i'm 51. born 1966.
i started with phonograph albums @78 45 and 33
black and white tube tv's is the first tv i remember, i remember watching creature double feature (50's-60's monster movies) on saturdays... i remember only have 7 channels on the TV - pbs, nbc abc, cbs,on channels 2 4 5 and 7(vhf) respectively, and on UHF channels 38(Local), 44(pbs) and 56(local)
my grandparents who lived in a 2 family house over my great grandparents, did not have a PHONE until 1978-1980.
the only phone in the house they lived at was on the first floor, and the phone was a PARTY LINE phone until the early 1970's (more than one house with the same phone number-ended up being the last party line in the city) so to get my grandparents on the phone, we had to call the number, talk to the operator to give which house, then it would ring the right house, THEN when "ma or pa" would answer the phone, ask for one of my grandparents(depending on who they wanted to talk to) ma or pa would put the phone down, walk over to the steam radiator and bang on the pipe leading upstairs.... 2 bangs for my grandmother, 3 bangs for grandfather...
i remember going to see Star Wars (it was not "a new hope") at the theatre...and then seeing it again 9 MONTHS later at the same movie theatre.
i remember the first mobile phone being this huge brick attached to a briefcase.
i remember the first calculator coming out and all it did was add subtract multiply and divide.
first calculator i had(ti-30) came with a book with fun math tricks -i think i still have the book
example prime number division:
pick 3 digit number (999, 888 ,654, 765,876, 760 whatever- just cannot have zero as the first digit. enter them into the calculator
enter the same digits again so you have a repeating 6 number figure--- 876876 etc.
now divide that number by 7 - there will be no remainder...
divide the resultant number by 11.....there will be no remainder
now divide the resultant number by....13. there will be no remainder and the resultant number will be, the first 3 digit number you picked.
i remember the trs80, i remember apple computer, the apple 2 the apple 2e(my first computer) ibm pc, wang, etc- the first computer my dad's company had was an ibm pc..cost 10 grand it had a 20 megabyte hard drive and 64k ram.
i remember when Cable TV first came out in my town & my parents got it in umm 1982 or 1983 i watched Mtv regularly for the music videos
my first apartment (1988ish) i used AOL for my internet, i had to use DIAL-UP 14.4 baud
then i bought a 2nd phone line JUST for my computer, i regularly had 300 dollar internet bills for usage on AOL (until they went unlimited. then i had earthlink, then DSL came out, and i had that...until cable internet came out.
i - gasp- walked to school -no parents in sight- and coming home alone- hell i walked over a mile every day to my middle school-alone- along train tracks(shortcut), if i timed it right, i'd hop onto a train to get a ride home... when i was 14ish, i would hop on my bike and just go riding with my friends- ending up riding 10-15 miles from my house, i would ride my bike to the comic store ~5 miles or so from my house.
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all the past so many memories...now if i could get my kids off the bloody internet they could experience life outside....
