Age of technology

desertdog71

desertdog71

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Just a funny story.

I am trying to be a good father and help educate my children. My daughter is 3yo and turns 4 in a month. She is starting to write letters and names, so I wrote some names of family members (brother, mom, dad, dog, etc.) on a piece of paper. I told her she could "copy" those and learn her letters.

Here is the funny part. A couple minutes later she comes back into the kitchen with a photocopy of the sheet of paper I wrote for her and says "Look poppa I copied it" :D:rolleyes:
 
Oh yeah. Our 4 year old works the all-in-one (copier/fax/printer/scanner) in the office too.

Another "new techie" thing is digital cameras. Nowdays, when kids have their picture taken, they run back to mom or dad with the camera and say "Lemme see! Lemme see!", because the picture just taken is displayed on the screen. When I was kid, we actually had to wait for film to come back from the drugstore for processing!
 
MQAAord said:
Oh yeah. Our 4 year old works the all-in-one (copier/fax/printer/scanner) in the office too.

Another "new techie" thing is digital cameras. Nowdays, when kids have their picture taken, they run back to mom or dad with the camera and say "Lemme see! Lemme see!", because the picture just taken is displayed on the screen. When I was kid, we actually had to wait for film to come back from the drugstore for processing!
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I remember the Fotomat places that were in the middle of the grocery store parking lots. JEEZ I am old.
 
aww...cute...:)

(this doesn't deal with the tecno kids nowaday..) but still funny...I work at a flight school and my boss was telling his son, that he should water his plant...and son asked, how much...dad said, oh like 6 cups full...son, comes in the room with 6 different cups full of water...it was quite funny and cute to see how he interpreted the info...:)...
 
desertdog71 said:
I remember the Fotomat places that were in the middle of the grocery store parking lots. JEEZ I am old.
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I remember those, but our small town didn't have them. We had to go to Madison to see cool stuff like that :)

Our grocery store didn't get barcode scanning checkouts til I was a senior in high school.
 
MQAAord said:
I remember those, but our small town didn't have them. We had to go to Madison to see cool stuff like that :)

Our grocery store didn't get barcode scanning checkouts til I was a senior in high school.
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Oh, hell. I can remember when my little town got its first ATM machine. That was some pretty fancy stuff right there.
 
There should a warning *Beware: old timers posting in this thread*

you guys move up to direct deposit on your SS checks?


:D
 
I first felt the "gap" in the early 90's when I was in a Kinko's doing something or other and made a comment about mimeograph machines and the youngish clerk looked at me and with a perfectly straight face asked, "what's a mimeograph machine?"

Mimeograph

Ditto machine

Kids today...



Kevin
 
desertdog71 said:
I remember the Fotomat places that were in the middle of the grocery store parking lots. JEEZ I am old.
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LOL! My dad ran one of those for a few months waaaay back in the day. He later told me that he knew a lot of people's dirty secrets as a result... ;)

Bob
 
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