10 Best Things We’ll Say to Our Grandkids
22 Sep 2009
Written by Streeter Seidell
Illustration: Nishant Choksi
1. Back in my day, we only needed 140 characters.
2. There used to be so much snow up here, you could strap a board to your feet and slide all the way down.
3. Televised contests gave cash prizes to whoever could store the most data in their head.
4. Well, the screens were bigger, but they only showed the movies at certain times of day.
5. We all had one, but nobody actually used it. Come to think of it, I bet my LinkedIn profile is still out there on the Web somewhere.
6. 
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7. Our bodies were made of meat and supported by little sticks of calcium.
8. You used to keep files right on your computer, and you had to go back to that same computer to access them!
9. Is that the new iPhone 27G? Got multitasking yet?
10. I just can’t get used to this darn vat-grown steak. Texture ain’t right.
* Translation: "English used to be the dominant language. Crazy, huh?"
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9 Responses to 10 Best Things We’ll Say to Our Grandkids
Matt
September 22nd, 2009 at 13:03
How is this the best of the web?
Connor
September 22nd, 2009 at 14:27
Umm… All you did was copy a short article from Wired.
Jim B
September 22nd, 2009 at 15:47
Very observant Connor. This would be a site where they find an article they like and repost it. Neat huh?
olshan
September 22nd, 2009 at 18:46
6. Don’t count on it.
Bookmarks for September 25th | Brent Ozar - SQL Server DBA
September 25th, 2009 at 09:54
[...] 10 Best Things We’ll Say to Our Grandkids – With such gems as, “There used to be so much snow up here, you could strap a board to your feet and slide all the way down.” [...]
Dave Schutz
September 25th, 2009 at 18:53
I walked 5 miles to school in the snow and it was uphill both ways.
kari
October 8th, 2009 at 20:47
We had an extra planet.
Nelci
October 25th, 2009 at 14:04
hahaha, reminds me of the http://www.pomegranatephone.com …
oishimitzu
October 27th, 2009 at 01:48
Ha! I miss Pluto. =(