Great minds think alike! 
Since you can’t edit old posts after a few minutes…
I went decades with a TV that didn’t have a remote control. We lost it (several times before the loss become permanent) and would push the up/down channel button to switch channels. We didn’t have cable so there weren’t many channels to choose from.
High speed internet seriously reduced the amount of TV watching, and then they changed the analog rules in Canada, and we would have to buy a new TV, buy a set top box for the TV, or just give up. We did the latter. To this day I don’t like TV remotes. If you have a TV that doesn’t work when the remote’s battery runs out you have a problem. My mother is trying to set up a giant screen TV but has lost the remote, so now she’s trying to figure out what type of remote the TV needs. Universal? I have no idea.
Only if you ignore it getting harder to use for several weeks and you don’t keep batteries around for anything else.
I still have my VCR set up.
I don’t have a dishwasher except for my two hands.
My TV is a boxy think that came from a hotel.
I don’t own a cell phone or an answering machine.
Automobiles. They were around over half a century before I drove one.
I’m really good with a laptop, pay all my bills on it etc… but can barely use my iphone, its always uncharged or in the car, and I can never figure out how the data works and it keeps telling me I have no data —but I just bought some data and haven’t been using it? I hate my iphone and insist everyone has to call me on my land line, or email or facebook me, but everyone insists on texting me. Then I miss out.
Apparently I visit a lot of people who didn’t know this.
I don’t give out my cell phone number. It’s for emergencies only.
From Procrustus (#22): “I was relatively late to the iPhone, but have embraced it now.”
Resistance is futile.
Well I certainly hope so. They were around half a century before I was born and I’m OldGuy.
Especially when it is in the 100s. Like it was a couple of weekends ago.
My car is an automatic, but it doesn’t have one of those fancy gate shifters or one you can shift as if it were a manual. Just a straight PRND21 pattern.
I still play a comupter game called Empire, which hasn’t changed a whole lot since it was introduced in 1977.
SDMB is pretty much my only social media. 
No smart phone. I have a dumb cell phone. I rarely use it.
I work in front of computer. I have a desktop and a iPad at home. I admit when I travel there has been times a smart phone (internet access) would be handy when travelling, but not enough to get one.
Brian
I didn’t have a Facebook account until this year, then after a couple of months it bored me.
I didn’t have a color TV until my father died and the family insisted I take his color TV. It was a USA made ‘solid state’ Phillips. I got rid of it when I needed an analog converter to watch it. It took two men to put it in the back of my pickup to take it to the dump on a ‘electronics’ day. I didn’t have a TV for years then I got a flat screen a few of years ago when I had throat surgery and had to lie around all day. It’s been a few months since I watched it.
It’s not that I don’t have modern stuff, it’s just that I don’t use it.
However, you will take my top of the line Bosch super-silent dishwasher with more settings than my iphone out of my cold dead hands.
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Started with computers in 96 due to an injury that had me down for a long time.
Standard transmission.
Now I love tech but don’t have a real need to be out on the tip of the arrow.
Slow to go to cell phones then slow to go to smarter than me phones, now they don’t make a phone I really like but it is getting better.
I do pictures and jumped to digital soonest. For what I do it is a God send…
Watched the moon landing on a B/W TV. Color over 10 years later.
Guns of steel & wood, black & ugly do not impress.
I only eat apples, don’t ever use them.
All modern medicine except immune systems, I am old school with that and get exposed to all kinds of stuff, and that seems to work for me.
I consider myself a bit of a tech nerd, and I just can’t bring myself to jump on the eReader bandwagon. The ‘experience’ of reading is just too different, or something.
Compared to you people still using typewriters and rotary telephones this is nothing but my circle is shocked that I haven’t switched to a solid state drive for gaming yet. Everyone swears by them but it still feels like a luxury item to me and each time I have extra money to throw at my computer, there’s something “better” to put it towards.
Agree. I read so fast that the wait for a page to ‘flip’ on an ereader is agony.
Actually ereader sales are rapidly declining:
Worldwide shipments in millions:
2010 10.4
2011 37.9
2012 40
2013 33.9
2014 25.3
2015 20.2