Are you happy your childhood took place before technology?

It was easier to just be a kid then. You had to use your imagination & actually go out & play. Taught you how to get along with others. Also, my parents & my friends parents, did put up with BS or coddled us like so many parents are doing today. So glad I had that type of a childhood.
 
For the most part, yes. For education, though, I sure could have gone further with my career if I had the Internet's resources at my fingertips. I also would have loved to have worldwide friends instead of the circle friends from a small tri-county area. I'm answering only for Internet techology, though... all this other tech they're throwing at us... no way!
 
I think I am. There would be some parts of it that would have been great to have, but I think the simpler childhood made the later technological adulthood more appreciated.

I mean, we wouldn't have had the chance to say to the entitled child who's whining about only having a Samsung 6 when ALL.THEIR.FRIENDS have an iphone10, "Well IN MY DAY, we had to use two cans with a string stretched between them to talk to our friends!!!"

When they complain about not having the latest $5000 gaming computer (which, of course, they're only going to use for schoolwork, we get to say, "Well IN MY DAY, we had to WALK FIVE MILES to the library and face Miss Agnes, the Dragon Lady Librarian, and BEG for permission to SEARCH for a reference book and she had to see our clean hands first and we had to be VERY quiet and the only GAMING we did was out in the dirt with marbles!!!"

When they complain about not getting a new car when they turn 16, we have the distinct privilege of saying, "Well, IN MY DAY, all I had was an old bicycle with wooden wheels and I had to share that with my six brothers and sisters!!!"

A bunch of malarky, of course, but it's fun.
 
Absolutely. I was never distracted by emails nor a slave to an iPhone and I spent most of my time learning in school or playing outside. I'm also glad because it makes me appreciate the technology we have today and some of the aspects of our life that are easier. I remember using paper maps and reading Encyclopedia Britannica to look up information.
 
seadoug said:
Absolutely. I was never distracted by emails nor a slave to an iPhone and I spent most of my time learning in school or playing outside. I'm also glad because it makes me appreciate the technology we have today and some of the aspects of our life that are easier. I remember using paper maps and reading Encyclopedia Britannica to look up information.
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Paper maps. Werenā€™t they fun? šŸ¤¦ā€ā™€ļø
GPS rocks.
 
I drew, sketched, doodled, drew realistic portrait from magazine photos.

Made a Star Trek comic book (along the lines of a next generation story in which the new ship and crew encounter the original Enterprise returning through a wormhole in space. Interestingly, Star Trek TNG had a similar story).

I built a scale model of the Lost In Space Jupiter 2.

I bought a Super 8 movie camera and made videos that I later added music to to make them more comical.

Learned to throw darts with a dartboard in the basement where my brother and I would play for PBJ sandwiches. Loser had to make the sandwiches. I got good at making sandwiches.

Contrast that to my kids who learned to play gaming consoles.
 
Modern technology was just starting to emerge when I was a kid. The first TV set I remember my parents having operated with vacuum tubes, and you had to wait for the set to ā€œwarm up.ā€ When that set finally gave up the ghost, they bought a ā€œsolid stateā€œ model that was much smaller and came on quickly, but still was B & W, and used ā€œrabbit earsā€ for reception. There was only one TV set in a household back then, same as for phones, which were of course corded land lines.

With much ceremony, I was given an early model transistor radio as a Xmas gift in the early 1960ā€™s; AM band only, of course!

When I was once gifted with a set of ā€œWally-Talkiesā€ for my birthday, I thought I had a real treasure there!

Cell phones and computers in my childhood were the stuff of science fiction, used by Captain Kirk on ā€œStar Trek!ā€
 
Yes and no. It would have been fun to learn about some of the newer items being produced. I was born in 1961, so I did have some exposure to early tech items like cellphones by the time I was a senior in high school. We also had word processors then, instead of using white-out to fix typing mistakes.
 
For sure! I remember spending hours rolling hot wheel cars down this giant dead tree laying on its side with my friend. And the fun we had on bikes having skid mark contests and jumping off home made ramps. We were in the country but always found fun things to do. And on my own I would modify my toy cars into new ones that were bigger and faster. The only entertainment from ā€œphonesā€œ as a kids was listening in on the party line!

And apparently I played more darts than what I remember since I recently won a tournament that my son-in-law put on which surprised everyone, including myself!
 
I drive through a neighborhood getting to a piece of property I own, hundreds of homes. 9 times out of 10 I see nobody! Iā€™ve seen kids playing about 10 times ever! (In hundreds of drive-bys) I joke that itā€™s a movie set, not a real neighborhood. Somehow theyā€™ve seen me because the police have been called and I was the subject of their Facebook page for awhile. Turns out Iā€™m not a bum squatting. Lol.
 
The guys I hung around with as a kid probably wouldnā€™t know what to do with most of todayā€™s technology. Maybe video games, but other things, I doubt.
 
PeppermintPatty said:
Paper maps. Werenā€™t they fun? šŸ¤¦ā€ā™€ļø
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Paco Dennis said:
Great pics! :) The kid jumping out of the swing reminded me of what me and my buds would do at 3rd grade recess. The kids in the puddle says it all. The world was so different then.
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Thanks. When I was a kid my friends made my life fun and exciting. There was always something to do and never a lack of friends to do it with. Life was so simple back then.
 

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