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I can remember not having a phone in my parent's house. Next door my grandmother had a rotary phone.
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TV's were huge back in the day. I remember having floor models in the living room.
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At home, we had a record player, an 8 track player, and 13 channels on the TV.
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My grandmother upgraded to a push button phone that hung in the kitchen.
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We usually kept a VCR, and mom and dad would rent videos from Rite Aid or Tape Hut.
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My brother and I finally got a small TV put in our room. It had dials to change channels, a dial for UHF channels, and you had to turn a dial to fine tune the picture.
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I start to fall in love with rock music. I start asking for cassette tapes and record tapes from the radio and copy them from neighbors. Then I got my first walkman and headphones
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In middle school, all my friends started using CD's and Discmen. Feeling the pressure to keep up, I stole one from a local store. My parents busted me, and I was grounded for a year. I eventually did some odd jobs and bought one.
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In 1996, I get to take classes in the high school computer lab and learn keyboarding, Publisher, Word, and Netscape.
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I get to use the Berea College computer lab for anything I want, but mostly research papers.
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I bought my first computer, an E-Machine. It burnt discs, played DVDs, and I could get on the internet. It had a huge boxy monitor too.
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My mom finally buys a Dell Desktop. Her first computer.
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I got my first cell phone, a Nokia. Truthfully, still my favorite.
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I got my first iPod, the "Video iPod." I was able to carry all our family photos and my collection of 4000 songs around in my pocket
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I bought a Dell Inspiron after registering for Elementary Education classes at my local community college.
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In 2012, I do a semester of teaching, and I use a Smartboard to play enrichment games with 3rd graders.
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I start teaching in 2013 and make it a priority for my students to use our mobile labs as often as possible.
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I finally caved in and got a smartphone.
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I buy my first smart TV for home after having one installed in my classroom. I can connect all my devices to it, surf the internet, and use streaming services.
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Yeah, my iPhone carrying friends can't iMessage me, so I get an iPod touch. It was about time anyway, someone stole my video iPod about 3 years earlier.
