Originally Posted By sherrytodd I remember our first Radio Shack Tandy computer that you would plug into the TV. And our first VCR. The thing was huge. And the video stores had two sections; one for beta and one for VHS. We lived on the outskirts of Tucson so it took us a while to get cable, but I remember when we were able to get HBO. We could only get HBO, no other cable channels, but we BEGGED my dad to get it. When we would go visit my Grandma in Anaheim, she had cable and I remember sitting there all day long watching MTV.
Originally Posted By Ursula I am a kindred spirit with 2oony. I wonder how many grandparents got calls from the phone boxes at DL!!!??? So much fun describing where we were and what it was like to be on speakerphone. And the # and * keys...we were told by the guy installing our new push-button that they were not in use now, but would be used often in the future...I wonder if AT&T told everyone that? I remember my first time on the internet. It was 1995 and I was in the machine room at work. Someone showed me that he had the internet on. I had heard what it was...but wasn't sure how to apply the concepts of what I heard to what I was seeing. He told me what a search engine was and asked me to give him any topic. I said watermelons. He found over 356 webpages on watermelons so fast, I was in awe. I wish I could remember the name of the search engine...it was what I used up until I discovered Google. For the record, I just Googled watermelons and got 1.58 million pages on watermelons in 0.09 seconds.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>For the record, I just Googled watermelons and got 1.58 million pages on watermelons in 0.09 seconds.<< LOL! It' s a great big, beatiful tomorrow after all, isn't it?
Originally Posted By DlandJB Your mom had amazing foresight!>>> She did, but she was also a reporter for a local paper at the time, so I think she had asked around too.
Originally Posted By wonderingalice ^^I can definitely relate... I work in the PR department of our local phone company... We still get the occasional reporter asking us what year touch-tone calling was introduced in Las Vegas (it was about 1974), along with the myriad of issues we face today - the biggest...? Ever-advancing technologies and competition (the latter was NEVER an issue back in the 'good old days!' *LOL*) (I loved the AT&T stuff in Tomorrowland, too!
Originally Posted By sherrytodd Except I remember before it was AT&T. It was Ol' Ma Bell. We always headed over there because my dad was a Bell employee. We always had to see the Circle Vision show because it was sponsered by them.
Originally Posted By wonderingalice ^^Yes! sherrytodd... This is TOO weird. Our mom's hairdo and our dad's both worked for Bell. My dad started with Pacific Bell in 1956 and worked for them until we moved to Las Vegas in 1969. He brought loads of smarts and technology with him to the smaller independent phone company here. (They'd never seen a test set before!
Originally Posted By sherrytodd My dad started with Pacific Bell and then moved to Tucson (hmmmm a desert connection too) where he worked for Mountain Bell.
Originally Posted By wonderingalice Well, they say everyone has a twin... Maybe we just have twin lives!
Originally Posted By DlandJB My dad started with Pacific Bell in 1956 and worked for them until we moved to Las Vegas in 1969.>> My grandfather worked for Michigan Bell Telephone in the late 1930s and 1940s.
