I don’t consider myself old, and am more or less a digital native, but the leaps and bounds by which data has become a constant is astonishing to me. Right now at work I am sitting in front of three computer monitors, one laptop, and two smartphones.
Screen 1 - Twitter
Screen 2 - This page
Screen 3 - Word
Laptop - Gmail
Smartphone 1 - Sky News stream
Smartphone 2 - Definitely not a mobile game
And that doesn’t seem outrageous to me at all.
F*cked Up Beyond All Recognition/ Repair.
From many movies. Full Metal Jacket, Saving Private Ryan, Platoon, Tango & Cash, Hamburger Hill, and Predator. Acronym came from the military.
Yes, that’s what I was politely refering to.
Virtually all tech changed a lot in my lifetime. Here are just a few of the big changes:
I remember when TVs with remotes were rare in Brazil - the dominating media company there, Globo, paid off TV manufacturers to delay the introduction of remotes so people would be less inclined to change channels. We had one 25" set in the living room, and my parents had a 15"BW set on their room. Now I’m planning the purchase of a 4K TV.
Cable TV wasn’t a thing where I lived. In fact, there were only two channels at first - one being the aforementioned Globo. I was a teenager when we first got a cable subscription - which we later found was an illegal operation by a local company, since there wasn’t cable in our area yet. Some people purchased large satellite antennas to be able to receive more channels from other states. Last year I cancelled my home’s cable subscription because we no longer watch live TV, we stream everything we want.
I cheered the purchase of the family’s first VCR player at 8 years old. I was the one to advance the family to DVD’s, having a 300+ strong collection of titles - a dozen of which I purchased before even having where to play them.
My family’s first computer was a ZX81 clone - you plugged it to a TV and it showed a prompt - you programmed it on Basic, software was saved on cassette tapes with load times up to 30 minutes.
I only knew internet when I was 16. Used BBS a lot before that. The first time I got online there were so few websites around that the ISP just offered a list for you to browse. There was a data cap and you paid for the phone call, so we kept connection to a minimal, unless it was after 11pm when the call was no longer charged. The first chat I used was the IRC client mIRC, back when there was no coloured text or images. I remember the first time I tried to watch an online video without downloading it first - took a while in the slow connection. The first time I video chatted through Skype it was a horror-show of pixelated images and asynchronous audio/video.
I remember when cordless phones were too expensive for regular families - and I was about 10 when my family got a dial tone phone, we had a rotary phone before that. Every member of the family now have a cellphone and I no longer have a landline.
First videogame was an Atari 2600. I remember playing Donkey Kong and the original Pac Man on arcades. I remember starting a game of Asteroids and realizing after an hour or so that I had beaten the house’s high score by leaps and bounds. After two hours standing - the controls were to close to the TV for us to be able to sit at the sofa, and I hadn’t prepared in advance for what I believed would be a quick game - my mother brought me a chair, and soon after the whole family was cheering while I approached “zero” for the fifth or sixth time - getting a score so high that the numbers just roll back to zero, for those too young to understand the lingo. The game was so fast by then that I could only look at the center of the screen, I stopped because my eyes and thumbs hurt.
I had a large collection of cassette mixtapes. My parents had a large collection of vinyl records. Again, I was a teenager when we were able to buy a CD player. All that is obsolete today.
I was into photography for as long as I can remember. My mother had a simple Olympus camera - what would today be a simple point-and-shoot. I saved my spending money to purchase a disposable camera. Today, besides my phone, I have a DSLR and a GoPro.
Mobile games were those simple LCD single games which came in a varied assortment of shapes and sizes.
I dreamed of having a RC car. Last Christmas, I gave my nephew a LittleBits kit which allowed him to make his own RC car and control it with an iPad.
Wow…quite a bit before my time but never the less looks like something interesting to have a mess with 
eufy Robovac!
It saved my mom’s life!
It was probably the internet that changed my life the most for me (who can forget the screeching modem while the AOL running man lit up?).
Portable music/MP3 players also had a big impact on me. I didn’t really get into running until I could easily run with my music (running with a portable CD player just didn’t work, lol).
I was using a Sony Walkman with those small tapes (cassettes?) first.
I remember I bought one of these Walkman for my mother (RIP) in the 1980.
You may imagine, an old lady with such an NEW item and earphones in those days.
She was so proud of to have such a player, really nobody had,
listening Beethoven what else 
(Berliner Symphoniker, Karajan).
(One of the best recordings of LvB’s Symphonies ever)
We all know technology has come a long way since its inception, some of the things we have now have even been dated back to the 18th century…if you look at hieroglyphics and all the pictures that were drawn way back when you will see some familiar items that we use almost daily.
Scientist had wondered if the technology didn’t exist back then then how could they have known to draw something of the sort. Maybe its just history has a way of repeating itself and that we went through a tech boom and then it died off, only for us to rediscover it…who knows science and technology is all but a mystery to us all
The innovations we got by computers is unbelievable.
I remember when taking the sub a few years ago I was quite the ONLY
one using am IPOD.
Nowadays ALL are playing around with phones.
Good or bad? I dont know.
