Technological Timeline Meme
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bearshortyFrom belleweather
1. Did you have a cell phone prior to your thirties? Did they exist?
Yes. I got my first cell phone when I was 22 or 23 in either 2002 or 2003.
2. Did you have cable when you were a little kid? When did you first get cable?
No, because I grew up in Soviet Union and we had 3 TV channels when I was a kid. Cable didn't exist. And it was a black and white TV until I was in second grade around 1987. I came home one day and realized that the soccer game was in color. We didn't get cable when I moved to US either. Only in 1998, when I was almost 18, when my parents bought their house, then they got cable.
3. Do you know what 8-track tapes are and did you ever own an 8-track tape player?
No. Never had them. We had a record player when I was a kid and my Dad brought home a tape player when I was maybe 10.
4. Did you own cassette tapes and walkman or tape player in high school and college?
In high school, yes. In college it was a CD player. I had lots of tapes, and taped a lot from the radio too. Still have a small tower rack of tapes. In high school I also saved up birthday money and got my CD/tape/radio blue boombox, which I still have today in my living room. It worked for 20 years.
5. When did you get your first DVD player?
In 1999 I did an Oscar contest for a Russian newspaper here in New York and won. The prize was a DVD player. I had my picture in the newspaper and a short interview. My Dad won the following year, so we were set.
6. Did you learn how to type on a typewriter? Did you own a typewriter growing up?
No, I learned to type on a computer in 7th or 8th grade and with a program on our home computer, which we got in 1994 or so. No typewriter.
7. What was the first computer you owned?
My parents bought a PC in 1994 or so. I seem to remember having it in 8th grade. Definitely 9th grade because I typed school papers on it. But very first that was mine was a Dell laptop my parents got me in 2001 for my college graduation. It lasted for 8 years. (In college I used the computer lab).
8. What age were you when you first got email?
18. When I went to college in 1998, we all got school email. I got yahoo email in 2000 when I was going to London to do a Study Abroad semester.
9. What age were you when you first encountered the internet? Was it around when you were a kid?
1995 maybe. It was the dial up kind. I remember my Dad and I looking at a Star Trek website. I was 8 in 1988 when I first saw a computer.
10. What age were you when Facebook, Twitter, and Dreamwidth, and Livejournal started?
According to Google, I was 23 when Facebook started and 25 when Twitter started. I would have been almost 19 when LJ started and 28 for DW. I have never had Facebook or Twitter though. I was teaching by then and didn't want my students to have any access to me. Now both Facebook and Twitter just seem a waste of time. I got DW in 2009 when my friend got me an invite, and I finally joined LJ in 2011 for a fandom fest, but it took me longer to start crossposting from DW.
11. What was your first cell phone? How old were you when you got it? Do you even own one?
When I was about 22 or so, around 2002, in grad school, I went out late one night with some classmates. I rarely go out so when my parents called that evening and I wasn't home yet, they panicked. So they got me a cell phone. It was a black flip phone. Before that only my Dad had one.
12. Have you ever owned a smartphone?
Yes. I'm typing this entry on one. I resisted one for a long time but in 2014 my parents got me Samsung S5 to take more pictures of Tanya. Using it now.
13. What was the first printer like and the paper that you used when you got your very first computer? Could it print photos -- the first printer you worked on or owned?
I don't remember what printer we got. It wasn't a photo printer, just a regular one. Not a scanner.
14. When you were in college, freshman and sophomore years, did you type on a computer or type-writer?
Computer. I would go to computer lab after dinner, when it would be pretty empty and work on my papers there.
15. What age were you when streaming came out? You can pick decade - aka 20s, 30s, teens...
Maybe late 20s, early 30s. I didn't steam much until Netflix.
16. What age were you when you got your first MP3 Player? Do you even own one?
I was 26 in 2006. I was happy with my CD player but then my friend was getting something new and gave me a 4G iPod Nano to try to see if I wanted to buy it. It was amazing. She ultimately took it back but I bought my own and had it for almost a decade. I loved it very much. Right now I'm using my Dad's old one. I need to recharge it actually. (also a 4G iPod Nano.)
17. Did you own a record player, cassette player, CD player or MP3 player as a kid or teen?
Record player when I was a little kid, then tape player and CD player as a teen.
18. At what age did you start blogging on the internet?
29. That's when I got my DW account. Before that I had a regular journal. After 29, all electronic. I wanted to read the Torah, so I would read 5 chapters a day and do WTF moment of the day. That really helped me read it. And got me started.
19. E-book reader -- when did these come out? What age?
I got one for my 31st birthday. My Dad got it just a little earlier and loved it, so he got me one. Just before that birthday he left on vacation and left me his Kindle to read "Hunger Games", which convinced me of its usefulness. So I was happy to get one. At the end of June when I just got mine, Bear and I went on vacation to Orlando Florida. And I loaned him my new Kindle to read the "Hunger Games". He bought his own Kindle after that.
Internet tells me I was 27 when Kindle first came out.
20. How do you listen to music? On what devices?
On my little 4G iPod Nano. At home, mostly on my computer from my iTunes library or in the living room on my CD/radio/tape player, when it's either radio or CDs.
belleweather1. Did you have a cell phone prior to your thirties? Did they exist?
