Were you ever the first?

[drjoek]

My family was always the last to get everything. How about you ?

[ToiletCrusher]

I was first in line at the grocery store the other day!

[Jujubees2]

If not the last then one of the last. We still had black and white TV and a rotary dial phone when I left for college in 1980.

[drusilla]

my dad was always up on technology. though i must admit some things walked into the house without their box.

[mikeyboy]

We were the first family to get an Atari 2600. It was probably 1975. My dad got it for us for Christmas and I had no idea what it was when I opened it.

[King Hippos Bandaid]

I won a color tv with a remote in 1986

9 years old with a color tv and a remote was hella cool

[drjoek]

My dad worked for a company that made color TVs and air conditioners yet we were the last to get either. We finally got a color TV and my younger brother turned some knob that shut off the color. 6 months later a repairman was called in and all he had to do was adjust the knob back. :wallbash:

[Hottub]

If not the last then one of the last. We still had black and white TV and a rotary dial phone when I left for college in 1980.

You had a phone?:tongue:

[Ron Marie Douglas]

I've been ninth.

[Furtherman]

When I left for college, we had just gotten push-button phones, no cable and no central airconditioning.

[Jujubees2]

You had a phone?:tongue:

Yeah, but we couldn't afford service so it just sat there.

Oh, and my mom didn't get a clothes dryer until sometime in the mid-70s and then she didn't use it for lilke five years. She used to hang the laundry on the line in the backyard (and still does).

[Thebazile78]

Yeah, but we couldn't afford service so it just sat there.

Oh, and my mom didn't get a clothes dryer until sometime in the mid-70s and then she didn't use it for lilke five years. She used to hang the laundry on the line in the backyard (and still does).

That's like my grandmother!

She's doing more stuff in the dryer nowadays, though, because caring for my grandfather is tough.

[King Hippos Bandaid]

being born

suck it Randy

[razorboy]

I was the first one of my friends to get a divorce.

[skyscraper]

first to get a beta machine. last to give it up.

[KingModem]

First one to have a cell phone out of my friends. I was 13 when I got this one:
http://lekowicz.com/wren_forum/wp-content/imageposts/2007/07/old-motorola-and-iphone-thumb.jpg

:smoke:

[boosterp]

Sometimes first sometimes last.

In 1995 I was the first to own a PC in my barracks. My family was mixed as far as first, we had an awesome 1978 Lincoln Continental that had everything power and nobody on my street had such a car.

[JustJon]

My dad was always an early adopter. We had one of the first vcrs, one of the first to have an Atari 2600, an Apple IIE, etc.

[Puggle_kicker]

I was first in line at the grocery store the other day!

If you were the first then you werent in a line now were you. :dry:

[led37zep]

My family was the last to get anything for the house (New TV, Cable, Computer) but I was always one of the first kids to get new shoes...so go figure.

[west milly Tom]

If not the last then one of the last. We still had black and white TV and a rotary dial phone when I left for college in 1980.


Imy family had a rotery phone until 1995.

[MacVittie]

We were the last family the get a DVD player. I think we got one in 2003 or something insane like that. We were one of the first families in town to get a computer, a Mac SE in 1988.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Macintosh_SE_b.jpg

[CountryBob]

We were the first to have a satellite dish in my area back in the late 70's. Rural - no cable or even an antenna channel. I was the envy of my friends for years espically when MTV cam out.

[Knowledged_one]

I was with your mom first
zoom zoom zoom

[Servo]

My dad picked up one of the first (at least, to my knowledge) digital cameras in the 90s. It was a Sony Mavica where you inserted a 3 1/2 inch floppy disc instead a memory stick or card. I took it to college one weekend and people were bugging out over it.

[drucifer]

A girlfriend once told me I was to be her first - then she put the condom on me with her mouth.

Hmmm?

Still, felt new.

[west milly Tom]

I was the first person I knew to get Nintendo. Totally forgot until this thread too.

[ToiletCrusher]

If you were the first then you werent in a line now were you. :dry:

that's just physcological technical mumbo jumbo and I don't buy into it...






Do you think that my first in line issue is really a mommy issue???

[Big_Joe]

eh, I wasnt even the first person to reply to this thread...

[furie]

we were the first family on the block to get pong and the second to get cable.
Sadly, we stuck with pong for too long and we fell behind when ColecoVision and Atari came out.

