Sometimes I think it would be fun to go back in time to the nineties. But when I think about living in the nineties again the thought of everything modern I’d miss is agonizing. The nineties had it’s charm but now I only miss it because it’s over. I never thought it was a amazing time to grow up in but now I do just because that time is forever gone. Being used to all the things that didn’t exist when I was a kid has made me quite spoiled and it would be weird to live without them.

When I was a kid almost nobody had a cell phone. Kids definitely did not. I remember my dads first cell. It was a HUGE Nokia which you could do nothing but call with. Text messages were introduced a couple of years later. Some people had beepers though. Do they even exist anymore btw?

When I was very little people still listened to LP records. I got my first CD player when I was ten and I thought it was SO modern!

I had a casette freestyle. There wasn’t any mp3 players back then.

DVD players didn’t exist either. I actually didn’t own one until I was in my twenties.

I still don’t own a flat screen tv but when I was a kid they weren’t even invented yet.

Not to mention the internet! I was thirteen the first time I used the internet but we didn’t have it at home until I was fifteen. And we only had a 56k modem which couldn’t be used when someone was on the phone.

Ten years ago people didn’t have any digital cameras. If 36 of your pictures turned out terrible and blurry there was nothing to do about it. Not only had you wasted a entire roll of film but you also had payed for the develop. When digital cameras were new and hot they were these big things which you put a diskette in.

Oh yeah, CD burners didn’t exist either. Only diskettes which had room for something like fifty pictures.

Speaking of technology and computers. I’ve switched browser from Firefox to Opera. I just downloaded Opera to see if my site worked in it (of course it did. valid code ftw!) and after checking out all the cool feautures I made it my primary browser. It has some neat web developement widgets and I love the way you can search any site in the main search bar just by using a keyword. In Firefox I used to have a search bar for google and one for imbd. Now I only need the main search bar because when I want to search google or Imdb I just type “g” followed by my search or “imdb” followed by my search. So neat! Another computer related improvement I’ve made is adding a dock with shortcuts to a couple of my mostly used programs and folders. It’s a always on top doc so it’s not only visible on my desktop but also when I surf the web or use any of my programs. Neat, neat, neat!