Technology then and now.

glatt · 06-12-2013, 07:20 AM

It's amazing, isn't it? We also had just the black and white TV, and my parents didn't spring for color until after I left for college in 1985.

At dinner last night, my daughter was talking about school, which is in its final two weeks and nothing is being taught. In one class, the teacher wanted to show them some YouTube video on the classroom smart board related to what they had been studying, and my daughter was moaning that they couldn't see the whole video because there were buffering problems. It really struck me then that this was a different time. She wasn't complaining about a cracked filmstrip, or a tv channel with too much static. It was "buffering." She's a digital native, and I'm just a visitor to this age. I mentioned this, and my wife totally got where I was coming from, but my daughter just looked at me like "that's nice, Dad."

Lamplighter · 06-12-2013, 11:11 AM

I read a joke the other day related to this PRISM business...

You're on a business trip and lonesome for your loving wife.
So you call her and get into some rather intimate, hot pillow talk.
Later, just as you end the call, you hear some heavy breathing.
These days, it might not have been your wife !

So times have changed... we're back to the days of the party line.

06-12-2013, 07:20 AM	#1
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	It's amazing, isn't it? We also had just the black and white TV, and my parents didn't spring for color until after I left for college in 1985. At dinner last night, my daughter was talking about school, which is in its final two weeks and nothing is being taught. In one class, the teacher wanted to show them some YouTube video on the classroom smart board related to what they had been studying, and my daughter was moaning that they couldn't see the whole video because there were buffering problems. It really struck me then that this was a different time. She wasn't complaining about a cracked filmstrip, or a tv channel with too much static. It was "buffering." She's a digital native, and I'm just a visitor to this age. I mentioned this, and my wife totally got where I was coming from, but my daughter just looked at me like "that's nice, Dad."

06-12-2013, 11:11 AM	#2
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	I read a joke the other day related to this PRISM business... You're on a business trip and lonesome for your loving wife. So you call her and get into some rather intimate, hot pillow talk. Later, just as you end the call, you hear some heavy breathing. These days, it might not have been your wife ! So times have changed... we're back to the days of the party line.

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