Things of the Past

It's a brave new world out there buddy. Things change so fast these days that old people don't even know what to be cranky about any more. Everything I am about to reference here will seem as quaint to you as tupperware and cloth diapers to me. (By the way, cloth diapers are making a comeback. Silly hippies.)
Here is a look at the history of stuff you will like that has changed alot.

TV- When I was growing up my parents lived on a farm, and owned one TV. For the entire house. Really. It was a 13 inch TV, and at one point in history it was actually pretty cool. It also had knobs on the front to change channels. That's right, no remote, just knobs you had to get up and touch and stuff. People weren't as fat back then. Just years prior to that having a color TV was somewhat of a status symbol. And at one point in American history there were only 3 channels. Seriously. None of them were ESPN, HBO, or the History Channel. People lived! It's crazy isn't it? Now I set my DVR to record two programs at once off my 150 channels and get pissed because I can't watch a movie On-Demand at the same time. There was a long period of time where people had to actually live life outside of there home! Crazy huh? BTW, DVR is proof God loves us, and it didn't come around until my late 20's. This also explains why people had larger families back in the day.

Animated Movies- Look up "Steamboat Willie." In it's time a black and white choppy cartoon about a mouse on a ship was GROUNDBREAKING. Now, we watch Shrek in HD 3D and wonder how long it is until we have holograms in our living rooms.

Computers- I am not even going to try to explain what life was like before everyone owned a computer. The internet wasn't even a real thing until I was in my teens, and wasn't anything really useful until I was almost 20. Now, I don't know how people existed without it. If I wanted to teach you all of this stuff I would have had to sharpen a sabertooth bone to a point and written this on parchement paper in Elks blood. Aren't you glad I had wireless internet? That's the other thing. At one point you had to wait hours to get a website up, now if I have to wait a minute, or God forbid plug in a cord I feel cheated. I imagine that you will just have some mind connection to it with a projection coming out of your eyeballs by the time you are my age... if your robot master will allow it.

Cars- When I was growing up cars ran on gas.... Never mind. Some things are pretty much the same. The oil companies have big enough lobbying groups to fill the Gulf of Mexico... oh wait, they have oil spills large enough to fill the Gulf of Mexico.