What if someone went to sleep in 1957?

Question

I wondered about this earlier today. I thought about how advanced things are now compared to what my parents and grandparents were used to and I can't imagine life being that much different 50 years from now because we ARE so advanced. Then I thought yeah it probably will be WAY different....just look at how much things have changed in the LAST 50 years.

Suppose you pulled a "Back to the Future" and you got the DeLorean back in time and brought someone back to the present with you. Or, what if someone woke up from a deep sleep or coma right now and the last thing they remembered was the late 50's or early 60's (picture the Happy Days era), what would the reaction be?

Can you picture all the things that would be so different than you remember that it would shock you?

Answer 1

I was here in 1957. TV had only be introduced the year before and sets were very expensive.
Very few families owned their own car.
Hamburgers were new in Australia and cost 20 cents each (2 shillings anyway).
Air travel was only for the rich and famous.
The first "computer game" was Ping pong. Like a very simple form of table tennis.
You could leave school at the end of Junior High and still get a very good job.
Marriage was between two people of two different sexes.
Most marriages lasted for a lifetime.
Aids were people who gave assistance.
A sky rocket was something that you let off at cracker night.
Computer. What is a computer? No such thing as a PC.
Mobile phone? One with a very long chord so that you could walk around with it and talk.
Satellites, yes the moon for one.
Space travel? Man on the moon? Space stations? All science fiction.
Life today totally unexpected and unbelievable.
To be transported from then to now would be unbelievable. So much has changed.