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Location: Michigan | THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL POST SO PLEASE DONT START ONE .
I am 54 years young and have now lived to see different things throughout my lifetime that are pretty cool and only happen once in a lifetime.
What else am I missing???
What are yours???
Plastic Guitars
The first man on the moon
Rock & Roll was invented
Elvis & The Beatles
The first twist off beer cap
Color T.V.
Stereo systems
CD's DVD's
Cell phones
Thats a few but the fingers are sore so how about a few more from you.GWB |
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| I think you left out computers and the internet..lol
But yeah, in the last 100 years there's been more tech advance than there ever was although I'm not sure if that's good or bad - certainly some things are good but a lot of it I can do w/out. |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | My little six year old biracial son wants to be president when he grows up. He's been inspired. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | * ipods - being able to have your whole record (remember them) collection in your pocket.
* Affordable home recording and editing to a standard probably higher than a 1960s studio (all I need now is talent)
* Solar panels, now we've just got to start using them
* Arthroscopic surgery (yay!!)
* On-line guitar fan clubs
* On line shopping and auctions |
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Location: NJ | InternetPorn. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | welfare |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | I always liked the Coor's beer can with push in vent and drink holes. After knocking back a case, it was a guaranteed finger cut getting one opened. |
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Location: Michigan | The invention of Lite Beer
The cloning of a sheep :eek: GWB |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Soon we'll be able to clone long dead people. And then reimplant them with their old memories. Yeah! Just imagine. Keith Richards will live forever!
Since the telecaster was invented before I was born, I can't say I saw that, but I was alive for the birth of stomp boxes in the 60's, ovation, four track cassette recorder, adamas, solid state amps and the Parker Fly.
As to computery stuff for recording I don't use it. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by an4340:
Soon we'll be able to clone long dead people. And then reimplant them with their old memories. Yeah! Just imagine. Keith Richards will live forever! From his appearance, he already has. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
Originally posted by an4340:
Soon we'll be able to clone long dead people. And then reimplant them with their old memories. Yeah! Just imagine. Keith Richards will live forever! From his appearance, he already has. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Actually, I believe Keith Richards has been cloned a couple of times, but each time there's a little mistake made.
So change my vote to:
The cloning of Keith Richards |
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Location: Tennessee | The rise of the fax machine
Fedex
Email attachments
The fall of the fax machine |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Watch a movie from the 60's or 70's...
What they thought was hi-tech then is so 'lame' now.
Your cell-phone is smarter than all the computers that they used on the Apollo spacecraft.
Forget going to the Library, if for some reason I need to know something I can just 'google' it.
Then be annoyed that I get 2,000 answers when I only wanted one.
BUT! We've lost all those good hand-drawn Saturday Morning Cartoons! :mad:
[no... The Cartoon Network Sux and is not a substitute for Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam!] |
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Location: East Tennessee | GPS navigation.
I remember watching "Goldfinger" and thinking "That's cool but it will never happen".
It was the way I made it to the Smoky's Jam last month. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Fiber Optics (Ok so I'm biased.. it's my job!)
+1 OMA on the saturday morning cartoons! |
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| The past 200 years has seen more human advancements than all the previous 4 million or so.
Amazing. Very cool time to live. These are the days they will talk about 4 million years from now. If we live that long. |
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Location: NJ | at least it'll give the radioactive cockroaches we leave behind something t'talk about . . . |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | The cockroaches can explain, when the aliens come, like in A.I., what it was like when Fender ruled the earth. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | All made possible with the Steam Engine..
Vic
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Originally posted by Capo Guy:
GPS navigation...
It was the way I made it to the Smoky's Jam last month. Funny, GPS led us up a narrow dirt road to a locked gate. Or could it be that G8r can't use his GPS? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | the fall and rise of microbreweries |
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| I never thought I'd live to see The Berlin Wall come down or peace in Northern Ireland.
Digital photography.
A woman Prime Minister.
A black US President.
A sophisticated aussie (oops, sorry, still waiting). |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | digital everything. Next year we go to digital TV after years of analog. Did any of the science fiction writers predict that they would convert sound and video into digits and reduce the size into something microscopic? Film will soon be gone, just like records and tapes. |
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Location: Jet City | Cup-o-noodles |
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ANOTHER HISTORICAL EVENT IN MY LIFETIME
