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Record Player
When I was little my sister and I would listen to my parents' record player and dance in the living room. We made up our own dance to "The Locomotion." -
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Technology in My Lifetime
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Walkman
When I was six, I was always borrowing my brother's walkman. My favorite tape was C&C Music Factory's Gonna Make You Sweat. -
First Home Computer
When I was in second grade, my family got our first home computer. It came with a copy of Encyclopedia Brittanica, and the first thing I researched was the difference between dolphins and porpoises. I printed out a copy of the article, brought it to school, and read it to my class the next day--just because! -
First ISP
By the time I was in middle school, we finally had the internet. Our ISP was Compuserve. All of my friends had AOL, and I felt like a total loser (haha)! -
Pager
A few years later, my sister and I got pagers. They were see-through neon blue. -
First Cell Phone
I got my first cell phone, a purple Nokia, when I was in high school. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world. I couldn't use it at home, because the road I lived on was too far from town and the service was on "roaming" at my house. -
Social Media
When I was a freshman in college, I created a Myspace account. I asked my older sister if she had one, and she said she was on "The Facebook." I had no idea what that meant! -
First Laptop
Later in my freshman year, I got my first laptop. It was a Gateway, and it was terrible. A few years later I got my first Macbook, which I used until about 2014.
