Vanishing down the memory hole
Wired has an interesting article on "100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About". Basically a list of things that were a common part of our daily lives only a decade or two ago, that most kids coming up today may have no knowledge of, as if they never existed.
A few notable entries on the list:
A few notable entries on the list:
- Rotary dial televisions with no remote control. You know, the ones where the kids were the remote control.
- Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something
- The scream of a modem connecting.
- Using jumpers to set IRQs
- Wondering if you can afford to buy a RAM upgrade.
- Having to delete something to make room on your hard drive
- Doing bank business only when the bank is open
- Phone books and Yellow Pages
- Filling out an order form by hand, putting it in an envelope and posting it
- Phones with actual bells in them
- Remembering someone’s phone number
- Not knowing who was calling you on the phone
- “Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.” But they’ve already seen episode III, so it’s no big surprise
- Finding books in a card catalog at the library
- Writing a check
- Spending your entire allowance at the arcade in the mall
- Omni Magazine
Labels: nostalgia
posted by The Mad Builder of Periwinkle at 22:01
4 Comments:
Excepting the last two items on the list, I don't really miss any of it. I still pine for Omni, though; that was a great rag. No political bias, no clueless neo-hippie editors (see: Wired), just Really Cool Stuff every month.
Not only was Omni a great read in it's heyday, it was a darn hefty magazine too. You got alot of dead tree for your buck in that thing. All brought to you by Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse. Who woudl have thunk it. Though at the end it did jump the shark and started running more to the "paranormal" type stuff.
BTW...there is a Tribute Site to the magazine at www.omnimagonline.com
Hey, I didn't see this stuff on the list:
1. Atari 2600.
2. Working for a living and actually getting a paycheck you can spend on yourself instead of hand to the government.
3. A person over the age of two without a cell phone.
4. A true representation of the scientific method.
5. Something other than taking a crap that's not politically motivated.
6. An original story line out of Hollywood.
7. A good movie without a bad sequel.
8. Not being able to pause your TV show.
9. Picture frames that only hold one picture printed on paper.
10. A slide projector.
Don't forget:
11. Capitalist economic system.
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