I cannot believe the stupidity of some people!

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I was born in '75 and clearly remember buying 8-tracks new in the early 80's. I also remember:

When cable television was run to our subdivision (c.1981)
A Cobra cordless phone my dad won in a sales contest, 3+ foot antenna, pulse dial and a range of about 15 feet (c.1982/83)
Beepers that produced two different tone signals and were the size of a garage door opener.
My uncle's car phone that looked like a rotary princess with a bunch of buttons below the dial and iirc a push-to-talk button on the handset.
The talking Coke machine ('85?)
The Commodore 64, TRS-80, and a Commodore twenty-something that ran on a cassette tape drive
Mono FM radio in Dad's '85 Impala, the touch screen display in the '86 Riviera
Top & bottom of the hour signals on radio & TV, live booth announcers on TV stations
Heck, we didn't have a VCR until Christmas 1991.

As a young child, I asked my parents and grandmother about conditions when they grew up - I was interested in that. My grandmother remembered the first electric light and telephone they got, using outhouses and bathing in a metal washtub in the kitchen. This was in the city of New Orleans mind you, not in the woods somewhere. Riding on horse & buggy, her sister giving her a small crystal radio set in the early twenties.

Most kids after my generation though couldn't care less though - they're too busy texting, envying someone else's car/clothes/etc., getting drunk/high...with all the technological advancements in the last twenty years the kids today are leading very shallow lives. They have the world at their fingertips and they piss it away on Twitter. (Twit being the key)