Timeline by Umer Warsi

What's a screen?

umerw2475 — 2025-05-28 19:58:25 UTC

"We did not use much technology in school, the most we probably used was those hand cranking pencil sharpeners!"

"The first time I used a touch screen was probably around 2009 when I finally stopped using my Nokia and got an android phone that I can't even remember the name of"

"The only technology we really used was a landline phone at my home that I vaguely remember reaching out to my teacher with, but aside from that, that was the only real thing we used with technology: our school didn't have projectors yet."

Mini Laptops

umerw2475 — 2025-05-28 19:59:30 UTC

"I grew up during the pre-COVID era, so we used chromebooks for a lot of our activities, google drive was where it was at!"

"we used Chromebooks for literally everything, and I liked it! I just didn't like placing it back in the carts for someone else to use my favorite chromebook."

Tetris?

umerw2475 — 2025-05-28 19:59:56 UTC

"I remember goofing off in my class a lot, and a lot of that had to do with me and my friends playing tetris in class with our nokias"

Keyboard?

umerw2475 — 2025-05-28 20:00:32 UTC

"I remember using my blackberry to call my mom, and not being able to hear her because of how bad the quality was. I texted maybe two people when I was younger, it was very fun to use the keyboard."

"We used projectors, and we projected onto a whiteboard which the teacher drew on and used for physical examples"

Whats a DVD?

umerw2475 — 2025-05-28 20:03:47 UTC

"We used to watch VHS tapes of movies right before spring break and right before winter break, and we pretty much never used the TV screen in our class for anything other than that."

"My teacher tried to put on an instructional video, but it kept glitching and she just pulled the plug on the TV and the whole Idea."

It comes off the line?

umerw2475 — 2025-05-28 20:05:08 UTC

"Growing up I used to call my friend via a landline phone, and I actually was a teachers assistant for a little while, so I picked up calls from the front desk for my teacher sometimes."

"Looking back at it, little me would've been shocked to find out I can actually walk away from a busy teacher's desk to pick up a call because I'm not tethered to the table."