10 on Tuesdays

10 Ways the World has Changed Since You Were in School

well considering that i graduated from college over 20 years ago, you can bet that a lot of things have changed since i was in school.   shall we begin?

1.  there was no internet.  yes kids.  back in the day, we did not have the internet.  no googling.  no flickr.  no blogs. no ravelry.  no amazon.  no ebay.   NO PACKRAT!!!   if we were curious about something, we had to go to the library and look it up either in the reference area of the library, or in actually books, by looking through A CARD CATALOG!!  you know, thumb through actual cards to find where certain books were shelved in the library.  many families actually had a set of encyclopedias.  i know we did.

2.  there was also no email.  well for the common folk anyway.  i think techie types probably had some primitive form of email but us regular people didn't.  so that means that people wrote actual letters, put a stamp on the envelope and dropped it off in a mailbox or at the post office. 

3.  cameras used film.  and only film.

4.  no cell phones.  some people may have had shoe-box sized cell phones, but i could be getting my timeline messed up.

5.   MTV showed only music videos.  24/7.  that's what MTV stands for by the way -- Music Television.  duh.

6.  The Mc DLT existed.  This was a burger concept by McDonalds that I personally think was flawed.  It came packaged in a large styrofoam box, with half of the bun and the meat patty on one side (the hot side), and the lettuce, tomato, etc, and the other half of the bun on the other side (the cold side).  the point was this way the veggies wouldn't get all soggy and gross.  that's fine and all, but if you ordered it with cheese, the cheese would be on the "cold" side and never got melty.   a disapointment.

7.  The Soviet Union existed.

8.  You still had to go to the bank to use the ATM.  What was revolutionary was that you could actually access your money during non-banking hours.

9. All of my papers were typed on a typewriter.  The "computer" center (a classroom in the engineering building usually manned by a surly computer science major who so didn't want to help those of us who didn't know what we were doing) did have at our disposal a very rudimentary word-processing system, but nothing ever printed right and it was just easier to use a typewriter.  plus, the typewriter never rolled it's eyes at me.

10.  The Celtics and the Lakers were the best basketball teams in the NBA.  OH WAIT.  THEY ARE AGAIN!!! 

10a.  Basketball players actually showed their legs when they played.  The shorts were much smaller.

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day 47 -- GO CELTICS!!!