This is a long, rambling, comprehensive thought train leading to a question.

My children will probably at some stage see a cassette tape. After their first arrest. Although it's easy enough to record and burn to disc or memory card, I'm guessing tapes are cheaper, quicker and easier.

I remember when I was a kid, at the caravan there was a little rabbit-eared black & white TV. At my nana's, and ols school tube telly that sat on the floor, and you went and twisted the knob to change the channel and shit, (all 10 of them, (0 being a channel!!)

Dad even had a VCR with a remote control that had a cord that ran from the remote to the unit. That remote had maybe 8 buttons! At the moment they've got about 40, and by the time my kids are in primary school, we'll just be waving a hand around to change the channel, change the volume, probably sneeze to set a fucking alarm clock.

My dog spilt coke on my phone the other day, and using the one I've borrowed, (colour screen, camera, games etc), I can't help but miss my full on organiser, awesome camera, USB port, GPS, AV plug... hang on... I remember being 14, and the coolest thing you could get for a phone was a coloured cover for a 5110!!

All this technology and snake still is one of the best games around! Nintendo Wii has revolutionised gaming, the Blu-Ray and HDMI output in PS has also brought things up to another level.

I love Nintendo 64 (never owned one, prob will buy one in the retro media mood I've been hit with lately), however I did have a Nintendo, Super Nintendo (an American version that wasn't compatible, however I used the gay purple controllers), and bring the funk back, a Gameboy colour.

Fuck things have gone a long way though. My kids will never see a Betamax (although no great loss), probably never touch a VCR, or a VHS tape, and I doubt if they'll even see a cd-rom!!!! I'll be breeding quickly if I get munchkins quick enough for them to even burn things on to DVD. Vinyl is in with a chance. although they may just own 2, if they're DJs, and blank ones just to authenticate live scratching via MP3 if they happen to be DJs!!!

They couldn't survive without a computer. I remember in primary school, we had the Macs with the green screens, the colour screens were for the high school kids.

I could honestly go all day, but I've already missed my point I think. So I guess I'll get to the question.
The 20th century was full of technological revolution. Cars, planes, space, media. I'm sure generations before us had little things that they think we missed out on. (60s and 70s, fuck I wish I grew up in that time, I wouldn't have been jumping on mushrooms with Mario let me tell you!).

What things do you miss, and what little things are you spewing your kids won't get to go through?

With technology like now, and the world at their fingertips well... it's useful, but I'm glad I wasn't born yesterday, and growing up in this world were everything is accessible.