twosummers Loc: Melbourne Australia or Lincolnshire England

Using and old version of Windows

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Tomfl101 Loc: Mount Airy, MD

HaHa!

MSW

when my daughters were little, we took them to learn to ride at the local horse farm (in vermont, most communities have one - this is not the purview of the monied elite out here in rural areas) ... the barn kids were sitting around the break area, and the owners elderly mother was there too ... the kids were in a very animated discussion over which bit of electro- technology was best ... the internet or the i- phone ... so they asked grandma what she thought.

she thought for a moment and said, "best technology in my lifetime? That's easy, girls.


running water"

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

Very good!

LittleRed

Ah yes. For me (just before my teen years ages ago) the best “new” electro-technology was dad’s purchase of an electric range (no more bucksawing and splitting wood.) Closely followed by the installation of “indoor” plumbing (no more Sears catalogs). I guess I could also include the replacement of the gasoline powered wash machine with an electric one ( my job was hand-turning the wringers)😜😜
Ah those were the days 😵‍💫😵‍💫

LittleRed (Ron)

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Good one.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

David Martin Loc: Cary, NC

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John N Loc: HP14 3QF Stokenchurch, UK

There was a question on QUORA about this just the other day.
I said Social media has always been around, just called GOSSIP back then.
Word went round and was back to the Originator before todays kids have pressed the SEND button.

One thing I knew - If I was up to any mischeif on the way home from School, my mum knew about it before I got indoors - and we didn't have a phone.

Stephan G

I remember these "nodes" of information. "Faster than a speeding bullet!" We were using advanced technology of the time, the Party Line!

rappar Loc: Kingston Ontario

Thank you for making my day! Excellent.

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

The 20th century saw the most advancement in technology than the previous 100 centuries. Kinda scary where we’re going.

Stan

G. Crook Loc: Linden, TX

In my earlier military days in Korea we did not have the best communications systems. The common joke for fast communications was "telephone, telegraph or tell a Korean".

DakotaColt

"new technology"? Working as a soda jerk/cook/dishwasher in a drug store in a Chicago Suburb during the mid 50's when the 'dial' phone system was being installed, I served burgers and coffee to several guys that were the cable splicers who connected the underground lines through the village. They worked 3 shifts so at store closing I put the left over coffee in 'to go' cups and took them to the guys who were in the manholes pairing lines from cable to cable so we later had dial phones. No more "number please" when we made a phone call.
Later that summer a H.S. friend and I drove to S.W. Virginia to visit some of my relatives - he'd never been in the mountains. While we were gone Mom saw a newscast telling of two young guys that were malled by bears (we were camping). As parents we can understand her concern. She tried calling a Great Aunt, who we were to see, but since the phone service was all party lines through an operator she received this message from the local operator. 'Now Miss Sibbie is gone up to visit her son in Roanoke but before she left I know there were two boys from out west visiting her and they have gone on to some other place before she left so she's not home and I can't connect you to her'. Mom got her info 'no charge', 'no harm done'. The current technology at that time came through. Think of that area where Dad grew up without phones 50 years earlier, then the Aunt's son went on to work at the 'cape' with one the companies providing navigation on the Apollo moon adventure. Haven't we seen some great strides in technology, communications included! JimM

FL Streetrodder

Love it!