Society of Robots - Robot Forum
General Misc => Misc => Topic started by: azy on November 16, 2010, 03:58:55 PM
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Just for fun, and to give the young uns a laugh how old where you when you touched ?
1 a video recorder .... for the first time
2 digital watch
3 a tv remote control
4 pocket calculator
5 microwave
6 computer
7 mouse
8 colour svga monitor
9 cd player
10 mobile phone
11 the internet
12 left your mark online blog,website etc
we were still using inkwells at school, heck i even used a feathers to write with, ball point pens were banned as a device to suspect for children !
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Just for fun, and to give the young uns a laugh how old where you when you touched ?
1 a video recorder .... for the first time
Too young to remember
2 digital watch
Too young to remember
3 a tv remote control
Too young to remember
4 pocket calculator
Too young to remember
5 microwave
Too young to remember
6 computer
Pre-School
7 mouse
1st or 2nd grade
8 colour svga monitor
Pre-School
9 cd player
Pre-School
10 mobile phone
Early Elementary School (bulky ugly car phone)
11 the internet
4th/5th Grade
12 left your mark online blog,website etc
6th Grade
Born in 1984 =)
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I was born in 1977.
1 a video recorder .... for the first time
First VCR was < 4 y.o.
2 digital watch
Not sure, but my first calculator watch was in 1st grade. (About 6 years old).
3 a tv remote control
Once again, not sure, but was no later than 2nd grade. (About 7 years old)
4 pocket calculator
My first was a Texas Intsruments with the classic glowing red LED display and included a chart for trig functions and calculating biorythyms. I really liked it back in the day. While called a "pocket calculator" I'd like to know who's pocket it would fit in.
5 microwave
While I think we had a microwave at home before this, I had a microwave in the lunchroom at school when I was in 4th grade so about 9 yrs old.
6 computer
Kindergarten. About 4-5 yrs old. An Apple IIe if I remember correctly. Atari 800XL is the first one I owned though (in about 1984 or 85) (Learned BASIC on it).
7 mouse
Same as computer, about 4-5 yrs old.
8 colour svga monitor
Hmm not sure with SVGA. I know we had VGA monitors before this, and computers hooked up to color TVs (Atari 800XL anyone? :)), but first SVGA tha I am certain of would be in 1990, so about 13 yrs old.
9 cd player
First CD player was in the mid-80s, so about 7 or 8 yrs old.
10 mobile phone
Early 90s, about 14 yrs old.
11 the internet
1994, so about 16-17 yrs old. Logged on to through a local BBS (Bulletin Board System) then later through the local community college's dial up modems.
12 left your mark online blog,website etc
First BBS in early early 90s so about 14-16 yrs old.
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Ok, I'll bite.
1 a video recorder .... for the first time
23
2 digital watch
18
3 a tv remote control
20
4 pocket calculator
16
5 microwave
28
6 computer
22 and I built it from a kit. Used an RCA 1802 COSMAC with 256 bytes of RAM.
7 mouse
30
8 colour svga monitor
30
9 cd player
35
10 mobile phone
54
11 the internet
42
12 left your mark online blog,website etc
43
Built a circuit with transistors
10
Built a circuit with an IC
15
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First time hands on ever , owning my own usually a decade later in most cases
1 a video recorder 14
2 digital watch 11
3 a tv remote control 12
4 pocket calculator 8 (was an adding machine, owned my first calculator at 14)
5 microwave 16
6 computer 16
7 mouse 17 ( i was 32 when i owned my first mouse)
8 colour svga monitor 17 ( 32 when i owned my first svga, used colour tvs up till then)
9 cd player 19
10 mobile phone 22 intervew for a sales job( i was 29 when i got my first beam me up scotty mobile , 50p a minute )
11 the internet 29
12 left your mark online blog,website etc 32
born 66 UK
knossos has a 40 year head start over waltr ref first use of mobile phones in relative terms.....age 14 vs age 54
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My first digital watch used red LEDs - you had to push a button for the time to light up; it was around 1978 I think - I was in about grade 6 at school :-)
Our first TV remote had 6 buttons - it was ultrasonic (assuming "ordering your sister to turn the dial" doesn't count as "remote control" :-) - 1976 probably.
I got my logitec C7 mouse in about 1982 - and had to write my own driver software for it :-)
My 1st mobile phone was about the size of an iphone, analogue, lasted about 2 hours on a full charge, cost about $2000, and I got it around 1992 - Fujitsu - P7 I think it was called.
Bulletin boards pre-date the internet - it's a bit hard to figure this one out, since the 2 things merged, probably around 1985/6 I'd guess?
I have not changed my home page for 14 years :-)
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1 a video recorder .... for the first time 31
2 digital watch 32
3 a tv remote control ? 25 ?
4 pocket calculator 26
5 microwave 40
6 computer 28
7 mouse 39
8 colour svga monitor 46 (?)
9 cd player 50 (?)
10 mobile phone 46
11 the internet as we know it today, but in text form (ceefax type) about 40. Prior to that through nodes and using things like "Janet" about 30.
12 left your mark online blog,website etc 45
13 built my first robot? 63
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1 a video recorder .... for the first time to young to remember
2 digital watch 7
3 a tv remote control to young to remember
4 pocket calculator to young to remember
5 microwave 8 (that was very memorable it practically exploded, microwave popcorn everywhere!
6 computer to young to remember
7 mouse (by the time i had the mouse in my hand i was using the computer so 4-5)
8 colour svga monitor to young to remember
9 cd player idk probably to young to remember
10 mobile phone to young to remember (i don't own one though, they cause brain cancer apparently
11 the internet 4-5 (surfed the internet by accident)
12 left your mark online blog,website etc a few months ago (www.voyagerrobotics.herobo.com (http://www.voyagerrobotics.herobo.com))
And currently i'm 11 and like 11/12
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thanks voyager2 TYTR (to young to remember) ...for making me us oldies feel more defunct & decrepit than we will ever admit too..lol
add this to you mp3 collection
Louis Armstrong - what a wonderful world (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzJY96m3lkg&feature=related#)
you may be TYTR when you first heard this, but you will never be TOTFGI
spin this vinyl frisbee in da grey oldies direction at Xmas time & PS4 inheritance is assured, have a mop n bucket on standby if you plan to pump up the volume