Technology Marches On by Tanya Churchill

Coupons

tchurchill — 2024-02-25 16:27:11 UTC

I can now upload my coupons to my account and when I check out my coupons get automatically discounted with no need for a physical coupon. I need to find a way to remember what coupons I even HAD in order to put the right items in my cart. But I already make a shopping list, so.....

Music -- from walkman to cd to mp3 to digital. I would never go back but it sure brings back memories of carrying the cd walkman while running.

2024-03-08 14:15:11 UTC

Digital Photos - no need to worry about how many photos you take.

2024-03-08 14:15:28 UTC

Pictures

snorris60 — 2024-03-08 14:15:32 UTC

When I was younger, we always printed out our photos. Today we store them in phones and on social media. So much better, don't need as much space, but I wonder - what if something happens to them.

COVID

2024-03-08 14:15:43 UTC

COVID moved many of our teachers into the digital world because they had no choice. It made my job so much easier, in a way, because they had an incentive to change the way they did things.

CD to MP3 player

2024-03-08 14:15:50 UTC

I would never go back to CDs

Pictures

2024-03-08 14:15:56 UTC

Going from printing pictures to trusting our devices will be saved

Trip Ticks from Triple A. Used to plan a trip, send it to Triple A and get back a book with sections of the trip laid out including interesting stops and gas stations.

2024-03-08 14:15:57 UTC

Travel

2024-03-08 14:16:28 UTC

This is actually my mom- she refuses to use airline apps and still prints her boarding passes

Directions

2024-03-08 14:16:34 UTC

Mapquest (printing directions) to individual GPS to GPS within a phone

2024-03-08 14:16:45 UTC

Having a camera/video recorder at all times.

Gaming - having to blow into cartridges to play a game, now it's all digital.

2024-03-08 14:16:52 UTC

From floppy disk, to flash drive, and then Google Drive.

2024-03-08 14:16:56 UTC