ebay and craigslist

[BairleaFarm 340]

Isnt it amazing the crap on these 2 sites? The whole internet thing is crazy. What you can do, what you can order. I remember in HS when we got our first computer and how far they have come. Computers and the internet. I cant wait to see what my sons future holds.

[KyBlue 655]

Thats a scary thought David! I rember when we got our first computer in Middle school, Actually I think I had one at home before the school... Pretty bad eh?

I love fiddling about with computers, specially the hardware side of things - technology is changing so fast....who knows where it'll lead!

[Nick 13]

It is impressive just how much things have changed. Our first computer was a Radio shack TRS-80 Color Computer with color basic, tape deck storage and either 4K or 16k memory. I dont think our school had a computer yet either. At that time we were lucky to move up from filmstrips and 16mm projectors to the tv cart that had a 19" tv and a top loading VHS the size of a suitcase. Wonder how many kids today have even seen a filmstrip. Oh, I also had a Beta vcr and yes I still think they were better. :horseplay:

[Buzz 502]

Personal computers and cell phones that allow you to connect with anyone anywhere in the world? Yeah, right. Who do you think you are, **** Tracy? Next thing you'll be trying to tell me is there are no more phone booths. Where will Clark Kent change into Superman? Geez... you must think I'll believe anything. Guess I'll go to the movies for a quarter, buy a nickel candy bar and a Coke for a dime. Kids these days.

:omg:

[BairleaFarm 340]

Payphones are becoming a thing of the past too.

[Nick 13]

Hey Buzz, We still have a phone booth and not only that it is still 5c for local calls. So you might not get a candy bar for a nickle but ya can call someone with it. We also have a theater in the next town thats $1 before 6 and 50c on Tuesdays but they do play movies after they have been out a while. :USA:

[jerrell 1]

:banghead: some of us is showing our age here, i can remember when my dad brought our first TV home from Texarkana, it was the size of a small refrigerator, with a 6 inch screen, that thing had more tubes in it than you could count , 56 miles away from Texarkana and we had to have a 50 foot antennae. we could just make out shapes on the screen but my brother and i would sit there for hours, i think i was 10 or 11 at that time..,, my dad was born in 1878 and passed away in 1983, he told me stories of wagon trains, in fact he was born in Marion In,(wheel horse country) He and grandpa, traveled down thru Mo,Ar, Tn, and bought horses for the Gov, drove them back to Marion. He would always just stare and shake his head and smile when he saw a jet go overhead.... i wonder what he would say now to see computers in every home and cell phones???

[saguaro 0]

jerrell. neat story.Thanks for sharing.

[Duff 206]

My grandma, may she rest in peace, was born in Scotland in 1890 and came to this country on a steamship around 1910. She met and married my grandpa and they lived their lives on a farm in VT. Between time and location they saw the advent of electricity, the milking machine, tractors, the telephone, radio, the automobile, and television.

When I was a kid we used to drive 30 miles on dirt roads every Friday night so my Dad and grandpa could watch the fights on TV - we didn't have a set and didn't get one until I was about 12 as I recall (1962). Grandpa died in the '60's. Grandma passed away many years later and saw man walk on the moon before age took her sight, hearing and finally her memory. I can't imagine witnessing, let alone processing that much change in just one lifetime. But then I stop and think....when I was a student in College our campus "computer" was a very large room full of machinery, tapes and tubes with less total memory than the laptop I'm sitting here typing on tonight.

What will our kids, and our grandkids, see?

Duff :banghead:

[Rod(NASNUT) 1]

I can remember when we had only 2 tv stations and you had to get off you lazy a#s to swich them now I have about 150 stations and still nothing to wach :banghead:

[jerrell 1]

:banghead: yeah ain't AMERICA GREAT, i myself have seen so many new inventions in my lifetime . But it seems that the more i get it seems to not cost me any energy, i guess i am saying i got just about everthing i can want and still i want ... to make my point and Duff's, i am sitting in an easy chair typing on a laptop pc, that is suspended in front of me , leaning back and typeing this post . i tried to type with it on my lap, hurt my back, tried to type on a small table in fromt of my chair and hurt my back, so went ot the shop and rigged a swivel support system so i can lean back and use the pc, push it out of the way and get up,i just keep getting lazyier and lazyier... sometimes i wonder what would happen if all this electronic stuff would quit working.. scary.... :omg: