Zahid Iqbal
New technologies are here to stay. The internet and the use of the cell phone make our lives more practical; we no longer have to go to the library to deliver a school job, or wait up to 15 days to see the pictures we have taken, nor do we have to wait for the movie we love to leave in the video store (9 months after its release). Fortunately that is in the past!
The new generations will never know what it was to look for a Sunday night at an open stationery because we forgot the monographs commissioned by the history teacher; they will not know what it was like to not be able to make a call from your grandmother’s disk phone because she had padlocked it.
Many things have changed in the world, the way we relate, inform ourselves, buy and entertain us. So here we present a series of images that never cease to surprise or amuse us when we see the comparison between before and now.
1. When your mom told you dinner was ready
2. Even basic needs have changed
3. How meetings were before and how they are now
4. Remember when McDonald’s was popular?
5. Is this evolution?
6. Very true
7. Even fashion has evolved
8. Going to the bathroom with the cell phone can become eternal
9. Now if you do not congratulate them on Facebook it does not count
10. The Classrooms Now
11. What it really was to be punished
12. Christmas before
13. The requirements have changed
14. Who still uses encyclopedias?
15. Now the phones are very different
16. Before they looked for gold, now they are satisfied with finding water
