Butter Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 My 7 year old is using the Ordinary Parents Guide for learning to read. Today he read a little story in there that included a person using a tape to record himself singing. My son looked at me with the weirdest look. He was so confused by the story. That is when I realized that, to him, tape is something sticky that holds things together. He has no concept of what the kind of tape in the story is. I am old. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Tick Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 I hear ya'! -What's that mom?- A telephone. -Why does it have that curly tail?- Ah, settle yourself in for another story from the Stone Age, dearie. 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Yeah, last night my kids were watching an old Charlie Brown video about inventions, including the telephone. The concept of voice data traveling through wires (held up by telephone poles) required more explanation. ;) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purpleowl Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Ha! A few months ago, I had this discussion with DD#1: DD: "Do people ever write down their wish lists?"Me: "Yes. That's what we did back in the olden days, before Amazon."DD: "So, before Amazon, did you just use Netflix?"Me: "Nope. Netflix wasn't around when I was a little girl."DD: "Did you use that thing like Grammy has on her TV?" (on demand)Me: "Nope, didn't have that either."DD (incredulously): "What did you DO?"Me: "Well, we watched plain old TV. Or we went to the video store."DD: "What's a video store?"And on and on it went. Eventually I ended up explaining text adventure games to her. She thinks "Zork" is a funny name. :) 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raptor_dad Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 And on and on it went. Eventually I ended up explaining text adventure games to her. She thinks "Zork" is a funny name. :) Just have her read a few choose your own adventure books... I always thought they were twaddle, but they are perfect for this sort of "historical" research ;)... and who knows she might end up liking rpg's. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy in NH Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 AND when we watched television there were two knobs for channels and one for volume, and you had to get up and walk over to the big box the television was in if you wanted to change the channel or the volume. AND there was no cable, only antennas, so some channels wouldn't come in very well and you'd have to move around the wire things to get the picture to show up. AND there were only about 7 stations. ETA: We were so lucky because we lived on top of a big hill and my father put the TV antenna on top of his 30ft ham radio tower. We always had good reception. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Girls' Mom Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 I had a similar feeling this week in my college Econ class. The prof. was demonstrating creative destruction caused by new technology using music playing devices. In a class full of college students, none of them knew what a phonograph, a reel to reel, or an 8 track were. About 1/2 remembered what a cassette was. I think the only reason they knew record players was due to the recent come back in popularity for enthusiasts. Oh...and my kids cannot imagine what life must have been like in the stone age when there was no internet. You know...during my early marriage years! lol. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 My DD10 thinks windows XP and CD-Roms are unbelievably old. We visited the computer history museum, and she was absolutely amazed at how long it took before the first iPod showed up. Sigh.... 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MistyMountain Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 I was reading a book about electricity that mentioned film cameras to my son. When I told him that I used film cameras he was like wow mom you are really old. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 Ha, I still have some old undeveloped rolls of film lying around in nooks and corners. Someday my kids will discover them and be all "wow, look at this old antique treasure!" My daughter just decided she is really impressed with toilets. The mechanics of the flush. She asked me who invented the first toilet. I said, I have no idea. But someone at the table whipped out her iphone and looked it up. Of course she found the name, location, and year instantly. Imagine, once upon a time, kids asked all sorts of questions for which they received no answers, ever. They could have walked to the library and dug through the nonfiction section, but even then, the answer might not be there. More likely, they would forget the question before they got near an encyclopedia/dictionary. So many unsolved mysteries! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storygirl Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 The other day DH and I reminisced about how fun it was to play Pong on the Atari. Good times! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHASRADA Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 Dd4 and I were playing around with word families. I was thinking of -ap words: cap, tap, map, snap...pausing for dd to think of an example of her own, she exclaims, "ap!, like, an app! Yes, dear. Like an app. Duh, mom. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 And then there were rotary phones and phone booths! And floppy disks. And those ultra big CDs that you could turn over to play both sides (called records!) Regards, Kareni 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albeto. Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 This summer dd and I were driving to Costco. Dd was driving, and I was trying to turn off the ipod as we were nearing the store, and didn't want to start a new song. Of course, I don't know what to do with an ipod. My kids all have them, but I'm too cheap to buy one. One of them finally gave theirs to me, so I have one now, but of course I have no idea what I'm doing with it. Dd is driving and very calmly, very patiently, very articulately explains step by step, giving me time to respond, just what to do. I told her she's so sweet and kind and awfully patient with me. I laughed. She says, "You can always tell the quality of a person when you watch them explain technology to their parents." Uh oh. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butter Posted September 5, 2015 Author Share Posted September 5, 2015 And those ultra big CDs that you could turn over to play both sides (called records!) He does know what records are! His older sister has a record player and a nice collection of records, old (from her grandparents) and new. Records are back in apparently. I'm not sure if he'd know what a CD that plays music is, though. He's know what it is for a Wii game, but our music is digital mp3's now. Music gets played on phones or the Amazon Echo. Wow, things have changed and fast! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucyStoner Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 My son was fascinated with one of the only, if not the only, telephone booth in our area. Why would people need to go into a little box to make a call on a phone? He was flabbergasted when I told him these things used to be everywhere and that my mom always made sure we had quarters in case we needed to call home. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarasue7272 Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 Yesterday my almost five year old was talking to mil on my cell phone (we don't have a land line). I told him not to hit the red button (ITS NOT EVEN A REAL BUTTON!) because it would hang up on yaya. He said "what's hang up?" ... Mil and I laughed at that after I explained that it would end the call. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 I've introduced my kids to I Love Lucy and Bewitched in the past 2 days. Both shows have the main characters smoking indoors. Something my kids never see in real life, thankfully. It's a bit shocking for them to see. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimm Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 My one year old leaned over my daughter's laptop and swiped her finger across the screen. At 21 months old, she's convinced all screens are touch screens. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlsdMama Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 AND when we watched television there were two knobs for channels and one for volume, and you had to get up and walk over to the big box the television was in if you wanted to change the channel or the volume. AND there was no cable, only antennas, so some channels wouldn't come in very well and you'd have to move around the wire things to get the picture to show up. AND there were only about 7 stations. ETA: We were so lucky because we lived on top of a big hill and my father put the TV antenna on top of his 30ft ham radio tower. We always had good reception. You had SEVEN stations? We had four and only three came in clearly, lol. ;) We told the kids about the cell phone that came out when I was in high school. It had a zipper like briefcase and it had to stay plugged into the car and the phone had a cord. I thought it was so awesome. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katilac Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 I've introduced my kids to I Love Lucy and Bewitched in the past 2 days. Both shows have the main characters smoking indoors. Something my kids never see in real life, thankfully. It's a bit shocking for them to see. Right?? My favorites are the medical shows with people casually smoking in the hospital. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy in NH Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 You had SEVEN stations? We had four and only three came in clearly, lol. ;) We told the kids about the cell phone that came out when I was in high school. It had a zipper like briefcase and it had to stay plugged into the car and the phone had a cord. I thought it was so awesome. UHF: CBS 4, ABC 5, NBC 7, & PBS on 2 & 11 VHF: Channels 56 & 38 - CREATURE DOUBLE FEATURE!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoutingmom Posted September 7, 2015 Share Posted September 7, 2015 We had 3 channels over the air. When we had cable (which had comercials too) we had... well I always thought 13... bug it would have been less as the top number was 13, and of course there was no channel 1. So 12.... but 1 just had weather in a text format, and I think a couple others were also informatiinal and not an actual station with shows... so maybe 10 stations. Now there are so many...and all junk. Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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