There was this total loser at one of my summer jobs in college who kept checking the stock prices and sports scores on the internet on his flip phone. It was black and white, text only, and took forever to load anything. I remember thinking that having the WWW on your phone was the dumbest thing ever.

Seatbelts.

First we never used them.
Then they just went across our lap and we had to tighten them. (like on a plane)
Then there were the cars that automatically put your seatbelt on.

We don't event think about it now.

Intermittent windshield wipers

Automatic windows

using the interne to contact famous people who would then write back -- 1994

Disposable diapers. No attached tape tabs, had to use diaper pins.

I used to be super anti-texting. "Why wouldn't you just call them to talk?!". HA. Now I prefer text to calling...

Anonymous wrote:Realty TV. Maybe there was a reality show preceding it, but I remember thinking what an interesting concept for MTV to continue to branch out into more non-video programming with this "reality" show concept, "Real World"

I remember being so excited to watch each Survivor episode when it first came out.

Handheld 4-function calculator--it was the early 1970s and I think it cost $60.

Internet browser--probably 1994 or 1995.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I remember the switch in my office from rotary phones to push buttons. Also the fax machine in 1991. Yes I'm old.

I also remember seeing my first fax machine, at my first job in 1986. It was amazing. and that office also had a word processor that used those big 9" floppy disks.

Haha, my husband STILL has his old computer that takes those big floppy disks. It is gathering dust in our basement. I keep trying to get rid of it but he says, "I have important stuff on there, once I get it off..."

Anonymous wrote:I remember the switch in my office from rotary phones to push buttons. Also the fax machine in 1991. Yes I'm old.

I also remember seeing my first fax machine, at my first job in 1986. It was amazing. and that office also had a word processor that used those big 9" floppy disks.

I remember my first coffee drink at Starbucks, on a vacation visit to Seattle with my ex. It was morning and we were walking around Pike Place Market and we smelled coffee from this shop. I had a tall mocha with whipped cream on top, and it was unbelievable!!!!

I remember Googling something for the first time.

The concept of a wireless access to the internet was also amazing to me.

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shhanrahan wrote:Sushi!

Went to a place called Taki Sushi in NYC when I was 8 or 9- so around 1984. I loved it. They had traditional Japanese sunken seating and rice paper walls. You had to take off your shoes.

I had the absolute same experience. Same year, same age, same place!!

Well, I'm sure it also helps now that it is fashionable to eat sushi.

That was not true back in the 70's before sushi was mainstream. When I took some sushi to my 4th grade class for culture day. Not one kid tried it. Kids made faces and said that it was gross to eat raw fish.

Anonymous wrote:My friend took me to a coffee shop to get cappuccino for my 18th birthday present. We had to drive about 45 minutes to the "hip" town near where we lived. Coffee shops were still a novelty then, at least in the Midwest where I lived. This was 1990.

Yeah, I remember when coffee shops with acoustic guitar started opening up on my campus strip (Syracuse U) c 1991. A friend suggested going to one instead of a bar one snowy night. I was like "WHY?" I was so confused about them. Still am.

My friend took me to a coffee shop to get cappuccino for my 18th birthday present. We had to drive about 45 minutes to the "hip" town near where we lived. Coffee shops were still a novelty then, at least in the Midwest where I lived. This was 1990.

shhanrahan wrote:Sushi!

Went to a place called Taki Sushi in NYC when I was 8 or 9- so around 1984. I loved it. They had traditional Japanese sunken seating and rice paper walls. You had to take off your shoes.

I had the absolute same experience. Same year, same age, same place!!