How Did I Ever Survive

[frogtog]

when I was growing up with no AC, Telephone, TV or Running Water? I guess if you never had it then you didn't miss it. It's a know fact that I couldn't live with out my AC now. How many out there remember those days?

[Hammer 4]

Well, we always had running water, i.e. Plumbing, and from what I remember, a phone, and TV later on.. Born in 48..great time to grow up.. 8-)

[Long Mike]

Born in '46.  We didn't have AC until I was in high school.  I grew up in South Louisiana.  My Dad installed several window fans in the house that blew outward.  In this manner there was always a "cool" breeze being drawn in through the other half-open windows.  The old Bernoulli Principle at work again.  I never missed having an AC until I had it.

[D4u2s0t]

it's like everything, you don't think about it until you have that luxury item...  I'm 28, and in school I learned to type on a typewriter, there was no internet, nobody had computers at home, pagers didn't come out until high school.  I got my first pager my senior year in high school, and that was the cool thing to have.  Technology advances so quickly it becomes easy to take things for granted.  When me and the fam went on vacation, we went to tripple a, they gave us a map, list of restaurants, and after that we were on our own lol.  Each generation gets more and more spoiled.

[b.Lee]

it's like everything, you don't think about it until you have that luxury item... I'm 28, and in school I learned to type on a typewriter, there was no internet, nobody had computers at home, pagers didn't come out until high school. I got my first pager my senior year in high school, and that was the cool thing to have. Technology advances so quickly it becomes easy to take things for granted. When me and the fam went on vacation, we went to tripple a, they gave us a map, list of restaurants, and after that we were on our own lol. Each generation gets more and more spoiled.

I am with you on that one, I think we are the generation from where we were young enough to just start experiencing computer but not on a daily basis. Not even in high school for me.

Times have changed.  I sometimes think how we even survived without cell phones.  I remember back in the day how many phone numbers i used to have memorized!

[moby bass]

One of the fondest memories I have of growing up are the hot summer nights in our old 2 story house.  No air cond. Windows all open, sleeping on top of the sheets because it was too hot to be under them.  You could hear the steel mills tap the furnaces and see the glow in the sky when they dumped the slag.  Everybody in the neighborhood sat outside on their porches, trying to catch a little breeze.  Then waking in the middle of the night when the storms came up, scrambling to close all the windows.  Those were the days.

[5bass]

I remember going to visit my uncle in Tampa one time in August on a 10 day vacation. Our 2nd day there, his central air went out. He immediately packed everyone up and we all went to a hotel until his unit was fixed. The hotel move qualified him as my favorite uncle from that point forward.

[firefightn15]

In the late seventies my parents bought a microwave.  Man, you would have thought we put a man on the moon right there in our kitchen.  Four boys in the house and everyone always on the move, it was the bomb. 8-)

[Grey Wolf]

We didn't have a phone or air , everything else we had.

[soccplayer07]

You don't appreciate what you have until it's gone...

My AC has been out for over a week. It's horrible! Nothing like trying to fall asleep in 86* temps.

[basser89]

Think I was in junior high before we ever got cable tv, never had AC growing up either. Always had running water and telephone (had to sit in the dinning room if you wanted to talk to someone on it though, LOL).

My entertainment back then usually involved my bike, could be at several friends houses in minutes, could also be fishing at the river in 5 minutes or running around on the ridge with my BB gun in 5 minutes in the opposite direction of the river! Life was good!  8-)

[Raul]

when I was growing up with no AC, Telephone, TV or Running Water? I guess if you never had it then you didn't miss it. It's a know fact that I couldn't live with out my AC now. How many out there remember those days?

I 'm old but ...... not THAT old ! 

However I do have to admit that I remember my dad purchasing 8 tracks for the player of his Galaxy 500. 

I learned 'puter on an Apple II and on a HP 3000 III series at high school, man that HP was BIG ! ( it needed an entire room. 

Cable TV, phone, running water, color TV n 's such, we 've always had those. 

[Glenn]

Never had AC (still don't, but wish I did), but had running water and a phone.  We had a B&W TV until my sophomore year in high school, then finally got a color set. Got cable a few years after that - about a year after MTV came out.  Man, I felt like ALL my friends had MTV and I was the LAST one to get it!  LOL

I can remember spending hours on the phone, limited only by how far the cord would stretch. Anyone remember those mega-stretch cords ala Napoleon Dynamite?  I can remember waiting for the other party to hang up so I could use the phone (remember party lines?).  I can also remember the days when you only had to give out the last 4 digits of your phone number and everyone knew what it was.

I remember when the first Sony Walkman came out, and EVERYONE had to get one!

I recall hearing about this new technology where they could digitize music and put it on a little disc.  It was supposed to be amazing audio - unlike anything possible before - and was heralded as the death to records.  I saw my first CD player at a high-end audio store.  They had one CD to play, I think it was a demo supplied by the manufacturer as none were available to the public yet.  It was a symphony, and although that's not my style of music, I was blown away by the quality.

That was AFTER I graduated from high school!  LOL!!

Think about this: the majority of my professional career is built upon a technology that didn't exist when I was in college - the World Wide Web*. 

My how things have changed.

* Yes, the Internet existed, but the WWW part (the web pages) didn't come into play until about 1991.

[Big Tom]

I can remember my sixth grade teacher showing us this new technology called "e-mail" and I distinctly remember telling how stupid and pointless it sounded. 

[FishingBuds]

Mom & Pop got HBO in 1977

First air unit in 1978 and it ran for 3 months then went Kaploonk.

My first automobile with air was in 1993, now everytiime Im intrested in another vehicle my first question is "does the air work"??

[cart7t]

My mom (80 years old) just purchased one of those new fangled clothes dryers 6-7 years ago.  It doesn't get used much, she still hangs her clothes up.