Well, I grew up in Yonkers, a city that is a suburb of NYC. We had a rotary dial phone, but it was easy to make a call. I used a typewriter until I was in grad school and knew all about carbon copies and white out.
But I spent summers as a child in the Catskill Mountains. We had a party line and you dialed the number you wanted to call and the operator came on and asked you number please and that meant your party line number, not the number you were calling. It was awhile before we had TV and that was with an antenna up on the hill above us. We played records on phonographs.
The way I feel old is that I learned to program on cards. I implemented software on mainframes for large corporations who could afford it. When I continued in the computer business, I couldn't really believe how easy it was to use client-server technology with an easy to change the user interface and the database technology. Now I feel behind because I don't do web design but I never wanted to do that.
I am still getting over records vs. CDs.
But I spent summers as a child in the Catskill Mountains. We had a party line and you dialed the number you wanted to call and the operator came on and asked you number please and that meant your party line number, not the number you were calling. It was awhile before we had TV and that was with an antenna up on the hill above us. We played records on phonographs.
The way I feel old is that I learned to program on cards. I implemented software on mainframes for large corporations who could afford it. When I continued in the computer business, I couldn't really believe how easy it was to use client-server technology with an easy to change the user interface and the database technology. Now I feel behind because I don't do web design but I never wanted to do that.
I am still getting over records vs. CDs.