What was considered new when you were growing up?

[wabbott]

Polaroid camera

 

[DDuckSouthBend]

Sliced Bread

 

[JulieBeeRN]

Automobiles.


KIDDING: Renting movies. I remember my dad telling me that he had rented Indiana Jones and I had pictured that he was setting up a movie screen in our backyard.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Seems like stuff like video games, VCRs, cable TV, microwave ovens, and music cassettes were the things I remember seeming new when I was growing up. Some of that stuff may have been around before, but it really seemed new.

I definitely remember when cable TV became a "thing" locally. I was in elementary school. EVERYBODY was talking about it. We were talking about it so much at school that our teacher actually banned the phrase "cable TV"

 

[BlovesC]

AOL internet!

 

[Stargazer65]

digital watches

 

[Mai Ku Tiki]

Walt Disney World

 

[wabbott]

Disneyland

 

[Ronaldo17]

Foreign holidays

 

[BrianL]

Sliced Bread

I just had a birthday and I feel like I want to say fire... but it wouldn't be true.

80's kid here, so generally things liek video game systems, home computers, cordless telephones (not mobile, just connected to a base station plugged into the wall). Microwaves had been around, but I can remember not having one and when we did get one. They weren't so common really. Even black & white TV's were still pretty common, usually not as someone's primary set.

 

[Stargazer65]

Atari 2600 game console

 

[jimmalru80]

8 track tapes and cassettes

 

[Gary M]

TV, jet airplanes, Doo Wop music, diesel trains, fast food, air conditioning for homes, I'm really old.

 

[laurajetter]

Computers and VCRs

That was my era, too... I remember saying the full name 'video cassette recorder' all the time, lol

 

[JLTraveling]

CDs. Technically invented before I was born, but not in wide use (music, computer games, etc.) until after.

This. My parents (middle class but early adopters) had a CD player, and just sort of assumed everyone did. They gave my wealthy cousin a CD for her birthday, and her parents had to go out and buy a player! They just hadn't gotten around to it.