Not so much, a few decades ago our life was not like it is today. When you remember or learn about the difficulties we experienced when technology was not that advanced, you will embrace today’s technology with joy and you will not be able to stop thinking about what innovations the future will bring us.
The sum of technological developments throughout the history of humanity does not even come close to what has happened in the last 20 years. Technology is now so fast it is changing and developing so that our memories of the past are getting blurry. Actually not so much, a few decades ago technology it was not that advanced at all and we had to put real effort and work hard to solve the problems we were experiencing.
Actually all this new technology We can say that the basis of the systems is the internet and the computer. Especially after the internet and computer technology became fit in our pockets, we realized that nothing would be the same as before. However, it is useful to remember our past troubles or to teach young people. because Technology did not become what it is today. Creating solutions to today’s problems is the first step in shaping the future.
Our past problems, which are facilitated by technology today:
- Finding an address we don’t know
- Dating without social media platforms
- Advanced pre-technology communication
- A market economy without internet banking
- Pre-digital photography
- Store files, memories without cloud storage services
- Movie watching habits before advanced technology
- Pre-Instagram fashion
- Eating out mess
- Long distance relationship without video call
Finding an address we don’t know:
Today, thanks to advanced navigation systems, we can easily find a location wherever we are in the world, and even navigation systems give us directions. Not so many years ago, we needed big city maps to find an address we were looking for. Let’s say we read the map; to learn about the public transportation vehicles passing there, The ordeal of finding the exact location of a place and asking the address of the shopkeepers was a never-ending torment.
Dating without social media platforms:
You can be friends with someone living in a different country, on a different continent, via social media. Moreover, there are even mobile applications made just for this purpose. Before the social world meets the digital world, people only from work, school or neighborhood they could find. In order to find out what the existing friends were doing, they couldn’t follow their posts, they had to wait to come across it somehow or they had to call from their home phone.
Advanced pre-technology communication:
The concept of home phone, which we talked about in the top title, may be incomprehensible to many of our young readers. Because the number of households using a home phone is decreasing day by day. We stopped the issue of making phone calls from the post office long ago, but to our acquaintances who live in a place where there is a lot of money for the phone. We used to send letters until recently. The fathers who received the news of the birth of their child by letter months later are middle-aged people still living among us.
A market economy without internet banking:
Internet banking system has been used effectively in our country for about ten years. However, we used to go to banks or ATMs for transactions such as sending money to someone, receiving money, paying bills, paying off credit card debt. For some reason, internet banking and telephone banking became systems that developed together. A simple credit card closing process Since there was no internet banking anyway, it couldn’t even be done by phone and there would be annoying queues at the banks.
Taking pre-digital photos:
Let’s leave aside the convenience of taking photos and videos offered by mobile devices. It took a long time before even digital cameras that we don’t look at today were available to everyone. There were films that we could take about 20 pictures on non-digital cameras and that burned easily. To print them, that is, to print them on a piece of paper It would take at least a week. How many of the photographs we received were intact, how many were burnt or crooked, all our memories would remain.
Storing files, memories without cloud storage services:
All our devices now have hundreds of GB of internal memory. Of course, this is not enough or does not give confidence, and we backup and share through cloud storage services. To keep a vital document for your business or a very precious memory for you You used to have to print. Ok, a few documents can be printed, but the files will be full of data? What will happen, a room of each workplace was reserved for the archives. The photo of your ex that you burned when you broke up disappeared forever.
Pre-advanced technology movie watching habits:
If we list the change process of our movie watching habits from the present to the past; digital broadcasting platforms, unreliable movie viewing sites, DVD, VCD, VHS tape, television and cinema. The past is nostalgic, today is beautiful, but that’s the in-between. to watch movies at home The era that required a device and device was a complete nightmare. Moreover, if you do not have the opportunity to rent, it was not cheap at all. The period of watching movies on the internet before digital broadcasting platforms is also a bit dark. Because there are a few lost years spent watching something different from the title of the movie, the movie is different, the subtitle is different.
Pre-Instagram fashion:
Of course, there were always some media outlets that determined the general fashion flow, but when we think a little locally what to wear or how to dress All we had to do to learn was to watch magazine programs, read magazines and visit any clothing store we could go to. I mean, it used to be very easy to be a slut. Now, even writing and searching fashion on Instagram can be the first step in creating a style for yourself.
The mess of eating out:
A few years ago, when you craved pizza, if any, among the hundreds of magnets on the refrigerator must find the number of the pizzeria and now you had to place an order as the other party understood. Most of the time, the number of the restaurant where you would like to order the food you wanted was unknown. Today, there are even mobile applications developed just for this purpose. At least, you can see hundreds of alternatives even when you type the food and city you want into a search engine.
Long distance relationship without video call:
A long distance relationship is already difficult and not the kind of relationship to walk. And imagine this situation without a video call. Now at least video chatting several times a day You can find out what’s going on. A few years ago, you had to make expensive phone calls or send letters that you no longer knew when they would arrive. That’s what I call life-saving technology.
Some of which our young readers cannot even imagine, We live when technology is not that advanced. We talked about some problems and solutions. If you have problems that you remember solving in the past, you can share them in the comments.