[image error]The other day I took a picture of my now five-year-old nephew, and turned my camera around to show him the image on the camera screen. He brushed his finger across the picture, and I realized that he expected the camera to be a touch screen and he was trying to look through all the photos. The lad can't read (yet), but he knows how to work a touch screen.

This prompted a session of "I remember". For instance, I remember when I had a camera that used actual film, and I had to manually advance the roll each time I took a picture. I remember Polaroid cameras where once you took a picture, you had to stick the developing photo under your armpit and count to sixty before you could look at it. Back then, that was the most instant a photo could be.[image error]

I also remember when I bought my first VCR, shortly after they became available. It was a big metal thing, and cost me $874. I remember when we first got cable television, after several years of my parents resisting it as a "fad". All those channels. And movies without commercials. It was awesome.

Oh, and I remember before that, when the television had about 8 channels, and you had to get up to change from one to the other – by turning the dial with the numbers labeled on it.

[image error]What's your favorite "I remember" moment? Which piece of old technology do you miss the least, and which new one do you welcome the most?