When I was a kid, the smallest music playing device was the size of a briefcase: a portable record player that had a vacuum tube amplifier and had to be plugged into the wall for power. That device was only a small improvement over the original Edison cylinder players.
I don't recall ever having the reaction that these kids have, of thinking that some piece of technology (however old) was incomprehensible and awful. Mostly I recall looking forward to near-miraculous advances that seemed to happen in very quick succession (semiconductors, plastics, lasers, etc.).
How about you? Do you remember ever having reactions to your parents' technology that was anything like these kids?
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