Friday, 16 October 2009

VHS Tapes

A few months ago I was babysitting a 3rd grade girl and her 4-year-old sister. It was Friday night, movie night, so they were allowed to watch a movie. I watched as the girls knew where to find the Bee Movie in the DVD cabinet, how to take it out of it's case, turn on and open the DVD player, put the DVD in, and press play. Watching this, I realized how different our childhoods were in a technological sense. I spent my childhood movie nights with VHS tapes. I realized how they had no VHS tapes in their house. They knew nothing of rewinding videos before you could play them. I remember dealing with broken cassette tapes when the magnetic tape unrolls, and I remember the excitement of when I got my first Walkman for my Disney Jam CDs. They had never experienced any of this. It shocked me to realize how much technology has impacted each generation differently.
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  1. Kathleen G18 October 2009 at 08:02

    I totally know what you mean. I too remember using VHS video cassettes, and having to rewind them every time you put them in. Also, I remember getting a walkman CD player and every christmas I would get a couple CDs like Hanson, Spice Girls, and Britney Spears. That is, until I was in the fifth grade and got my first ipod. It's very funny seeing little kids with ipods and laptops and cellphones. You're right, technology is changing our future.

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  2. India18 October 2009 at 13:22

    This is so interesting. I totally agree. We don't even realize, first of all, how much our lives depend on technology and how much we learn from technology, but also how different each generation's view on technology and the way it effects our lives, is. The next generation after them will probably be familiar with a totally unknown type of gadget that we won't understand at all.

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