If you're over 30...

[BarackObooma]

I'm in the 40+ crowd and it's all true.

We had four channels, ABC, CBS, NBC & PBS. If you wanted cartoons, you did have to wait for Saturday. If you wanted music videos you had to watch Friday Night Videos. If you missed a show, you probably never had another chance to see it again. Only the rich had VCRs in the beginning. We had a black and white tv for the longest time. It was the big screen 19". When we finally got a color one, it was like 13".

We were on a party line meaning 3 other families shared the same phone line. You had to pick up the phone and make sure no one was on there and had to keep calls short.

My first computer was an Atari 400 with membrane keyboard and 16k ram. This was before disk drives let alone hard drives. You'd spend 45 minutes loading a program from a cassette tape. When I got my first modem, it was 300 baud. Yes, 300 bits/second. You had to dial in to a BBS (Bulletin Board System). It could take hours to load a document. The first online game I played was Trade Wars. It was a space game where you'd get xx turns per day to fly to different planets and buy/sell goods.

We drank from the hose, swam in the irrigation canals and did 100 other things that this generation would fall dead from.

I'm very thankful to have grown up in that generation. Seeing how far we've advanced in that short of time is pretty amazing sometimes.