I had a manual typewriter, then an electric with that swiveling head. I can't imagine anyone younger than 30 having any real connection to typewriters.

Tuning Televisions. Even before flatscreens, in the 2000s and late 90s, tvs didn't have tuning knobs. No one born in the Clinton years could really know what that was about, and furthermore, really appreciate flat screen tvs like older folks.

Answering the question "When. I. First. Heard. Criminal. Minded. 'daaamn where was I?" Alot of those seminal hip hop albums exist in a old school rap fog to many youngsters without clear deliniations or chronology, much like 50s music and doo wop was for our generation. It seems like Melle Mel, Run DMC, LL, KRS, Slick Rick all came out in some endless summer in the 80s to them.