Quote Originally Posted by IDontPetLalas View Post
Ok, while the part about the baby boomers being from 1946 to 1964 is factually correct, people should first of all recognize just how many years that represents and how quickly technology was changing during those years. The latter part of the baby boomers was quite different from the early wave, and while their access to as well as their access to PCs wasn't what we have now, that doesn't mean that they weren't available, nor was it just the super-rich that had them.

The other point that is really inaccurate was the statement that radios were consider luxuries until the 80s. I don't know the source of that, but the height of popularity of radio was generally considered to be during the 20s and 30s. In the US, some statistics showed more than 90 percent of households had radios by the 40s.
You're ignoring that the term "PC" didn't even exist for baby boomers, or even the earliest of Gen X. They were simply known as "computers" and were mainly used by businesses as the industrial age left its infancy stages. Gen X was the first to have a computer lab inside their schools, and learning how to use them was considered fundamental in order to enter the working world because they were becoming so prevalent and required among businesses. PC, or personal computer, didn't start entering homes until the early 90's, and even then, there still wasn't a readily available internet to connect them to their businesses. Even the latest of Gen X, which is the group I was born into graduated high school without the internet. Even to this day, there is a large group of adults who have not even entered their 60's yet who are computer illiterate.

As for television and radios, your statistic is far overblown. Perhaps 90% of successful homes had them, and you are not accounting for lower class to lower middle class. I will give you radios alone, but I was more or less referring to households having both a television and a radio, but you were still considered upper middle class if this was the case. TVs by themselves was much different. Most households couldn't afford them and still used radios and reading as primary sources of information and entertainment. When I talk about it wasn't until the 80's that they were found in most homes, I'm talking about that is how long it took before it was nearly impossible to find a home that didn't have at least one TV, and if you did, it was likely deliberately and not due to poverty.