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1968 - vinyl music records
Did not foresee optical CDs wiping out vinyl within 20 years and then digital files stored somewhere wiping out CDs within 25 years.
1968 - cars were objects of lust by most males
today - kids think of cars as transportation devices
Today's Apple watch has more storage than ALL the computers in the world in 1968.
1968 - male underwear came in one color: white
today - whoa!
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Back in 68 I saw a lot of gun racks (with a rifle in it) in trucks and they didn't even bother to lock the trucks
Internet
Same sex marriages
9-1-1 didn't exist.
Plastic/fake Chrome instead of real chrome on cars
DVD players
No battered women's shelters. In 1973 the first battered women’s shelter in the United States opened
TV programming has changed. Back then families watched TV together, today prime time is not suitable for children.
The drinking age was 18
Seat belts weren't mandatory
'Made in China' items were hard to find here
We had a lot of cotton mills, steel mills, hosiery mills, plants that made our clothes, towels, carpet etc..
The draft was active
Getting paddled in school was okay when you behaved badly and parents supported it.
We had Lead-based paint, it was banned in 1978
You didn't hear about road rage, people taking guns to schools, nightclubs, work, parks etc...and killing innocent people
Most little boys carried a pocket knife, even to school with no problems.
We didn't have all the convenience foods that are in stores today. Yes TV dinners were there but not like today.
Cars didn't have airbags
Local calls were only 7 digits
Chicken pox killed 100 children a year in the U.S. before a vaccine came along in 1995
Children could play cops and robbers, army and cowboys with toy guns. Kids could be kids back then and even had cap guns.
(True story: An old neighbor about 5 years ago called the police because 2 ten year old little boys were playing army in the small field between our homes. She told police they were shooting guns. Police came, the kids had 2 badly carved out guns made from wood. They shook their heads because even from her house you could see it was silly.)
Cigarette ads played on TV
We didn't have car seats.
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Toyotas and Hondas.
1968 was the year before what was likely Peak Automobile in America. Almost everything the Big 3 made in 1969 is a collectible.
The only foreign cars you saw in any quantity were Bugs.
lasik eye surgery eliminating the need for glasses or contact lenses
Laser anything.
1968 - lasers were $100K machines
today - $1.99 for a laser pointer for your PowerPoint slide show
which leads me to:
1968 - cameras had film
today - a camera (any camera) has more storage than all the computers in the world in 1968
And, business casual dress
1968 was white shirts (and pocket protectors for engineers)
1968 - sliderules. The HP-35 came out in 1970.
today - sliderule? An engineer's personal computer has more horsepower than ALL the computers in the world in 1968
1968 - almost ready to land on the Moon
today - who knows when we will return
1968 - the Concorde would soon fly passengers at Mach 2+
today - who knows if will ever fly faster than Mach 1 again
Unaffordable state college tuition. My brother graduated in 1968 and I graduated in 1975 from a University of Whatever State, and our degrees cost less than $3,000 each, a sum we both recouped within months of landing our first jobs. If my son hadn't had scholarships, it would take him several years to recover the cost of his education, let alone pay off his student loans.
Reusable SpaceX rockets that lands just like in Buck Rogers movies.
Apple Watch you can talk to just like Dick Tracy (waiting for Facetime to work on it).
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