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Millennial Tech Timeline

  • Elementary Chalkboards

    Elementary Chalkboards
    Typical Classroom: Chalkboards. Both large (classroom) and individual.
  • 2001

    2001
    Landline. *67 for Crank Calls. Line 2 is used for Sister to talk with Boyfriend. If you're listening in, don't breathe or you'll be caught!
  • Elementary Projectors

    Elementary Projectors
    Elementary got new tech! Projectors!
  • Family Cell Phone

    Family Cell Phone
    Only take this in case of emergency or if you're going away for a Youth Camp.
  • Middle School

    Middle School
    We're getting Whiteboards! Don't mind construction as we take down the Chalkboards.
  • Junior High Computer Lab

    Junior High Computer Lab
    Need a computer? Better choose a class in the computer lab!
  • Learn to Type Class

    Learn to Type Class
    Once you've got it, put a paper over you hands and type without looking.
  • Junior High

    Junior High
    Incomes the new and improved projector. And it's here to stay for a bit.
  • Junior High Phones

    Junior High Phones
    First cell phone! If you were "cool" you either had a Razor, a Chocolate, or a Juke
  • Upgraded Landline

    Upgraded Landline
    Time to upgrade the family phone to cordless!
  • Mom's Palm Pilot

    Mom's Palm Pilot
    Mom got a Palm Pilot. Make sure you don't lose the touch-stick, though!
  • Dad's iPhone

    Dad's iPhone
    Dad got an iPhone. Mom thought it was a phase and suck with her Palm Pilot.
  • High School Computer Lab

    High School Computer Lab
    The projector is a staple. Whiteboards still exist, but act more as a screen to project onto. Good news, though! The Computer Lab got new computers.
  • Paper Assignments

    Paper Assignments
    I was in Grade School from 2001-2013. The entire time, I used paper assignments.
  • College

    College
    Buy a laptop and never look back. (No more paper assignments - that was a whiplash!)
  • My First iPhone

    My First iPhone
    Came home from my LDS Mission to a world of iPhones.
  • New MacBook

    New MacBook
    Time to upgrade the White Plastic Mac.
  • First iPad

    First iPad
    I got my first iPad this year. I love it and don't know what took me so long. (Yes I do - it was money!)
  • Smart Boards

    Smart Boards
    Now I work in the school and am watching Whiteboards be replaced by Smart Boards. It seems only yesterday I watched the same thing happen to Chalkboards.