Things Our Kids Won't Know

Wired.com has a GeekDad article, "100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About." Wifey and I have discussed this subject quite a bit because of all the changes that have occurred in the last twenty-five years, along with our more-than-usual rural upbringings. It makes me wonder -- what did our parents (and grandparents) know that we were never aware of?

Some of the knowledge lost to our kids:

• Rotary dial televisions with no remote control. You know, the ones where the kids were the remote control.
• 8-track cartridges (And the matchbooks required to keep them in the tape deck. - kw)
• The scream of a modem connecting
• Waiting several minutes (or even hours!) to download something
• When Spam was just a meat product — or even a Monty Python sketch
• Typewriters
• CB radios
• Remembering someone’s phone number
• Finding books in a card catalog at the library.

It's worth checking out the other 91 items.