Your name seems strangely familiar to me…
I also still don’t have a cell phone, but I am a pup at 40 so Mr. Blue Sky wins that one, for now.
I was one of the first people I knew to own a CD player. I got it in… (counts on fingers)…1985. I’m sure someone on the boards can beat that though.
I was also pretty much the first person I knew to get a job at a biotechnology company (1989) but again someone here can probably beat that.
Crap! You beat me by a year. (A Radio Shack single disc player - $275!)
I got my first DVD player in 1999.
Still haven’t gotten a DVD player.
I got my first cd player in 1984.
I’ve had my first cell phone for 2 years now, but have used it only once.
I recently bought a new, expensive film camera and a new lens. I have a digital camera which I used once, and hate.
I still have a rotary-dial phone.
I bought my first car (new) at the age of 31. The following year I learned to drive and got my license.
I’m 59, and live with my mother. (Well, technically she moved in with me.)
I paid $100 for my first handheld calculator, sometime in the 70s. It had LEDs and could just do basic arithmetic.
I had my first child well actually my wife did , In 1963. Anyone out there got a 42 yr. old son?
I also have an old rotary phone, still in use. I love that click,click, click sound when you dial it. 1943 stamped on the inside.
We had calculators in our statistics lab at college that had wire-in-vacuum-tube displays. Damn, I should have taken one of those calculators and stored it away when they tossed them out for trash. They were about the size of a bread box.
I ventured onto a chat room in 1990, if that’s anything to be proud of.
Hah! I’ve had an email account since 1989. (pinet was run by the AIP). But you have me beat otherwise. I didn’t write a program until 1977. I didn’t have a DVD player until December 2003, but it records, so maybe that doesn’t count. I didn’t have a CD player until sometime in the mid 80’s. I still have a tape deck and a phonograph. Other than that, let’s see. Mom says I potty trained myself before the age of two. Do I win anything?
If you would have said reel-to-reel, you would have at least gotten a couple ooo’s and ahh’s. 
October 1965 on a teletype machine hooked into Dartmouth College.
Wow, cool. Yeah I was also on a TTY, with the roll of yellow paper and all. Ours was connected to the U of Illinois somehow. I wonder how it was connected actually, through a dial-up port? Maybe some kind of “special” phone line? My program was written in Fortran, it printed a table of all the squares and square roots of the numbers 1 though 20. Brilliant!!! I even have the executable paper tape output from the compiler somewhere around here.
Sadly, I’ve got nothing. For the most part, I wasn’t even alive when you guys were buying various electronic equipment.
i started learning how to skate at the same time i was learning how to walk, about 8 months old.
i still don’t have a digital camera, and likely won’t as long as my circa 1982 fujica slr continues to work well (could be quite a while yet, i’d think – those things are built like a brick shithouse.)
I wrote my first computer program when I was 7 or 8.
I am currently 22 and I have never broken a bone. I got my first dental filling and my first beestring in the last few months.
I sold my first piece of software (that I wrote) when I was 12.
I earned 8 college credits before I graduated from high school (Calc I & II).
Papa Tiger was sending email in 1974. But he was in the military. You beat him in program-writing, however; he didn’t do that till '68 when he went to IBM programming school.
But he was present at the very first ever GPS demonstration in the early '70s in the Pentagon parking lot. Which is kinda cool. I’m not sure how long after that it was till the rest of us knew GPS existed, but it was probably quite a few years.
I STILL don’t have a cell phone. There, I said it. Although a friend of mine has loaned his to me for extended times.
I am 24 and don’t have a driver’s license. I can drive, and do (on the backroads), just not legally. Anyone got me beat there?
Oh and I dropped out of highschool in the ninth grade, someone beat or tie that, so I don’t feel so bad.
I had my first beer when I was two.
My mother still has the photo. That’s how I know. She also told I slept like a baby after that.
Whut?
If this is any consolation, the most successful person I know (financially) dropped out of high school his sophomore year. His brother told me he made over $20M last year. :eek: