The first time you ever heard about something that is now commonplace

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I have two.

I was chatting to a guy who had an audio company in the early 90s I reckon and he mentioned Bluetooth, which confused me. He raved about this new tech and said he was sure it would be massive.

The other was interviewing a forensic scientist on his retiral from the police. He had been the most senior of his speciality at Lockerbie.

He was explaining transference (Occam’s razor) and I can remember sitting on his couch in his living room in the small village he lived in and saying, “wait, do you mean evidence of me having been in your house is now indelibly here, I’ve left traces?” - totally fascinating.

There started a fascination with crime novels, too.

If you're old, I'm ancient. I can remember citizens band radio (or whatever it was called) - basically like a verbal version of internet chat complete with obligatory nonces.

Anyone remember buying their cds from jungle.com and their clothes from boo.com? They were the big online shops alongside amazon at the start. But both failed spectacularly...

Being in college and qualifying in Word Perfect and dbase and thinking I was the dog’s bollocks.

I got my first mobile phone in 1999. It was a Phillips savvy and I used to write down all the text messages I got sent as it could only hold 10 at a time!

In 2003 my sister got an digital camera. It had the amazing total of 4 mega pixels!

At uni c. 1994 I was queuing behind my friend at Sainsbury's, she paid for her shopping by debit card and then, get this.... The shop assistant have her some money or "cash back" if you will.... Well that was definitely something I could get on board with!

I remember when my cousins got a TV with a remote control.... It was attached by wire to the TV, but we were still in awe

Ah, memories. I learned to type on my dad's Amstrad computer, green type flashing on a black screen.

When mini-discs came out my DB invested in a mini-disc player. He thought it would be the next big thing, as they were smaller than CDs, but they never caught on.

I lived in Hong Kong as a child. When we moved back to the UK we had a microwave and neighbours would come around to look at it (obvs not look into it, we all know it fries your eyeballs). We also had a TV with a remote control, the amazement.

I was at uni in 1996. I remember being shown the internet and searching 'Disney', but I needed to go and have a coffee and come back to get the results. I also remember the first time I got a sat nav. I was a sales rep at the time. Not having to follow printed out instructions from the AA or use a map was a revelation. Also getting my first Blackberry. We had to go on a special trial at work to show we could do our job and handle our emails at the same time.....three years before I had done a computer course, same employer, where we pretended to type and use a laptop as we were all sharing one between the class.

I remember when sky brought out the pause/rewind etc function. My mind was blown. I was telling dh "you can actually rewind and see a football goal again and again and pause a programme if you need a wee"!

Reminiscing about SKY tv reminds me when my df first got sky back in the early 90's. We were all gobsmaxked at the amount of channels. We all sat down and watched 'blue steel' together as having a film 'on demand' was such a novelty!

I remember seeing a friend ordering something online and saying something like "what are you doing! it will never arrive" I didn't think that would catch on at all, it seemed bonkers.