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Wow. This actually made me stop and think: "Dude, I've been here for ONLY 19 years and I've seen so many things change so fast, its mind blowing" Being blesse

Wow. This actually made me stop and think: "Dude, I've been here for ONLY 19 years and I've seen so many things change so fast, its mind blowing" Being blessed/cursed with living in Eastern Europe, I probably have witnessed change in a much faster rate than most HN readers from the US or Western Europe, because for the wast 20 years we had to catch up culturally and technologically. Imagine that, when i was 3-4 years old we had a color television which could support 8!! channels and you had to manually tune each one, and there were only 2!! tv stations in Bulgaria at that time(cable was just entering). A year later, we had cable and in another year we had a tv with 39 channels, the cable had 50, but the tuner could only pick up 20-30. two years later we bought a small JVC for the kitchen and it had TELETEXT!!! We could read news and see whats on tonight IN THE TV SET! WOW! I still use it sometimes, but its slow. Today i have youtube, and than is not just a technological change, but a cultural one too, i look forward to the future!

nostrademons 18y ago
That's actually not that different from my childhood in the U.S. 25 years ago. We got by with about half a dozen channels, all with shitty reception, until earlier this year. Had a rotary phone at our summer cottage too, until this summer, and no answering machine until I was in high school. A friend (my age) from Romania was telling me about her life under communism, and what struck me most was how little she had even in the way of basic nutrition. Meat was a once-a-month treat; she had a banana twice in 7 years. And then she started talking about how ice cream was a real treat, and Coca-Cola was for special occasions only. I grew up eating meat for dinner every day and being able to grab a Coke whenever I wanted (though my parents often wouldn't let me, saying it'll rot my teeth). The idea of being unable to afford basic food and shelter is completely alien to me.

nostrademons 18y ago

That's actually not that different from my childhood in the U.S. 25 years ago. We got by with about half a dozen channels, all with shitty reception, until earlier this year. Had a rotary phone at our summer cottage too, until this summer, and no answering machine until I was in high school. A friend (my age) from Romania was telling me about her life under communism, and what struck me most was how little she had even in the way of basic nutrition. Meat was a once-a-month treat; she had a banana twice in 7 years. And then she started talking about how ice cream was a real treat, and Coca-Cola was for special occasions only. I grew up eating meat for dinner every day and being able to grab a Coke whenever I wanted (though my parents often wouldn't let me, saying it'll rot my teeth). The idea of being unable to afford basic food and shelter is completely alien to me.