Mean anything to you? Might not if you're under 25 years old, and not too worldly! Or your parents got rid of all those numbers before you were old enough to appreciate them!
They're the sizes or speeds that phonograph records were known by, when you were purchasing them. The 45 record usually only had one song per side. The 78 was an older record, with several songs per side, but a slow playing speed. The 33-1/3 was the biggest, fastest record going, with multiple songs per side, again.
A record is a plastic disc that goes around on a turntable, with a needle "reading" the grooves on the record, and transforming this to something we can hear and understand.
I describe all this because I was talking to a friend of mine, who found some of her parents' old records, and her teenage (at the time) son had no idea what they were. He is of the CD and DVD generation. And even some of that technology is going by the wayside.
Our worldly possessions seem to be going out of style so fast, they're becoming "antiques" way before their time. An antique was once defined as any article over 100 years old. Now things seem to becoming antique within a decade. They may not be old, but they're obsolete and more of a curiosity that a useful item. Would you, could you, say the same thing about a human who turned 100?
Watching and wondering what's next, on Day 222!
They're the sizes or speeds that phonograph records were known by, when you were purchasing them. The 45 record usually only had one song per side. The 78 was an older record, with several songs per side, but a slow playing speed. The 33-1/3 was the biggest, fastest record going, with multiple songs per side, again.
A record is a plastic disc that goes around on a turntable, with a needle "reading" the grooves on the record, and transforming this to something we can hear and understand.
I describe all this because I was talking to a friend of mine, who found some of her parents' old records, and her teenage (at the time) son had no idea what they were. He is of the CD and DVD generation. And even some of that technology is going by the wayside.
Our worldly possessions seem to be going out of style so fast, they're becoming "antiques" way before their time. An antique was once defined as any article over 100 years old. Now things seem to becoming antique within a decade. They may not be old, but they're obsolete and more of a curiosity that a useful item. Would you, could you, say the same thing about a human who turned 100?
Watching and wondering what's next, on Day 222!
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