• Chainweasel
    link
    English
    63 hours ago

    It’s been fast like that since the end of WWII.
    My parents were born in the early 60s and they saw records replaced with eight tracks and then cassettes and then CDs and then mp3s and now streaming.
    Answering machines were a novelty when my parents were children and now we have cell phones.
    The internet wasn’t even something you could have imagined in your wildest dreams in the 1970s.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      149 minutes ago

      My uncle was on Wall Street in the 80s, and he distinctly remembers everyone mocking email as a passing fad later in the decade