Yes. I got my first cell phone when I was 22 or 23 in either 2002 or 2003.
2. Did you have cable when you were a little kid? When did you first get cable?
No, because I grew up in Soviet Union and we had 3 TV channels when I was a kid. Cable didn't exist. And it was a black and white TV until I was in second grade around 1987. I came home one day and realized that the soccer game was in color. We didn't get cable when I moved to US either. Only in 1998, when I was almost 18, when my parents bought their house, then they got cable.
3. Do you know what 8-track tapes are and did you ever own an 8-track tape player?
No. Never had them. We had a record player when I was a kid and my Dad brought home a tape player when I was maybe 10.
4. Did you own cassette tapes and walkman or tape player in high school and college?
In high school, yes. In college it was a CD player. I had lots of tapes, and taped a lot from the radio too. Still have a small tower rack of tapes. In high school I also saved up birthday money and got my CD/tape/radio blue boombox, which I still have today in my living room. It worked for 20 years.
5. When did you get your first DVD player?
In 1999 I did an Oscar contest for a Russian newspaper here in New York and won. The prize was a DVD player. I had my picture in the newspaper and a short interview. My Dad won the following year, so we were set.
6. Did you learn how to type on a typewriter? Did you own a typewriter growing up?
No, I learned to type on a computer in 7th or 8th grade and with a program on our home computer, which we got in 1994 or so. No typewriter.
7. What was the first computer you owned?
My parents bought a PC in 1994 or so. I seem to remember having it in 8th grade. Definitely 9th grade because I typed school papers on it. But very first that was mine was a Dell laptop my parents got me in 2001 for my college graduation. It lasted for 8 years. (In college I used the computer lab).
8. What age were you when you first got email?
18. When I went to college in 1998, we all got school email. I got yahoo email in 2000 when I was going to London to do a Study Abroad semester.
9. What age were you when you first encountered the internet? Was it around when you were a kid?
1995 maybe. It was the dial up kind. I remember my Dad and I looking at a Star Trek website. I was 8 in 1988 when I first saw a computer.
10. What age were you when Facebook, Twitter, and Dreamwidth, and Livejournal started?
According to Google, I was 23 when Facebook started and 25 when Twitter started. I would have been almost 19 when LJ started and 28 for DW. I have never had Facebook or Twitter though. I was teaching by then and didn't want my students to have any access to me. Now both Facebook and Twitter just seem a waste of time. I got DW in 2009 when my friend got me an invite, and I finally joined LJ in 2011 for a fandom fest, but it took me longer to start crossposting from DW.
11. What was your first cell phone? How old were you when you got it? Do you even own one?
When I was about 22 or so, around 2002, in grad school, I went out late one night with some classmates. I rarely go out so when my parents called that evening and I wasn't home yet, they panicked. So they got me a cell phone. It was a black flip phone. Before that only my Dad had one.
12. Have you ever owned a smartphone?
Yes. I'm typing this entry on one. I resisted one for a long time but in 2014 my parents got me Samsung S5 to take more pictures of Tanya. Using it now.
13. What was the first printer like and the paper that you used when you got your very first computer? Could it print photos -- the first printer you worked on or owned?
I don't remember what printer we got. It wasn't a photo printer, just a regular one. Not a scanner.
14. When you were in college, freshman and sophomore years, did you type on a computer or type-writer?
Computer. I would go to computer lab after dinner, when it would be pretty empty and work on my papers there.
15. What age were you when streaming came out? You can pick decade - aka 20s, 30s, teens...
Maybe late 20s, early 30s. I didn't steam much until Netflix.
16. What age were you when you got your first MP3 Player? Do you even own one?
I was 26 in 2006. I was happy with my CD player but then my friend was getting something new and gave me a 4G iPod Nano to try to see if I wanted to buy it. It was amazing. She ultimately took it back but I bought my own and had it for almost a decade. I loved it very much. Right now I'm using my Dad's old one. I need to recharge it actually. (also a 4G iPod Nano.)
17. Did you own a record player, cassette player, CD player or MP3 player as a kid or teen?
Record player when I was a little kid, then tape player and CD player as a teen.
18. At what age did you start blogging on the internet?
29. That's when I got my DW account. Before that I had a regular journal. After 29, all electronic. I wanted to read the Torah, so I would read 5 chapters a day and do WTF moment of the day. That really helped me read it. And got me started.
19. E-book reader -- when did these come out? What age?
I got one for my 31st birthday. My Dad got it just a little earlier and loved it, so he got me one. Just before that birthday he left on vacation and left me his Kindle to read "Hunger Games", which convinced me of its usefulness. So I was happy to get one. At the end of June when I just got mine, Bear and I went on vacation to Orlando Florida. And I loaned him my new Kindle to read the "Hunger Games". He bought his own Kindle after that.
Internet tells me I was 27 when Kindle first came out.
20. How do you listen to music? On what devices?
On my little 4G iPod Nano. At home, mostly on my computer from my iTunes library or in the living room on my CD/radio/tape player, when it's either radio or CDs.
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