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Cassette tapes
Casette tapes were what I grew up listening to. We would record our favorite songs from a record, or the radio. -
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My Tech Life - Ruth Bradford
Here are the most important technologies that have influenced my life. -
Typewriter
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Typewriter
I took Type I when I was a junior in high school. The big technology addition was correction tape, where you could just backspace to have the correction tape automatically cover the error. -
Desktop computer
This computer is like the first one my sister got. I was a senior in high school and she would help me type papers on the computer. You had to use the function keys for everything and I would get sooo frustrated! -
VCR
You had to rent a Video player, along with the movies. My friends, siblings and I would go in on a VCR rental. -
CDs
CDs as we know them were launched in 1982. Again, I waited a couple of years to use the technology because of the expense when it first came out. -
Card Catalog
In 1991 I helped transfer card catalog records to computer at my first library in Hawaii. -
Cell phone
Second generation cell phones came on the scene in the early 1990s. I got my first cell phone in 1994 when I moved to Oahu from the Big Island. I didn't have a landline, just a cell phone. -
DVDs
DVDs became available in the U.S. in 1996. I didn't get a player or DVDs until a couple of years later when they became less expensive. -
Cordless phone
I don't know exactly when we first got a cordless phone, but it was probably in the late 1990s. -
Smartphone
I was late to the smart phone party! Smartphones came out in the early 2000s. I waited to get a smart phone because of cost. Now I wonder how I ever survived without one!
