How has technology changed your life in the past 10 or 15 years?

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Ok, I remember when there was no internet. When cell phones weren't all the rage. Ok, I even remember BEFORE CD's. Personal computers were slow slow slow and still rather expensive, and laptops were pretty much unheard of, and if there was one, it was big and ungainly. There were no flat panel anythings, and HD was a thing of someone's imagination. I remember all of this stuff being introduced. I remember thinking "what am I going to need that for?". And the internet. When I was 19, it was barely existent, no where near the "information highway" that it is now. Nothing had websites then. It was more a bunch of college students with nothing better to do than chat with one another. Debit cards didn't exist either. My first checking account when I turned 18, I was told "we have this new thing called a check card, you use it like a credit card". And if the store KNEW it was a check card, sometimes they wouldn't accept it for one reason or another. I didn't have a cell phone, or text messaging, while in high school. I walked over to the person I wanted to talk to, not two wayed them. I still don't have a cell phone, at least not an active one. We got a pay as you go one for while I was pg with my youngest, but we weren't using all of the minutes in the time frame, so we just let it expire. If we ever need it again, we'll just got get another card for it. I couldn't chat with others from around the country, and around the world, at least not like I do now. I remember getting my first email address. I was 21. When I was in high school, they had JUST gotten rid of the typewriters and begun to count "keyboarding" as computer class, because before it was done with typewriters. The year before I became a freshman, a computer class wasn't even required to graduate! How has all the technological advances in the past 10 or 15 years affected your life? There have been a lot of them.