how old where you when.....

[azy]

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 !

[garrettg84]

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 =)

[knossos]

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.

[waltr]

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

[azy]

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

[abuse.bot]

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 :-)

[Kelpy]

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

[voyager2]

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)

And currently i'm 11 and like 11/12

[azy]

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

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