Saturday's Photo Scavengar Hunt - TECHNOLOGY

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This weeks theme is TECHNOLOGY.

First the picture I am entering for this week I did not take. Sorry, I knew what I wanted to post but I could not find it in my small library. So forgive me, this is the first time I have done this. I promise to replace it and post it in the future when I am able to take one.

Now I have three pictures way down below. The first one I did not take. The next two I did. If you want you can skip this long story and go right to the end to see the pictures.

I have been on this earth for a lot of years. During this time I have seen TECHNOLOGY really change. Televisions started out in black and white and not everyone owned one. Most people, if they did own one, only had one and it was a piece of furniture. A little later the color TV came along and very few could afford them. They were still pretty bulky too. Tubes disappeared, they got smaller and more affordable, they became flat, higher resolution and weigh a lot less.

Telephones where rotary dial phones. It took 30 seconds or more to dial a number. They were good size but built solid (I know, my parents still have two). After a while they went touch tone, they got smaller and became wireless. Then they became car phones, then bag phones and much smaller cell phones of today. You could even take that one step further and mention Satalite phones. Somewhere in there they added lots of features like memory, voice dial, camera phone, organizer, and I am sure much more.

Television reception was over the air. You received ABC, CBS, NBC. Where I lived we received CBC too since I grew up near Canada. Eventually PBS began to spread. Then came cable TV. I think we could get 13 channels or was that 26. It might have been a wired remote too. Eventually you could get much more channels and then cable went digital. At the same time services started to be offered over cable such as Internet and dial tone. Then came along those big dishes and satalite TV was born. They were the size of a small car but you could get all kinds of stuff. Then the dish started to be a mesh allowing light and more important wind to pass through. They 18 inch dishes were born,

Cameras have went from being black and white film, to color film, to advanced color film, and finally to digital. The digital went from under a mega pixel and not very good to cameras with over 12 mega pixel that can out perform film cameras. In there we had 8m video camera that went to VHS and digital. Betmax was invented, VHS, and DVDs. Albums were 78s, followed by 33 1/3, cassette, 8 track, CD, and MP3.

I have went on way to long. So here is my picture for TECHNOLOGY.

This is a picture of fire. You may ask how this is TECHNOLOGY? Go ahead, I'll wait. Well, thinking back to cave man times fire was a most important technology. That and the wheel and maybe the club.


OK, since I did not take that picture, let me add a couple I did take. This first picture is my first cell phone. It is a bag phone. I was happy I had it but it was not very practical.



I had a few other cell phones in there and here is my present day cell phone. Now I know there are much more advanced cell phones than what I have pictured here.




Thank you very much for visiting. I should be able to start visiting again once Wednesday is over and work is a lot less demanding on me. Have a great weekend and a better week.