Do you remember which inventions your
parents thought were great during their generations?
My mom was a big fan of polyester and oleo. I thought the microwave was amazing when we first got one.
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The microwave oven is a good answer. They'd been around for decades (Amana's expensive "Radar Range", which no one I knew owned), but didn't get to the general public until Amana's patent rights ran out. We got ours in the mid-70s. What else? Color TV. Space flight. Air conditioning in cars (our first car with AC was, I think, in 1970).
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Television, the portable transistor radio & non-stick pans.
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Linda Joy I remember my first transistor radio! And the portable tape recorder! -
Professor Yaffle Ah yes! The compact cassette recorder, your own music on the move!
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My parents? That covers nine decades! My mother did once tell me that the most notable change she observed is that the streets were filled with horse drawn vehicles until they were filled with cars and trucks. It didn't take as long as you might think.
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Some, but not all of them. Even moreso my grandfather, who was always messing around with his own inventions. Before I was born, he once fashioned himself a pair of inline roller skates so that he could do hockey training in the summer time, and everyone made fun of his idea. He also used to mix cayenne pepper with paint for his boats to keep barnacles from attaching to them, and it worked, but people picked on him for that, as well. Anyway, my parents seemed most surprised by how quickly computer technology advanced from the early IBM PCs they used to help them with their taxes and budgets to the internet, all in just a few years.
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