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I lived in a world before…

By September 23, 2011Culture, Funny

I was thinking the other day about how many things have come along since I’ve been in the world. I’m 47 years old, so I guess that’s plenty of time to do some inventing, but the list really is amazing when I started to write them down…

I lived in a world before…

  • Microwaves
  • Cell phones
  • Color television
  • iPod/iPad/iPhone
  • $10 movies
  • Red Box
  • CD’s
  • DVD’s
  • Blue Ray
  • DVR
  • Amazon.com
  • Google
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Internet
  • WWW.
  • Cassettes
  • Mp3
  • Personal computers
  • Men on the moon
  • Kindle

What else? (Add to my list…)

There’s been a lot of changes in my life… How about yours? 

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  • Your Church Tech Guy says:

    Ron,

    Actually the first microwave was called a Radar Range and was first sold in 1947, that was even before me!

  • Kyle says:

    9-1-1

    I remember having a plastic card next to the phone in the kitchen with the numbers to call for fire, police, paramedics, poison control (my brother and I were dangerous, what can I say?).

    • ronedmondson says:

      At first I thought you meant 9/11 as in the date we just memorialized. That date certainly changed usBut yes. I remember having to know the separate numbers and the little cards and magnets with them on it. The first push button phones had a button for each of them.

  • Jeff says:

    Wow! Nobody has said 8 Track yet!?

  • philslocum says:

    Child car seats and non-smoking anything.

  • @mamanobles says:

    Before Chick-fil-A
    Blue laws – couldn't buy alcohol OR gasoline on Sunday
    E-coupons
    Gas was less than $1 per gallon
    Bubble gum was 2 for a penny
    Gas stations were full service – pump your gas, check your tires, your oil and clean the windshield
    McDonald's was about the only fast food

  • Mark Riggins says:

    – Presidential primary didn’t begin so soon
    – Usually only applied for jobs in your region (before churchstaffing.com)
    – Before 5 Guys Burgers!
    – Discovered gender of children at birth

  • @levittmike says:

    voicemail systems, and multiple phones in our homes. I still remember the beige, rotary-dial phone at home, and this long phone cord that probably could stretch to another State.

    • ronedmondson says:

      Ha! That's funny. I remember some people loving to untangle those cords. I wasn't one of them. And now I use Google Voice and don't have a home phone.

  • Cheryl says:

    GPS
    Disposable diapers
    Beepers (okay-some still use them)
    Pagers (at restaurants)
    3D movies
    Xbox & Playstation

  • Drew Snider says:

    OK … I'm a few years older than you, Ron, so let's see … I lived in a world before
    – automatic transmission was a standard feature
    – 230 channels and nothing's on
    – "the full color network – NBC"
    – same-day flights from Vancouver to Halifax
    – The Beatles
    – "I just tweeted my blog post" was considered an understandable sentence

  • Color TV, Mandatory Batting Helmets in MLB & NHL, Indoor Plumbing in the Mountains, Free substitution in College Football

  • Mark Thomasy says:

    Bicycle helmets
    Remote controls
    Soccer in the US
    VCRs
    20+ MPG Vehicles
    Power locks and windows
    5.1 Surround Sound
    Blue M&Ms

  • Riete says:

    Cassette tapes, central heating, shopping malls, contact lenses, copiers (remember those duplicators you had to ink yourself?) …

  • Ben Reed
    Twitter:
    says:

    Texting
    Blogs

    • ronedmondson says:

      I'm curious Ben….with our age difference, which of these would be on my list but not yours?

      • So I'm just a few years younger than Ben (27). These are the ones from your list that would also be on my list:

        Cell phones
        iPod/iPad/iPhone
        $10 movies
        Red Box
        CD’s
        DVD’s
        Blue Ray
        DVR
        Amazon.com
        Google
        Facebook
        Twitter
        Internet
        WWW.
        Kindle

        I found it interesting that the list is very skewed to the latter half of your life. I only had to delete 5 items (color TV, cassettes, men on the moon, microwaves, and personal computers). Probably shows the exponential rate of increase in technological innovation.

  • ANY airport security
    seat belts in cars–let alone the laws.
    police cars had blue lights

  • David says:

    Here's a few more:

    Macintosh
    Self check-out lines
    Touch screens
    Car airbags and seatbelt laws

  • Jon says:

    I'm just a hair older than you so I'll add

    Apple, Microsoft, seat belts, air bags, touch tone phones, ink jet/laser printers; there's probably more, but I'm forgetting 🙂

    • ronedmondson says:

      Good adds. I wasn't sure about seat belts…did we have them or did we just not use them? Yea…the old rotary dial phones….

  • Matt
    Twitter:
    says:

    The radio and the telephone?
    Haha. Just kidding you, Ron. My great-aunt lived from 1898-1999, I always marvelled at all the technological changes that occurred in her lifetime. Change – the original constant.