The Mat Salleh

I was talking to a friend earlier this week about some cartoons, and he did not know what I was talking about. He, in return, told me about his favourite childhood cartoons, and all I could say was that I have heard the names, but could not visualize the cartoons at all. Then it got me thinking, so much has changed since the 80s and 90s.

For example,

this was a WOW thing back then when I was around 18 years old. Seriously, it’s not like I was 5 or 6 when this was the best thing you could hold in your hands. I was already 18, and if you had that phone, people would go WOW!

And then it was that phone above, the super hi-tech Nokia phone that, if you had one as a student, you’d be the rich kid who had the best of everything. I was around 19 when this was the best phone around. Imagine what happened a year or two later when polyphonic ring tones came in to fashion? Everyone went crazy when ring tones finally became polyphonic. And the screens had colours!!

What else was fashionable and hi-tech back then?

Having a Game Boy in your hand was something to show off. Kids would be jealous if you had a Game Boy.

Or at home, we had no Play Stations or Wii or whatever you get today. If you had a Nintendo console, you were part of the “in” crowd. And the most popular game back then, was the very hi-tech and super high-def graphics game:

Imagine what we have today. Phones that play TV shows for you, and can hold thousands of songs and play them anytime you want. Phones that can tell you where you are if you are lost, and tell you how to get to where you want to go to. Phones that let you access the World Wide Web, and tell you where the best eating places are in your area. Don’t even get me started on the games kids play these days!