Vanishing down the memory hole

Carrying on the nostalgia theme....

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:

• 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

Click HERE for the full article.