Almost Modern

Here at the Brittish household, we're a little "behind on the times."

For example, we still had dial-up internet in 2007. No one had dial-up internet in 2007! Just us.

I used the same cell phone from 2002-2011. Then I finally got a Blackberry (Blackberries were no longer cool by then). I am still using that same Blackberry...  Four years later.

We just got iPads last year. They are a 1 & a 2, and the only reason we bought them is because they were $30 each (used). They've been kind of pointless for us to own, though, because we've never had Wi-Fi.

We don't have a Blu-Ray player or any type of cable or dish. In fact, our DVD player broke a while ago, so we use an old Play Station 2 (from 2002) to watch movies. We still have (and use) two VCRs. We don't have a Netflix account.

Our main TV is one of those gigantic big screens from the 90's. It's square, so some of the image from each side of the screen is always cut off. It requires a digital converter box.

We got a little bit of money for Christmas, so we went wild last month and bought what we consider to be a huge technological advancement: a 32" flat screen TV for our bedroom. Our first flat TV (I better clarify that it's not a smart TV - that would be too big of a step! It's the cheapest TV we could find with good ratings, hardly an investment piece).

And yesterday...

We got Wi-Fi.

So in a month, we've advanced from 2006 to 2010. It's like we've been frozen and we just thawed and awoke in an entirely new era.

Now we just have to keep it secret from our kids. We don't want them to know how almost-modern we are!