Personal Technological Timeline, A Chronology of Technology

  • Tube Television

    Tube Television
    Seseme Street,
    Mommy and Me,
    Saturday morning cartoons
    Technological memories
  • Simon!

    Simon!
    Green and Yellow,
    Red then Green,
    Blue, no Red!
    BUZZ!...you're mean!
  • Atari the First

    Atari the First
    Here it was,
    it was the first,
    my first Atari,
    which was probably the worst.
  • Polaroid

    Polaroid
    Snap and appear,
    that's the game,
    taking a photo
    would never be the same.
  • Flippity Floppity

    Flippity Floppity
    First they were big,
    then they were small,
    then they disappeared until there was nothing at all...
  • The Interwebs

    The Interwebs
    Around this time,
    for me at least,
    a series of tubes began the beast,
    the Internet would soon
    become the required tool,
    unknown by none.
    unused by the Fool.
  • 95 Windows? That's a lot of Windows.

    95 Windows?  That's a lot of Windows.
    Around this time,
    I do recall,
    an operating system
    to rule them all...
  • Baby's First Laptop

    Baby's First Laptop
    In '96, as I can tell,
    I got my first laptop,
    with whistles and bells.

    It weighed a million pounds and was 20 feet thick,
    it had a dial-up modem that was always quite sick.
  • Speedy Gonzalez

    Speedy Gonzalez
    Ah '97,
    yes indeeed,
    the first time my Internet had any speed.
  • Why? F-eye!

    Why?  F-eye!
    I believe it was here,
    in one nine nine nine,
    when my Internet went wireless,
    leaving cables behind.
  • Music Revolution

    Music Revolution
    I first saw the iPod in 2001,
    it was clunky and heavy and wasn't much fun.
    But it was all the same, and soon we would see,
    the unstoppable Juggernaut it's now come to be.
  • Who's Tube? You's Tube.

    Who's Tube?  You's Tube.
    Introductions around,
    and everyone's here,
    it's my first time on YouTube,
    which is now held quite dear.
  • Eye Phone

    Eye Phone
    I didn't have one,
    it would take me a while,
    but I played with an iPhone,
    and it sure made me smile.
  • There's an App for that

    There's an App for that
    In 2008, the App store first dropped.
    In 2009, it made my heart stop.
    With so many choices, and so many styles,
    which App do you choose, and for how many miles?
  • Kinect

    Kinect
    I got a Kinect,
    what can I say?

    It wasn't very good,
    so I threw it away.
  • So lar eh....whoh oh oh ooh. Cantar eh, whoh oh oh ooh

    So lar eh....whoh oh oh ooh.  Cantar eh, whoh oh oh ooh
    Harness the Sun!

    I said with a grin.

    It's my power now!

    Store it in a bin!

    Keep it locked up,
    far out of sight,
    to keep my house humming,
    long through the night.
  • Pay with Apples

    Pay with Apples
    I don't really like it,
    it's clumsy at best,
    but systems like Apple Pay,
    are on tomorrow's crest.

    It's convenient and quick,
    surely real great,
    instead of carrying coins,
    which are so much dead weight.
  • Online San Diego

    Online San Diego
    I sit at my workstation, half-way 'round the world,
    on a blazing computer, all knowledge unfurled.

    I have high-speed internet, and am streaming some tunes, drinking carbonated water, looking at mylar ballons.
    I communicate online, with peeps near and far, typing and talking, an Internet star.
    Technology's come such a long, winding way,
    starting long before I and long past this day.
    Thus ends the chronology, this timeline of mine,
    I've learned how to use it: hope you had a good time.