List techno-cultural innovations/changes in just your lifetime

[UTUSN]

* Shift from gasoline-brand/specific charge cards to universal charge/debit cards.

* Self-serve gasoline

* Convenience store gasoline

* Debit card instead of personal check

* Sun filtering film for windows

* 8-track. Cassette. CD.

* PC. Internet. Laptop. (Don't know tablets/whatever.)

* Microwave

* Rise of Wingnuttiness

* Movies on tape/disk

[taterguy]

1. Is this the interesting thread we were promised last night?

I sure as hell hope not.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

2. Are you kidding? This was my first telephone. Really.

[UTUSN]

3. I forgot in my list, rotary dialing. Cell phones. Satellites. n/t

[OffWithTheirHeads]

5. party lines?

[Tom Ripley]

4. tubes to transistors to chips

I am old as dirt

[Manifestor_of_Light]

6. I had a toy candlestick phone when i was little.

It was turquoise plastic and the dial was gold plastic. It was the early 60s.
It was great fun to yak on.