Oh yes!
I‘m really not that old - but things are so different, I have a 6 year old granddaughter that has taught me to FaceTime so she can chat with me (my daughter has very tight parental controls she only has access to about 3 family members phone numbers).
And these days everyone seems to have access to the internet and can look up “history”…we didn’t so if you didn’t “live it” you wouldn’t have had access. We didn’t even have a landline phone in our house for ages - we went to the phone box by the paper shop.
To think that most people have a mobile phone in their pocket that has more computing power than the computers that were the sizes of whole warehouses still amazes me. And don’t get me started on computer games…Spectrum ZX and we thought it was the best thing ever…half an hour to load via a cassette tape
I can’t believe how cross I get now if something isn’t loaded instantly I press the app picture
Oh I agree! A lot of people don't realise just how fast the world has changed, especially now that a whole generation has grown up with the internet always available at their fingertips (which incidentally is one reason I have limited patience for people who buy fish and other pets without researching them - we used to have to rely on books and talking to others to learn about a species before buying, and it was still expected for responsible people to do their research before buying! There's absolutely no excuse for not bothering now).
I'm late 30s, so I grew up in that time where the internet was beginning to become available, but it still wasn't common for every household to have the internet, let alone smartphones. My parents never installed it, so I didn't have access beyond very limited access at school lessons, until I could use the college computers when I went to live in halls at 16. That's also when I got my first mobile phone, which could only do calls and texts! As a kid our first computer was a Commadore 64 - I remember the pain while waiting for a cassette tape to load super slowly!!
And then eventually, at and after college, dial up internet, lol.I also have an interest in true crime, and I tend to avoid comment sections on older cases from like the 70s and 80s or earlier, because there are always kids knocking the police for not solving cases at the time, saying things like "why didn't they DNA test? Why didn't they know that these two cases that happened in states hundreds of miles apart were connected?" etc, seemingly unaware how recent things like DNA tests or databases are! That police in the 70s were still using paper files and file cards that a human had to go through them manually; couldn't just click a search button and have a computer connect the dots for them! Frustrating at times, the things we all take for granted and how quickly we forget that things have changed so much in living memory.
I understand my parents more now. My dad was born in 1937. He was evacuated as a kid, grew up with WW2 rationing, saw the at the time fresh damage to landmarks in our city from bombs during the Blitz. No internet, even TV's were rare in people's homes, and horses and carts were still common to see in the streets. The milkman bought milk daily in a horse and cart! Not every household could afford one car, let alone two or three per household. That's in living memory, someone still alive who has lived through all of these changes, but it's unimaginable that the world was so different in such a relatively short period of time.
Sorry for off topic essay @Rocky998 ! Just a subject that interests me
