20 Things Our Children Won’t Understand
I stumbled across this list in my browsing.
I know you have all heard how comic books used to be $0.10, Candy bars $0.05 and how we (our parents or grandparents) used to walk to school 5 miles in the snow (uphill, both ways); but here is a more contemporary list that our children (grandchildren or great grandchildren as the case may be) won’t understand. Some are humorous, some sad and some make you stop and think a bit.
It is has a few Science Fiction references but most are ones we all can recognize.
1. The opening line of Neuromancer. *
2. Please be kind—rewind.
8. Dittos.9. Green-on-black computer monitors.
14. A and B drives.
19. Why manual transmission is referred to as “standard.”
You can find the full list here.
*The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
What would you add to the list?
Record Albums, 8 -Tracks, soon Cassette tapes. Transistor Radios?
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July 8th, 2007 at 8:02 am
Here’s a few more…
Manual typewriters
Windup clocks
Pull-top tabs
July 8th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
To add more specificity to John’s third item, Jimmy Buffett’s “…stepped on a pop-top…”.
July 13th, 2007 at 9:00 am
For those who don’t know the reference.
Margaritaville