Here’s an easy way to date yourself: what’s the earliest technology upgrade – not the oldest device, but the earliest upgrade from an existing one – that you remember getting?
The earliest technology upgrade I remember is when my parents got cable TV for the first time. Our TV didn’t have a coax port – most didn’t, at the time – so we got a large set-top box that wired into the antenna port. It had seven thick, black buttons, one per channel, that had to be pressed with considerable force in order to engage the mechanical switches within; when you did, the button you pressed would lock into place with a loud, metallic CHONK while the previously selected button popped back to its unengaged position. It was covered in synthetic wood grain and it was the coolest thing I’d ever seen.
How ‘bout you?
if it happened at all, it happened like that 