how things have changed

[Chad Hauris]

I'm 33, almost 34, and when I was a kid (80's) most people still had and used rotary phones. I can remember before touch-tone service was even available too. We finally got a push-button telephone and had to use it on "pulse" mode. My mom took photos on a Kodak camera which used 110 film and flip-flash bars, and we had a Chinon 8mm movie camera and projector and would get the films developed at Fotomat.

However when I was in elementary school/middle school I think records were thought of as old hat by kids (mid-late 80s). Kids would usually listen to cassettes. Of course I still liked records...in the early 80's you could still buy the current hits on 45's at Kmart. I can remember by 1989 or so you could still get 45's at record stores but they were mostly all oldies.

I think I was probably among the last classes of college students to go to college before the computer/mobile device revolution seemed to take place among teenagers/college students. I never saw a cellphone being used or heard a cellphone ring in college...professors still used overhead projectors/35mm slides rather than Powerpoint and most students I know didn't own computers...we used mostly Macs in the computer labs to type our papers. There was no such thing as class notes or messages being sent through email, etc. I graduated in 1999.