AnirudhaWhen Dragging And Dropping Was Fun
Microsoft introduced this game on its operating system to ease people difficulties as they were new to the interface. This game familiarized the user with the use of a mouse as this game requires a player to drag and drop the cards from one deck to another. Solitaire became the part of the windows updated version and with the launch of Windows 8, the company introduced the new version Microsoft Solitaire Collection and added new features to the game.
We Don’t Need Electricity
Remember how time passed by while playing this game. No electricity, no problem. All you had to do was to push that big button so that the air can flow in and push those tine rings which can land on one of those small poles. Did you know? This game can assist the toddlers and children in the development of Motor Skills and Hand-Eye Coordination.
So Hard To Carry Around
Motorola released its first commercial mobile phone, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. Weighing around 1.1Kg and measured in at 228.6x127x44.4mm. With this device, you got half hour of talk time and it took around 10 hours to recharge. (FUN FACT- Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher, and executive, made his first call from handheld equipment to Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, his rival). That’s a nice light phone you have there.
Favorite Songs In One Place
Sitting in front of the radio listening to the top 30 or 40 songs and waiting for your favorite song to come so that you can record it on your mixtape. Those were the struggles we had to go through to get all our favorite songs in one place. Today, when everything is a single click away, back then it was the task of the day.
Beep! Sound! or Flash!
Beepers or Buzzers, whatever you called them because of the sound they made on getting a notification. The pager was mostly used by the doctors as you might have seen a doctor using it in real life or maybe on some TV shows. It was later when Motorola developed the ReFlex wireless protocol in the ’90s and made it available to the general public all over the world.
It’s A TV Day, Yay!
Remember when you did not want to go to school because you wanted to sleep but that didn’t happen and then you had to drag yourself all the way to school? Sitting in the classroom waiting for your teacher to take your class and all you could think about is sleeping. But that was your lucky day because your teacher decided not to take a lecture but instead, he would roll out the TV stand and you knew today is the day you get to sleep for a period because who wants to make notes!