Haven't had a land line in ~20 years when we ditched it in college.
Haven't had a land line in ~20 years when we ditched it in college.
In reply to z31maniac :
Had cell phones been a reliable thing in 1991 when I graduated, I'm sure I would have never gotten a land line. Alas, they were expensive, unreliable, analog things that could not be relied on for about another decade to not have a land line.
Looking back on life, it's pretty amazing how technology changed from when I was a kid to now. PC's didn't realistically exist until I was a senior in HS, and even then I took classes in programming big server programs in college (I barely missed punch cards by just a few years). Cell phones didn't even exist until I was in college, but they were not really available to normal people until the mid 90s, and then reliable to be the only phone until the late 90s.
Even CAD systems were not super common until I got to college, but even then they were no so big that they are required to really get to know.
At work, I barely missed having to use the one line at a time programmer for a car. But we had really heavy, hardened PCs that had to be used- and it wasn't until the mid 90's that you could flash the ECU with the computer directly. I didn't even get a real laptop for work until the late 90s.
In my lifetime, cassette tapes were born and died. Just like CDs and DVDs for the most part. Computers used cassette tapes when I first got one, then we had floppy disk that went from 5.5" that were actually floppy to the 3.5" that had hard cases for the floppy disks. Let alone the kind of storage that those drives had.
Things have changed a lot, and I grew up in a very analog world.
I consider myself old school and even I dropped my landline about 10+ years ago. I also no longer have a pager, a VHS player or a Commodore 64 computer.
You'll need to log in to post.
