A few random memories from my childhood, which was mostly in the 1970s.
1. My first phone number (family phone) used letters and numbers. It was something like SU5-1549.
2. My parents' pickup had only AM radio as the sound system.
3. Flat tires were not unusual. Tire technology in the modern world must have arisen from a UFO crash.
4. I walked alone to school and back in second grade, and was a latchkey kid by third grade.
5. Car bumpers were apparently designed to maim pedestrians. They were really hard and metal.
6. My first foray into the computer age was a red LED watch that you lit up by pushing a button. It was pretty awesome. I got it in maybe the 8th grade.
7. The first computer I ever saw was an Apple that my school's calculus teacher acquired for class. We had a little afterschool computer club where we learned to program it.
8. My first video game was an offbrand Pong game, but soon after that Space Invaders came available in the local Godfather's Pizza. I invested significant effort into mastering it.
9. My earliest memories of television were Three
reruns and the Red Skelton Show. Then I discovered cartoons.
10. I remember going to see Dolly Parton in concert as a young child, when she was a local second banana to Porter Wagoner. It was at some relatively small theater in Joplin.