Changed in your lifetime
07-20-2020, 02:26 PM
#41
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Join Date: Mar 2016
Posts: 1,348
Televisions. Remember when a 20 inch screen was huge? When you had to turn the TV on 5 minutes before your show started so the tubes could warm up? When you had to adjust the color on your new color TV, because otherwise people were bright orange or purple? And it had to be redone about once a week? Remember TV Guide, and the little icons that let you know a program was in color or black & white?
07-23-2020, 07:04 PM
#44
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Southern Louisiana
Posts: 9,811
Originally Posted by IceLeopard
Televisions. Remember when a 20 inch screen was huge? When you had to turn the TV on 5 minutes before your show started so the tubes could warm up? When you had to adjust the color on your new color TV, because otherwise people were bright orange or purple? And it had to be redone about once a week? Remember TV Guide, and the little icons that let you know a program was in color or black & white?
07-29-2020, 09:30 AM
#47
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Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: Houston, AK
Posts: 2,125
MP3 players and wireless technology are the things that come to mind for me. The ability to carry thousands of songs with me in one device was phenomenal. I had hundreds of CDs prior to my first iPod in approximately 2006 or 2007. I still had wired headphones then but I could have all my music and more! Now I have wireless headphones which, for me, is amazing. I talk on the phone to family and friends regularly and having my hands free allows me to get more done while I talk.
07-29-2020, 12:29 PM
#48
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: NM
Posts: 989
Since I was born in 1943 everything has gotten better. We had a swamp cooler, icebox until we got an electric one, TV when I was 16, school classroom attendance was 30-40 kids in one room with 1 teacher--no helper! We had a party-line phone. It is better now, except for the '60s, Vietnam and drugs took a lot of my friends.
