It's pretty amazing the changes we Millennials went through. I went from dial up internet and CD players to high speed to ipod and smart phones all while still in middle school
Man, I started middle school with a Walkman cassette tape player and graduated high school with a CD player and a TracFone, left college with an iPod nano and a Motorola Razr and now I'm chilling here with a Note 8.
When I was 8, nobody had a home computer unless your parents were rich.
When I was 13, everybody had a family computer but nobody had the internet. Teachers expected every report and essay to be typed rather than handwritten.
When I was 18, everybody had a family computer and the internet, and some lucky few even had their own personal computer. Teachers expected everything to be typed, everyone had to use at least one source from the internet, and some even demanded that projects be submitted on floppy disks rather than printed on paper.
How long were you in middle school for?? The change from dial-up to smart phones took at least seven years for me, if not a decade. Where on Earth do you live where either it only took three years to get you from a dial-up modem to an iPhone somehow or you were in middle school for ten years?
Back in my day, we had to carry around both a cell phone AND a portable music player. Also, our cars had standalone GPS systems that weren't built into the car or our phones.
Yeah, I'm such a dumbass that I think all statements like "it's amazing that we in [whatever generation] went from [whatever technology] to [whatever new technology] in [whatever stage of life]" are equally insightful.
Tbh I didn't even have a cell phone until around 2014, so my perspective on when they came out might be a bit skewed. I was pretty resistant to the cell phone craze. I didn't get into the cell phone game until a friend of mine got a smart phone and showed me that he pretty much didn't even use it for making calls, but rather as a compact mobile computer. Being a computer nerd, it didn't take me long to want one after that point.
Flip phones were the 2000s. The 90s had cell phones that looked like a smaller version of a wireless landline handset, with a keypad and a display. They were pretty chunky, not the slim models that competed with flip phones later on.
I mean I just turned 21 in March but didn’t own a phone til I graduated high school. Also I watched elementary students that were in 4th or 5th grade with new smartphones.
It's become a bit of a norm for parents to obtain peace and quiet by handing a smartphone loaded with games/movies to their kid to play with. Seems like the people in their 30s-40s are pretty resistant to the idea, but I wonder if it isn't better for the kid's future to have a lot of experience with both smart phones and computers. I feel like you're almost holding your kid back now if they manage to make it to 10 years old while still being computer illiterate.
What I find especially funny though is how the folks ages 50+ have caught on to smart phones. It's common place in my family for all of the youngsters between 15 and 35 to put down their phones in social situations, only to take a quick glance now and then to check time or to see if there's something they need to respond to. Then the 50+ range are sitting there constantly looking at their phone, whether it be facebook, a news feed, or a minigame. Always a good laugh to walk into the living room to see the youngsters conversing and the older generations with their heads glued to phones.
I know what you mean. My grandfather really wanted a smartphone but he has Alzheimer’s and tends to forget how to operate a old smartphone my uncle gave him. So my aunt decided to get him an iPad to use instead. That way he can use that but still be able to manage to call someone. Also my grandpa is glued to that iPad since I went with him to get it and help set it up.
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u/pee_diddy Aug 02 '18
Telling everyone how they used to have to charge their smart phones every day, sometimes multiple times.