I remember my dad bringing home this amazing machine that plugged into our 19" TV with the turn knob dial ~ actually two turn knob dials, one for regular channels and one for UHF...that's how you got those really high numbers, like 12. But this amazing machine hooked into the TV and put a game screen on with two slidey lines, one on each side, and a little "ball" that would bounce back and forth, and we had these little turn knob handheld controllers that moved the little slidey bars up and down so we could hit the little "ball". Pong was the greatest thing to hit our house! I think I was in third grade.
How far technology has come. It never ceases to amaze me that the things I can't live without I couldn't even imagine existing 30 years ago.
- my Blackberry cell phone
- digital photography
- my lap top computer
- texting
- the Internet
- my activboard at school
- Invisible Fence
- wi-fi
- wireless printers
- my DVR
- I have an ipod smaller than any Walkman I owned that has over 2000 songs on it ~ with room for 10000 more...
Today, I tried to record the Today Show ~ Bruce Springsteen was being interviewed by Brian Williams, thank you very much. For some reason, it didn't record. Mike calmly suggests looking for it online. And sure enough, one Yahoo search later I watch the
30 minute interview in its entirety.
Technology is amazing.
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