[ronald reagan]

Our house connected to the internet in December 1999.... I was 14.
Not sure when we got our first cell phone, but it was around the summer of 1996.


A BIG difference I can tell now vs. then is the absence of VHS tapes, DVD's, CD's.

Another MAJOR MAJOR difference I can tell is the way google has made people 'smarter' and an argument or debate can be ended in a few seconds.

My first 'internet' was Strawberry Patch bulletin board. Probably about 1989-1990. You took your phone, laid it down on a 'reciever modem'... and dialed the number yourself. It then communicated by sound. I had a download speed of about 60-80 bytes per second. I could download 'dig-dug' in about an hour. Today, I can download forza motorsports 6 in about the same time.

Who can forget the 10 hours free AOL cd's that you got in the mail 3 or 4 times a week? then it went to 20, then 50, and finally up to 500 hours.

Anyways.... its safe to say, the world has changed. Some say for the worse, myself for the better. The internet and cell phone have increased productivity and increased GDP probably more so than any other inventions.