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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I remember coming home from a few days with my grandparents and Mom and Dad had bought a VCR. Our first VHS tape was The Princess Bride, which I can still speak along with from memory.[/quote]

Heh. I don't remember getting the VCR, but I do remember my dad taking the VCR to the repair shop a couple of times in the late 80s. This was before it became cheaper to just buy a new one, obviously. And when my roommate bought a TV in college I was amazed that it had a VCR built in. This was 1999 so it wasn't even earth-shattering ... but my parents had the same TV and VCR forever and I'd never gone shopping for one myself, so I was completely unaware of the technological improvements.

Got my first laptop when I went to college, fall of 1998. The big debates then were laptop vs desktop and Windows vs Mac. It was Windows 98 (I think) and had 3.4 gb of memory, which seemed enormous at the time. Now I can buy a flash drive with 10 times that amount for a song. And no one has desktops anymore. And I hear now kids don't even have laptops anymore, they have pads. I always wonder how you can write a term paper on a pad ... but I guess I will find out when my own kids get old enough![/quote]

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