Do you agree ?...I do.

[patrick]

[JCON]

Very true!!!

[tojo72]

Yes,very true

Also house phones with cords,and party lines.
Rotary Dials

Thought we were advanced when we printed our Google maps for directions.

Dial up internet DSL

[Beekster]

Oooohhhh, yeah! Not only rotary phones and cords, but long-distance calling that really wasn't. Back in high school I dated a girl from West Linn for a short time; I lived in Hillsboro (still do!). That's about 25 miles away, and was long distance back then. Calls were short; probably among the reasons we didn't date very long. Now long distance is just part of the price of you phone plan. Printed Google maps...we still have some of those archived from past vacation trips, saved for a possible return visit from a decade or more before either of us got a cell phone. Hand-crank windows; grew up with those still standard. I think our 1990 Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.6 that we bought in 1996 was the first car we owned with power windows. Now even Lotus uses them, because the hardware for electric windows now weighs much less than the manual crank parts. My wife is a data systems specialist; when she started that working summers in high school she fed punch cards into a machine. Big phone books were useful for more than finding people and businesses; at Grandma Buechler's house they were used to boost my little sister and I to table height for Sunday dinner in those years when we were too big for a baby's high chair and not tall enough to otherwise eat comfortably. Speaking of that dining table, it sits in my dining room now along with her 1926 vintage china hutch and fine china.

[JED]

Spot on Patrick

[DPNM]

True indeed. There have been a number of things like these that I've thought of recently.

Just the telephone itself has a long list.

In high school I had to take typing as a senior as I couldn't get wood-shop because I took that as a sophomore and junior. I never thought that I would do any typing so I really didn't try to learn how to do it correctly. I say that as I type this on my keypad

[Beekster]

Mar 30, 2021 14:44:53 GMT -6 DPNM said:

True indeed. There have been a number of things like these that I've thought of recently.

Just the telephone itself has a long list.

In high school I had to take typing as a senior as I couldn't get wood-shop because I took that as a sophomore and junior. I never thought that I would do any typing so I really didn't try to learn how to do it correctly. I say that as I type this on my keypad

Me too, a keyboarding class was a requirement.  So was personal finance, which proved equally useful over time.  Having a mother who was a financial adviser didn't hurt, either.  The keyboarding was really useful in college and grad school when I was doing a lot of writing for classes.  Since then, I've used it writing production documentation during my working years and of course chattering away with all of you here, not to mention email.

Car stereos with cassette players, and before that 8-track tapes.  When I  was a little kid, we had an 8-track player in a travel trailer, and another under the dash of the '69 Chevy Caprice that towed it--gold with gold brocade cloth interior and black vinyl top.  Actually, the 8-track was under the vent panel  under the dash for the aftermarket A/C, and right next to the obligatory CB radio.

[scowha7]

Agreed!

[dogfish7 (R.I.P.)]

Sooooooo, what are all those things??