Recalling The Good Old Days
The strange thing, most people who survived "the good old days" agree, is that while we were terribly deprived by modern standards, everyone seemed relatively content with life.
Younger folks - those under, say, 30 - have difficulty believing that. Some of them don't understand there was a time when no one had ever heard of such a thing as a cell phone.
But there was. Sadly, the era is not considered a priority in high school history classes. So, as part of the newspaper's educational function, here's a primer on that time of technological backwardness:
- Back then we listened to music on record players, being careful not to let the needles scratch the vinyl. Television had black-and-white pictures. If you wanted to change the channel or the volume, you stood up, walked over to the set, and used dials on it. Most of us had two - no more than four or five on a good day for reception - channels from which to choose.
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