When I was a kid...

Oh man you had it good, I can remember when all we had was only 3 channels and forget about colored TV unless you were well off. To change the channels you had to turn the knob on the TV, there wasn't a remote control. If you were lucky you had an outside antenna but you had to go out and turn it by hand. I can even remember sharing a phone line with other families outside of your home, if you picked the phone up and they were on the line you just had to wait. Oh yes I remember them days,even riding in the car, I can remember riding in the car with no seatbelts and heck you didn't think nothing of just holding one of your kids in your lap. Things sure have changed since then, I would say that some things have changed for the better and I would hate to know that I had to go back to some things. But I think the ones of us that has lived through those times is better person because of it. I think a lot of people take things for granted now, having all the things that we have, in fact I think it would do the younger people some good if they had to do without some of the things they have now.

Sometimes I miss the simpler life. Can't figure out if time is going faster because I'm older or if it's just because there are so many things to do now? Alot of things that have come along made me think I'd have more free time, but I don't and I can't figure out why! I do have to laugh, my kids seem to think everything is so hard! looking for the remote takes them more time than if they'd just turn the tv on. they groan about loading the dishwasher and looking a word up online, wonder what they would do if they had to go find the dictionary or wash dishes by hand? I do think sometimes it would be easier to just have 3 or 4 tv channels and a limited choice of what to watch. I kind of miss that....remembering back to where everyone would hurry and eat dinner, do dishes, make popcorn, sit in our favorite spot because we didn't want to miss the disney movie at 7 on sunday nights. Getting off the school bus to watch an hour of kids programming before the news and all the other 'grown up junk' came on.

i like some modern things. cable,for instance.i do not miss having 4 channels that came in,or hanging rabbit ears out the window with additional coat hangers added to get a 5th half-snowed channel. i do not miss being my parent's remote control. i do not miss our station wagon-not only did it stink,it overheated all the time. i do miss rotary phones.i loved playing with the wheel dial. i do miss the "everybody beep on the hour" digital watches in class when they were new.our teachers wanted them banned.

Wow what a great question! I remember summers spent outdoors until it was supper time. I remember riding in the car with nothing but my imagination to distract me - no DVD players, no iPods or handheld game systems! While I do appreciate today & the technology we have, I also worry that we rely way too much on that technology and not enough on our own imaginations. Without our imaginations, the technology we have wouldn't be possible!

I appreciate the modern world. The simpler ways of how to communicate with people, traveling and even earning money online! Though sometimes it really makes me wonder what will happen if these things aren't here right now.. mylot, cellphones, internet. maybe we will be living in a slow paced but SIMPLER life. So i guess it's inevitable but helped us a lot in so many ways! so live life to the fullest! Enjoy the modern world but never take for granted the simpler things you used to make.Ü

Mine schooling was completed at air force school.It was so exciting to live around aeroplanes and jet fighters.I sat in plane when i was in 4th class.We used to have demo plane in our school.I did some wrong in that demo plane.Principal called my fater regarding that issue.My school used to have strict rule and discipline.I used to play football.I was the best player of my school team.I got so many trophy and medals.i still miss my school days.But i am still in touch with my school friends at the best site orkut.

yes i sure do! although i love the internet and the ideas you can get from it, i miss simple times. i would love to go back to my child and even back further. i think life is just way too rushed now.

When I was a kid our playground was the open street where we play hide and seek in the moonlight. When I was a kid we have vast ricefields to look for grasshoppers and rice frogs to play with. When I was a kid we use the stems of the cassava leaves as our hair rollers to get some cute curls. When I was a kid we climb on trees and pick fruits just like little monkeys on branches. Oh I miss my childhood and how kids of today hardly experience those. As to my own kid, he has little of those but he loves his computers best. (sighs!)

I do appreciate the technology we have today. Two things you said in particular brought back flashes of memories, the first is the car thing. I remember being on our school basketball team in grammar school. There were so many times that not only were we not buckled in the back seat, but there was about 5 of us crammed back there with one laying across the top. The other thing you made me remember was talking to my niece and telling her about the old tv's. She asked in shock and awe,"You mean you didn't have a channel changer?" I said, "Sure we did. My mom would just call me into the room and tell me to change the channel. I was the channel changer." Ahhh, the good'ol days.

Yeah,Everything was been changced.When we grow up.When i close eyes i'd rather belive i was twelve.Everything's pure. No computer my own No cellphone my own Only have blue sky i can play games with my best friend No hurt No jealous.Everything seems so perfect.

I totally miss the much simpler life I had as a child. My husband and I are always talking about this. We find it sad that today's children are very spoiled and cannot seem to function without the XBox, PS3, PSP, Ninetendo DS. We remember enjoying playing outside with our bikes, friends, and making up games. Anything to come back indoors. Now children claim to be bored by being outdoors. I remember when my brother and I got Donkey Kong. We loved it and were so happy. The classics!

So, I'm only twenty-four. I'm probably way too young to be nostalgic, and when I was a kid, there was plenty of technology available to us. But even in the last twenty years, we've come amazingly far. I remember my first computer... it was an apple, not even a mac, and it only ran DOS. And then, when we first got internet, it was so slow that I literally took a book to the computer with me so I would have something to distract me while I waited for the pages to load. Maybe this is also a product of being part of my generation, but if I had a choice, I would keep all the technology we have. I know that it's messed things up for a lot of people, but I think we need to learn to use it right, not just get rid of it. I think the internet is amazing. I mean, without it, we couldn't do this. I couldn't connect with all the people I connect with every day. I think that's the best part of technology. We are all so connected. My parents live 3000 miles away and I hear their voices almost every day, and visit them every couple months. Thank g-d for technology that makes us both able to live in the parts of the world we want to live in, yet not have to lose contact with each other.

Some new technologies I do enjoy but i do think technology is making people more and more lazy. Such as remotes before you would have to get up and change the channel and also calculators are only useful if you doing some complex equations that require a lot of math other than that i dont think they should be allowed to be used unless there is a reason especially for younger people because they need to learn to not be dependent on some technology.

I grew up in this age and i personnally think its great. I mean we have computers and dish tv and all these great things. This is the digital age now we all just have to get used to it. And its still a rather simple life. I mean what made life so simple back then.

there are some things I do miss, but since I live in a city that got cable in the early 1960's, I barely remember the days when Austin only had one channel... don't ask... You know, I was reading an early Heinlein book, and was laughing at how his heros, including the ones living on the Moon, still had slide rulers...

I love the modern inventions but miss the ole fashioned values. My physical life as a child was difficult as most in my day, so I really do not miss it much. However, I am grateful for the knowledge I gained living in a world where near poverty was the norm because when life's little emergencies happen now, I am prepared. We all lived in momentary bliss, not missing what we never had. My parents were goodly people who have both passed away; now them I DO miss dearly. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.

Some things of the modern world are good, like computers, but they haven't really saved time, and some people have twisted the use of them for filth like porny. My hubby and I are holding on to our landline (we don't own a cell phone, and don't want one), until the landlines are all taken away. Yes, gone are the days of rolling around in the backseat without a care. I think the baby carseat regulations are getting out of control. Thanks..