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Originally Posted by chessgeek
After this latest security breach of credit cards of Target customers, I must add that this just did not exist in the 1980's. The same online technology that makes things convenient for us also makes it easier for the hackers and ID thieves out there. I paid cash the last time I was at Target...thank goodness. I was really sorry to hear it happened to them as they are a very good company that gives a lot to charity. In short, that was not a concern in the 1980's.
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I was thinking about that last night. We had a beautiful sunset. I went out with the cell phone and took maybe fifteen pictures, with the different colors and from different angles. I'll edit out the ones that didn't work. But when I had a camera with film I would have thought if I wanted to use up a roll of film on a sunset. Now, I can take as many as I want.
We've gone picture happy since digital became widely available and I think that's a nice thing. In the 80's, we still had to use regular phones to call people and couldn't text, so you couldn't call on a whim 24/7. Of course it was in the 80's that I got my first computer and started typing out messages on a board. They were local bbs's and most people didn't have home computers, but that's when I learned to love message boards. We even had our own board. I was secutary of the local sysops club. So the technology was there, just not fully developed. The company I worked for in the early 80's was using monitors which essencially hooked all their online customers into one system, and there was internal debate on if they should use full computers with downloads of their informaton or net access.
As for debit cards, I check my account daily. All I have to do is click on a link on the site and my card instantly is cancelled. Once bitten...
The interesting thing about the eighties was it was the beginning of this great change, but it doesn't feel that different to me since even then we retired to the computer room to play on the pc's. I think we got our first cell phone in 88.
I worked as a business programmer for a couple of years too, and this was when it was really impressive and oddly for some reason everyone thought you must be really good at math.
I think what defined the 80's was that the seventies were a time when people were just tired, and wanted things calm and light and relaxed. And by the 80's things were moving towards the opposite again.
Of course, most of what we do we did then. We've just added more to it.
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