[furie]

We were the last family the get a DVD player. I think we got one in 2003 or something insane like that. We were one of the first families in town to get a computer, a Mac SE in 1988.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Macintosh_SE_b.jpg

the first ones to get a computer, and that was in '88?!
you're telling me no one had even a commodore before that?

[tele7]

First (in the neighborhood anyway) to get Wometco Home Theater. I'm guessing it was around 1976.

[Devo37]

We were the first family to get an Atari 2600. It was probably 1975. My dad got it for us for Christmas and I had no idea what it was when I opened it.

wow! the atari 2600 didn't come out until 1977. you certainly were the first!

as for my family, we were the last. we had a black, wall-mounted, rented from the phone company rotary phone well into the 80's. when we finally got a touch-tone phone, we took the rented one to the nynex (?) store to return it. the sales guy looked at us like we were a couple of idiots. he had no idea what to do with it (other than throw it in the trash).

my parents have a hand-me-down dvd player, but i don't think it's even hooked up. they've barely embraced VHS at this point. they still have the same cable box we originally got back in the 80's, so they can't get a bunch of channels.

my dad has the same cell phone he's had for about a decade ($20 a month for 30 minutes air time).

nowadays, i'm happy to not be one of the firsts when it comes to technology. i'm not gonna wait on line overnight to get the latest gizmo or any of that sh!t, especially since the first wave of guinea pigs are the ones that experience all of the problems with new devices, as the manufacturer rushes to get an unfinished product to market. i'll gladly wait a while until all the bugs are hammered out.

[PapaBear]

I'm pretty sure our family was the first one around here with a cheap compact car.

Plymouth Cricket

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3147/2705812881_cb3c603ed8.jpg?v=0

I think we were first, because I remember asking my mom why people always stared at us when we were in that car, and not the huge Pontiac. She told me they'd never seen a car this small.

First small American car, that is.

[razorboy]

I'm pretty sure our family was the first one around here with a cheap compact car.

Plymouth Cricket

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3147/2705812881_cb3c603ed8.jpg?v=0

I think we were first, because I remember asking my mom why people always stared at us when we were in that car, and not the huge Pontiac. She told me they'd never seen a car this small.

I grew up in a family with a VW Rabbit, an air box Vanagon and a Dodge Omni. We grew up with the crappiest (Vanagon excluded) compact cars ever.

[Drunky McBetidont]

i have only been first when the object was to be last. i make charlie brown look hip.

[Badinia]

We had the first VCR in our neighborhood, just like Davey Mac.

My Dad had one of the GIANT car-phones with the e-z carry shoulder strap, it looked like a field phone from MASH- he also had an early Walkman that weighed five pounds and needed a chest strap.

Cleaning out our old garage, I found a two-baud modem the size of a shoebox.

We were not rich kids- but we were early tech adopters and I still am one.

Oh! And my parent's marriage was one of the first to be broken up by internet romance. 1986! Suck it. My Dad set up a computer at his highschool flame's place so they could "correspond."

Trivia fact: the first two Apple pc's sold in the Eww Kay went to Douglas Adams and his good friend, Stephen Fry.

[paracetamol flanders]

We were the first in a roughly nuclear fall-out sized slice of Sterling Heights Michigan to command a Pong game.

Also the first to score cable on our block (On-TV. Small grey box with a toggle switch).

[Foster]

of all of my family, friends, and co-workers I was always the first to have sex with any of my ex girlfriends

[landarch]

I grew up in a family with a VW Rabbit, an air box Vanagon and a Dodge Omni. We grew up with the crappiest (Vanagon excluded) compact cars ever.


Crappier than the Chevette we had?

[paracetamol flanders]

I worked as an engineer for Tank Automotive Command in Warren Michigan in 1983 assisting in designing the HMMWV to replace the jeep for the military. I was the first and only person to even know what a HMMWV was (let alone drive one) among all my friends and family .

[helterskeletor]

My family was the first out of my friends and family to have two VCRs. Almost as soon as VHS came out, he was recording movies and stacking them up. It got out of hand. It was like file sharing before file sharing. Big hit with the other kids though, especially the secret porns.

[Hammond Egger]

My parents bought one of the small DIRECTV satellite dishes the first day they were released in '94. It was an RCA and cost about $700 along with an additional receiver for a second room that was about $500.....now, all the equipment is free when you subscribe to the service. Up until that time we got three channels with an antenne and two of them were so fuzzy they were almost unwatchable. I called off of work and stayed up for 48 hours watching television.

[lleeder]

I was the first and the last to get 3-do in the tri-state area. Gex was so good.