<p>Wife and I recently did a Friday night YouTube Dr. Demento binge. HS daughter was present and it was worth it just to see her reaction.</p>
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The audio version of that book is also really good. I read that they are going to make a movie of it.</p>
<p>I bet those 80’s musical acts will be thrilled to get some income after all these years!</p>
<p>I had to Google “80s bands” to remind myself that there were in fact some good ones (apart from R.E.M and U2, I mean). I was pleasantly surprised.</p>
<p>At least I HAVE learned to google immediately whenever I have computer/printer/phone issues. Or whenever DH says, “ARRGHHHHH!” 
I even help my dad, a professor, when he gets stuck. Every time I help someone, I say, “You know, all I did was go on Google…” But it’s nice to be needed. I don’t have to call Computer Guy very often anymore.</p>
<p>I love Google and Youtube. If my facility starts to use different IV catheters, I can look on youtube and see a demonstration. Today I put a new kind of underseat “purse” on my bicycle and there was actually a demonstration of it on youtube. That’s also how I learned how to fold a fitted sheet into a nice, neat little bundle. Wonders never cease.</p>
<p>What!!! You can fold a fitted sheet into a nice neat bundle??? </p>
<p>^^^^LOL, yes, it’s on youtube!!! </p>
<p>Took me several tries, though. :D</p>
<p>When my S was in middle school, he needed to wear a tie for a concert and his dad was working late at the hospital. --as usual. I have never been good at tying men’s ties, so S went online and found a step by step page (this was probably 15 years ago, so pre-Youtube.)</p>
<p>The fitted sheet thing is almost a miracle.</p>
It’s funnier when you’re an older kid. I remember all of this stuff, and yet kids three or four years younger than me can’t read a clock. Or they don’t know what those big clunky computers were (remember the ones that took up an entire table?), or video cassette players…even flip phones are ‘weird’ (those ones that had a dial pad and a keypad…those were the bomb). I remember when I was in Elementary School, my mom used to buy rolls of film for our cameras, and we used to use the little containers for change to buy milk cartons. It’s so weird seeing kids not even half my age know how to write cursive and how to use Encyclopedias (That weren’t wikipedia type sites), and the actual library where you had to get those cards from the librarians to find a book. That research was so much easier than using the internet and getting a headache…
@TempeMom Your MS doesn’t know about party lines? We still have those in my house. And no memorized phone numbers, and no pay phones?
I’m wondering if this is something that just so happened at a certain year, or if it’s a geographical thing.
My youngest(16) called someone recently and got a busy signal, she thought her phone was broken. Ahh, the good old days before vm and call waiting, lol
When my daughter was in elementary school, she “invented” the typewriter. She thought that for people who didn’t have a computer for word processing it would be great to have a box with letters on arms that you could ink and press onto paper. She was amazed that someone had thought of it already!
I remember when my D went off to college with her first checkbook. She called to ask me if she was filling out a check correctly–she’d never done it before. Seems like checkbooks are disappearing as banking and bill payment is almost all online. My D even pays rent to her landlord using something like Paypal.
I remember when a computer took up the entire building and it had to be appropriately cooled so that the delicate parts would be OK (the techs were freezing and had to wear very warm jackets). You would punch your cards and take them to the lab and only had a certain amount of money that was allocated to run whatever you wanted to in order to complete your assignment. If the cards were dropped, you had to pick them up and hope you put them back in the correct sequence or they wouldn’t work!
I liked the manual typewriter, but loved the correcting selectric–you could even change the ball to have italic font or some other font! Boy, those were the days! I remember my 1st job where I spent an entire day filling out ONE form–no Xerox machines and you had one original, one onion skin 2nd sheet with carbon between, one yellow, one goldenrod, one blue, one pink, one green. When you made any mistake (as I did at age 14), you had to use the appropriate colored correction fluid to correct EACH page! It was my first foray into clerical work (and my last). I saw why I was definitely NOT suited for being a typist. I count my blessings that word processing was developed in time to save me!