<p>Seems like everything “old days” wise had to do with research. I spent more time looking up books in the card catalog, checking indexes, finding resources than learning about whatever I was studying. Maybe that was good–I feel now it’s just the price of doing research whereas now students think that if they don’t find it on wikkipedia the information doesn’t exist.
We also followed computers all the way up–DOS, early internet, and everything in between. Adults don’t expect it to work the first time because it never has out of experience. We’ve already developed our “go-around” solutions to most of our problems. Sometimes that’s been calling on friends to print stuff because we already know our printer just isn’t happening.
I’m sure our parents who thought early TV was great laugh when we complain about cable also.
Simple rules for even passwords? Can’t remember them anymore, gotta write 'em down now. Techno-phobic? How many people could ever program their VHS (I know, we’ve moved on…) That little blinking light? Source of so many jokes for good reason.</p>