Being a kid born in the late '90s, I've been placed in the world right smack in the center of major advancements in technology constantly being introduced and evolved. Each year of our lives, major innovations have happened, and we’ve turned in our simple, classic technology for a more intricate and advanced upgrade. Looking back, I am still not sure if I like the original and classics over the new advancements that are coming out today. For example…
You traded in your PS2 or GameCube for a Wii.
I don’t know, maybe its just me. But there's something about PS2 and GameCube that simply does not go out of style. The controllers especially think were better before. Why fix something that’s not broken? To this day I will still choose GameCube over any Wii, and I think that the old systems have better games, too.
You traded your Gameboy for a Nintendo DS and then for a PSP.
There was a time when Gameboys were the coolest things around, and I honestly love the simple games that I think never got out of style, such as Mario games. The games today are too advanced and too overly animated for me. Remember when talking over pictograph was the coolest thing around? Don’t get me wrong, iPhones are great, but they’ve taken over everyone's life more than they should.
Your simple flip phone turned into an iPhone.
This is one of those things where I wish I didn’t have what I have. I wish I didn’t have an iPhone because I am addicted to it. I use it way too much and I wish it didn’t exist; but since it does, it never leaves my hand. I miss when you didn’t send a million texts a day because it was a lot more complicated to hit each letter three times, and you didn’t use the internet because your parents would kill you with how much it costed.
You traded your Pokemon cards for Pokemon Go.
Once again, I think you really can’t go wrong with the classic old school way of collecting cards. I wish people still did because that was the most exciting thing opening a new pack, and it was something you did with other people. You would talk to people about your cards, not stare at a screen collecting Pokemon. Everything is becoming increasingly less and less personal.
You use your computer to do makeovers stead of the classic, real way.
This one may be a little much, but some people don’t even do a classic makeover anymore. Instead of testing out new things and just going for it with changing their hair color or experimenting with makeup, they just take a picture and use a computer to see what changing their hair would look like or what purple lipstick would look like on them.
I’m all for the advances that are being made today. I think it is incredible what is being discovered each day and the new things that are coming out but sometimes, I think you just can’t go wrong with the classics.
