Re: [LM_NET] Think converting to HDTV is tough?

[Shonda Brisco <sbrisco@GMAIL.COM>]

This also brings to light how much technology has changed in our own lifetimes!

A couple of years ago, I was shopping in the furniture department of a
store in a local mall with my then 16 year old daughter and my 8 year
old son.  One of the furniture displays showcased some beautiful
office furniture with a rotary phone on the desk.  My first thought
was that the display resembled one of the 1930's but while I was
admiring the desk and chair, while my childred were fixated on the
phone.  My daughter said, "I know this is a phone, but how does it
work?"

I laughed at her comment and then realized that in her lifetime she
had only known "touch-tone" phones.  I then gave an example of a phone
number and showed them how you would need to put your finger in each
numbered slot and rotate the dial in order to "dial the number."
(---a phrase that means little to anyone else from the "touch-tone"
generation, I realized).

We spent at least ten minutes at that display so my children would
play "dial the phone"....and we had several older individuals walk by
and laugh at the novelty of my children's discovery. One much older
gentleman even stopped to explain how he would call an operator to get
a number LONG before the rotary phone--- an impromptu history lesson
that both of my children appreciated!

(...and I felt SO old!!)  *grin*

~Shonda

-- 
Shonda Brisco, BA Ed., MLIS
Library Media / Technology Specialist
Weatherford, TX 76086

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