How far we've come...

At our house, we have an extra hard drive set up only for movies next to our flatscreen...kind of sick, I know. It has probably about 250 movies on it that we've bought and downloaded or have through iTunes. Let's just say, between this and Netflix, we have plenty to keep us occupied. And, whenever someone new comes over, my husband always has to pull up Surf's Up to show them the amazing graphics of the waves. He misses surfing tons, but I think I've seen the last scene of the movie about twenty times--who knew penguins were so adept at paddling out and hanging ten? That movie (and other recent cartoons) and the loaded hard drive make me realize how far we've come in technology...let's take a trip back in time: Remember when we had to browse the huge bookshelves of movies and insert the VHS (and it was never even called that because that's all there was) and sometimes hope the machine wouldn't eat it, just to watch poorly defined cartoon figures (has anyone noticed Snow White doesn't really have a nose?) on our monstrous TVs as there was no such thing as a flat-screen? This was all in our lifetimes! But you know what, even with all this, we were happy!