TECHNOLOGY - June 3, 1998
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Eighteen years can be a lifetime for some . . . products. Here’s what was high-tech when most of the Class of ’98 was sleeping 18 hours a day and what replaces them today:
* Rotary phone: cell phone, pager
* Pac Man: Total Annihilation
* Chain letters: e-mail
* Party lines: chat rooms
* Polaroids: digital cameras
* Answer devices: voicemail
* Bank tellers: ATMs
* Drive-in movies: movie multiplexes
* Cable TV: satellite dishes
* Vinyl albums: CDs, laserdiscs
* Solid Gold: MTV
