I love google for that. Plus youtube. So many things we have fixed on our own.My DH bought a laptop for me around 2004ish. I remember saying it was ridiculous, I didn’t need my own computer.
It wasn’t until a few years later that I really understood the power of a google search. My kids had Leap Pads and there was something wrong with one of them. (can’t remember what now) I googled the specific issue and with some digging was able to find the fix. I was AMAZED that I could do that. Back then I was about the least techie person on the planet but I was able to fix this device all on my own. Opened up a whole new world to me. I kept saying to my DH, “Five years ago, I would have to spend hours on the phone or send it in!”
Oh yeah. Plus TV Guide channel. You'd have to wait a while to get to the channel you wanted..on boy it sucked when you got distracted and missed it then you had to wait for it to come around again. Most of the time my mom would get movie times via the newspaper. My husband's grandmother def. still uses the newspaper as her TV guide.We were telling our son about movie-fone (that’s how they spelled it). You’d call and listen to the movie times and usually sit through 10 movies and RIGHT when they got to the one you wanted your mom/dad would walk in and start talking to you and YOUD MISS IT. Ahhh the agony.
Oh yeah. In my work it meant a lot of time on the phone in the office tracking down information or going to the library. And in the field, we always had a roll of dimes to make calls from pay phones.Definitively....life without a computer at all and without cell phones
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My first computer was a VIC 20 I bought for $300 in 1982ish, 3.5K of memory and a 22 column by 40 row screen.
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We were telling our son about movie-fone (that’s how they spelled it). You’d call and listen to the movie times and usually sit through 10 movies and RIGHT when they got to the one you wanted your mom/dad would walk in and start talking to you and YOUD MISS IT. Ahhh the agony.
We didn't have a remote control and when Dad said "change the channel" it was pretty straight-forward because we only got two!I remember my sister and I getting all excited because they added a 4th channel to our TV set. Sure one of us would usually have to hold the rabbit ears a certain way to get that channel but we were in shape back then!!!
But I'm old now (63) and love Youtube, Google, and pretty much anything else our computers offer us but my goodness if anything goes wrong....I always have to call the sons.
Um, didn't you have a copier? Xerox machines (as they were generically known then) were around waaaay before pc's.Yup. I'm 54. I remember when the internet started and we got our first shared computer in an office of 50 people.
We had to type everything out on paper with carbon between it to get the 2nd copy. The only people allowed to touch that computer at the time were specifically trained on DOS. I was one of them. LOL
I also remember the first cell phones with the giant bags you had to carry and the huge phones. We had one of those because my husband just had to get it. I also remember him always taking it and me never getting to use it much. I think I made one call with that thing.
lol younger generations have no idea how easy they have it. In another active thread (can’t remember which one) someone couldn’t imagine how we survived without GPS. If you can’t remember going somewhere new and having someone try to fold up a map after it was used, you’re too young LOL
Even having stupid pagers , before cell phones . The phones were hard to find.Oh yeah. In my work it meant a lot of time on the phone in the office tracking down information or going to the library. And in the field, we always had a roll of dimes to make calls from pay phones.
I have found that this is a Gex X bonding experience: