What a strange time to grow up. While change is obviously the one constant in life, the pace of technological innovation over the past few decades has been wild to watch. Here’s a short list of things that were fairly common not too long ago, but would be generally baffling to my teenage sons:
- Sitting down at a specific place to “go on” the Internet
- Waiting to get photos developed before seeing how they turned out
- Listening for a dial tone
- Needing to be together physically in order to trash talk and play video games with friends
- Buying “box sets” to catch up on a TV series
- Wondering what a classmate that moved away is up to nowadays
- Owning a music collection
- Getting driving directions ready prior to starting a trip
- Sharing a file with someone on a disk or CD
- Having the correct answer to a pop culture argument remain unsettled
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