Tuesday, 8 November 2011

How the world has changed over the last 10 years

I decided too look at how the world has changed over the last ten years, as I have not decided which way to take my project yet.
I found an article on the star.com with a few points of things that have changed or come about this decade:
  • Blogs have become the new thing, over 100 millions blogs are about.
  • Camera: Most people use digital cameras, including the older generation.
  • Mobile phones: 85% of the us population have them, and some have even replaced landlines completely.
  • DATING: Dating was transformed like everything else by Internet sites, rendering other ways of meeting people obsolete. And it wasn't just the territory of the relatively young: Seniors found love online, too.
  • Facebook
  • Going green
  • GPS
  • Ipod
  • Texting
  • Youtube
  • Wikipedia
  • Wii
There are also alot of classic 'If you were a child in the 1990's you remember' lists:
  • You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
  • You remember reading "Goosebumps"
  •  You can sing the rap to 'The fresh prince of bel air'
  • You took plastic lunch boxes to school
  • You had a black and white gameboy
  • You still get the urge to say Not after every sentence
  • You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green Ranger were meant to be together.
  • When the super Nintendo became popular
  • CD Walkmans
  • You had a tamagotchi which you took everywhere
  • Pokemon cards got banned from school
  • You watched the original Care Bears, My Little Pony, and Ninja Turtles
  • You remember when new beanie babies werealways sold out
  • Yot got creeped out by 'Are you afraid of the dark'
  • 'Talk to the hand'...
  • You only had 5 channels on your tv
  • You owned VHS not DVD
  • Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'.
  • Happy meals had Barbies or hot wheels cars 
These are things that not only have changed over time, so that children these days would not know of these things, but always are the things we miss about our own childhoods and make us smile to remember, but we never would have thought at the time we would miss them at all.

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