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What "New" technology was your family very late to adopt?

Posted on 10/3/25 at 8:30 am
Posted by sidewalkside
rent free in yo head
Member since Sep 2021
4206 posts
Posted on 10/3/25 at 8:30 am
We didn't get a microwave in our house until my grandmother passed away in 1990. She had one that must have been from the 70's it was a massive piece of equipment but that thing worked forever.

Our family never got a blue-ray player, we stuck with DVD.

Posted by UltimaParadox
North Carolina
Member since Nov 2008
50749 posts
Posted on 10/3/25 at 8:33 am to
Never got one of those "smart" speaker things, but it seems that is no longer even around much these days
Posted by AmishSamurai
Member since Feb 2020
3720 posts
Posted on 10/3/25 at 8:34 am to
Eh, based on my name ...

A lot.
Posted by thegambler
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2012
2018 posts
Posted on 10/3/25 at 8:36 am to
I have 3 brothers and a sister. So, I would say birth control.
Posted by CarRamrod
Spurbury, VT
Member since Dec 2006
58273 posts
Posted on 10/3/25 at 8:37 am to
quote:

Never got one of those "smart" speaker things, but it seems that is no longer even around much these days
google hoes and alexas? yea they are still around.. i use min dozens of times every day. idk if i have touched a light switch in years
Posted by YeastExtract
Member since Jul 2021
406 posts
Posted on 10/3/25 at 8:39 am to
Not necessarily new but a lot more accessible (can buy one in a Home Depot): a bidet
Posted by TheFonz
Somewhere in Louisiana
Member since Jul 2016
22698 posts
Posted on 10/3/25 at 8:40 am to
We never had a dishwasher (no mom jokes) in the house I grew up in. I don't think my parents had a DVD player until around 2000-2001. I didn't own an internet capable computer until my second year in college in 1998.
Posted by Deek
Member since Sep 2013
1235 posts
Posted on 10/3/25 at 8:42 am to
Still don't have a computer in my house.
Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
Member since Jul 2008
90988 posts
Posted on 10/3/25 at 8:52 am to
quote:

Our family never got a blue-ray player,
checks out
Posted by Loup
Ferriday
Member since Apr 2019
15549 posts
Posted on 10/3/25 at 8:54 am to
We didn't have a microwave until 2000 and a computer/internet until 2002.

I no longer have a computer in my house unless I bring my laptop home from work.
This post was edited on 10/3/25 at 8:55 am
Posted by Covingtontiger77
Member since Dec 2015
11505 posts
Posted on 10/3/25 at 8:55 am to
TV. We didn’t have one until I was 16
Posted by Lawyered
The Sip
Member since Oct 2016
36847 posts
Posted on 10/3/25 at 8:58 am to
My dad got an iPhone for the first time a few years ago, I’ve had one since the original in 2007

He is absolutely addicted to it. He watches TikTok’s all day and takes a break by watching YouTube videos on his laptop

He’s basically an iPad kid at this point
Posted by Jmcc64
alabama
Member since Apr 2021
1756 posts
Posted on 10/3/25 at 9:00 am to
luckily, my dad (d. 2022) loved technology and gadgets of all kind so we had computers (Mac) early on. we had microwaves and (gasp) a fridge that dispensed water and ice in 1971.
Posted by Willie Stroker
Member since Sep 2008
15549 posts
Posted on 10/3/25 at 9:06 am to
quote:

Still don't have a computer in my house.

Excluding your phone?
Posted by Lush
Nola
Member since Jul 2023
1000 posts
Posted on 10/3/25 at 9:06 am to
We had dial up internet until I was a junior in high school. I graduated in 2007.
Posted by The Third Leg
Idiot Out Wandering Around
Member since May 2014
11566 posts
Posted on 10/3/25 at 9:10 am to
My old man was always an early adopter.
Posted by Allthatfades
Mississippi
Member since Aug 2014
8624 posts
Posted on 10/3/25 at 9:12 am to
I graduated high school in 1999 and that was the year they finally got a satellite dish. Up until then it was 3-4 channels on an antenna. To this day, my parents still don’t have internet other than my mom’s iPhone.
Posted by Lou Pai
Member since Dec 2014
29430 posts
Posted on 10/3/25 at 9:25 am to
We just got running water installed last year. Absolute game changer
Posted by cgrand
HAMMOND
Member since Oct 2009
46207 posts
Posted on 10/3/25 at 9:32 am to
we still don’t have a microwave LOL
Posted by Clames
Member since Oct 2010
18796 posts
Posted on 10/3/25 at 9:33 am to
Don't think my family was ever late to adopt technology, think we were the first family in our neighborhood to have a PC and a HP LaserJet 4 printer in the early 1990's. Wore that printer out making banners in Corel....
This post was edited on 10/3/25 at 9:34 am
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