Lol, I do have to laugh. I'm young, I'll be 20 this year, but I don't know WHAT I would do without my computer or cell phone, etc. It's just so crazy! I was talking about this the other day...
Even though I'm young still -- when I was growing up, we were outside in the summertime from 9am-9pm... I barely came in to eat dinner without taking off my rollerblades. We got a family computer when I was around 9 or 10 years old maybe, but we didn't have internet yet. We had one of those old computers forever, that didn't even have a mouse or anything. It was when you had to type a command to get it to do something.
Then I remember AOL came about... thinking back, it was sooo slow, but we didn't know any better. I use to always have a book or a magazine available so I could read while I waited for the next internet page to load, hehe. I think I got my first cell phone in 8th grade but most of my friends didn't get them 'til high school. It was one of those little Nokia's that was a green screen, no texting or pictures or anything on it. We had the original Nintendo, and then got the N64... I think Playstation came about when I was in late elem. school or middle school. I always had cassette tapes until middle school. CD's were around but they were still fairly new and most cars only had tape decks so nobody really bought CD's. My lil brother saw a pic of a cassette tape the other day and asked "What is THAT?!" and it made suddenly feel like my parents.... hahaha!
My point... even though I'm young and had more than you old farts
... SO much has advanced even since *I* was little. It's really crazy, every year we just seem to get more tech advanced...
I would have never even thought an iPhone would be able to exist... or that you can own a game like a Wii system in your home- that would be like something I'd expect to see at Disneyworld. And that AOL is a thing of the past... lol. Everyone had AOL for the longest time with me growing up. Now who seriously still uses AOL? Ha, it's so funny.
But basically when you don't know any better, you don't think anything of it at the time... like I think about the folks who grew up in the late 1800's during the Civil War and stuff. It makes me be like how did they live like that?! But when ya don't know any better... it doesnt make a difference.