![]() ![]() Here are a few images to stir your nostalgia for stone-age technology: The topic of TVs is a whole other kettle of fish! As the way of dinosaurs, cassettes and 8-tracks, CDs are nearly a thing of the past now, with digital clouds even television stations will struggle to survive in the changing technology with on-demand digital providers becoming more popular. Another gadget we had was a set of picture frames hanging on our living room wall they were filled with psychedelic lights that reacted to sounds, changing colours as you talked, sang, or watched television. The technology didn’t catch on, so I’ve never known anyone else who had that contraption (an image below shows the size comparison to a modern DVD). My father was always at the cutting edge of technology, and in the late 70s we had a laser disc player the DVDs were the size of LP records (yet looked just like a CD or DVD of today), and we had films like “Logan’s Run” and “Heaven Can Wait”. Remember winding cassettes with a pencil? Now that films like “Guardians of the Galaxy” have highlighted cassettes, this generation thinks they’re a novel gadget, and history begins to repeat itself with the labels of “retro” or “vintage” attached to make “old” sound “cool”! We had an 8-track player in our car, with a cumbersome disc the size of an old Beta movie cassette case. Remember the impatience of dialling a number on the rotary dial, especially if it contained nines or zeros? And remember that curly cable that got tangled on itself from being over-stretched? Cell phones didn’t really come into their own until the late 1990s as a mass-market item kids today would find that hard to imagine, as they seem to think they’ll fall off the edge of the known universe and die if they leave the house without their cells.īefore Spotify, iTunes or MP3s, and even before CDs were common, cassette tapes and LP (long-play) records were all the rage. ![]() We got our first personal computer in 1993, and it had the astounding RAM of 256 MB!Īs far as telephones went, I grew up with several: My grandparents’ farm had a box phone on the wall, with the separate ear piece then they modernized to a heavy black beast of a rotary phone – the kind you could really slam down if the need arose in fact, you had to be careful how you set it down when you weren’t upset, because it was so heavy that it might sound like a slam in the receiver! My family had wireless land-line phones, but the signal was poor if you moved much farther away than a long cable would have allowed. Much to the delight of dairy industry lobbyists, at least one vegan nut drink company has removed all references to the word “milk” from its packaging.Living in the Cyber Age, it’s easy to forget that personal computers only came into existence for the mass market in 1981 (and even then, didn’t become common household items until the early 1990s), with the launch of the IBM Personal Computer (they coined that term, and the shortened “PC”). MALK brand products now bear the term “malk” everywhere they used to read “milk,” a switch co-founder August Vega says is meant to clear up confusion. “Malk is not nut milk pretending to be dairy,” she told Dairy Reporter. “It is an alternative to dairy meaning dairy free and the new labels clearly show this.” But there’s an actual bill kicking around in Congress right now called the Dairy Pride Act that would ban use of the word “milk” on any product that doesn’t come from udders or nipples (that’s called a “lacteal secretion” in FDA-speak). We wrote a backgrounder on that act and its hundred-year-old precedent here. ![]() Malk, apparently, stands for Milk Alternative (plus an L and a K for good measure). As far as we can tell, the first reference to the word came in an episode of The Simpsons back in 2013, in which Bart discovers his school cafeteria is actually serving “malk,” fortified with Vitamin R (“Ouch! My bones are so brittle.”) Capital-M Malk, the branded version, hit shelves in 2014. What’s new this week isn’t the name of the company itself-that’s been around awhile-but the lowercase-m reference on its packaging.
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