Oh, my dear lad Zack Hill, Internet (let alone computers) wasn’t invented in Mr. Belmont’s childhood either. If you know what a radio is, that was his entertainment. Even my own father used to listen to “The Lone Ranger” thereon whereas I used to watch “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” on the telly!
I was explaining how TV was back in the 50’s to my grandchildren and the youngest (11) just could not grasp that the TV actually went off the air at midnight, or that there was no cable or satellite just 3 or 4 local channels with childrens programming only early morning and on Saturday morning. It was actually kind of funny, he kept asking “how did you survive?”…………well I just did. lol
My 20 year old grandson asked me a while back what video games I had as a child. I do not think he ever understood playing outside nor when I explained my “play like farm” using match boxes for wagons and different sized stones for the livestock and etc.
When my son at 5yrs (now almost 30) asked his grandfather (born 1916) what computers were like when he was a boy. His Grandpa showed him how to use an abacus.
Templo S.U.D. almost 11 years ago
Oh, my dear lad Zack Hill, Internet (let alone computers) wasn’t invented in Mr. Belmont’s childhood either. If you know what a radio is, that was his entertainment. Even my own father used to listen to “The Lone Ranger” thereon whereas I used to watch “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” on the telly!
wdpeck almost 11 years ago
Chicken Man – he’s everywhere, he’s everywhere! Bum da da da bum!
cabalonrye almost 11 years ago
Zorro, the defender of the poor and helpless. And he had a cool costume.
jeanie5448 almost 11 years ago
I was explaining how TV was back in the 50’s to my grandchildren and the youngest (11) just could not grasp that the TV actually went off the air at midnight, or that there was no cable or satellite just 3 or 4 local channels with childrens programming only early morning and on Saturday morning. It was actually kind of funny, he kept asking “how did you survive?”…………well I just did. lol
awdunn2484 almost 11 years ago
My 20 year old grandson asked me a while back what video games I had as a child. I do not think he ever understood playing outside nor when I explained my “play like farm” using match boxes for wagons and different sized stones for the livestock and etc.
sbchamp almost 11 years ago
Thanks to T. Edison!Otherwise we’d all be watching TV by candlelight
Comic Minister Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Not really Zack.
ellisaana Premium Member almost 11 years ago
When my son at 5yrs (now almost 30) asked his grandfather (born 1916) what computers were like when he was a boy. His Grandpa showed him how to use an abacus.