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What technologies did you have growing up? - STB1 - 11-09-2012 09:35 PM
In your time, what did you have while growing up? For me we had the following: computers, the internet, facebook, youtube, yahoo, myspace, Nintendo, Son, Microsoft, playstation, WII, 360, Computer games, ipods, Iphones, iTouches and I would imagine many many more. How about your generation? What technologies did you have and what were they?
- The Saint - 11-09-2012 09:43 PM
When I was young, all we had was the radio. My father bought a television in the early 1950's. Transistor radios came in in the late 1950's, then we got a colour television in the 1960's. Computers, etc didn't come on the market until I was grown, married and had children of my own. What my grandchildren take for granted, were not around when I was a lad!
- Neil - 11-09-2012 09:43 PM
Rocks
- Just Hazel - 11-09-2012 09:43 PM
Would a new rope to pull the well bucket up count?. We also got a new gourd dipper each year.
Actually, a radio, wrist watch and a new jump rope, box of jacks and base ball. I'm old as dirt.
- savannah - 11-09-2012 09:43 PM
Just a spinning wheel in the attic where I would spend hours trying to spin gold.
Please don't patronize me or feel sorry for me. My toys now are bigger, better and more expensive than yours kiddo.
- CO the Old Dog - 11-09-2012 09:43 PM
When I was a child, the only electrical toy that i can now remember is a wood burning kit that my Dad bought for me. It was very simple - plug it in, the hot tip would glow hot and I was able to burn lines in wood plaques to make designs. I had a "do-it-youself" crystal radio that was very primative radio receiver that I was able to assemble without anyone's help. I had a Gilbert chemistry kit with a list of simple experiments which also lead me to the library to seek out other books on experiments. ( I destroyed my mother's glass coffee pot on my rainmaking experiment. i paid a price for that one.) I remember being fascinated with a windup alarm clock and took it apart - I was not able to put it back together & paid another price. I had a large magnifying glass. That was all during grade school.
TV was a small round screen black & white picture - about the size of your computer display but with much less clarity. And only a few families has a TV. My parents did not until much later.
There were no cellphones. I remember when a phone had no dial and when you picked up , a woman's voice - the phone operator came on the line - asked who you wanted to talk to and then she connected you with the other person. That was even before payphones. When the dial phones came, people need to remember the phone number which had a word prefix like "TUxedo 44567" .
I recall my first plug in radio which weight about 10lb. It was considered portable. In Jr Hi, the handheld transistor radio in a red plastic box was a must for everyone. Nothing as advanced as the ipod. The slide rule was tech before the handheld calculator appearred - both were not inexpensive items. The TI - calculator was high tech and not affordable for most of us. When I was in High School, only the govt & military has computers - which were room sized, tubed, hardwired, air cooled monsters.
- folklore - 11-09-2012 09:43 PM
sled, jump rope, football, baseball and bat, badminton rackets and birdies, chalk, mud(for pies), dolls, bikes, paper and crayons, the creek, trees to climb, to just name a few of the things that I grew up with. Technology was what was used to produce these items that lasted from one child passed down to another.
- Lynn - 11-09-2012 09:43 PM
One radio, one telephone, a car, telegrams, pipes in the house for the flow of water, a furnace for the winter, venetian blinds, a washing machine, a refrigerator, (in the forties, we had an ice box), buses, streetcars.......that's all I can think of now.
- Milton - 11-09-2012 09:43 PM
We had rocks. You could do all kinds of things with them. You could count them. You could throw them at animals to make dinner. You could build houses from them. You could fashion them into weapons to protect your cave from the enemy.
We also had trees. You could climb them when the T-Rex came into the neighborbood.
No one ever lived long enough to need all that s**t that it takes to keep your attention-deficit disordered minds occupied.
- Autumn Leaves - 11-09-2012 09:43 PM
I remember when color TV was introduced, it was a big deal.