Music was only on Vinyl records 33, 45 and 78. Dad built his own turntable, speaker cabinet and tube amplifier. With that corner speaker, a cassette player and a ten watt tube amp to blow away my dorm buddies cool Marantz stereo. Amazing the power I could get out of a 12” woofer and horn tweeter. Now we have ipods and iceKUBE IT-20 speakers.

Phones were rotary dialed and plugged into the wall talked to my girlfriend on a 15’ extension so I could have privacy. Wireless extension phones were awesome but now we have cell phones. Who would have thought back then that I could walk downtown while talking to my girl the whole time?

Evolution and adaptation keep me from being the dinosaur I could be. Today I can’t live without broadband, MP3 players and my Xbox360. I maybe slow but even the old coot could get into Pokemon back in the day. Grow young as you age.

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  1. Old is Relative

    Fyora Cartagan's Buddy Icon Fyora Cartagan

    Posted 10 months ago

    I’ve actually used a rotary phone. :D And I think I feel old because I was raised/influenced by my grandparents.
    My iPods are broken, and, I’m not even allowed to have a cell phone outside of school, and I get thrown into the stone age (no TV, no computer, no Gameboy) if I call anyone but family. So I’m really even technologically behind compared to my peers.
    Very good though, as a contrast to mine.

  2. Old is Relative

    cainegreene's Buddy Icon cainegreene

    Posted 10 months ago

    Wow sorry to hear that “My iPods are broken”. To have no TV, computer or protable gaming device (I like my PSP ) today is like only having fire to cook on and wash your clothes in the river. When we lost power for 10 days during the hurricanes of 2004 we were all lost. I was saved by a propane camping burner stove.
    Glad you liked it. What will your kids have that can’t think of today?

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