From Analog to Digital: A Generation-X Tech Memoir Jesse K

We Generation Xers grew up in the true golden age of television. At the same time, there were crises all around the world. We went from watching the Flintstones to embracing The SImpsons, from the favourite Brady Bunch to realness of 90210. But it started with black and white shows like The Adams Family, The Twilight Zone and Mr Ed and went to Gilligan's Island, Hogan's Heroes and the original Batman series. As we grew up, the world grew up on our screens. We saw many catastrophes live on television, but as we got even older, that same device - the television - became the same friend we connected our games consoles and first computers to. And then came MTV and the VCR.


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I turned 2 in 1975 and the first technology that I became fascinated with was the record player - and those big discs that came in large, colourful sleeves. This episode explores the magic of records/LPs and how, in 1975, I had some of the best music of a generation in my ears as I travelled to England, Denmark, France, Italy and Greece. In a VW Combi van, no less. I also tell how I randomly encountered an eccentric man building his own airship out of scrap junk and 50,000 litres of hydrogen. Welcome to the 1970s.


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For the year 1974, I look at what people were wearing, what life was like and what analog technology is visible in the family photos. I then play with and talk about two types of camera that were common in those days: the Agfamatic 2008 automatic pocket camera, using 110-type film cartridges; and the Eumig c3m cine-camera, which used 8mm film.

Starting in 1973, the year of my birth, I nominate the photo album and photos as the first analog technology from my life. I start by looking at the photographs from my earliest years and explore what technology is evident in them.

This the introduction to the podcast series 'From Analog to Digital: A Generation-X Memoir', which appears exclusively on Spotify. The story of growing up during the great digital transformation, chronicling all the great tech that appeared in my life year after year - and what it was like.