Tech

Technology Timeline

  • CD Player

    CD Player
    I got a purple cd player for christmas one year in elementary school. I had about four cd's that I would listen to over and over again. I thought it was just the coolest thing ever.
  • Palm Pilot

    Palm Pilot
    My dad had one of these! It had this neat little stylus that you would use to write with. My brothers and I used to beg to play the dinky little games on it.
  • N64

    N64
    This is the console I grew up with. I had three brothers and if I wanted to play with them I had two options: 1. Play the N64 with them and lose every time or 2. Pull the plug and run like crazy.
  • Game Boy Color

    Game Boy Color
    All the cool kids in elementary school had these. Pokemon was definitely the best game on it.
  • Reader Rabbit PC Game

    Reader Rabbit PC Game
    We loved computer games as kids! My brothers and I saved our pennies to contribute to buying a kids computer. When we got it, this was one of the games we loved to play.
  • DVD Player

    DVD Player
    Making the switch from VCR to DVD was a big deal. We owned all these bulky VHS tapes that we didn't really use any more but my parents couldn't stand to get rid of them after all the money they'd spent buying them.
  • Original XBOX released

    Original XBOX released
    I don't really remember this coming out but when we eventually got a 360 it was a big step up from our old Nintendo 64. I never much cared for it.
  • Google Docs

    Google Docs
    These took me a while to warm up to but oh how I love them now! It is so awesome to have documents on the internet where I can access them on different computers without having to email everything to myself.
  • Blu Ray Players

    Blu Ray Players
    I remember actually not really liking these when they first came out. The clarity was almost kind of trippy. I felt like it took away the movie like quality because it was too real. But I think I'm used to it now.
  • Phone Virtual Reality

    Phone Virtual Reality
    My friend brought one of these over a few months ago. He had a dinosaur version. It was crazy how real it felt! This brontosaurus kept getting up in my face!