Snowy the Geek

The GeekDad authors at Wired have posted an interesting article relating to older technologies that we may be familiar with now as adults, but our children will never get exposure from.  Some items were humorous, others, a little frightening.  I’ve picked my favorite 10, but encourage you to read the article.

17) That there was a time before ‘reality TV.’ (I can’t believe there was such a thing!)
30) Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time. (I’m guilty of this)
33) Having to delete something to make room on your hard drive.
37) Finding out information from an encyclopedia. (You can find information in books??)
38) Using a road atlas to get from A to B.
62) Getting lost. With GPS coming to more and more phones, your location is only a click away.
75) LEGO just being square blocks of various sizes, with the odd wheel, window or door.
81) Han shoots first. (I can’t stress this one enough)
82) “Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.” But they’ve already seen episode III, so it’s no big surprise. (*sigh*)
86) Finding books in a card catalog at the library. (You mean that place where we go to get free wifi?)
Bonus:
100) When a ‘geek’ and a ‘nerd’ were one and the same. (I’m actually kind of glad this one changed)

-SnowytheGeek via [Wired]

**EDIT: Fixed Hyperlink (thanks Drew!)**