{"id":71,"date":"2004-11-16T10:30:41","date_gmt":"2004-11-16T18:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2004-11-16T10:30:41","modified_gmt":"2004-11-16T18:30:41","slug":"my-38th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2004\/11\/16\/my-38th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"My 38th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is my 38th birthday.  To celebrate, I thought I&#8217;d create a list of things that didn&#8217;t exist, or at least weren&#8217;t pervasive, when I was 28, 18 and 8.  I&#8217;ve tried to focus on some things that are basic to daily life, and to show the evolution of those things through these decades.  It&#8217;s amazing to see how much our daily lives have changed over these decades.  My oldest child, Abbey, is 9, and I wonder what the list will look like when she&#8217;s 39.  Read on to the extended entry for the list.  And check back from time to time &#8212; hopefully I&#8217;ll add to it over the next few days.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<u>Things that Didn&#8217;t Exist or Weren&#8217;t Pervasive When I Was 8 (1974)<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Desktop Computers<\/li>\n<li>Bioengineered medicines<\/li>\n<li>Word Processors<\/li>\n<li>Graphical User Interfaces<\/li>\n<li>Praise Choruses<\/li>\n<li>Floppy disks<\/li>\n<li>Home mimeograph machines<\/li>\n<li>Japanese cars<\/li>\n<li>Baseball contracts worth more than $1 Million<\/li>\n<li>Democratic \/ non-communist Eastern European countries<\/li>\n<li>Megachurches<\/li>\n<li>Overhead Projectors<\/li>\n<li>Suits without neckties<\/li>\n<li>Reggie Jackson as &#8220;Mr. October&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Most of the NFL<\/li>\n<li>A World Series victory for the Red Sox<\/li>\n<li>Projection TVs<\/li>\n<li>Rap<\/li>\n<li>Home video<\/li>\n<li>Domestic terrorism<\/li>\n<li>401K plans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Things that Didn&#8217;t Exist or Weren&#8217;t Pervasive When I Was 18 (1984)<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Home Computers<\/li>\n<li>AIDS<\/li>\n<li>Ink Jet \/ Laser Jet Printers<\/li>\n<li>Windows<\/li>\n<li>Church music using trap drums<\/li>\n<li>CD-ROMS<\/li>\n<li>Desktop publishing<\/li>\n<li>Japanese luxury cars<\/li>\n<li>Seven game baseball league championship series<\/li>\n<li>Free travel between East and West Berlin<\/li>\n<li>Seeker-sensitive churches<\/li>\n<li>Powerpoint<\/li>\n<li>Casual Fridays<\/li>\n<li>Donnie Baseball<\/li>\n<li>About a quarter of the NFL<\/li>\n<li>A World Series victory for the Red Sox<\/li>\n<li>Projection TVs that worked properly<\/li>\n<li>Grunge<\/li>\n<li>Compact Discs<\/li>\n<li>International Islamic terrorism<\/li>\n<li>Mutual Funds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Things that Didn&#8217;t Exist or Weren&#8217;t Pervasive When I Was 28 (1994)<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Web<\/li>\n<li>Antiretroviral drugs<\/li>\n<li>Color laser printers<\/li>\n<li>Stable versions of Windows (hmmm&#8230;.)<\/li>\n<li>Electric guitar solos in church<\/li>\n<li>Gigabyte hard drives<\/li>\n<li>Blogs<\/li>\n<li>Luxury SUV&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>Baseball wildcard teams<\/li>\n<li>The Berlin Wall<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Emerging&#8221; Churches<\/li>\n<li>Laptop projectors<\/li>\n<li>Full time business casual<\/li>\n<li>Mariano Rivera as a closer<\/li>\n<li>Parity in the NFL<\/li>\n<li>A World Series victory for the Red Sox<\/li>\n<li>Plasma TVs<\/li>\n<li>Emo<\/li>\n<li>DVDs<\/li>\n<li>The Homeland Security Department<\/li>\n<li>Guaranteed pensions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is my 38th birthday. 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