Here are a few (that I am quoting from the text) that I liked:
- Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something.
- Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo. See what happens when you give a Walkman to today’s teenager. (I used to have one before, and I loved my Walkman! I play Blink 182 cassette on it everyday on my way to school. HAHAH!)
- Betamax tapes. - Smaller version of VCR! I wondered what happened to the laser disc movies (two sided)?
- 3-D movies meaning red-and-green glasses. - I love these things.
- The scream of a modem connecting. - From dial up connections. Hahahaha!
- 5- and 3-inch floppies, Zip Discs and countless other forms of data storage. - These things we SHOULD have during computer classes to store our projects and works. I had mine in pink!
- Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time. - Hahaha, those were the days! Family Computer!
- Turning a PlayStation on its end to try and get a game to load. - My friends and I would push different buttons thinking that they help in speeding up the loading.
- Not knowing exactly what all of your friends are doing and thinking at every moment. - Everone is Twitting and FB-ing it now.
- Privacy. - Exactly.
- The fact that words generally don’t have num8er5 in them. - I h8 people texting this way.
- Correct spelling of phrases, rather than TLAs.
- Waiting several minutes (or even hours!) to download something. - A 3mb file, 1hour. Lucky if you get it in 30minutes.
- Not knowing who was calling you on the phone.
- LEGO just being square blocks of various sizes, with the odd wheel, window or door. - I love Legos!
- Swimming pools with diving boards. - This was fun!
- Sliding the paper outer wrapper off a Kit-Kat, placing it on the palm of your hand and clapping to make it bang loudly. Then sliding your finger down the silver foil to break off the first finger. - Yeah, what happened to this one? I like doing this.
- Having to manually unlock a car door. - And wait for the driver to unlock the other doors.
- A physical dictionary — either for spelling or definitions. - My grandma and grandpa actually bought me one for my birthday.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not old. I'm only 23 years old, but I went through these things when I was a kid. It was a fun childhood, and I think that kids should appreciate and learn about the "Evolution of Other Things" just to know that they're lucky to have what they have and stop demanding for more. ^^
