Thursday, July 23, 2009

Things Eli will never know/understand

From Wired magazine. I added a few of my own, too. Sad to think he will never know about a lot of these things. I can already feel myself turning into an old man who always talks about how it was "back in my day."

1. Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time.
2. Han shoots first.
3. Roller skates, as opposed to blades.
4. Looking out the window during a long drive.
5. Having to manually unlock a car door.
6. Writing a check.
7. Not knowing who was calling you on the phone.
8. Remembering someone’s phone number.
9. Sending film away to be processed.
10. Answering machines.
11. Using a road atlas to get from A to B.
12. Doing bank business only when the bank is open.
13. The scream of a modem connecting.
14. Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something.
15. Phone Booths.
16. “Rolling” down the car window.
17. Broken record.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

you forgot:
8 tracks, walkman/discman and boom-boxes:-)

The Mrs. said...

"Be kind - rewind"