What would you do if you woke up in 1965? My favourite year.

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That's the year my mom was born.

It would be so awkward finding myself in a world with no Internet and no video games, not to mention no remote control for the TV. (Also, there would be only one TV - only rich people had more than one TV.)

When TVs became the norm in the Fifties there were no remotes.

They came into existence sometime in the Sixties. In the Sixties and Seventies every bloc had that one family with a remote that the kids on the block would play with and marvel at. But since there were only three to seven channels to pick from, and no VCRs remotes were not a necessity. You just walked across the living room rug, and manually turned the dial on the set to change the channel.

Suddenly in the Eighties cable came into existence with dozens of channels, and you could hook up tape players to your set...making remotes a vital necessisity.

I wouldn't know what to do. How do you survive without technology? Even basic things, I'd probably struggle with without help! Did they at least have hot water in taps by then?

Life was easier back then. Not harder.

We were a much more affluent country back then than we are now. One paycheck supported a whole family. Ordinary folks could afford boats.

Jobs actually paid a living wage.

BUT your parents would never allow you to forget how well off you were, and how easy your life was...compared to how THEY had it during their childhoods during the Great Depression of the Nineteen Thirties.

Hot water?

Even during the bad old days of the Great Depression most homes in America had hot and cold running water and indoor plumbing.

Every family in the Thirties had a big old radio in their homes. And they all went to a movie house to see movies.

Our generation got to have radio and movies combined into TV.

Now that you mention it...though that change in American life (radio and cinema being combined into TV) seemed big back then...its less of change than from TV sets to the internet of today.