<p>NEM, the blood & crackers would be off limits today, for sure! Some students still dissect, but it isn’t as common as it once was. I asked our h.s. science teachers why kids don’t dissect in bio … I was told that the district can’t afford the materials. Both my kids were able to do some dissection, but not nearly as much as I did.</p>
<p>A. I can’t believe this thread has gotten over 100 posts, and no one has mentioned THE thing no 18-year-old can imagine: his/her conception.</p>
<p>B. Re: copying technology. When I was in law school, one of my professors said, “Intellectually, I know that I practiced for several years before there were Xerox machines. But emotionally, I can’t remember it at all. I don’t think it’s possible to practice law without copiers.” For me, ditto (ha-ha) word processors, e-mail, the internet.</p>
<p>C. Re: copying technology. A few years ago, the University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt list began as follows:</p>
<ol>
<li> A copy of this list (1 point).</li>
<li> The mimeograph machine you made it on (30 points).
. . . .</li>
</ol>
<p>JHS, the first one is too funny! We moved when I was in 9th grade. My parents had a bedroom on the main floor in our old house. In the new house, their room was on the same floor as all the other bedrooms … and it was right next to mine. I remember being totally grossed out by the thought that I might actually have to hear them … ugh, ugh, ugh!! :)</p>
<p>Wait - don’t 18 year olds think that, “Yeah, maybe they did, but only once,(multiplied by the number of siblings) and certainly not any more!”? :)</p>
<p>One more - having to watch a television show at the time and on the station on which it was broadcast (no VCRs, DVDs, DVRs, Tivo’s, etc.)</p>
<p>I remember typing papers on a manual typewriter and practically getting high (unintended) on the correction fluid, I had to use so much of it.</p>
<p>My last semester was the first one that my school had word processing available in the computer lab, you had to compete for time on it with all the engineering and CS majors - I would have never finished typing that thesis if I didn’t have it…</p>
<p>Intellectually, they can admit something like that probably happened. Emotionally – no way. “Imagine”? Not even in nightmares.</p>
<p>Hell, intellectually they know about writing letters and having only land-line phones, too.</p>
<p>Also, following through on Chedva’s: Having only three or four television stations to watch.</p>
<p>Heck, we only had ONE tv. It was in the living room (family room when we moved to the new house). Five kids & we had to agree on one program. Not that there was much to choose from … this was before cable (gasp), when we had a total of 5 channels. I always tell my kids we played outside every day because there was nothing else to do!!</p>
<p>kelsmom, you mean you got some exercise and fresh air! What’s that, LOL?</p>
<p>In the early 1950s there was only ONE family on the block who had a TV. It sure wasn’t us. The other parents told us that we just could not congregate at the front window of that house and peer in to try to get a look.</p>
<p>I can’t remember not having a TV (remembering the early 1950s would be a metaphysical miracle for me). But I can certainly remember going over to an aunt’s house to watch The Wizard of Oz on Thanksgiving, because she had a color TV.</p>
<p>My mother grew up all over the US and abroad, and when I was little she told me about moving from a place with color TV to a place that still just had black and white. The other kids were amazed that she had watched color TV.</p>
<p>I think I must have been spoiled. Born in 1961. I can’t remember my parents not having a color tv.</p>
<p>Anyone remember Prism in philadelphia? You could get it without cable. It had movies and Flyer’s games. and NO commercials.</p>
<p>My dad built the first color tv in our neighborhood. It was a Heath Kit. And we got 3 channels until I was about 12, then we got a PBS station too!</p>
<p>I wonder how weird my kids will think I am for only having basic cable, Super Nintendo, and no caller ID growing up in the '90s.</p>
<p>I remember when my parents bought our first color TV. That was a big deal, and it was expensive. They kept telling us that we were not allowed to sit close to it, because it was a danger to our health.</p>
<p>A recent summer camp sent packing list for kid the mentioned film and flash cubes. That confused them. (Time to update the packing list…)</p>
<p>the supply cabinet in my office has a lifetime supply of floppy disks for the taking (the 1.44 MB kind). And some typewriter ribbons. </p>
<p>I don’t even think you can get a computer with one of those anymore!</p>
<p>Things become obsolete so fast nowadays.</p>
<p>We have customers who think the only way to send us a PDF file is to print it, and fax it to us. Or worse yet, to print it, scan it and send the .tiff file as an attachment. Looks like it was birdcage liner before it got to us. Faxing is so last century :-)</p>
<p>I can remember when my parents had a house built in 72 and central air conditioning was an option. Not sure if the dishwasher was too. They opt for no air conditioning but I remember after one summer we ended up getting it.
I can also remember the mother/daughters outfits my mom sewed. The matching ponchos we all had. And my sister and I were always dressed alike up until we were about 8-10 years old.</p>
<p>Here is a foreign thought for some: Paying for things using cash (no debit cards, and little put on credit cards).</p>
<p>When analog watches and clocks were more common than digital displays.</p>
<p>The rubber hose thing that you drove over at a service station that made the “ding ding” noise inside… it occurred today that neither of my daughters have probably ever seen/heard one.</p>