I'm doing a paper for my tech class and he wanted us to write a paper and ask someone how and what changed in their life with technology. How has it progressed? What do you first remember,etc.
Thanks for the help =) I'm interested in what kind of stories there are.
How has technology changed since you were born?
Well i'm 16, but i remember when i was 3 my parents bought a computer. It was really cool and cost $1000 in 1994. I played it and one thing i've noticed that changed between then and now is: back then I played %26quot;cartoon type%26quot; games whereas these days i play virual 3D games online with hudreds of people. That's a change.
How has technology changed since you were born?
When I was in kindergarden there was no internet, no flat screen (lcd) screens, cds were just coming out. Html was the only format you could make a webpage in. No frontpage. Spell check was very inaccurate
iphone
dvd players.
computers
cellphones
corn as fuel (bio-fuels)
video games
mars roovers and many more
Well, if you want to know about gaming technology, games started out with pong. This was a simple game in which two rods were on opposite sides of the screen and could be moved north and south. There was a ball between the two rods that moved back and forth; if this ball passed any of the rods, the person controlling that rod lost. Games have become increasingly more difficult and complex; the next stage up would be console gaming, in which multiple games could be played on the same console using devices called cartridges. These cartridges had the ability to display 2 dimensional side-scrolling games, as well as 2 dimensional fighting games. The cartridges also had the ability to save files. Soon, bigger and better cartridges paved the road for 3-dimensional graphic rendering, most noticeably on the N64. While backgrounds were nothing more than blocks of color (a brick wall would be a bunch of red blocks with small lines of white between them), the games became more personal and since they were 3-dimensional took on a whole new scope of reality. Soon, cartridges became unable to handle the vast amount of data needed to store modern games, and so game manufacturers started using CD's and DVD's. These could store incredible amounts of data and allowed a brick wall to have multiple colored bricks, cracks, imperfections, and much greater detail, leading to an even more lifelike experience. The newest games, such as Grand Theft Auto IV, allow players to take different routes and have completely different endings, which is an incredible change since the first days of pong. This is just console gaming; if you need any more on computers or cars or other technological sources e-mail me on yahoo.
When I was a teen, regular people could work on their own cars. Today you have to have a computer hook-up just to see what's wrong with your car. Let alone work on It. Used to, your mom told toy to keep a dime in your billfold to make a (dial) emergency phone call. Today most people have a cell phone to make all calls emergency or play. At school most learning came from studying books, Today, we have the computers, audio-visual equipment, DVD/CD Players. I know there are a lot more but no time. Hope this helped a little..
Rotary dial telephones and party lines: no touch tone no cell phones and with a party line at least one person in your neighborhood always knew everyone else's gossip...and an answering machine was a family member that took a message.
NO remote control tvs had to actually get up to change the channel...cable tv meant one channel HBO.
Computers and microwaves were something out of science fiction...needed information? go to a library...fast meal? make a sandwich...
no play staion or video games...playing a game meant a board game like Monopoly or Scrabble...or going outside to play kick the can...tag...hide and seek.
I can think of many many more but then I am old...49...lol...Life seems so much easier these days but many drawbacks too...people are more detached now...when I was a child we knew our neighbors and their families...we all looked out for each other...you spent actual time with your family and friends as opposed to now when it seems most time spent with them is virtual...online or by cell phone.
Excellent question that calls for some fun reflection. I was born in March of 1964 so my response won't be as interesting as someone born in 1924, but here goes. When I was a kid many of the TV shows were still in black and white. I remember it being a big deal when a TV show was advertised as being in %26quot;living color!%26quot;. People used these adding machines to do calculations that had pull-down levers to %26quot;input%26quot; their data and generate sums, etc. Computers filled a room - and folks at the time thought that was small! In Christmas of 1973 my Dad got an electronic calculator that could add, subtract, divide, and multiply. the tiny screen had red LED lights that formed the numbers. My brother, mother, and I gathered around him when he opened the box and ooo-ed and aww-ed over this amazing electronic gadget. Later in the 70s, my brother and I got a Pong tennis game. You plugged it into the TV and we each had a dial controller on a single box that moved paddles up and down on the TV screen to play TV tennis. That was pretty amazing at the time, as well. Of course, back then and into the early 80s cell phones didn't exist. When they came into vogue in the mid/late 80s, they were these large clunkers. I'm talking five or six times the size of the little Sanyo I have now. My first exposure to the internet was Gophernet out of the University of Minnesota. It was a very rudimentary internet with very basic information. That was in the early 90s. With regard to music, 8-tracks went out in the early 80s. Records went out in the late 80s. And cassette tapes disappeared - oh - in the early 2000s. CDs really came into their own in 90-91, I think. TV in the 60s and 70s was the few channels one could pick up on their tall metal antenna attached to their house. Cable started to take off with HBO in the late 70s. When I was a kid, we did not know Restless Leg Syndrome, AIDS, COPD, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, etc. existed. (maybe they didn't). We didn't have all of these wonderful medicines for depression, anxiety, sexual dysfunction, etc. Most food we cooked at home - from scratch. Things like candy, cokes, chips were occasional treats. Eating at restaurants was a rarity not like now when people commonly eat out 3-4 times per week. We kids would play with toy guns, Lego blocks, Lincoln Logs, board games, and toys we came up with ourselves. A kid's imagination was a much larger source of entertainment than it is today - no electronic games or devices. We read a lot more then. And we didn't DARE tell our parents we were bored. That was the easiest way to get a chore to do - at least for us living in the country. These days, kids have to often be shoved out the door to get them to play outside. Back in the 60-70s when I was a kid, we had to be dragged in the house to come INSIDE! Well there you have it - some of my memories of how technology and times have changed. Hope this helps a little. Jim
Well now, I'm 46(omg!). Things have really changed. I remember when I was a kid, about 8, we would all go to the kids house that had color t.v. We had actual dial phones. You know the ones you had to stick your finger in and dial around the numbers. When you went to change the channel on the t.v., you had to get off your **** and actual change the channel on the t.v. set. No computers, no internet, no cell phones, no nothing. But I really think that us kids of the way back when, really had it made. We grew up entertaining ourselves. We were out on adventures, not stuck in the house because our parents were scared of child abductors. With that we learned very early how to be self sufficient. I think we had it a lot better than young people of today. I have an 9 and an 11 year old, and we try very hard to give them what we had. It ain't easy. Yes they do have a computer, but everything in moderation. If I had to say, although technology is fun, I don't think all of it is necessary.
